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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 114 144
Rank change year-on-year -72 +30 -74
Contract jobs citing Node.js 297 327 313
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 2.41% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.61% 9.26% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 271 211
10th Percentile £399 £385 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.68%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £688
90th Percentile £850 £875 £800
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 4,494 3,532 4,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.04% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 2,453 3,386
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%

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 17 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 17 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 -16 22 £575 +16.16% 14
South London -4 10 £521 -16.32%
West London -14 10 £604 +27.16% 7
East London - 2 £432 - 4
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 Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 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 CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (61.95%) AWS
2 96 (32.32%) Azure
3 56 (18.86%) GCP
3 56 (18.86%) Serverless
4 32 (10.77%) GitHub
5 31 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (8.42%) Amazon S3
7 18 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (3.70%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (3.03%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.03%) Datadog
14 7 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.54%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.41%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.39%) MongoDB
6 13 (4.38%) Redis
7 11 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.02%) MySQL
10 5 (1.68%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
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%) Metadata
12 2 (0.67%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 57 (19.19%) Git
2 53 (17.85%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.39%) GitLab
4 14 (4.71%) JIRA
5 12 (4.04%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.69%) Vite
6 8 (2.69%) webpack
7 7 (2.36%) Maven
8 6 (2.02%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.68%) JSUnit
10 4 (1.35%) Gatling
10 4 (1.35%) Mocha
10 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.01%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.01%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.01%) Mockito
11 3 (1.01%) Spinnaker
General
1 77 (25.93%) Finance
2 59 (19.87%) Front Office
3 43 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.14%) Social Skills
5 22 (7.41%) Banking
6 16 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.02%) Retail
9 5 (1.68%) iGaming
9 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.35%) Games
10 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.01%) Military
11 3 (1.01%) Publishing
11 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Advertising
12 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (60.27%) Developer
2 65 (21.89%) Software Engineer
3 56 (18.86%) Lead
4 50 (16.84%) Senior
5 49 (16.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (15.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 41 (13.80%) Lead Developer
8 38 (12.79%) React Developer
9 33 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
10 27 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 27 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
11 22 (7.41%) Senior Developer
12 21 (7.07%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.37%) Java Engineer
15 10 (3.37%) Software Developer
16 9 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 9 (3.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (51.52%) React
2 66 (22.22%) GraphQL
3 65 (21.89%) Redux
4 62 (20.88%) Kafka
5 61 (20.54%) REST
6 46 (15.49%) RESTful
7 39 (13.13%) Spring
8 33 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 31 (10.44%) Spring Boot
10 29 (9.76%) CSS
11 27 (9.09%) .NET
12 24 (8.08%) HTML
13 22 (7.41%) Playwright
14 21 (7.07%) Jest
14 21 (7.07%) Vue
15 18 (6.06%) Next.js
16 17 (5.72%) HTML5
17 15 (5.05%) OAuth
18 14 (4.71%) Express.js
19 12 (4.04%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 56 (18.86%) Fixed Income
3 20 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.72%) Equities
5 16 (5.39%) Derivative
5 16 (5.39%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.68%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.67%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.37%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (50.51%) Agile
2 131 (44.11%) CI/CD
3 113 (38.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 104 (35.02%) Software Engineering
5 91 (30.64%) Microservices
6 79 (26.60%) DevOps
7 57 (19.19%) Test Automation
8 54 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 54 (18.18%) Investment Management
9 52 (17.51%) Mentoring
10 49 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (16.50%) Portfolio Management
11 45 (15.15%) TDD
12 39 (13.13%) Order Management
13 38 (12.79%) AI
14 36 (12.12%) Event-Driven
15 35 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (8.75%) Data Modelling
16 26 (8.75%) Observability
17 25 (8.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 163 (54.88%) TypeScript
2 145 (48.82%) JavaScript
3 120 (40.40%) Java
4 106 (35.69%) Python
5 41 (13.80%) Go
6 30 (10.10%) SQL
7 26 (8.75%) C#
8 10 (3.37%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.03%) Ruby
9 9 (3.03%) Scala
10 5 (1.68%) Solidity
11 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.01%) Rust
12 2 (0.67%) Bicep
12 2 (0.67%) Elixir
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) Bash
13 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.70%) Degree
4 9 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.42%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.74%) 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 63 (21.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.50%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) Grafana
4 6 (2.02%) 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%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 18 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.03%) Google
4 5 (1.68%) HubSpot
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%) New Relic
7 2 (0.67%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.67%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.67%) SAP
7 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe
8 1 (0.34%) ATG
8 1 (0.34%) NEC