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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 110 144
Rank change year-on-year -120 +34 -70
Contract jobs citing Node.js 240 341 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 2.54% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.53% 8.65% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 275 189
10th Percentile £385 £400 £383
25th Percentile £450 £452 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £800 £663
90th Percentile £738 £875 £725
England median daily rate £520 £514 £575
% change year-on-year +1.07% -10.61% +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 5,303 3,940 4,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.27% 29.33% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,540 2,715 3,444
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £708
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 21
10th Percentile £26.43 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%

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 16 September 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 16 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
Central London -37 20 £550 +7.84% 43
West London -35 7 £604 +27.16% 12
South London -7 3 - - 3
East London - 2 £432 - 4
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 10 (4.17%) Confluence
2 5 (2.08%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.67%) CMS
3 4 (1.67%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Quorum
1 4 (1.67%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.67%) Ripple
2 3 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.83%) Endur
3 2 (0.83%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (50.42%) AWS
2 69 (28.75%) Azure
3 54 (22.50%) Serverless
4 36 (15.00%) GitHub
5 31 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (8.75%) GCP
7 18 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 18 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (3.33%) Azure AKS
15 7 (2.92%) Datadog
16 6 (2.50%) Azure Databricks
16 6 (2.50%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (12.08%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.92%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.08%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.42%) MySQL
6 13 (5.42%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.92%) Redis
8 5 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.25%) Big Data
10 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.83%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.83%) Metadata
11 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (23.75%) Git
2 55 (22.92%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.75%) GitLab
4 14 (5.83%) JIRA
5 13 (5.42%) Cypress.io
5 13 (5.42%) Maven
6 11 (4.58%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.50%) Mocha
9 5 (2.08%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.08%) JUnit
9 5 (2.08%) Selenium
9 5 (2.08%) webpack
10 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.67%) Gatling
10 4 (1.67%) Mockito
10 4 (1.67%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.25%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.83%) DbUnit
12 2 (0.83%) JMeter
General
1 55 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.50%) Finance
3 32 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.75%) Banking
5 16 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.75%) Front Office
6 9 (3.75%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.33%) Retail
8 7 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.67%) Games
9 4 (1.67%) Marketing
9 4 (1.67%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Military
10 3 (1.25%) Publishing
11 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (51.25%) Developer
2 48 (20.00%) Senior
3 40 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (11.67%) Software Engineer
5 22 (9.17%) React Developer
6 20 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (7.08%) Node.js Developer
7 17 (7.08%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 16 (6.67%) Lead
9 13 (5.42%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (4.17%) Architect
12 8 (3.33%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (2.50%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (50.42%) React
2 64 (26.67%) REST
3 42 (17.50%) Terraform
4 40 (16.67%) RESTful
5 37 (15.42%) GraphQL
6 35 (14.58%) Spring
6 35 (14.58%) Spring Boot
7 34 (14.17%) .NET
7 34 (14.17%) CSS
8 33 (13.75%) HTML
9 31 (12.92%) AngularJS
10 28 (11.67%) Kafka
11 25 (10.42%) HTML5
12 22 (9.17%) Next.js
13 20 (8.33%) CSS3
14 18 (7.50%) Jest
15 17 (7.08%) OAuth
16 16 (6.67%) Vue
17 15 (6.25%) Playwright
18 13 (5.42%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 20 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.92%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.08%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.83%) Mashup
9 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 112 (46.67%) Agile
3 92 (38.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (36.25%) Microservices
5 74 (30.83%) DevOps
6 60 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 55 (22.92%) Event-Driven
8 51 (21.25%) Test Automation
9 44 (18.33%) AI
10 39 (16.25%) Containerisation
11 38 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (15.83%) TDD
12 37 (15.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 35 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (14.17%) Mentoring
15 32 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (12.50%) Observability
17 29 (12.08%) Front End Development
18 27 (11.25%) Scrum
19 24 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 128 (53.33%) TypeScript
2 101 (42.08%) JavaScript
3 92 (38.33%) Java
4 65 (27.08%) Python
5 47 (19.58%) SQL
6 23 (9.58%) C#
7 10 (4.17%) Scala
8 8 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.33%) Ruby
9 7 (2.92%) Go
10 6 (2.50%) Bash
10 6 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.08%) Solidity
12 3 (1.25%) Rust
13 2 (0.83%) Elixir
13 2 (0.83%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
14 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 59 (24.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.33%) Degree
4 8 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.25%) QA
2 17 (7.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) WCAG
4 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.42%) PSD2
5 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (19.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Postfix
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.92%) Grafana
3 5 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.42%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.00%) Google
3 9 (3.75%) Databricks
4 6 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.08%) Oracle
6 4 (1.67%) SAP
7 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.25%) New Relic
7 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.83%) NEC
8 2 (0.83%) Netlify
8 2 (0.83%) Okta
8 2 (0.83%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.83%) SGI
8 2 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.42%) ATG