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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -66 +22 -69
Contract jobs citing Node.js 289 306 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 2.50% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.75% 9.42% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 245 227
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £447 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £775 £713 £675
90th Percentile £805 £838 £757
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 4,281 3,248 4,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.98% 26.53% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,839 2,280 3,455
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 29
10th Percentile £22.82 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £30.27 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.75 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £63.44 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -22 22 £600 +21.21% 47
South London +2 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -28 5 - - 4
East London - 2 £432 - 2
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 (3.11%) Confluence
2 6 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.73%) Ethereum
4 4 (1.38%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.04%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) Apache
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Quorum
1 4 (1.38%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.38%) Ripple
2 3 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Endur
3 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (61.94%) AWS
2 100 (34.60%) Azure
3 56 (19.38%) GCP
4 50 (17.30%) Serverless
5 39 (13.49%) GitHub
6 28 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (6.92%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 10 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (3.46%) Azure Functions
15 10 (3.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.76%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.00%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.92%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.11%) Redis
7 6 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.08%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.08%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.38%) MySQL
9 3 (1.04%) Big Data
9 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.04%) GIS
9 3 (1.04%) Metadata
9 3 (1.04%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.04%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.69%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 46 (15.92%) Jenkins
2 42 (14.53%) Git
3 18 (6.23%) GitLab
4 13 (4.50%) JIRA
5 8 (2.77%) Vite
5 8 (2.77%) webpack
6 6 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.08%) Maven
7 5 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.38%) Gatling
8 4 (1.38%) Mocha
8 4 (1.38%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.38%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.04%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.04%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.04%) Mockito
9 3 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (23.88%) Finance
2 53 (18.34%) Front Office
3 44 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 43 (14.88%) Social Skills
5 19 (6.57%) Banking
6 14 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.11%) Retail
8 8 (2.77%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.73%) iGaming
10 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.04%) Publishing
11 2 (0.69%) Advertising
11 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Games
11 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 175 (60.55%) Developer
2 60 (20.76%) Lead
3 58 (20.07%) Software Engineer
4 53 (18.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 46 (15.92%) Senior
6 44 (15.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 41 (14.19%) Lead Developer
8 38 (13.15%) React Developer
9 35 (12.11%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (11.42%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (8.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (8.30%) Node.js Developer
12 21 (7.27%) Senior Developer
13 20 (6.92%) Java Developer
14 13 (4.50%) Python Developer
15 12 (4.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 12 (4.15%) Software Developer
16 11 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
17 10 (3.46%) Java Engineer
18 9 (3.11%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (50.52%) React
2 62 (21.45%) Kafka
3 58 (20.07%) Redux
4 52 (17.99%) REST
5 51 (17.65%) GraphQL
5 51 (17.65%) Spring
6 45 (15.57%) RESTful
7 41 (14.19%) AngularJS
8 39 (13.49%) Spring Boot
9 28 (9.69%) .NET
10 25 (8.65%) CSS
11 24 (8.30%) HTML
12 20 (6.92%) Playwright
12 20 (6.92%) Vue
13 17 (5.88%) Jest
14 15 (5.19%) HTML5
14 15 (5.19%) OAuth
15 14 (4.84%) WireMock
16 13 (4.50%) JSON
16 13 (4.50%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.30%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.88%) Equities
4 16 (5.54%) Derivative
5 15 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.15%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.81%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.46%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.73%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.04%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (46.71%) Agile
2 122 (42.21%) CI/CD
3 107 (37.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 97 (33.56%) Software Engineering
5 90 (31.14%) DevOps
6 83 (28.72%) Microservices
7 55 (19.03%) Containerisation
8 52 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 52 (17.99%) Test Automation
9 49 (16.96%) Portfolio Management
10 48 (16.61%) Investment Management
10 48 (16.61%) Mentoring
11 39 (13.49%) AI
12 33 (11.42%) Order Management
12 33 (11.42%) TDD
13 31 (10.73%) Observability
14 29 (10.03%) Event-Driven
15 28 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (9.00%) Scrum
17 25 (8.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 149 (51.56%) TypeScript
2 147 (50.87%) JavaScript
3 120 (41.52%) Java
4 108 (37.37%) Python
5 39 (13.49%) Go
6 30 (10.38%) SQL
7 26 (9.00%) C#
8 7 (2.42%) Scala
9 6 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.08%) Ruby
10 5 (1.73%) Solidity
11 4 (1.38%) C++
12 3 (1.04%) Bicep
13 2 (0.69%) Ada
13 2 (0.69%) PHP
13 2 (0.69%) R
13 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.35%) Cypher
14 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 61 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.50%) Degree
4 9 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.30%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.61%) QA
3 7 (2.42%) WCAG
4 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 71 (24.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) HDFS
2 2 (0.69%) Postfix
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 55 (19.03%) Terraform
3 14 (4.84%) Grafana
4 11 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.77%) Istio
6 6 (2.08%) Argo
7 4 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.04%) Ansible
9 2 (0.69%) Rancher
10 1 (0.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (4.50%) Google
2 12 (4.15%) OpenAI
3 10 (3.46%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.73%) Databricks
5 5 (1.73%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.38%) Adobe
6 4 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.38%) Foundry
6 4 (1.38%) Netlify
6 4 (1.38%) Oracle
7 3 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.69%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.35%) Ariba
9 1 (0.35%) New Relic
9 1 (0.35%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.35%) Workday