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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 107 146
Rank change year-on-year -119 +39 -74
Contract jobs citing Node.js 240 346 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 2.57% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 8.78% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 282 194
10th Percentile £385 £400 £385
25th Percentile £448 £449 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £800 £672
90th Percentile £738 £875 £725
England median daily rate £517 £514 £575
% change year-on-year +0.54% -10.61% +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 5,309 3,943 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.31% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,541 2,726 3,483
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £711
90th Percentile £763 £820 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -33.59%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -31 22 £550 +7.84% 25
West London -33 7 £604 +27.16% 12
South London -10 3 - - 3
East London - 2 £432 - 5
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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 5 (2.08%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.67%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.25%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Quorum
1 4 (1.67%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.67%) Ripple
2 3 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.83%) Endur
3 2 (0.83%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (50.83%) AWS
2 68 (28.33%) Azure
3 52 (21.67%) Serverless
4 37 (15.42%) GitHub
5 30 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (9.17%) GCP
7 18 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.08%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.08%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (3.33%) Azure AKS
16 7 (2.92%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.92%) Datadog
17 6 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
17 6 (2.50%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (12.08%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.92%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.08%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.42%) MySQL
6 13 (5.42%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.92%) Redis
8 5 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.25%) Big Data
10 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.83%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.83%) Metadata
11 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (23.75%) Git
1 57 (23.75%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.75%) GitLab
3 14 (5.83%) Cypress.io
3 14 (5.83%) JIRA
4 12 (5.00%) Maven
5 11 (4.58%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.92%) Mocha
8 6 (2.50%) webpack
9 5 (2.08%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.08%) JUnit
9 5 (2.08%) Selenium
10 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.67%) Gatling
10 4 (1.67%) Mockito
10 4 (1.67%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.25%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.83%) JMeter
12 2 (0.83%) JProfiler
General
1 56 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.50%) Finance
3 32 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.17%) Banking
5 16 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.17%) Front Office
6 10 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.33%) Retail
8 7 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.67%) Games
9 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.25%) Marketing
10 3 (1.25%) Military
10 3 (1.25%) Publishing
11 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (51.25%) Developer
2 48 (20.00%) Senior
3 40 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (10.83%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.58%) React Developer
6 20 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 18 (7.50%) Node.js Developer
8 17 (7.08%) Lead
8 17 (7.08%) Senior Developer
9 16 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 13 (5.42%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (4.17%) Architect
13 8 (3.33%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (2.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.92%) Software Developer
15 6 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
15 6 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (50.00%) React
2 62 (25.83%) REST
3 43 (17.92%) Terraform
4 40 (16.67%) RESTful
5 37 (15.42%) GraphQL
6 35 (14.58%) Spring
7 34 (14.17%) .NET
7 34 (14.17%) CSS
7 34 (14.17%) Spring Boot
8 33 (13.75%) HTML
9 31 (12.92%) AngularJS
10 27 (11.25%) Kafka
11 25 (10.42%) HTML5
12 20 (8.33%) CSS3
12 20 (8.33%) Next.js
13 19 (7.92%) Jest
14 17 (7.08%) OAuth
15 16 (6.67%) Vue
16 15 (6.25%) Playwright
17 13 (5.42%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 53 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.08%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.83%) Mashup
9 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.33%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 112 (46.67%) Agile
3 93 (38.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (36.25%) Microservices
5 74 (30.83%) DevOps
6 58 (24.17%) Software Engineering
7 55 (22.92%) Event-Driven
8 49 (20.42%) Test Automation
9 42 (17.50%) AI
10 39 (16.25%) TDD
11 38 (15.83%) Containerisation
12 37 (15.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 37 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (14.58%) Mentoring
15 31 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (12.08%) Front End Development
16 29 (12.08%) Observability
17 28 (11.67%) Scrum
18 23 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 126 (52.50%) TypeScript
2 103 (42.92%) JavaScript
3 93 (38.75%) Java
4 64 (26.67%) Python
5 48 (20.00%) SQL
6 22 (9.17%) C#
7 10 (4.17%) Scala
8 8 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.33%) Ruby
9 7 (2.92%) Go
10 6 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.08%) Bash
11 5 (2.08%) Solidity
12 3 (1.25%) Rust
13 2 (0.83%) Elixir
13 2 (0.83%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
14 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.75%) Degree
5 8 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.83%) QA
2 17 (7.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) WCAG
4 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.42%) PSD2
5 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (19.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Postfix
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.92%) Grafana
3 5 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.42%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.00%) Google
3 9 (3.75%) Databricks
4 6 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.08%) Oracle
6 4 (1.67%) SAP
7 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.25%) New Relic
7 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.83%) NEC
8 2 (0.83%) Netlify
8 2 (0.83%) Okta
8 2 (0.83%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.42%) Ariba
9 1 (0.42%) ATG