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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 118 135
Rank change year-on-year -51 +17 -67
Contract jobs citing Node.js 298 291 333
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 2.41% 1.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.07% 9.26% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 229 232
10th Percentile £384 £400 £365
25th Percentile £447 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £769 £713 £675
90th Percentile £805 £838 £766
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 4,215 3,144 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.03% 26.02% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,201 3,364
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -1.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £30.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -38.18%
75th Percentile £59.99 £53.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £89.50 £68.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 27 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 27 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 -29 20 £600 +21.21% 25
South London +1 15 £521 -16.32%
West London -29 9 - - 5
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 9 (3.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.67%) CMS
3 2 (0.67%) Ethereum
3 2 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Quorum
2 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.34%) Ripple
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (58.72%) AWS
2 104 (34.90%) Azure
3 59 (19.80%) GCP
4 52 (17.45%) Serverless
5 39 (13.09%) GitHub
6 27 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.71%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (4.70%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.36%) Azure Functions
13 13 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (4.03%) Datadog
15 11 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) SSL
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.13%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 19 (6.38%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (6.04%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.02%) Redis
7 6 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.01%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.34%) MySQL
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.01%) GIS
9 3 (1.01%) Metadata
9 3 (1.01%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.67%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 43 (14.43%) Git
3 17 (5.70%) GitLab
4 15 (5.03%) JIRA
5 8 (2.68%) Vite
6 7 (2.35%) webpack
7 6 (2.01%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.68%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.34%) Maven
9 4 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.34%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.01%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.01%) Gatling
10 3 (1.01%) jMock
10 3 (1.01%) Mockito
10 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (22.82%) Finance
2 53 (17.79%) Front Office
3 44 (14.77%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.77%) Social Skills
4 17 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.70%) Banking
5 8 (2.68%) Retail
6 7 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.68%) iGaming
8 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.01%) Publishing
9 2 (0.67%) Advertising
9 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (59.06%) Developer
2 60 (20.13%) Software Engineer
3 58 (19.46%) Lead
4 56 (18.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (17.79%) Senior
6 44 (14.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 39 (13.09%) Lead Developer
8 38 (12.75%) React Developer
9 34 (11.41%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (11.07%) Lead Software Engineer
11 26 (8.72%) Node.js Developer
12 25 (8.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (6.71%) Senior Developer
14 18 (6.04%) Java Developer
15 16 (5.37%) Python Developer
16 13 (4.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 12 (4.03%) Software Developer
18 11 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
19 10 (3.36%) Java Engineer
20 9 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (49.33%) React
2 61 (20.47%) Kafka
3 59 (19.80%) GraphQL
4 56 (18.79%) Redux
5 46 (15.44%) REST
6 45 (15.10%) Spring
7 43 (14.43%) AngularJS
8 41 (13.76%) RESTful
9 34 (11.41%) Spring Boot
10 29 (9.73%) .NET
11 24 (8.05%) CSS
12 23 (7.72%) HTML
12 23 (7.72%) Playwright
13 20 (6.71%) Vue
14 15 (5.03%) Jest
14 15 (5.03%) OAuth
15 14 (4.70%) HTML5
15 14 (4.70%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (4.70%) WireMock
16 13 (4.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.78%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.70%) Equities
4 16 (5.37%) Derivative
5 11 (3.69%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.67%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) VMS
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (47.65%) Agile
2 128 (42.95%) CI/CD
3 111 (37.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 98 (32.89%) DevOps
5 94 (31.54%) Software Engineering
6 81 (27.18%) Microservices
7 58 (19.46%) Containerisation
8 56 (18.79%) Test Automation
9 53 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (17.11%) Mentoring
11 49 (16.44%) Portfolio Management
12 48 (16.11%) Investment Management
13 39 (13.09%) AI
14 34 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (11.07%) Order Management
16 32 (10.74%) Observability
16 32 (10.74%) TDD
17 26 (8.72%) Event-Driven
18 24 (8.05%) Scrum
19 23 (7.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 151 (50.67%) TypeScript
2 146 (48.99%) JavaScript
3 114 (38.26%) Java
4 112 (37.58%) Python
5 40 (13.42%) Go
6 33 (11.07%) SQL
7 27 (9.06%) C#
8 7 (2.35%) Ruby
8 7 (2.35%) Scala
9 6 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.34%) Bicep
10 4 (1.34%) C++
11 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.67%) Ada
12 2 (0.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) R
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) Solidity
13 1 (0.34%) DAML
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.45%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.03%) Degree
4 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.72%) QA
2 22 (7.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.35%) WCAG
4 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (26.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) HDFS
2 2 (0.67%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (22.48%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.46%) Terraform
3 16 (5.37%) Grafana
4 13 (4.36%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.68%) Istio
6 6 (2.01%) Argo
7 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.01%) Ansible
9 2 (0.67%) Rancher
10 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (4.36%) OpenAI
2 12 (4.03%) Google
3 10 (3.36%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.68%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.01%) Databricks
6 4 (1.34%) Adobe
6 4 (1.34%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.34%) Foundry
6 4 (1.34%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.34%) Netlify
6 4 (1.34%) Oracle
6 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.67%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.34%) New Relic
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Workday