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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 131 121
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -49
Contract jobs citing Node.js 389 275 349
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 2.05% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.44% 7.80% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 201 231
10th Percentile £356 £400 £338
25th Percentile £425 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £650
90th Percentile £800 £813 £750
England median daily rate £514 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -10.65% +12.20% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -1.52% +0.76%

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 4,119 3,524 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.33% 26.28% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,385 3,387
10th Percentile £363 £383 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.37
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £28.51
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.01%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £74.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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
West London 0 28 £550 +35.14% 11
Central London -17 26 £513 -6.18% 67
South London - 24 £521 - 8
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 7 (1.80%) CMS
2 6 (1.54%) SAS
3 5 (1.29%) Confluence
4 4 (1.03%) Apache
4 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.77%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.77%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.26%) Maya
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.26%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 212 (54.50%) AWS
2 131 (33.68%) Azure
3 84 (21.59%) Serverless
4 78 (20.05%) GitHub
5 73 (18.77%) GCP
6 52 (13.37%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (7.97%) SaaS
9 29 (7.46%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (5.66%) Azure AKS
11 19 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 19 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (4.63%) Datadog
13 17 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.11%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.54%) Network Security
2 3 (0.77%) Firewall
2 3 (0.77%) SSL
3 1 (0.26%) DKIM
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) HTTP
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
3 1 (0.26%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.51%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.97%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.43%) DynamoDB
3 25 (6.43%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.83%) Redis
7 6 (1.54%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.54%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.54%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.29%) GIS
8 5 (1.29%) MySQL
9 4 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 66 (16.97%) Jenkins
2 56 (14.40%) Git
3 27 (6.94%) GitLab
4 16 (4.11%) JIRA
5 13 (3.34%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.54%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.54%) Vite
7 4 (1.03%) Maven
7 4 (1.03%) Mocha
7 4 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.77%) Hudson
8 3 (0.77%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.77%) Lerna
8 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.77%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.77%) Subversion
8 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 77 (19.79%) Finance
2 71 (18.25%) Social Skills
3 51 (13.11%) Front Office
4 48 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.91%) Banking
7 7 (1.80%) Retail
8 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.03%) iGaming
9 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.51%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Law
12 1 (0.26%) Local Government
12 1 (0.26%) Military
12 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (56.30%) Developer
2 76 (19.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 71 (18.25%) Software Engineer
4 69 (17.74%) Senior
5 54 (13.88%) Lead
6 45 (11.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (10.80%) Lead Developer
8 34 (8.74%) Lead Software Developer
9 32 (8.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 32 (8.23%) Lead Software Engineer
10 30 (7.71%) React Developer
11 23 (5.91%) Consultant
11 23 (5.91%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.14%) Node.js Developer
13 19 (4.88%) Python Developer
14 18 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.63%) Technical Consultant
15 17 (4.37%) Backend Developer
16 16 (4.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (48.84%) React
2 85 (21.85%) GraphQL
3 59 (15.17%) Redux
4 58 (14.91%) Kafka
5 53 (13.62%) RESTful
6 51 (13.11%) AngularJS
7 49 (12.60%) CSS
8 45 (11.57%) HTML
8 45 (11.57%) Playwright
8 45 (11.57%) Spring
9 32 (8.23%) REST
10 31 (7.97%) Jest
11 29 (7.46%) .NET
11 29 (7.46%) Vitest
12 28 (7.20%) Next.js
13 27 (6.94%) Spring Boot
14 26 (6.68%) Vue
15 24 (6.17%) OAuth
16 22 (5.66%) YAML
17 21 (5.40%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.60%) Fixed Income
3 24 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.40%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.14%) AI Agents
6 17 (4.37%) Equities
7 16 (4.11%) Derivative
8 9 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.31%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.51%) Blog
13 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.51%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.51%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.11%) Linux
2 5 (1.29%) Unix
3 4 (1.03%) VMS
4 2 (0.51%) CentOS
4 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.51%) Windows
5 1 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (53.21%) CI/CD
2 199 (51.16%) Agile
3 156 (40.10%) DevOps
4 144 (37.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 119 (30.59%) Software Engineering
6 106 (27.25%) Microservices
7 93 (23.91%) Containerisation
8 77 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 72 (18.51%) Test Automation
11 66 (16.97%) Mentoring
12 52 (13.37%) AI
13 49 (12.60%) Investment Management
13 49 (12.60%) Portfolio Management
14 44 (11.31%) E-Commerce
15 39 (10.03%) Observability
15 39 (10.03%) TDD
16 37 (9.51%) Code Quality
17 33 (8.48%) Order Management
18 32 (8.23%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 216 (55.53%) TypeScript
2 194 (49.87%) JavaScript
3 161 (41.39%) Python
4 126 (32.39%) Java
5 54 (13.88%) SQL
6 43 (11.05%) Go
7 31 (7.97%) C#
8 13 (3.34%) Bicep
9 12 (3.08%) Ruby
10 7 (1.80%) JSX
10 7 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.29%) Bash
11 5 (1.29%) C++
12 4 (1.03%) Perl
13 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.51%) Ada
14 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 69 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.37%) Degree
4 11 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.94%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.17%) QA
3 10 (2.57%) WCAG
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 143 (36.76%) Docker
2 9 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) HDFS
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 68 (17.48%) Terraform
3 23 (5.91%) Grafana
4 19 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.60%) Argo
6 10 (2.57%) Ansible
7 9 (2.31%) Istio
8 5 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.77%) Rancher
10 2 (0.51%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) Icinga
11 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.40%) OpenAI
3 14 (3.60%) Google
4 10 (2.57%) Databricks
4 10 (2.57%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.06%) Oracle
6 7 (1.80%) Adobe
6 7 (1.80%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.03%) Foundry
7 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.77%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.51%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.51%) Genesys
9 2 (0.51%) Netlify
9 2 (0.51%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.51%) SAP
10 1 (0.26%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.26%) NEC