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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 110 145
Rank change year-on-year -122 +35 -71
Contract jobs citing Node.js 234 335 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 2.54% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.44% 8.66% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 277 189
10th Percentile £382 £400 £383
25th Percentile £444 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +2.68%
75th Percentile £595 £800 £675
90th Percentile £726 £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 5,275 3,870 4,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.29% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,683 3,447
10th Percentile £400 £369 £384
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
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 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%

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 4 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 4 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 -29 21 £550 +11.11% 18
West London -28 7 £604 +27.16% 13
South London -8 3 - -
East London - 2 £432 - 3
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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 5 (2.14%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.71%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Quorum
1 4 (1.71%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.71%) Ripple
2 3 (1.28%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.85%) Endur
3 2 (0.85%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.28%) AWS
2 67 (28.63%) Azure
3 50 (21.37%) Serverless
4 34 (14.53%) GitHub
5 30 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (9.40%) GCP
7 18 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.26%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.42%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (2.99%) Datadog
14 7 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (2.56%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (17.09%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (12.39%) NoSQL
3 19 (8.12%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.84%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.70%) MySQL
7 10 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.27%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.42%) Redis
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) Big Data
10 2 (0.85%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.85%) Metadata
10 2 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.43%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (24.36%) Git
2 56 (23.93%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.40%) GitLab
4 14 (5.98%) Cypress.io
4 14 (5.98%) JIRA
5 11 (4.70%) Maven
6 10 (4.27%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.99%) Mocha
8 6 (2.56%) webpack
9 5 (2.14%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.14%) Selenium
10 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.71%) Gatling
10 4 (1.71%) JUnit
10 4 (1.71%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.28%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.28%) Mockito
11 3 (1.28%) Vite
12 2 (0.85%) JProfiler
General
1 49 (20.94%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.38%) Finance
3 33 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.55%) Banking
5 16 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.27%) Front Office
7 9 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.42%) Retail
9 6 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Games
11 3 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Marketing
11 3 (1.28%) Military
11 3 (1.28%) Publishing
11 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Local Government
12 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (51.28%) Developer
2 44 (18.80%) Senior
3 37 (15.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 22 (9.40%) React Developer
6 20 (8.55%) Node.js Developer
7 18 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (7.26%) Lead
9 16 (6.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (6.41%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Architect
13 8 (3.42%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.42%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (2.99%) Software Developer
15 6 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
15 6 (2.56%) Principal Software Engineer
15 6 (2.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (49.15%) React
2 61 (26.07%) REST
3 43 (18.38%) Terraform
4 41 (17.52%) RESTful
5 35 (14.96%) GraphQL
6 33 (14.10%) CSS
6 33 (14.10%) Spring
7 32 (13.68%) Spring Boot
8 31 (13.25%) HTML
9 30 (12.82%) .NET
10 29 (12.39%) AngularJS
11 25 (10.68%) Kafka
12 24 (10.26%) HTML5
13 20 (8.55%) Next.js
14 19 (8.12%) CSS3
14 19 (8.12%) Jest
15 16 (6.84%) Vue
16 15 (6.41%) OAuth
16 15 (6.41%) Playwright
17 13 (5.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.42%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.14%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.85%) Mashup
9 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.56%) Linux
2 3 (1.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.43%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) VMS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (51.71%) CI/CD
2 109 (46.58%) Agile
3 89 (38.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (35.90%) Microservices
5 75 (32.05%) DevOps
6 53 (22.65%) Software Engineering
7 51 (21.79%) Event-Driven
8 48 (20.51%) Test Automation
9 41 (17.52%) AI
10 38 (16.24%) TDD
11 37 (15.81%) Containerisation
11 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (14.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 32 (13.68%) Mentoring
15 30 (12.82%) Observability
15 30 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (12.39%) Front End Development
17 27 (11.54%) Scrum
18 24 (10.26%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 122 (52.14%) TypeScript
2 100 (42.74%) JavaScript
3 86 (36.75%) Java
4 63 (26.92%) Python
5 42 (17.95%) SQL
6 22 (9.40%) C#
7 10 (4.27%) Scala
8 8 (3.42%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.42%) Ruby
9 6 (2.56%) Go
10 5 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.14%) Solidity
11 4 (1.71%) Bash
12 3 (1.28%) Rust
13 2 (0.85%) Elixir
13 2 (0.85%) Korn
14 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.43%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.99%) Degree
4 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.14%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.11%) QA
2 19 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.14%) WCAG
4 4 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (19.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Postfix
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.99%) Grafana
3 5 (2.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.43%) Kibana
4 1 (0.43%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.27%) Google
3 9 (3.85%) Databricks
4 6 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.71%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.71%) Oracle
6 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.28%) New Relic
6 3 (1.28%) SAP
7 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.85%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.85%) NEC
7 2 (0.85%) Netlify
7 2 (0.85%) Okta
7 2 (0.85%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.85%) Splunk
8 1 (0.43%) Ariba
8 1 (0.43%) ATG