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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 116 143
Rank change year-on-year -82 +27 -72
Contract jobs citing Node.js 286 332 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 2.45% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.21% 9.39% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 279 193
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £682 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +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 4,607 3,535 4,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.72% 26.04% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,467 3,179
10th Percentile £390 £368 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%

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 8 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 8 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 -27 23 £568 +14.65% 28
West London -20 10 £604 +27.16% 4
South London -8 7 £521 -16.32%
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 (3.15%) Confluence
2 5 (1.75%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.40%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.70%) CMS
4 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
2 1 (0.35%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Quorum
1 4 (1.40%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.40%) Ripple
2 3 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.70%) Endur
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (60.49%) AWS
2 83 (29.02%) Azure
3 52 (18.18%) Serverless
4 47 (16.43%) GCP
5 33 (11.54%) GitHub
6 30 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.34%) Amazon S3
8 16 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.85%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.15%) Datadog
14 7 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
14 7 (2.45%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.88%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.79%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.34%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.94%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.50%) Redis
7 8 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.75%) MySQL
10 4 (1.40%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.70%) Big Data
11 2 (0.70%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.70%) GIS
11 2 (0.70%) Metadata
11 2 (0.70%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.70%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.70%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 57 (19.93%) Jenkins
2 56 (19.58%) Git
3 22 (7.69%) GitLab
4 14 (4.90%) Cypress.io
5 13 (4.55%) JIRA
6 9 (3.15%) Maven
7 8 (2.80%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.80%) webpack
8 6 (2.10%) Mocha
8 6 (2.10%) Vite
9 5 (1.75%) JSUnit
10 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.40%) Gatling
10 4 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.05%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.05%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.05%) Mockito
11 3 (1.05%) Spinnaker
General
1 65 (22.73%) Finance
2 47 (16.43%) Front Office
3 44 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 43 (15.03%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.99%) Banking
6 15 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.15%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.45%) Retail
9 5 (1.75%) iGaming
9 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.40%) Games
10 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.05%) Military
11 3 (1.05%) Publishing
11 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Advertising
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
12 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (57.69%) Developer
2 56 (19.58%) Software Engineer
3 53 (18.53%) Senior
4 48 (16.78%) Lead
5 45 (15.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (12.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 34 (11.89%) Lead Developer
7 34 (11.89%) React Developer
8 26 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 26 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
9 25 (8.74%) Lead Software Developer
9 25 (8.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (7.69%) Senior Developer
11 17 (5.94%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (4.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (2.80%) Architect
15 8 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (2.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (50.00%) React
2 61 (21.33%) GraphQL
3 60 (20.98%) REST
4 52 (18.18%) Kafka
5 51 (17.83%) Redux
6 44 (15.38%) RESTful
7 35 (12.24%) Spring
8 30 (10.49%) AngularJS
8 30 (10.49%) Spring Boot
9 28 (9.79%) .NET
9 28 (9.79%) CSS
10 23 (8.04%) HTML
10 23 (8.04%) Jest
10 23 (8.04%) Next.js
11 22 (7.69%) Playwright
12 18 (6.29%) HTML5
12 18 (6.29%) Vue
13 14 (4.90%) Express.js
14 13 (4.55%) CSS3
14 13 (4.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 44 (15.38%) Fixed Income
3 23 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.55%) Equities
6 12 (4.20%) Derivative
7 9 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.45%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.45%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.75%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.70%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Unix
2 2 (0.70%) VMS
2 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (51.75%) Agile
2 134 (46.85%) CI/CD
3 112 (39.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 91 (31.82%) Microservices
5 90 (31.47%) Software Engineering
6 80 (27.97%) DevOps
7 55 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 52 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 50 (17.48%) Mentoring
10 49 (17.13%) TDD
11 48 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (14.69%) Investment Management
13 40 (13.99%) Event-Driven
14 38 (13.29%) AI
15 37 (12.94%) Portfolio Management
16 35 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (10.84%) Order Management
18 28 (9.79%) Observability
19 27 (9.44%) Scrum
19 27 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 162 (56.64%) TypeScript
2 136 (47.55%) JavaScript
3 110 (38.46%) Java
4 93 (32.52%) Python
5 34 (11.89%) SQL
6 31 (10.84%) Go
7 21 (7.34%) C#
8 10 (3.50%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.50%) Scala
9 9 (3.15%) Ruby
10 5 (1.75%) Solidity
11 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.05%) Rust
12 2 (0.70%) Bash
12 2 (0.70%) Bicep
12 2 (0.70%) Elixir
12 2 (0.70%) Korn
12 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) DAML
13 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 65 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.45%) Degree
5 5 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.44%) Accessibility
2 25 (8.74%) QA
3 9 (3.15%) WCAG
4 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (22.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Postfix
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 48 (16.78%) Terraform
3 11 (3.85%) Grafana
4 5 (1.75%) Ansible
4 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.70%) Rancher
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (5.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.80%) Google
3 6 (2.10%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.75%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.40%) New Relic
5 4 (1.40%) Oracle
6 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.05%) Databricks
6 3 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.05%) Netlify
7 2 (0.70%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.70%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.70%) SAP
7 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Ariba
8 1 (0.35%) ATG
8 1 (0.35%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.35%) NEC