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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 118 149
Rank change year-on-year -83 +31 -78
Contract jobs citing Node.js 265 336 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 2.48% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.80% 9.60% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 278 188
10th Percentile £381 £400 £396
25th Percentile £450 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -

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 4,571 3,500 4,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.76% 25.87% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,020 2,429 3,168
10th Percentile £390 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 25
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.93% -6.53%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -31 21 £575 +16.16% 35
West London -18 10 £604 +27.16% 4
South London -4 6 £542 -12.94%
East London - 2 £432 - 1
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 (3.40%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.51%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.51%) Quorum
1 4 (1.51%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.51%) Ripple
2 3 (1.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.75%) Endur
3 2 (0.75%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 153 (57.74%) AWS
2 75 (28.30%) Azure
3 47 (17.74%) Serverless
4 36 (13.58%) GCP
5 30 (11.32%) GitHub
6 27 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.17%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (4.15%) Azure AKS
10 11 (4.15%) Datadog
11 10 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.64%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.19%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.79%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (6.04%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.40%) Redis
7 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.51%) MySQL
11 2 (0.75%) Big Data
11 2 (0.75%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.75%) GIS
11 2 (0.75%) Metadata
11 2 (0.75%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 57 (21.51%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.75%) Git
3 23 (8.68%) GitLab
4 14 (5.28%) Cypress.io
5 13 (4.91%) JIRA
6 9 (3.40%) Maven
7 8 (3.02%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.02%) webpack
8 6 (2.26%) Mocha
9 5 (1.89%) JSUnit
9 5 (1.89%) Vite
10 4 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.51%) Gatling
10 4 (1.51%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.51%) Selenium
11 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.13%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.13%) jMock
11 3 (1.13%) JUnit
11 3 (1.13%) Mockito
General
1 53 (20.00%) Finance
2 45 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 34 (12.83%) Front Office
5 20 (7.55%) Banking
6 15 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.64%) Retail
9 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.89%) iGaming
11 4 (1.51%) Games
12 3 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.13%) Military
12 3 (1.13%) Publishing
12 3 (1.13%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (56.23%) Developer
2 53 (20.00%) Senior
3 46 (17.36%) Software Engineer
4 40 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (13.96%) Lead
6 30 (11.32%) React Developer
7 26 (9.81%) Lead Developer
8 24 (9.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 24 (9.06%) Node.js Developer
9 21 (7.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 19 (7.17%) Senior Developer
11 17 (6.42%) Lead Software Developer
11 17 (6.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (5.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 14 (5.28%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.15%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 8 (3.02%) Architect
16 7 (2.64%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (2.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (49.43%) React
2 58 (21.89%) REST
3 52 (19.62%) GraphQL
4 43 (16.23%) RESTful
5 40 (15.09%) Kafka
6 38 (14.34%) Redux
7 33 (12.45%) Spring
8 30 (11.32%) Spring Boot
9 28 (10.57%) AngularJS
10 27 (10.19%) .NET
11 26 (9.81%) CSS
12 24 (9.06%) Next.js
13 22 (8.30%) Jest
14 21 (7.92%) HTML
14 21 (7.92%) Playwright
15 16 (6.04%) HTML5
16 15 (5.66%) Vue
17 14 (5.28%) Express.js
18 11 (4.15%) CSS3
18 11 (4.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.08%) Fixed Income
3 22 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.40%) Equities
5 9 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.02%) Derivative
7 7 (2.64%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.64%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.89%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.75%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.02%) Linux
2 2 (0.75%) VMS
2 2 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (49.81%) Agile
2 125 (47.17%) CI/CD
3 100 (37.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (31.70%) Microservices
5 79 (29.81%) Software Engineering
6 76 (28.68%) DevOps
7 51 (19.25%) Test Automation
8 44 (16.60%) TDD
9 43 (16.23%) Containerisation
9 43 (16.23%) Mentoring
10 41 (15.47%) AI
11 40 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (14.72%) Event-Driven
13 35 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (11.32%) Investment Management
15 29 (10.94%) Observability
16 28 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (10.19%) Scrum
18 25 (9.43%) Data Modelling
18 25 (9.43%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (55.85%) TypeScript
2 119 (44.91%) JavaScript
3 96 (36.23%) Java
4 76 (28.68%) Python
5 37 (13.96%) SQL
6 22 (8.30%) C#
6 22 (8.30%) Go
7 10 (3.77%) Scala
8 9 (3.40%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.02%) Ruby
10 5 (1.89%) Solidity
11 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.13%) Rust
12 2 (0.75%) Bash
12 2 (0.75%) Bicep
12 2 (0.75%) Elixir
12 2 (0.75%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.38%) DAML
13 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 63 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.26%) Degree
5 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.43%) QA
2 23 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.64%) WCAG
4 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (20.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.85%) Terraform
3 10 (3.77%) Grafana
4 5 (1.89%) Ansible
5 4 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.75%) Rancher
6 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) Istio
7 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.38%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (6.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.02%) Google
3 6 (2.26%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.89%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.51%) New Relic
5 4 (1.51%) Oracle
6 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.13%) Databricks
6 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.13%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.13%) SAP
7 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.75%) Netlify
7 2 (0.75%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.75%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Ariba
8 1 (0.38%) ATG
8 1 (0.38%) NEC