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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 102 98
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -29
Contract jobs citing Node.js 20 27 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.84% 1.44% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.12% 5.73% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 25
10th Percentile £338 - £475
25th Percentile £503 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -17.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £624 £719
90th Percentile £638 £638 £780
Central London median daily rate £568 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +14.65% -17.50% +17.07%

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 486 471 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.39% 25.15% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 304 326
10th Percentile £415 £404 £414
25th Percentile £475 £446 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £762 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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 4 August 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) GitHub
2 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Figma
6 1 (5.00%) Kong
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) webpack
3 3 (15.00%) Claude Code
4 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.00%) Mocha
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) JMeter
General
1 4 (20.00%) Retail
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Advertising
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (10.00%) React Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) React
2 8 (40.00%) Jest
3 7 (35.00%) REST
4 4 (20.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (15.00%) Kafka
5 3 (15.00%) Spring
6 2 (10.00%) .NET
6 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (10.00%) CSS
6 2 (10.00%) DOM
6 2 (10.00%) Enzyme
6 2 (10.00%) Express.js
6 2 (10.00%) HTML
6 2 (10.00%) JSON
6 2 (10.00%) Playwright
6 2 (10.00%) PySpark
6 2 (10.00%) pytest
6 2 (10.00%) Sass
6 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Observability
4 5 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (15.00%) AI
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Wealth Management
7 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) TypeScript
2 13 (65.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Korn
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.00%) New Relic
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) SAP