Express.js Contract Job Trends in London

Express.js
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Express.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 347 351
Rank change year-on-year -81 +4 +45
Contract jobs citing Express.js 14 21 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.069% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 25
10th Percentile £460 £407 £425
25th Percentile - £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +11.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile - £690 £650
England median daily rate £505 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% -5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Express.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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,601 3,519 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 25.95% 27.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 2,446 3,168
10th Percentile £392 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 24
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £50.19
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.01
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

Express.js
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Express.js job vacancy trend in London

Express.js
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Express.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Express.js

Express.js
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Express.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Express.js

Express.js
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Express.js within the London region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Central London -11 2 - -
Express.js
England

Express.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (21.43%) npm
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (14.29%) Pulumi
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
7 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
7 1 (7.14%) Firebase
7 1 (7.14%) GCP
7 1 (7.14%) Kong
7 1 (7.14%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Redis
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) Pinecone
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) Mocha
3 3 (21.43%) Spinnaker
3 3 (21.43%) Vite
4 2 (14.29%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Node.js
2 6 (42.86%) Jest
3 5 (35.71%) React
4 4 (28.57%) OAuth
4 4 (28.57%) Spring
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
5 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 3 (21.43%) Celery
5 3 (21.43%) Chai
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) LangChain
5 3 (21.43%) LangGraph
5 3 (21.43%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (21.43%) Next.js
5 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
5 3 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (21.43%) Playwright
5 3 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (21.43%) Vue
6 2 (14.29%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) AI Agents
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Microservices
3 7 (50.00%) AI
3 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) LLM
6 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) API Design
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
7 3 (21.43%) Observability
7 3 (21.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (21.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) OpenAI