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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 90 86
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 -13
Contract jobs citing Node.js 17 27 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.77% 1.57% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.09% 5.65% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 23
10th Percentile £318 - £429
25th Percentile £363 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -10.64% +17.50%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £697
90th Percentile £650 £688 £759
Central London median daily rate £550 £510 £588
% change year-on-year +7.84% -13.19% +17.50%

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 550 478 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.97% 27.86% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 326 345
10th Percentile £415 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -0.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £710
90th Percentile £775 £769 £833
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £22.66 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.40 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £51.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £65.40 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -25.24%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Node.js job vacancy trend 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 29 September 2026.

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 & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.88%) Algolia
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.88%) Apigee
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.88%) CloudFront
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Kong
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) webpack
4 1 (5.88%) Claude Code
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
General
1 5 (29.41%) Banking
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 3 (17.65%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Retail Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Back Office
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Military
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) React
2 6 (35.29%) REST
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
3 5 (29.41%) Jest
4 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
4 3 (17.65%) Kafka
4 3 (17.65%) Spring
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 3 (17.65%) Terraform
4 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 2 (11.76%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (11.76%) DOM
5 2 (11.76%) Express.js
5 2 (11.76%) Sass
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.88%) JWT
6 1 (5.88%) NestJS
6 1 (5.88%) Next.js
6 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) AI
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
5 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 2 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) TypeScript
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 6 (35.29%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Korn
5 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) PSD2
2 1 (5.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Calypso
2 1 (5.88%) FIS
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Murex
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) Temenos