Node.js Contract Job Trends in Essex

Node
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Node.js 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.83% 0.86% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.00% 14.29% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £425 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £300
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +68.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £504 £508 -
90th Percentile £506 - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £490 £400
% change year-on-year +3.06% +22.50% -38.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 50 7 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 13.77% 6.03% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 14
10th Percentile £352 £410 £178
25th Percentile £468 £462 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £275
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +81.82% -48.36%
75th Percentile £580 £521 £317
90th Percentile £600 £569 £490
East of England median daily rate £510 £500 £420
% change year-on-year +2.00% +19.05% -19.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.78
25th Percentile £17.12 - £17.99
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.98%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £36.00
East of England median hourly rate £70.88 £63.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +11.61% +47.67% -33.85%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in Essex

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in Essex over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in Essex

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Node.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Node.js

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the Essex region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon - 2 £425 -
Witham 0 1 £505 -
Brentwood - 1 £500 -
Node.js
East of England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Agriculture
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Express.js
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) MERN Stack
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft