Node.js Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Node
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Node.js skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 87 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 -21 +18
Contract jobs citing Node.js 27 37 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.51% 1.77% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 7.40% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 48
10th Percentile - £446 £325
25th Percentile £425 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +18.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £593
90th Percentile £688 £778 £700
Central London median daily rate £510 £594 £500
% change year-on-year -14.11% +18.75% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Node.js falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 439 500 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.51% 23.95% 26.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 327 543
10th Percentile £403 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £509 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £763 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £32.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +94.43% -39.35% +11.58%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the City of London

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the City of London

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 14 (51.85%) Serverless
3 12 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (25.93%) GitHub
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (18.52%) GCP
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (11.11%) Apigee
7 3 (11.11%) Azure
7 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 3 (11.11%) Stackdriver
8 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
9 1 (3.70%) SaaS
9 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DKIM
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Redis
2 5 (18.52%) DocumentDB
3 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) GitLab
2 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 4 (14.81%) Maven
4 3 (11.11%) Gradle
5 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
5 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.70%) JIRA
6 1 (3.70%) JUnit
6 1 (3.70%) Mockito
6 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.41%) Front Office
5 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Military
6 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) React
2 7 (25.93%) GraphQL
3 5 (18.52%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
4 4 (14.81%) REST
4 4 (14.81%) RESTful
5 3 (11.11%) CSS
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) JWT
6 2 (7.41%) Spring
6 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (7.41%) Vue
7 1 (3.70%) Fastify
7 1 (3.70%) Jest
7 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.70%) Mongoose
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) IVR
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Microservices
2 9 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
4 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (14.81%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) API Design
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
5 4 (14.81%) SOA
6 3 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 3 (11.11%) MVC
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.41%) API Development
7 2 (7.41%) Clean Code
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.41%) Observability
7 2 (7.41%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) JavaScript
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.11%) C#
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) Go
7 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.70%) PHP
7 1 (3.70%) Ruby
7 1 (3.70%) Rust
7 1 (3.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Istio
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 3 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Okta
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle