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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 115 137
Rank change year-on-year -68 +22 -68
Contract jobs citing Node.js 284 312 325
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 2.49% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.54% 9.44% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 254 219
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% -
75th Percentile £800 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £864 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 4,341 3,306 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.81% 26.44% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 2,317 3,470
10th Percentile £380 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 29
10th Percentile £23.98 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.50 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.13 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 June 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 June 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 -30 19 £588 +18.69% 24
South London +7 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -35 3 - - 10
East London - 2 £432 - 2
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 8 (2.82%) Confluence
2 5 (1.76%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.41%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.70%) CMS
4 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Quorum
1 4 (1.41%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.41%) Ripple
2 3 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.70%) Endur
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (62.32%) AWS
2 99 (34.86%) Azure
3 51 (17.96%) GCP
4 49 (17.25%) Serverless
5 32 (11.27%) GitHub
6 28 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.39%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (4.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 13 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (3.87%) Azure AKS
13 10 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.17%) Azure Functions
15 8 (2.82%) Datadog
16 7 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (22.18%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.80%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.04%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.99%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.52%) Redis
8 6 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.41%) MySQL
10 3 (1.06%) Metadata
11 2 (0.70%) Big Data
11 2 (0.70%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.70%) GIS
11 2 (0.70%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.70%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (14.79%) Git
2 39 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.58%) GitLab
4 12 (4.23%) JIRA
5 8 (2.82%) Vite
5 8 (2.82%) webpack
6 6 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.11%) Maven
7 5 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.41%) Gatling
8 4 (1.41%) Mocha
8 4 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.06%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.06%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.06%) Mockito
9 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.06%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (26.41%) Finance
2 59 (20.77%) Front Office
3 45 (15.85%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.79%) Social Skills
5 24 (8.45%) Banking
6 13 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.76%) iGaming
8 5 (1.76%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.06%) Military
9 3 (1.06%) Publishing
9 3 (1.06%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Games
10 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (62.68%) Developer
2 65 (22.89%) Software Engineer
3 56 (19.72%) Lead
4 55 (19.37%) Full-Stack Developer
5 45 (15.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 45 (15.85%) Senior
6 41 (14.44%) Lead Developer
7 40 (14.08%) React Developer
8 35 (12.32%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (11.62%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (9.15%) Node.js Developer
11 24 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (8.10%) Senior Developer
13 20 (7.04%) Java Developer
14 13 (4.58%) Python Developer
15 12 (4.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 12 (4.23%) Software Developer
16 10 (3.52%) Java Engineer
16 10 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
17 9 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (52.11%) React
2 64 (22.54%) Redux
3 60 (21.13%) Kafka
4 55 (19.37%) REST
5 50 (17.61%) GraphQL
6 47 (16.55%) RESTful
7 45 (15.85%) Spring
8 36 (12.68%) AngularJS
9 34 (11.97%) Spring Boot
10 27 (9.51%) .NET
11 25 (8.80%) CSS
12 21 (7.39%) HTML
13 19 (6.69%) Vue
14 18 (6.34%) Jest
15 17 (5.99%) OAuth
16 16 (5.63%) Playwright
17 15 (5.28%) HTML5
18 14 (4.93%) Express.js
19 13 (4.58%) JSON
20 12 (4.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.72%) Fixed Income
2 51 (17.96%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.99%) Equities
4 16 (5.63%) Derivative
4 16 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.87%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.82%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.76%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.76%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.87%) Linux
2 3 (1.06%) Windows
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (47.89%) Agile
2 116 (40.85%) CI/CD
3 114 (40.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 100 (35.21%) Software Engineering
5 79 (27.82%) Microservices
6 78 (27.46%) DevOps
7 54 (19.01%) Investment Management
8 51 (17.96%) Containerisation
8 51 (17.96%) Test Automation
9 49 (17.25%) Portfolio Management
10 46 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (15.85%) Mentoring
12 39 (13.73%) Order Management
13 32 (11.27%) AI
14 31 (10.92%) TDD
15 30 (10.56%) Event-Driven
16 29 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (9.15%) Scrum
18 25 (8.80%) Data Modelling
18 25 (8.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 151 (53.17%) TypeScript
2 145 (51.06%) JavaScript
3 117 (41.20%) Java
4 105 (36.97%) Python
5 38 (13.38%) Go
6 29 (10.21%) SQL
7 23 (8.10%) C#
8 8 (2.82%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.82%) Scala
9 7 (2.46%) Ruby
10 5 (1.76%) Solidity
11 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.70%) Bicep
12 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) Cypher
13 1 (0.35%) DAML
13 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.87%) Degree
4 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.15%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.04%) QA
3 8 (2.82%) WCAG
4 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 62 (21.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Postfix
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 49 (17.25%) Terraform
3 11 (3.87%) Grafana
4 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.06%) Ansible
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Rancher
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (3.52%) OpenAI
2 9 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.82%) Google
4 5 (1.76%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.41%) Adobe
5 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.41%) Foundry
5 4 (1.41%) Netlify
5 4 (1.41%) Oracle
6 3 (1.06%) Databricks
6 3 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.70%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.70%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Ariba
8 1 (0.35%) ATG
8 1 (0.35%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.35%) SAP