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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 113 137
Rank change year-on-year -64 +24 -68
Contract jobs citing Node.js 297 319 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 2.46% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.76% 9.34% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 264 217
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £778 £750 £675
90th Percentile £850 £875 £775
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 4,395 3,415 4,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.30% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 2,381 3,481
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £711
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 27
10th Percentile £23.98 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.56 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +13.46% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.50 £61.63 £61.97
90th Percentile £93.13 £85.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £58.30
% change year-on-year +10.40% +0.99% -10.31%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 21 £588 +18.69% 55
South London +8 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -23 9 £604 +27.16% 16
East London - 2 £432 - 7
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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.68%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.35%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.67%) CMS
4 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.01%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.34%) Maya
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Quorum
1 4 (1.35%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.35%) Ripple
2 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.67%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (60.61%) AWS
2 98 (33.00%) Azure
3 53 (17.85%) GCP
3 53 (17.85%) Serverless
4 34 (11.45%) GitHub
5 30 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (7.74%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (4.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (3.70%) Azure AKS
13 10 (3.37%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.03%) Datadog
15 7 (2.36%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.07%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.39%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.70%) Redis
8 6 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.68%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.35%) MySQL
11 3 (1.01%) Metadata
12 2 (0.67%) Big Data
12 2 (0.67%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.67%) GIS
12 2 (0.67%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.67%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 51 (17.17%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.16%) Git
3 15 (5.05%) JIRA
4 14 (4.71%) GitLab
5 8 (2.69%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.69%) Vite
5 8 (2.69%) webpack
6 6 (2.02%) Maven
7 5 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.68%) JSUnit
8 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.35%) Gatling
8 4 (1.35%) Mocha
8 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.01%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.01%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.01%) Mockito
9 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.01%) Spinnaker
General
1 78 (26.26%) Finance
2 59 (19.87%) Front Office
3 44 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 26 (8.75%) Banking
5 15 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.68%) iGaming
7 5 (1.68%) Retail
8 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.01%) Games
9 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.01%) Military
9 3 (1.01%) Publishing
9 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Advertising
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (60.61%) Developer
2 66 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 55 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 54 (18.18%) Lead
5 47 (15.82%) Senior
6 46 (15.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 39 (13.13%) Lead Developer
7 39 (13.13%) React Developer
8 33 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
8 33 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (8.75%) Node.js Developer
11 21 (7.07%) Senior Developer
12 20 (6.73%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (3.70%) Python Developer
15 10 (3.37%) Java Engineer
15 10 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (51.18%) React
2 65 (21.89%) Redux
3 61 (20.54%) GraphQL
3 61 (20.54%) Kafka
4 58 (19.53%) REST
5 50 (16.84%) RESTful
6 45 (15.15%) Spring
7 35 (11.78%) AngularJS
8 34 (11.45%) Spring Boot
9 26 (8.75%) .NET
9 26 (8.75%) CSS
10 22 (7.41%) HTML
11 21 (7.07%) Playwright
12 20 (6.73%) Jest
13 19 (6.40%) Next.js
14 18 (6.06%) Vue
15 17 (5.72%) OAuth
16 15 (5.05%) HTML5
17 13 (4.38%) Express.js
18 12 (4.04%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.86%) Cloud Native
1 56 (18.86%) Fixed Income
2 17 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (5.72%) Equities
3 16 (5.39%) Derivative
4 14 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.68%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.67%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.70%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (49.83%) Agile
2 125 (42.09%) CI/CD
3 117 (39.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 102 (34.34%) Software Engineering
5 85 (28.62%) Microservices
6 80 (26.94%) DevOps
7 56 (18.86%) Test Automation
8 54 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 54 (18.18%) Investment Management
9 49 (16.50%) Portfolio Management
10 48 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (16.16%) Mentoring
11 41 (13.80%) TDD
12 39 (13.13%) Order Management
13 35 (11.78%) AI
14 33 (11.11%) Event-Driven
15 32 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (9.09%) Scrum
17 26 (8.75%) Data Modelling
17 26 (8.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 163 (54.88%) TypeScript
2 147 (49.49%) JavaScript
3 119 (40.07%) Java
4 104 (35.02%) Python
5 39 (13.13%) Go
6 29 (9.76%) SQL
7 24 (8.08%) C#
8 9 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.69%) Ruby
9 8 (2.69%) Scala
10 5 (1.68%) Solidity
11 3 (1.01%) Bicep
11 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.67%) Rust
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) Cypher
13 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Elixir
13 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.70%) Degree
4 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.75%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.41%) QA
3 8 (2.69%) WCAG
4 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) 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 64 (21.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (19.19%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.84%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) Grafana
4 7 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.68%) Ansible
6 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) Istio
7 2 (0.67%) Rancher
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (5.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.37%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.03%) Google
4 5 (1.68%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.35%) Adobe
5 4 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.35%) Foundry
5 4 (1.35%) Netlify
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle
5 4 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.67%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.67%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Ariba
8 1 (0.34%) ATG
8 1 (0.34%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.34%) SAP