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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 115 147
Rank change year-on-year -68 +32 -75
Contract jobs citing Node.js 292 331 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 2.43% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.50% 9.34% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 280 194
10th Percentile £385 £399 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -2.11% +7.95%
75th Percentile £759 £750 £684
90th Percentile £850 £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 4,493 3,543 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.06% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,486 3,228
10th Percentile £394 £370 £376
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +37.17% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -16 23 £568 +14.65% 24
West London -17 10 £604 +27.16% 5
South London -11 8 £521 -16.32%
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 10 (3.42%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
4 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Quorum
1 4 (1.37%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.37%) Ripple
2 3 (1.03%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.68%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (63.36%) AWS
2 90 (30.82%) Azure
3 55 (18.84%) GCP
4 51 (17.47%) Serverless
5 31 (10.62%) GitHub
6 29 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.88%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.77%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.08%) Datadog
14 7 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.21%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.53%) DynamoDB
4 17 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.14%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.42%) Redis
7 8 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.71%) MySQL
9 5 (1.71%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.68%) GIS
10 2 (0.68%) Metadata
10 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (18.15%) Git
1 53 (18.15%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.48%) GitLab
3 14 (4.79%) JIRA
4 13 (4.45%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.74%) webpack
6 7 (2.40%) Maven
7 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.05%) Vite
8 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.71%) JSUnit
9 4 (1.37%) Gatling
9 4 (1.37%) Mocha
9 4 (1.37%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.37%) Selenium
10 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.03%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.03%) jMock
10 3 (1.03%) Spinnaker
General
1 80 (27.40%) Finance
2 59 (20.21%) Front Office
3 42 (14.38%) Social Skills
4 40 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.53%) Banking
6 12 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.08%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.71%) iGaming
8 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.71%) Retail
9 4 (1.37%) Games
9 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Military
10 3 (1.03%) Publishing
10 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Advertising
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (59.93%) Developer
2 67 (22.95%) Software Engineer
3 56 (19.18%) Lead
4 49 (16.78%) Senior
5 48 (16.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (15.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 41 (14.04%) Lead Developer
8 38 (13.01%) React Developer
9 33 (11.30%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (11.30%) Lead Software Engineer
10 29 (9.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 27 (9.25%) Node.js Developer
12 21 (7.19%) Java Developer
12 21 (7.19%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 9 (3.08%) Java Engineer
16 9 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (3.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (51.71%) React
2 68 (23.29%) GraphQL
3 63 (21.58%) Redux
4 61 (20.89%) REST
5 59 (20.21%) Kafka
6 45 (15.41%) RESTful
7 35 (11.99%) Spring
8 33 (11.30%) AngularJS
9 29 (9.93%) CSS
9 29 (9.93%) Spring Boot
10 26 (8.90%) .NET
11 24 (8.22%) HTML
12 23 (7.88%) Playwright
13 22 (7.53%) Jest
14 21 (7.19%) Vue
15 20 (6.85%) Next.js
16 17 (5.82%) HTML5
17 14 (4.79%) Express.js
18 13 (4.45%) OAuth
19 12 (4.11%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 56 (19.18%) Fixed Income
3 21 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.82%) Equities
5 16 (5.48%) Derivative
6 15 (5.14%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.74%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.71%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.68%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.42%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Unix
2 2 (0.68%) VMS
2 2 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (53.08%) Agile
2 131 (44.86%) CI/CD
3 115 (39.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 103 (35.27%) Software Engineering
5 90 (30.82%) Microservices
6 73 (25.00%) DevOps
7 57 (19.52%) Test Automation
8 54 (18.49%) Investment Management
8 54 (18.49%) Mentoring
9 52 (17.81%) Containerisation
10 49 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (16.78%) Portfolio Management
11 48 (16.44%) TDD
12 39 (13.36%) Order Management
13 38 (13.01%) Event-Driven
14 36 (12.33%) AI
15 33 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (8.90%) Data Modelling
16 26 (8.90%) Scrum
17 25 (8.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (56.85%) TypeScript
2 142 (48.63%) JavaScript
3 118 (40.41%) Java
4 103 (35.27%) Python
5 39 (13.36%) Go
6 32 (10.96%) SQL
7 21 (7.19%) C#
8 10 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.08%) Ruby
9 9 (3.08%) Scala
10 5 (1.71%) Solidity
11 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.03%) Rust
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) Bicep
12 2 (0.68%) Elixir
12 2 (0.68%) Korn
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) DAML
13 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 62 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.08%) Degree
4 8 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.90%) Accessibility
2 25 (8.56%) QA
3 9 (3.08%) WCAG
4 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (21.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (19.86%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.10%) Terraform
3 11 (3.77%) Grafana
4 5 (1.71%) Ansible
4 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.68%) Rancher
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.74%) Google
2 8 (2.74%) OpenAI
3 5 (1.71%) HubSpot
3 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle
5 3 (1.03%) Databricks
5 3 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (1.03%) Netlify
6 2 (0.68%) New Relic
6 2 (0.68%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty
6 2 (0.68%) SAP
6 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe
7 1 (0.34%) Ariba
7 1 (0.34%) ATG
7 1 (0.34%) Hitachi