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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 122 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -50
Contract jobs citing Node.js 375 286 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.16% 2.26% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.85% 8.67% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 223 243
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £430 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £663
90th Percentile £800 £838 £750
England median daily rate £512 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -6.15% +3.81% -4.55%
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 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +6.87%

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 4,239 3,298 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.44% 26.06% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,868 2,303 3,334
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 22
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +44.01% -43.19%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 10 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 10 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 -8 28 £505 -6.91% 64
West London -8 23 £550 +35.14% 1
South London - 23 £521 - 1
East London -2 2 £432 -26.15% 5
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 (2.13%) Confluence
2 5 (1.33%) CMS
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.07%) SAS
4 2 (0.53%) Apache
4 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) IIS
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.53%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 213 (56.80%) AWS
2 136 (36.27%) Azure
3 82 (21.87%) Serverless
4 68 (18.13%) GCP
5 65 (17.33%) GitHub
6 48 (12.80%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (8.27%) Amazon S3
10 25 (6.67%) SaaS
11 23 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (5.87%) Azure AKS
13 21 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (4.80%) Azure Functions
16 17 (4.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (4.27%) Datadog
18 15 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.60%) Network Security
2 3 (0.80%) Firewall
2 3 (0.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (18.13%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.40%) DynamoDB
3 24 (6.40%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.67%) Redis
7 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.87%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.60%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.60%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.33%) MySQL
9 5 (1.33%) Weaviate
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.80%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.80%) GIS
10 3 (0.80%) Metadata
10 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 66 (17.60%) Jenkins
2 52 (13.87%) Git
3 25 (6.67%) GitLab
4 19 (5.07%) JIRA
5 12 (3.20%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.40%) Vite
7 8 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.33%) Mocha
10 4 (1.07%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.07%) Maven
10 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.07%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.07%) webpack
11 3 (0.80%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.80%) Hudson
11 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (20.53%) Finance
2 57 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.13%) Front Office
4 45 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.40%) Banking
7 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.87%) Retail
9 5 (1.33%) iGaming
9 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Publishing
11 2 (0.53%) Advertising
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 205 (54.67%) Developer
2 69 (18.40%) Software Engineer
3 67 (17.87%) Senior
4 62 (16.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 60 (16.00%) Lead
6 44 (11.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (11.20%) Lead Developer
8 34 (9.07%) Lead Software Developer
8 34 (9.07%) React Developer
9 33 (8.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 33 (8.80%) Lead Software Engineer
10 25 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
11 22 (5.87%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.80%) Python Developer
14 17 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (4.53%) Consultant
14 17 (4.53%) Java Developer
15 16 (4.27%) Technical Consultant
16 14 (3.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (47.47%) React
2 71 (18.93%) GraphQL
3 63 (16.80%) Kafka
4 59 (15.73%) Redux
5 49 (13.07%) RESTful
6 48 (12.80%) AngularJS
6 48 (12.80%) Spring
7 39 (10.40%) CSS
8 37 (9.87%) HTML
8 37 (9.87%) REST
9 36 (9.60%) Playwright
10 33 (8.80%) .NET
10 33 (8.80%) Spring Boot
11 25 (6.67%) Vitest
12 24 (6.40%) OAuth
13 23 (6.13%) Jest
14 22 (5.87%) Vue
15 21 (5.60%) OpenTelemetry
16 20 (5.33%) JWT
17 18 (4.80%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.33%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.60%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.53%) Equities
6 16 (4.27%) Derivative
7 14 (3.73%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.53%) Blog
13 2 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.00%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) VMS
2 4 (1.07%) Windows
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (50.67%) CI/CD
2 179 (47.73%) Agile
3 147 (39.20%) DevOps
4 130 (34.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 113 (30.13%) Software Engineering
6 108 (28.80%) Microservices
7 85 (22.67%) Containerisation
8 77 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (19.73%) Test Automation
10 67 (17.87%) Mentoring
11 62 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (14.13%) AI
13 49 (13.07%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (12.80%) Investment Management
15 39 (10.40%) Observability
16 37 (9.87%) TDD
17 33 (8.80%) E-Commerce
18 32 (8.53%) Order Management
19 31 (8.27%) Front End Development
20 30 (8.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 193 (51.47%) TypeScript
2 175 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 152 (40.53%) Python
4 122 (32.53%) Java
5 48 (12.80%) SQL
6 40 (10.67%) Go
7 35 (9.33%) C#
8 10 (2.67%) Bicep
8 10 (2.67%) Ruby
9 9 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.33%) C++
11 4 (1.07%) Bash
12 3 (0.80%) JSX
12 3 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.80%) Scala
12 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.53%) Ada
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.53%) Degree
4 10 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.07%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.73%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.13%) QA
3 11 (2.93%) WCAG
4 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 125 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) HDFS
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 80 (21.33%) Terraform
3 22 (5.87%) Grafana
4 20 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.67%) Ansible
6 8 (2.13%) Argo
6 8 (2.13%) Istio
7 4 (1.07%) Rancher
7 4 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.27%) Icinga
9 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.07%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.47%) Databricks
4 11 (2.93%) Google
5 8 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.13%) Oracle
6 7 (1.87%) Adobe
7 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.07%) Foundry
8 4 (1.07%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.07%) Netlify
8 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.53%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.53%) Genesys
9 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) Ariba
10 1 (0.27%) Hitachi