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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -62 +22 -69
Contract jobs citing Node.js 294 306 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 2.50% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.80% 9.42% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 245 227
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £448 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £775 £713 £675
90th Percentile £809 £838 £757
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 4,326 3,248 4,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.53% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,867 2,280 3,455
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £448 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 29
10th Percentile £23.33 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.75 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £62.88 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.63 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 11 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 11 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 -24 23 £600 +21.21% 47
South London +2 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -28 5 - - 4
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 (3.06%) Confluence
2 6 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.70%) Ethereum
4 4 (1.36%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.02%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 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 (1.36%) Quorum
1 4 (1.36%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.36%) Ripple
2 3 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.68%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 182 (61.90%) AWS
2 102 (34.69%) Azure
3 56 (19.05%) GCP
4 52 (17.69%) Serverless
5 40 (13.61%) GitHub
6 29 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (4.08%) Azure AKS
15 12 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (3.40%) Azure Functions
17 10 (3.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.18%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (5.78%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.06%) Redis
7 7 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.04%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.36%) Big Data
9 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.36%) MySQL
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 46 (15.65%) Jenkins
2 44 (14.97%) Git
3 18 (6.12%) GitLab
4 13 (4.42%) JIRA
5 8 (2.72%) Vite
5 8 (2.72%) webpack
6 6 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.04%) Maven
7 5 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.36%) Gatling
8 4 (1.36%) Mocha
8 4 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.36%) 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%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (23.81%) Finance
2 53 (18.03%) Front Office
3 44 (14.97%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.97%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.46%) Banking
5 14 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.06%) Retail
7 8 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.70%) 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%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Games
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (60.54%) Developer
2 60 (20.41%) Lead
3 59 (20.07%) Software Engineer
4 56 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 49 (16.67%) Senior
6 44 (14.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 41 (13.95%) Lead Developer
8 39 (13.27%) React Developer
9 35 (11.90%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (11.22%) Lead Software Engineer
11 25 (8.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 25 (8.50%) Node.js Developer
12 23 (7.82%) Senior Developer
13 20 (6.80%) Java Developer
14 13 (4.42%) Python Developer
15 12 (4.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 12 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 11 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
17 10 (3.40%) Java Engineer
18 9 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (51.36%) React
2 63 (21.43%) Kafka
3 58 (19.73%) Redux
4 55 (18.71%) REST
5 51 (17.35%) GraphQL
5 51 (17.35%) Spring
6 45 (15.31%) RESTful
7 41 (13.95%) AngularJS
8 39 (13.27%) Spring Boot
9 29 (9.86%) .NET
10 25 (8.50%) CSS
11 24 (8.16%) HTML
12 20 (6.80%) Playwright
12 20 (6.80%) Vue
13 18 (6.12%) Jest
14 16 (5.44%) OAuth
15 15 (5.10%) HTML5
16 14 (4.76%) WireMock
17 13 (4.42%) Express.js
17 13 (4.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.73%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.01%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.78%) Equities
4 16 (5.44%) Derivative
5 15 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.08%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.74%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.70%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.68%) Blog
11 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.74%) Linux
2 3 (1.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (45.92%) Agile
2 126 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 110 (37.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 98 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 91 (30.95%) DevOps
6 85 (28.91%) Microservices
7 58 (19.73%) Containerisation
8 55 (18.71%) Test Automation
9 53 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
11 48 (16.33%) Investment Management
11 48 (16.33%) Mentoring
12 40 (13.61%) AI
13 33 (11.22%) Order Management
13 33 (11.22%) TDD
14 32 (10.88%) Observability
15 30 (10.20%) Event-Driven
15 30 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (8.84%) Data Modelling
16 26 (8.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 153 (52.04%) TypeScript
2 148 (50.34%) JavaScript
3 120 (40.82%) Java
4 110 (37.41%) Python
5 39 (13.27%) Go
6 32 (10.88%) SQL
7 26 (8.84%) C#
8 7 (2.38%) Scala
9 6 (2.04%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.04%) Ruby
10 5 (1.70%) Solidity
11 4 (1.36%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Bicep
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%) Cypher
14 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 61 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.42%) Degree
4 9 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.36%) 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 24 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.48%) QA
3 7 (2.38%) 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 72 (24.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) HDFS
2 2 (0.68%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 57 (19.39%) Terraform
3 15 (5.10%) Grafana
4 11 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.72%) Istio
6 6 (2.04%) Argo
7 4 (1.36%) Ansible
7 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.68%) Rancher
9 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (4.42%) Google
2 12 (4.08%) OpenAI
3 10 (3.40%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.72%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.70%) Databricks
5 5 (1.70%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.36%) Adobe
6 4 (1.36%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.36%) Foundry
6 4 (1.36%) Netlify
6 4 (1.36%) Oracle
7 3 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.68%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.34%) Ariba
9 1 (0.34%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.34%) NEC
9 1 (0.34%) SAP