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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 128 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 -49
Contract jobs citing Node.js 367 273 356
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.32% 2.04% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.03% 7.71% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 196 233
10th Percentile £356 £400 £353
25th Percentile £426 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £650
90th Percentile £800 £825 £740
England median daily rate £513 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +6.87%

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 4,062 3,539 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.70% 26.47% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,753 2,363 3,368
10th Percentile £363 £382 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £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 22 21 36
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.93
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.42
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.81
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +1 30 £550 +35.14% 4
Central London -13 27 £525 - 58
South London - 24 £521 - 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 8 (2.18%) CMS
2 6 (1.63%) SAS
3 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.36%) Confluence
4 4 (1.09%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.82%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.27%) Maya
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Shopify
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
2 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.27%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 191 (52.04%) AWS
2 119 (32.43%) Azure
3 80 (21.80%) Serverless
4 76 (20.71%) GitHub
5 66 (17.98%) GCP
6 53 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (9.54%) SaaS
10 28 (7.63%) Amazon S3
11 19 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (5.18%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (5.18%) Azure AKS
12 18 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (4.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (4.09%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.63%) Network Security
2 3 (0.82%) Firewall
2 3 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) DKIM
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (17.98%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.63%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.54%) DynamoDB
4 23 (6.27%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.18%) Redis
8 6 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.63%) Weaviate
9 5 (1.36%) MySQL
9 5 (1.36%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
11 3 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.82%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.82%) Dremio
11 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 63 (17.17%) Jenkins
2 53 (14.44%) Git
3 24 (6.54%) GitLab
4 16 (4.36%) JIRA
5 14 (3.81%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.09%) Maven
7 4 (1.09%) Mocha
7 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.09%) Vite
8 3 (0.82%) Hudson
8 3 (0.82%) Lerna
8 3 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.82%) Subversion
8 3 (0.82%) webpack
9 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.54%) Mockito
General
1 69 (18.80%) Finance
1 69 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 42 (11.44%) Front Office
3 41 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.54%) Banking
5 23 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.91%) Retail
7 6 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.54%) iGaming
9 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.54%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Law
10 1 (0.27%) Legal
10 1 (0.27%) Local Government
10 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 201 (54.77%) Developer
2 72 (19.62%) Full-Stack Developer
3 67 (18.26%) Senior
4 60 (16.35%) Software Engineer
5 46 (12.53%) Lead
6 36 (9.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 33 (8.99%) Lead Developer
8 30 (8.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (7.08%) Lead Software Developer
10 25 (6.81%) Consultant
10 25 (6.81%) React Developer
11 24 (6.54%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (5.99%) Senior Developer
13 20 (5.45%) Technical Consultant
14 19 (5.18%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.90%) Node.js Developer
16 17 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
16 17 (4.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 17 (4.63%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (48.77%) React
2 77 (20.98%) GraphQL
3 51 (13.90%) AngularJS
3 51 (13.90%) RESTful
4 50 (13.62%) Kafka
5 49 (13.35%) CSS
6 48 (13.08%) Redux
7 46 (12.53%) HTML
8 45 (12.26%) Playwright
9 44 (11.99%) Spring
10 30 (8.17%) Jest
10 30 (8.17%) Vitest
11 28 (7.63%) REST
12 27 (7.36%) Next.js
12 27 (7.36%) Spring Boot
13 26 (7.08%) .NET
14 24 (6.54%) Vue
15 22 (5.99%) OAuth
16 21 (5.72%) YAML
17 20 (5.45%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.63%) Fixed Income
3 23 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.99%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.90%) AI Agents
6 15 (4.09%) Equities
7 12 (3.27%) Derivative
8 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.82%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.09%) Linux
2 5 (1.36%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) CentOS
3 3 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.82%) VMS
4 2 (0.54%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (54.50%) CI/CD
2 186 (50.68%) Agile
3 148 (40.33%) DevOps
4 134 (36.51%) Full-Stack Development
5 104 (28.34%) Software Engineering
6 96 (26.16%) Microservices
7 89 (24.25%) Containerisation
8 75 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (19.07%) Test Automation
10 60 (16.35%) Mentoring
11 51 (13.90%) AI
12 46 (12.53%) E-Commerce
13 39 (10.63%) Investment Management
14 38 (10.35%) Portfolio Management
15 37 (10.08%) Code Quality
15 37 (10.08%) Observability
16 35 (9.54%) TDD
17 32 (8.72%) Performance Optimisation
18 30 (8.17%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 201 (54.77%) TypeScript
2 184 (50.14%) JavaScript
3 149 (40.60%) Python
4 114 (31.06%) Java
5 51 (13.90%) SQL
6 34 (9.26%) Go
7 30 (8.17%) C#
8 12 (3.27%) Bicep
8 12 (3.27%) Ruby
9 7 (1.91%) JSX
9 7 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.36%) Bash
10 5 (1.36%) C++
10 5 (1.36%) Perl
11 3 (0.82%) C
11 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.54%) Ada
12 2 (0.54%) PHP
12 2 (0.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.36%) Degree
4 10 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.36%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.27%) QA
3 9 (2.45%) WCAG
4 3 (0.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 136 (37.06%) Docker
2 9 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) HDFS
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (29.70%) Kubernetes
2 64 (17.44%) Terraform
3 20 (5.45%) Grafana
4 16 (4.36%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.81%) Argo
6 10 (2.72%) Ansible
7 8 (2.18%) Istio
8 5 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.54%) Kibana
10 2 (0.54%) Rancher
11 1 (0.27%) Icinga
Vendors
1 26 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.18%) OpenAI
3 15 (4.09%) Google
4 11 (3.00%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.72%) Databricks
6 9 (2.45%) Oracle
7 8 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.91%) Adobe
9 6 (1.63%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.54%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.54%) Genesys
11 2 (0.54%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.54%) Netlify
11 2 (0.54%) SAP
11 2 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.27%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.27%) NEC
12 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity