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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 117 144
Rank change year-on-year -134 +27 -64
Contract jobs citing Node.js 215 326 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 2.43% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.04% 8.21% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 251 190
10th Percentile £385 £400 £399
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £744 £688
90th Percentile £738 £875 £752
England median daily rate £515 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +0.10% -10.52% +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 5,325 3,973 4,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.66% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,599 2,710 3,307
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £753 £800 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 32 23
10th Percentile £29.60 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -26 21 £550 +4.76% 52
West London -29 8 £604 +27.16% 5
South London -9 2 - - 3
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 (3.26%) Confluence
2 4 (1.86%) Ethereum
2 4 (1.86%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.40%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Quorum
1 4 (1.86%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.86%) Ripple
2 2 (0.93%) Endur
2 2 (0.93%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (50.70%) AWS
2 61 (28.37%) Azure
3 45 (20.93%) Serverless
4 33 (15.35%) GitHub
5 23 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.30%) GCP
7 17 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.65%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (2.79%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.79%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (2.79%) Datadog
15 5 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.37%) MongoDB
4 16 (7.44%) DynamoDB
5 14 (6.51%) MySQL
5 14 (6.51%) SQL Server
6 13 (6.05%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.19%) Redis
8 5 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.40%) Big Data
9 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.93%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (23.26%) Git
1 50 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.23%) GitLab
3 15 (6.98%) Maven
4 13 (6.05%) SonarQube
5 12 (5.58%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.19%) JIRA
8 7 (3.26%) JUnit
9 6 (2.79%) Mocha
9 6 (2.79%) Mockito
9 6 (2.79%) Selenium
10 5 (2.33%) JSUnit
10 5 (2.33%) webpack
11 4 (1.86%) Gatling
11 4 (1.86%) Gradle
11 4 (1.86%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.40%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.93%) JMeter
13 2 (0.93%) jMock
General
1 54 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.14%) Finance
3 34 (15.81%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.84%) Banking
5 13 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.72%) Retail
7 7 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.79%) Front Office
9 4 (1.86%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.86%) Marketing
9 4 (1.86%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Games
10 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Military
11 2 (0.93%) Back Office
11 2 (0.93%) Local Government
12 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 109 (50.70%) Developer
2 45 (20.93%) Senior
3 36 (16.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (7.91%) React Developer
7 16 (7.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.05%) Java Developer
8 13 (6.05%) Node.js Developer
8 13 (6.05%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.12%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Architect
10 9 (4.19%) Lead
11 8 (3.72%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.26%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) JavaScript Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Principal Software Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (53.49%) React
2 61 (28.37%) REST
3 40 (18.60%) RESTful
4 39 (18.14%) GraphQL
5 33 (15.35%) CSS
6 32 (14.88%) HTML
6 32 (14.88%) Spring Boot
7 31 (14.42%) Spring
7 31 (14.42%) Terraform
8 30 (13.95%) .NET
9 29 (13.49%) AngularJS
10 26 (12.09%) Kafka
11 24 (11.16%) Next.js
12 23 (10.70%) HTML5
13 20 (9.30%) CSS3
14 18 (8.37%) OAuth
15 17 (7.91%) Jest
16 16 (7.44%) Playwright
17 15 (6.98%) Nunjucks
17 15 (6.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.16%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.26%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.79%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.86%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Linux
2 3 (1.40%) Mac OS X
2 3 (1.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.93%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (53.95%) CI/CD
2 107 (49.77%) Agile
3 85 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 83 (38.60%) Microservices
5 68 (31.63%) DevOps
6 56 (26.05%) Software Engineering
7 55 (25.58%) Event-Driven
8 44 (20.47%) Test Automation
9 40 (18.60%) AI
9 40 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 40 (18.60%) TDD
10 36 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (16.28%) Containerisation
12 32 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (13.49%) Front End Development
14 28 (13.02%) Code Quality
15 27 (12.56%) Observability
15 27 (12.56%) Scrum
16 25 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 126 (58.60%) TypeScript
2 93 (43.26%) JavaScript
3 85 (39.53%) Java
4 55 (25.58%) Python
5 43 (20.00%) SQL
6 20 (9.30%) C#
7 8 (3.72%) Go
7 8 (3.72%) Scala
8 7 (3.26%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.79%) Bash
9 6 (2.79%) Ruby
10 4 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.86%) Solidity
11 3 (1.40%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) Bicep
12 2 (0.93%) Elixir
12 2 (0.93%) Korn
13 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.19%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.26%) Degree
6 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.09%) QA
2 15 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.86%) WCAG
4 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) PSD2
5 1 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (21.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 49 (22.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.72%) Grafana
3 5 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.51%) Google
3 7 (3.26%) Databricks
4 6 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.33%) Oracle
6 4 (1.86%) SAP
7 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.40%) New Relic
7 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.93%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.93%) NEC
8 2 (0.93%) Okta
8 2 (0.93%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.93%) SGI
8 2 (0.93%) Splunk
9 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot