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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 115 148
Rank change year-on-year -119 +33 -75
Contract jobs citing Node.js 241 340 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 2.54% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.57% 8.70% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 282 191
10th Percentile £371 £400 £386
25th Percentile £443 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £569 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -3.19% +4.44%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £675
90th Percentile £700 £875 £750
England median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -

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 5,271 3,910 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.21% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,519 2,722 3,484
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £451 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £814 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 20 £550 +11.11% 18
West London -24 8 £604 +27.16% 13
South London -13 3 - -
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 (4.15%) Confluence
2 5 (2.07%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.66%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Quorum
1 4 (1.66%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.66%) Ripple
2 3 (1.24%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.83%) Endur
3 2 (0.83%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (51.04%) AWS
2 70 (29.05%) Azure
3 53 (21.99%) Serverless
4 34 (14.11%) GitHub
5 30 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (9.96%) GCP
7 20 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.05%) Amazon S3
9 17 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.73%) Azure AKS
15 8 (3.32%) Datadog
16 7 (2.90%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.43%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (12.03%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.88%) DynamoDB
4 18 (7.47%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.56%) MySQL
6 11 (4.56%) Redis
6 11 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.56%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.83%) Big Data
8 2 (0.83%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.83%) Metadata
8 2 (0.83%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 62 (25.73%) Jenkins
2 58 (24.07%) Git
3 24 (9.96%) GitLab
4 14 (5.81%) Cypress.io
4 14 (5.81%) JIRA
5 11 (4.56%) Maven
6 10 (4.15%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.90%) Mocha
8 6 (2.49%) webpack
9 5 (2.07%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.07%) Selenium
9 5 (2.07%) Vite
10 4 (1.66%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.66%) Gatling
10 4 (1.66%) JUnit
10 4 (1.66%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.24%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.24%) Mockito
11 3 (1.24%) Spinnaker
General
1 50 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.94%) Finance
2 36 (14.94%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.71%) Banking
4 16 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.15%) Front Office
6 9 (3.73%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.90%) Retail
8 6 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.66%) Games
9 4 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.24%) Marketing
10 3 (1.24%) Military
10 3 (1.24%) Publishing
10 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.83%) iGaming
11 2 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 124 (51.45%) Developer
2 46 (19.09%) Senior
3 37 (15.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (10.37%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.54%) React Developer
6 21 (8.71%) Node.js Developer
7 19 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (7.05%) Lead
9 16 (6.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (6.22%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.56%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.56%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Architect
12 9 (3.73%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) Software Developer
15 6 (2.49%) AWS Engineer
15 6 (2.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (47.72%) React
2 62 (25.73%) REST
3 45 (18.67%) Terraform
4 42 (17.43%) RESTful
5 37 (15.35%) GraphQL
6 35 (14.52%) CSS
7 34 (14.11%) Spring
8 32 (13.28%) Spring Boot
9 31 (12.86%) .NET
9 31 (12.86%) HTML
10 30 (12.45%) AngularJS
11 25 (10.37%) Kafka
12 24 (9.96%) HTML5
13 21 (8.71%) Next.js
14 19 (7.88%) CSS3
14 19 (7.88%) Jest
15 17 (7.05%) Vue
16 16 (6.64%) Playwright
17 15 (6.22%) Express.js
17 15 (6.22%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.30%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
4 8 (3.32%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.49%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.07%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.83%) Mashup
10 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.32%) Linux
2 3 (1.24%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (52.28%) CI/CD
2 112 (46.47%) Agile
3 90 (37.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 88 (36.51%) Microservices
5 80 (33.20%) DevOps
6 55 (22.82%) Software Engineering
7 50 (20.75%) Event-Driven
8 49 (20.33%) Test Automation
9 43 (17.84%) AI
10 41 (17.01%) TDD
11 39 (16.18%) Containerisation
11 39 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 33 (13.69%) Mentoring
14 30 (12.45%) Observability
14 30 (12.45%) Scrum
14 30 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (12.03%) Front End Development
16 25 (10.37%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 124 (51.45%) TypeScript
2 100 (41.49%) JavaScript
3 89 (36.93%) Java
4 66 (27.39%) Python
5 45 (18.67%) SQL
6 22 (9.13%) C#
7 10 (4.15%) Scala
8 8 (3.32%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.32%) Ruby
9 7 (2.90%) Go
10 5 (2.07%) Solidity
11 4 (1.66%) Bash
11 4 (1.66%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.24%) Rust
13 2 (0.83%) Bicep
13 2 (0.83%) Elixir
13 2 (0.83%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.41%) DAML
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.32%) Degree
5 7 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.79%) QA
2 20 (8.30%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.49%) WCAG
4 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (21.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Postfix
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.32%) Grafana
3 5 (2.07%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.83%) Rancher
5 1 (0.41%) Istio
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.15%) Google
3 9 (3.73%) Databricks
4 6 (2.49%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.49%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.66%) Oracle
6 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.24%) New Relic
6 3 (1.24%) SAP
7 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.83%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.83%) NEC
7 2 (0.83%) Netlify
7 2 (0.83%) Okta
7 2 (0.83%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.41%) Ariba
8 1 (0.41%) ATG
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat