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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 123 126
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 -58
Contract jobs citing Node.js 309 277 349
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.74% 2.24% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.50% 8.59% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 224 239
10th Percentile £382 £400 £397
25th Percentile £440 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% -3.04%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £675
90th Percentile £805 £838 £769
England median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -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 4,118 3,223 4,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.13% 26.07% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 2,261 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 24
10th Percentile £22.79 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £34.56 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.25 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -19 24 £555 +8.82% 44
South London +3 16 £521 -16.32%
West London -14 15 £550 +15.79% 6
East London - 2 £432 - 4
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 (3.24%) Confluence
2 5 (1.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.29%) CMS
4 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Maya
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.65%) Shopify
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (57.61%) AWS
2 108 (34.95%) Azure
3 59 (19.09%) GCP
4 58 (18.77%) Serverless
5 44 (14.24%) GitHub
6 29 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (6.80%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.18%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.85%) Azure AKS
11 15 (4.85%) Azure Functions
12 14 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (4.53%) Datadog
13 13 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (4.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.97%) Network Security
1 3 (0.97%) SSL
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (18.77%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.74%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.47%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (5.18%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.91%) Redis
8 6 (1.94%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.62%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.29%) MySQL
10 4 (1.29%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.29%) Weaviate
11 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.97%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.97%) GIS
11 3 (0.97%) Metadata
12 2 (0.65%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (17.48%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.59%) Git
3 18 (5.83%) GitLab
3 18 (5.83%) JIRA
4 8 (2.59%) Vite
5 6 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.62%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.29%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.29%) Maven
7 4 (1.29%) Mocha
7 4 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.29%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.29%) webpack
8 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.65%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.65%) Hudson
9 2 (0.65%) jMock
9 2 (0.65%) Mockito
9 2 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 69 (22.33%) Finance
2 53 (17.15%) Front Office
3 45 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 44 (14.24%) Social Skills
5 18 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.83%) Banking
6 8 (2.59%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.59%) Retail
7 5 (1.62%) iGaming
8 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.97%) Publishing
9 2 (0.65%) Advertising
9 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Games
10 1 (0.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Local Government
10 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (57.93%) Developer
2 63 (20.39%) Software Engineer
3 58 (18.77%) Lead
3 58 (18.77%) Senior
4 57 (18.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 44 (14.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 39 (12.62%) Lead Developer
7 35 (11.33%) React Developer
8 34 (11.00%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (10.68%) Lead Software Engineer
10 25 (8.09%) Node.js Developer
11 24 (7.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 20 (6.47%) Senior Developer
13 17 (5.50%) Java Developer
14 16 (5.18%) Python Developer
15 13 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (3.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 12 (3.88%) Software Developer
17 11 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 11 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (47.90%) React
2 63 (20.39%) GraphQL
3 60 (19.42%) Kafka
4 57 (18.45%) Redux
5 44 (14.24%) Spring
6 43 (13.92%) AngularJS
7 40 (12.94%) REST
8 38 (12.30%) RESTful
9 33 (10.68%) Spring Boot
10 30 (9.71%) HTML
11 29 (9.39%) CSS
12 27 (8.74%) .NET
13 25 (8.09%) Playwright
14 20 (6.47%) Vue
15 17 (5.50%) Jest
15 17 (5.50%) OpenTelemetry
16 16 (5.18%) Vitest
17 15 (4.85%) HTML5
17 15 (4.85%) OAuth
18 14 (4.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.18%) Fixed Income
3 18 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.50%) Equities
5 16 (5.18%) Derivative
6 14 (4.53%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.56%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.24%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.65%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.56%) Linux
2 4 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Android
4 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (47.57%) Agile
2 141 (45.63%) CI/CD
3 111 (35.92%) DevOps
3 111 (35.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 101 (32.69%) Software Engineering
5 83 (26.86%) Microservices
6 66 (21.36%) Containerisation
7 62 (20.06%) Test Automation
8 60 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (18.12%) Mentoring
10 49 (15.86%) Portfolio Management
11 48 (15.53%) Investment Management
12 43 (13.92%) AI
13 40 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (11.65%) Observability
15 33 (10.68%) Order Management
16 29 (9.39%) TDD
17 28 (9.06%) E-Commerce
18 24 (7.77%) Data Modelling
18 24 (7.77%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 157 (50.81%) TypeScript
2 152 (49.19%) JavaScript
3 119 (38.51%) Python
4 107 (34.63%) Java
5 40 (12.94%) Go
6 34 (11.00%) SQL
7 30 (9.71%) C#
8 7 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.94%) Bicep
9 6 (1.94%) Ruby
10 5 (1.62%) C++
11 4 (1.29%) Scala
12 3 (0.97%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.65%) Ada
13 2 (0.65%) Bash
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) R
13 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.21%) Degree
4 9 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.77%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.47%) QA
3 7 (2.27%) WCAG
4 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 90 (29.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.65%) HDFS
3 1 (0.32%) Postfix
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (23.30%) Kubernetes
2 62 (20.06%) Terraform
3 19 (6.15%) Grafana
4 17 (5.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.59%) Istio
6 6 (1.94%) Argo
7 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.97%) Ansible
9 2 (0.65%) Rancher
10 1 (0.32%) Icinga
10 1 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (4.85%) OpenAI
2 12 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.24%) Google
4 9 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.59%) Databricks
6 4 (1.29%) Adobe
6 4 (1.29%) Foundry
6 4 (1.29%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.29%) Netlify
6 4 (1.29%) Oracle
7 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.65%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.65%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.32%) NEC
9 1 (0.32%) New Relic
9 1 (0.32%) Workday