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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 89 90
Rank change year-on-year -34 +1 -24
Contract jobs citing Node.js 17 27 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.75% 1.54% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.11% 5.61% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 26
10th Percentile £325 - £446
25th Percentile £379 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -11.58% +18.75%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £708
90th Percentile £638 £688 £778
Central London median daily rate £550 £510 £594
% change year-on-year +7.84% -14.11% +18.75%

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 547 481 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.20% 27.47% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 320 361
10th Percentile £416 £403 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £682 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £32.15
% change year-on-year -32.80% +94.43% -37.58%

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 15 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 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Algolia
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (5.88%) Apigee
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) Figma
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Kong
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
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%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 3 (17.65%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Retail Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) 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%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) Lead 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%) 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%) Jest
4 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 4 (23.53%) Terraform
5 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
5 3 (17.65%) Kafka
5 3 (17.65%) Spring
5 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 3 (17.65%) Vue
6 2 (11.76%) .NET
6 2 (11.76%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (11.76%) DOM
6 2 (11.76%) Express.js
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) Sass
7 1 (5.88%) HTML
7 1 (5.88%) OAuth
7 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
7 1 (5.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (29.41%) Microservices
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) AI
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Observability
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) TypeScript
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Korn
6 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) 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 4 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) PSD2
2 1 (5.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Calypso
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) FIS
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
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