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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 112 152
Rank change year-on-year -96 +40 -82
Contract jobs citing Node.js 260 342 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 2.55% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.93% 8.73% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 286 188
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
75th Percentile £641 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £791
England median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -

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 5,272 3,917 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.16% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,731 3,508
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £690 £716
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £30.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +37.17% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.10 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -21 20 £563 +13.64% 27
West London -22 10 £604 +27.16% 4
South London -3 3 - -
East London - 2 £432 - 1
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 (3.46%) Confluence
2 5 (1.92%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.54%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.77%) CMS
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Quorum
1 4 (1.54%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.54%) Ripple
2 3 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.77%) Endur
3 2 (0.77%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (57.31%) AWS
2 75 (28.85%) Azure
3 46 (17.69%) Serverless
4 37 (14.23%) GCP
5 30 (11.54%) GitHub
6 27 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (6.54%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (4.23%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.23%) Datadog
12 10 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
16 5 (1.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.38%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.54%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (6.15%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.85%) Redis
6 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.54%) MySQL
9 2 (0.77%) Big Data
9 2 (0.77%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.77%) GIS
9 2 (0.77%) Metadata
9 2 (0.77%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 57 (21.92%) Jenkins
2 55 (21.15%) Git
3 24 (9.23%) GitLab
4 14 (5.38%) Cypress.io
5 13 (5.00%) JIRA
6 8 (3.08%) Maven
7 7 (2.69%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.31%) Mocha
8 6 (2.31%) webpack
9 5 (1.92%) JSUnit
9 5 (1.92%) Vite
10 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.54%) Gatling
10 4 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.54%) Selenium
11 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.15%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.77%) JMeter
12 2 (0.77%) JUnit
General
1 53 (20.38%) Finance
2 45 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.08%) Front Office
5 20 (7.69%) Banking
6 14 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.46%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.69%) Retail
9 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.54%) Games
10 4 (1.54%) iGaming
11 3 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Military
11 3 (1.15%) Publishing
11 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (55.77%) Developer
2 50 (19.23%) Senior
3 46 (17.69%) Software Engineer
4 38 (14.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (13.85%) Lead
6 30 (11.54%) React Developer
7 26 (10.00%) Lead Developer
8 24 (9.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 22 (8.46%) Node.js Developer
10 21 (8.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 18 (6.92%) Senior Developer
12 17 (6.54%) Lead Software Developer
12 17 (6.54%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (5.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 13 (5.00%) Java Developer
15 11 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (3.46%) Architect
16 9 (3.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 7 (2.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 7 (2.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (50.00%) React
2 57 (21.92%) REST
3 51 (19.62%) GraphQL
4 43 (16.54%) RESTful
5 42 (16.15%) Terraform
6 39 (15.00%) Kafka
7 37 (14.23%) Redux
8 31 (11.92%) Spring
9 29 (11.15%) Spring Boot
10 27 (10.38%) .NET
10 27 (10.38%) AngularJS
11 25 (9.62%) CSS
12 24 (9.23%) Next.js
13 21 (8.08%) HTML
14 20 (7.69%) Jest
14 20 (7.69%) Playwright
15 16 (6.15%) HTML5
16 15 (5.77%) Express.js
16 15 (5.77%) Vue
17 12 (4.62%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.92%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.31%) Fixed Income
3 21 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.46%) Equities
5 9 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.08%) Derivative
7 7 (2.69%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.31%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.92%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.77%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.69%) Linux
2 2 (0.77%) VMS
2 2 (0.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (50.77%) Agile
2 122 (46.92%) CI/CD
3 99 (38.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 83 (31.92%) Microservices
5 79 (30.38%) Software Engineering
6 75 (28.85%) DevOps
7 48 (18.46%) Test Automation
8 42 (16.15%) Containerisation
9 41 (15.77%) AI
9 41 (15.77%) Mentoring
9 41 (15.77%) TDD
10 39 (15.00%) Event-Driven
10 39 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (11.54%) Investment Management
13 29 (11.15%) Observability
13 29 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (10.38%) Scrum
15 25 (9.62%) Code Quality
15 25 (9.62%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (56.15%) TypeScript
2 117 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 95 (36.54%) Java
4 75 (28.85%) Python
5 35 (13.46%) SQL
6 22 (8.46%) C#
6 22 (8.46%) Go
7 10 (3.85%) Scala
8 9 (3.46%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.08%) Ruby
10 5 (1.92%) Solidity
11 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.77%) Bash
12 2 (0.77%) Bicep
12 2 (0.77%) Elixir
12 2 (0.77%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) DAML
13 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 63 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.31%) Degree
5 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.62%) QA
2 21 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.31%) WCAG
4 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (20.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.46%) Grafana
3 5 (1.92%) Ansible
4 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.77%) Rancher
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
6 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.38%) linkerd
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.08%) Google
3 6 (2.31%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.31%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.54%) HubSpot
4 4 (1.54%) New Relic
4 4 (1.54%) Oracle
5 3 (1.15%) Databricks
5 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.15%) SAP
6 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.77%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.77%) Netlify
6 2 (0.77%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.77%) PagerDuty
6 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.38%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.38%) Okta