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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 123 122
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -52
Contract jobs citing Node.js 375 279 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 2.21% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.00% 8.47% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 214 234
10th Percentile £356 £400 £366
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £539
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +6.73% -6.30%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £663
90th Percentile £800 £825 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 4,166 3,293 4,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.73% 26.07% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 2,304 3,343
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £427 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -0.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £692
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £545
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 26
10th Percentile £26.55 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.50 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +20.41% -31.84%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 31 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 31 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 -16 27 £505 -6.91% 64
West London -6 23 £550 +35.14% 1
South London - 23 £521 - 1
East London +2 2 £432 -26.15% 5
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 8 (2.13%) CMS
1 8 (2.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.07%) SAS
3 3 (0.80%) Apache
3 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) IIS
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.53%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 207 (55.20%) AWS
2 133 (35.47%) Azure
3 76 (20.27%) Serverless
4 68 (18.13%) GCP
5 66 (17.60%) GitHub
6 45 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (7.47%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.20%) SaaS
10 22 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (5.87%) Azure AKS
11 20 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (4.53%) Datadog
14 16 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 16 (4.27%) Azure Functions
15 15 (4.00%) 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 69 (18.40%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 23 (6.13%) DynamoDB
5 18 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.67%) Redis
8 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.87%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.60%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.60%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.33%) MySQL
10 5 (1.33%) Weaviate
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.80%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.80%) Metadata
12 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 69 (18.40%) Jenkins
2 56 (14.93%) Git
3 26 (6.93%) GitLab
4 19 (5.07%) JIRA
5 12 (3.20%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.40%) Vite
7 8 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.33%) 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%) Hudson
11 3 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (20.00%) Finance
2 61 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.87%) Front Office
4 48 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.13%) Banking
7 7 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.87%) Retail
8 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.07%) iGaming
10 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Publishing
11 2 (0.53%) Advertising
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 210 (56.00%) Developer
2 70 (18.67%) Software Engineer
3 67 (17.87%) Senior
4 64 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 57 (15.20%) Lead
6 44 (11.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (11.20%) Lead Developer
8 34 (9.07%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (8.80%) Lead Software Engineer
9 33 (8.80%) React Developer
10 30 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (6.40%) Senior Developer
12 23 (6.13%) Node.js Developer
13 20 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (4.80%) Python Developer
15 17 (4.53%) Consultant
15 17 (4.53%) Java Developer
16 16 (4.27%) Technical Consultant
17 14 (3.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (47.20%) React
2 73 (19.47%) GraphQL
3 60 (16.00%) Kafka
4 59 (15.73%) Redux
5 52 (13.87%) RESTful
6 47 (12.53%) AngularJS
7 46 (12.27%) Spring
8 43 (11.47%) CSS
9 39 (10.40%) Playwright
10 37 (9.87%) HTML
11 36 (9.60%) REST
12 32 (8.53%) Spring Boot
13 29 (7.73%) .NET
14 28 (7.47%) Jest
15 27 (7.20%) Vitest
16 23 (6.13%) OAuth
17 22 (5.87%) Vue
18 21 (5.60%) JWT
18 21 (5.60%) OpenTelemetry
19 20 (5.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 49 (13.07%) Fixed Income
3 24 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.60%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.53%) Equities
6 16 (4.27%) Derivative
6 16 (4.27%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.53%) Music Streaming
13 2 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.00%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) VMS
2 4 (1.07%) Windows
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 186 (49.60%) Agile
3 149 (39.73%) DevOps
4 127 (33.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 115 (30.67%) Software Engineering
6 105 (28.00%) Microservices
7 87 (23.20%) Containerisation
8 75 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 73 (19.47%) Test Automation
10 69 (18.40%) Mentoring
11 64 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (13.60%) AI
13 48 (12.80%) Investment Management
13 48 (12.80%) Portfolio Management
14 39 (10.40%) Observability
14 39 (10.40%) TDD
15 33 (8.80%) E-Commerce
16 32 (8.53%) Order Management
17 31 (8.27%) API Design
17 31 (8.27%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 201 (53.60%) TypeScript
2 178 (47.47%) JavaScript
3 149 (39.73%) Python
4 121 (32.27%) Java
5 49 (13.07%) SQL
6 41 (10.93%) Go
7 33 (8.80%) C#
8 10 (2.67%) Bicep
9 9 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.40%) Ruby
10 6 (1.60%) JSX
11 5 (1.33%) C++
12 4 (1.07%) Bash
12 4 (1.07%) Scala
13 3 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.53%) Ada
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.00%) Degree
4 10 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.13%) QA
3 11 (2.93%) WCAG
4 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 128 (34.13%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) HDFS
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (27.73%) Kubernetes
2 78 (20.80%) Terraform
3 22 (5.87%) Grafana
4 20 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.67%) Ansible
6 8 (2.13%) Argo
6 8 (2.13%) Istio
7 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.07%) Rancher
9 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 19 (5.07%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.80%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.47%) Databricks
4 11 (2.93%) Google
5 8 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.13%) Oracle
6 7 (1.87%) Adobe
7 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.07%) Foundry
8 4 (1.07%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.53%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.53%) Genesys
9 2 (0.53%) Netlify
9 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) Ariba
10 1 (0.27%) Hitachi