Node.js Contract Job Trends in London

Node
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 125 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -47
Contract jobs citing Node.js 356 280 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 2.20% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.46% 8.45% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 225 250
10th Percentile £358 £400 £384
25th Percentile £432 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £741 £713 £663
90th Percentile £800 £838 £752
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,206 3,313 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.03% 26.02% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,833 2,321 3,355
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 22
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £23.90
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £35.54
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +51.96% -46.96%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in London

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in London

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Node.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 Node.js within the London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 -19 27 £505 -5.39% 50
West London -8 23 £550 - 8
South London - 21 £521 - 7
East London -1 2 £432 -26.15% 8
Node.js
England

Node.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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.12%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.56%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Maya
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.56%) Shopify
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 199 (55.90%) AWS
2 129 (36.24%) Azure
3 75 (21.07%) Serverless
4 65 (18.26%) GCP
5 59 (16.57%) GitHub
6 43 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (8.99%) Amazon S3
8 32 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (6.18%) SaaS
11 20 (5.62%) Azure AKS
12 19 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 18 (5.06%) Azure Functions
14 16 (4.49%) Datadog
15 15 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Network Security
2 3 (0.84%) Firewall
2 3 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (8.15%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.46%) DynamoDB
4 22 (6.18%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.81%) Redis
8 6 (1.69%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.69%) Pinecone
8 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.40%) Weaviate
10 4 (1.12%) MySQL
11 3 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.84%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.84%) GIS
11 3 (0.84%) Metadata
11 3 (0.84%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.56%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 64 (17.98%) Jenkins
2 49 (13.76%) Git
3 23 (6.46%) GitLab
4 19 (5.34%) JIRA
5 10 (2.81%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.53%) Vite
7 8 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.40%) Mocha
10 4 (1.12%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.12%) Maven
10 4 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.12%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.84%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.84%) Mockito
11 3 (0.84%) Selenium
11 3 (0.84%) Subversion
11 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 75 (21.07%) Finance
2 53 (14.89%) Front Office
2 53 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 45 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.18%) Banking
6 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.25%) Retail
7 5 (1.40%) iGaming
7 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.84%) Publishing
9 2 (0.56%) Advertising
9 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Games
10 1 (0.28%) Police
10 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 200 (56.18%) Developer
2 67 (18.82%) Senior
2 67 (18.82%) Software Engineer
3 59 (16.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 58 (16.29%) Lead
5 44 (12.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 40 (11.24%) Lead Developer
7 36 (10.11%) React Developer
8 34 (9.55%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (9.27%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (7.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (7.30%) Node.js Developer
11 23 (6.46%) Senior Developer
12 18 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.06%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.78%) Python Developer
14 16 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (4.21%) Consultant
16 14 (3.93%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 14 (3.93%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (46.07%) React
2 71 (19.94%) GraphQL
3 63 (17.70%) Kafka
4 58 (16.29%) Redux
5 48 (13.48%) RESTful
6 46 (12.92%) Spring
7 44 (12.36%) AngularJS
8 39 (10.96%) REST
9 35 (9.83%) CSS
10 34 (9.55%) Playwright
11 33 (9.27%) .NET
12 32 (8.99%) HTML
13 31 (8.71%) Spring Boot
14 25 (7.02%) Vitest
15 24 (6.74%) OAuth
16 21 (5.90%) Jest
16 21 (5.90%) OpenTelemetry
16 21 (5.90%) Vue
17 20 (5.62%) JWT
18 16 (4.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 50 (14.04%) Fixed Income
3 27 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.34%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.78%) Equities
6 16 (4.49%) Derivative
7 12 (3.37%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.56%) Blog
12 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
13 1 (0.28%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.21%) Linux
2 4 (1.12%) VMS
2 4 (1.12%) Windows
3 2 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (49.44%) CI/CD
2 171 (48.03%) Agile
3 140 (39.33%) DevOps
4 121 (33.99%) Full-Stack Development
5 110 (30.90%) Software Engineering
6 103 (28.93%) Microservices
7 79 (22.19%) Containerisation
8 73 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (20.22%) Test Automation
10 65 (18.26%) Mentoring
11 56 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (14.04%) AI
13 49 (13.76%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (13.48%) Investment Management
15 38 (10.67%) Observability
16 35 (9.83%) E-Commerce
16 35 (9.83%) TDD
17 32 (8.99%) Order Management
18 27 (7.58%) Code Quality
18 27 (7.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 177 (49.72%) TypeScript
2 168 (47.19%) JavaScript
3 144 (40.45%) Python
4 118 (33.15%) Java
5 45 (12.64%) SQL
6 40 (11.24%) Go
7 35 (9.83%) C#
8 10 (2.81%) Bicep
9 9 (2.53%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.53%) Ruby
10 5 (1.40%) C++
11 3 (0.84%) JSX
11 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.84%) Scala
12 2 (0.56%) Ada
12 2 (0.56%) Bash
12 2 (0.56%) Perl
12 2 (0.56%) R
12 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 61 (17.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.93%) Degree
4 9 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.30%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.18%) QA
3 8 (2.25%) WCAG
4 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 116 (32.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) HDFS
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.28%) Postfix
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 76 (21.35%) Terraform
3 23 (6.46%) Grafana
4 20 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.25%) Ansible
5 8 (2.25%) Istio
6 6 (1.69%) Argo
7 4 (1.12%) Rancher
7 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.28%) Icinga
8 1 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 19 (5.34%) Microsoft
1 19 (5.34%) OpenAI
2 13 (3.65%) Databricks
3 11 (3.09%) Google
4 8 (2.25%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.25%) Oracle
5 7 (1.97%) Adobe
6 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.12%) Foundry
7 4 (1.12%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.12%) Netlify
8 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.56%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.56%) SAP
9 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.28%) New Relic
10 1 (0.28%) Solace