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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 116 131
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 -64
Contract jobs citing Node.js 293 300 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 2.47% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 9.35% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 238 229
10th Percentile £397 £400 £350
25th Percentile £447 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £763 £713 £675
90th Percentile £805 £838 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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 4,228 3,210 4,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.11% 26.40% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,809 2,249 3,396
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £445 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -35.61%
75th Percentile £64.50 £54.69 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -28 20 £600 +21.21% 55
South London +4 15 £521 -16.32% 6
West London -26 7 - - 8
East London - 2 £432 - 10
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%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.71%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.37%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
4 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
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 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Endur
3 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (60.75%) AWS
2 104 (35.49%) Azure
3 58 (19.80%) GCP
4 53 (18.09%) Serverless
5 39 (13.31%) GitHub
6 29 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.83%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (4.44%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (4.10%) Azure Functions
15 11 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 11 (3.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) SSL
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.83%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.46%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.07%) Redis
8 6 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.05%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.37%) MySQL
10 3 (1.02%) Big Data
10 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.02%) GIS
10 3 (1.02%) Metadata
10 3 (1.02%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.02%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.68%) DocumentDB
11 2 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 40 (13.65%) Git
3 17 (5.80%) GitLab
4 13 (4.44%) JIRA
5 8 (2.73%) Vite
6 7 (2.39%) webpack
7 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.37%) Gatling
8 4 (1.37%) Maven
8 4 (1.37%) Mocha
8 4 (1.37%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.37%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.02%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.02%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.02%) Mockito
9 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (23.55%) Finance
2 53 (18.09%) Front Office
3 43 (14.68%) Public Sector
3 43 (14.68%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.48%) Banking
5 16 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.73%) Retail
7 7 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.71%) iGaming
9 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.02%) Publishing
10 2 (0.68%) Advertising
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 174 (59.39%) Developer
2 60 (20.48%) Software Engineer
3 58 (19.80%) Lead
4 55 (18.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 52 (17.75%) Senior
6 44 (15.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 39 (13.31%) Lead Developer
8 36 (12.29%) React Developer
9 34 (11.60%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (11.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 25 (8.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (8.19%) Node.js Developer
13 22 (7.51%) Senior Developer
14 18 (6.14%) Java Developer
15 15 (5.12%) Python Developer
16 13 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 11 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
17 11 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 10 (3.41%) Java Engineer
19 9 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (49.49%) React
2 61 (20.82%) Kafka
3 56 (19.11%) Redux
4 55 (18.77%) GraphQL
5 50 (17.06%) REST
6 48 (16.38%) Spring
7 46 (15.70%) RESTful
8 43 (14.68%) AngularJS
9 37 (12.63%) Spring Boot
10 29 (9.90%) .NET
11 24 (8.19%) CSS
12 23 (7.85%) HTML
13 22 (7.51%) Playwright
14 20 (6.83%) Vue
15 16 (5.46%) Jest
16 15 (5.12%) OAuth
17 14 (4.78%) HTML5
17 14 (4.78%) WireMock
18 13 (4.44%) JSON
18 13 (4.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.06%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.80%) Equities
4 16 (5.46%) Derivative
4 16 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.75%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.71%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.75%) Linux
2 3 (1.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) VMS
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.10%) Agile
2 127 (43.34%) CI/CD
3 111 (37.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 99 (33.79%) Software Engineering
5 94 (32.08%) DevOps
6 84 (28.67%) Microservices
7 57 (19.45%) Containerisation
8 53 (18.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (18.09%) Test Automation
9 50 (17.06%) Mentoring
10 49 (16.72%) Portfolio Management
11 48 (16.38%) Investment Management
12 40 (13.65%) AI
13 33 (11.26%) Order Management
14 31 (10.58%) Observability
14 31 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (10.24%) TDD
16 29 (9.90%) Event-Driven
17 25 (8.53%) Data Modelling
18 24 (8.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 151 (51.54%) TypeScript
2 148 (50.51%) JavaScript
3 116 (39.59%) Java
4 110 (37.54%) Python
5 40 (13.65%) Go
6 33 (11.26%) SQL
7 27 (9.22%) C#
8 8 (2.73%) Scala
9 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.71%) Ruby
10 5 (1.71%) Solidity
11 4 (1.37%) Bicep
11 4 (1.37%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.68%) Ada
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) R
13 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.34%) Bash
14 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.06%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.44%) Degree
4 9 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.51%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.17%) QA
3 7 (2.39%) WCAG
4 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 78 (26.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) HDFS
2 2 (0.68%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 56 (19.11%) Terraform
3 15 (5.12%) Grafana
4 12 (4.10%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.73%) Istio
6 6 (2.05%) Argo
7 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.02%) Ansible
9 2 (0.68%) Rancher
10 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (4.44%) Google
1 13 (4.44%) OpenAI
2 10 (3.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.73%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.05%) Databricks
5 4 (1.37%) Adobe
5 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.37%) Foundry
5 4 (1.37%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.37%) Netlify
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle
5 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.34%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.34%) New Relic
8 1 (0.34%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Workday