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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 122 125
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -56
Contract jobs citing Node.js 374 270 350
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 2.12% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.04% 8.10% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 203 233
10th Percentile £356 £400 £365
25th Percentile £425 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +8.33% -6.09%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £663
90th Percentile £800 £760 £750
England median daily rate £505 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -10.22% +7.14% -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 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -1.52% +0.76%

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 4,139 3,332 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.88% 26.15% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,811 2,306 3,335
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £689
90th Percentile £775 £829 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -7 28 £505 -6.91% 69
West London -4 23 £550 +35.14% 3
South London - 23 £521 - 1
East London -2 2 £432 -26.15% 6
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 7 (1.87%) CMS
2 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.07%) Confluence
2 4 (1.07%) SAS
3 3 (0.80%) Apache
3 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.27%) Maya
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Magento
1 2 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 208 (55.61%) AWS
2 131 (35.03%) Azure
3 78 (20.86%) Serverless
4 73 (19.52%) GitHub
5 70 (18.72%) GCP
6 48 (12.83%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (7.75%) Amazon S3
10 27 (7.22%) SaaS
11 22 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (5.35%) Azure AKS
13 19 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (4.81%) Datadog
15 17 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (4.28%) Azure Functions
17 15 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.60%) Network Security
2 3 (0.80%) Firewall
2 3 (0.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (18.72%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.75%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.42%) DynamoDB
3 24 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.94%) Redis
7 6 (1.60%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.60%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.60%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.34%) MySQL
8 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.80%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (16.84%) Jenkins
2 56 (14.97%) Git
3 27 (7.22%) GitLab
4 14 (3.74%) JIRA
5 13 (3.48%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.14%) Vite
7 7 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.34%) 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%) Lerna
11 3 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.80%) Subversion
11 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (19.52%) Finance
2 65 (17.38%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.90%) Front Office
4 51 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.15%) Banking
7 7 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.87%) Retail
8 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.07%) iGaming
9 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.53%) Advertising
10 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Local Government
11 1 (0.27%) Military
11 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 212 (56.68%) Developer
2 71 (18.98%) Full-Stack Developer
3 69 (18.45%) Software Engineer
4 67 (17.91%) Senior
5 54 (14.44%) Lead
6 44 (11.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (11.23%) Lead Developer
8 34 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
9 32 (8.56%) Lead Software Engineer
10 31 (8.29%) React Developer
11 29 (7.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 25 (6.68%) Senior Developer
13 22 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
14 19 (5.08%) Consultant
14 19 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Python Developer
16 16 (4.28%) Technical Consultant
17 15 (4.01%) Java Developer
18 14 (3.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (49.20%) React
2 73 (19.52%) GraphQL
3 58 (15.51%) Redux
4 57 (15.24%) Kafka
5 52 (13.90%) RESTful
6 50 (13.37%) AngularJS
7 47 (12.57%) CSS
7 47 (12.57%) Spring
8 42 (11.23%) HTML
9 40 (10.70%) Playwright
10 35 (9.36%) REST
11 31 (8.29%) Jest
12 30 (8.02%) .NET
13 28 (7.49%) Spring Boot
14 27 (7.22%) Vue
15 26 (6.95%) Vitest
16 23 (6.15%) Next.js
16 23 (6.15%) OAuth
17 21 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
18 20 (5.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 77 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 49 (13.10%) Fixed Income
3 24 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.61%) AI Agents
5 19 (5.08%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.55%) Equities
7 16 (4.28%) Derivative
8 8 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.53%) Blog
14 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.53%) Music Streaming
14 2 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.01%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) VMS
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (52.67%) CI/CD
2 189 (50.53%) Agile
3 150 (40.11%) DevOps
4 136 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 114 (30.48%) Software Engineering
6 106 (28.34%) Microservices
7 89 (23.80%) Containerisation
8 71 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (18.72%) Test Automation
10 69 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (17.11%) Mentoring
12 51 (13.64%) AI
13 49 (13.10%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (12.83%) Investment Management
15 41 (10.96%) TDD
16 37 (9.89%) Observability
17 36 (9.63%) Code Quality
17 36 (9.63%) E-Commerce
18 32 (8.56%) Order Management
19 31 (8.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 207 (55.35%) TypeScript
2 185 (49.47%) JavaScript
3 153 (40.91%) Python
4 124 (33.16%) Java
5 49 (13.10%) SQL
6 41 (10.96%) Go
7 32 (8.56%) C#
8 12 (3.21%) Ruby
9 10 (2.67%) Bicep
10 8 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.87%) JSX
12 5 (1.34%) C++
13 4 (1.07%) Bash
14 3 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.80%) Scala
14 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.53%) Ada
15 2 (0.53%) Perl
15 2 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 67 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.55%) Degree
4 11 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.29%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.68%) QA
3 11 (2.94%) WCAG
4 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 134 (35.83%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) HDFS
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 108 (28.88%) Kubernetes
2 71 (18.98%) Terraform
3 23 (6.15%) Grafana
4 19 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.74%) Argo
6 10 (2.67%) Ansible
7 8 (2.14%) Istio
8 5 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.07%) Rancher
10 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.27%) Icinga
11 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (5.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.35%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.48%) Google
4 12 (3.21%) Databricks
5 8 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.87%) Adobe
6 7 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.60%) Oracle
8 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.07%) Foundry
9 4 (1.07%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.53%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.53%) Genesys
10 2 (0.53%) Netlify
10 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.27%) Hitachi
11 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.27%) SAP