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 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 188 121 139
Rank change year-on-year -67 +18 -69
Contract jobs citing Node.js 293 330 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 2.42% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.49% 9.30% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 278 197
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% - +6.82%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £573
% change year-on-year - -8.30% +4.09%

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 4,515 3,550 4,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.57% 26.06% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 2,485 3,206
10th Percentile £388 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 25
10th Percentile £25.13 £31.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £60.75 £62.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.70 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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 4 August 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 4 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 -17 23 £568 +14.65% 32
West London -21 10 £604 +27.16% 3
South London -8 7 £521 -16.32%
East London - 2 £432 - 2
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 9 (3.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
4 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
2 1 (0.34%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Quorum
1 4 (1.37%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.37%) Ripple
2 3 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.68%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 183 (62.46%) AWS
2 84 (28.67%) Azure
3 53 (18.09%) Serverless
4 49 (16.72%) GCP
5 34 (11.60%) GitHub
6 30 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.85%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (5.12%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.75%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.07%) Datadog
15 7 (2.39%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.43%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.51%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.14%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.41%) Redis
7 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.71%) MySQL
10 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.68%) Big Data
11 2 (0.68%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.68%) GIS
11 2 (0.68%) Metadata
11 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.68%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 56 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 54 (18.43%) Git
3 22 (7.51%) GitLab
4 14 (4.78%) Cypress.io
5 13 (4.44%) JIRA
6 8 (2.73%) Maven
6 8 (2.73%) webpack
7 7 (2.39%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.05%) Mocha
8 6 (2.05%) Vite
9 5 (1.71%) JSUnit
10 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.37%) Gatling
10 4 (1.37%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.02%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.02%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.02%) Mockito
11 3 (1.02%) Spinnaker
General
1 74 (25.26%) Finance
2 55 (18.77%) Front Office
3 45 (15.36%) Social Skills
4 43 (14.68%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.17%) Banking
6 15 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.07%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.39%) Retail
9 5 (1.71%) iGaming
9 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.37%) Games
10 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.02%) Military
11 3 (1.02%) Publishing
11 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) Marketing
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (59.04%) Developer
2 65 (22.18%) Software Engineer
3 54 (18.43%) Senior
4 53 (18.09%) Lead
5 48 (16.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 43 (14.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 38 (12.97%) Lead Developer
8 36 (12.29%) React Developer
9 30 (10.24%) Lead Software Developer
9 30 (10.24%) Lead Software Engineer
10 28 (9.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 27 (9.22%) Node.js Developer
12 22 (7.51%) Senior Developer
13 19 (6.48%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 12 (4.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
17 9 (3.07%) Java Engineer
17 9 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
18 8 (2.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (51.19%) React
2 69 (23.55%) GraphQL
3 61 (20.82%) REST
4 59 (20.14%) Kafka
4 59 (20.14%) Redux
5 45 (15.36%) RESTful
6 35 (11.95%) Spring
7 33 (11.26%) AngularJS
8 30 (10.24%) Spring Boot
9 28 (9.56%) CSS
10 27 (9.22%) .NET
11 24 (8.19%) Jest
12 23 (7.85%) HTML
12 23 (7.85%) Playwright
13 22 (7.51%) Next.js
14 20 (6.83%) Vue
15 18 (6.14%) HTML5
16 15 (5.12%) Express.js
17 14 (4.78%) OAuth
18 13 (4.44%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.75%) Fixed Income
3 23 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.12%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.44%) Equities
6 12 (4.10%) Derivative
7 9 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.71%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.68%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.41%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Unix
2 2 (0.68%) VMS
2 2 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (53.58%) Agile
2 135 (46.08%) CI/CD
3 119 (40.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 99 (33.79%) Software Engineering
5 93 (31.74%) Microservices
6 78 (26.62%) DevOps
7 56 (19.11%) Test Automation
8 54 (18.43%) Containerisation
9 51 (17.41%) Mentoring
10 50 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (17.06%) Investment Management
11 49 (16.72%) TDD
12 45 (15.36%) Portfolio Management
13 39 (13.31%) Event-Driven
13 39 (13.31%) Order Management
14 37 (12.63%) AI
15 35 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (9.56%) Data Modelling
16 28 (9.56%) Observability
16 28 (9.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 169 (57.68%) TypeScript
2 143 (48.81%) JavaScript
3 117 (39.93%) Java
4 98 (33.45%) Python
5 39 (13.31%) Go
6 34 (11.60%) SQL
7 20 (6.83%) C#
8 10 (3.41%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.07%) Ruby
9 9 (3.07%) Scala
10 5 (1.71%) Solidity
11 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.02%) Rust
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) Bicep
12 2 (0.68%) Elixir
12 2 (0.68%) Korn
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) DAML
13 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 65 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (2.39%) Degree
4 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.56%) Accessibility
2 25 (8.53%) QA
3 9 (3.07%) WCAG
4 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (22.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.72%) Terraform
3 11 (3.75%) Grafana
4 5 (1.71%) Ansible
4 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.68%) Rancher
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (5.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.73%) Google
3 6 (2.05%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.71%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.37%) New Relic
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle
6 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.02%) Databricks
6 3 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.02%) Netlify
7 2 (0.68%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe
8 1 (0.34%) Ariba
8 1 (0.34%) ATG
8 1 (0.34%) Hitachi