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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 115 138
Rank change year-on-year -110 +23 -64
Contract jobs citing Node.js 242 340 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 2.52% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 8.54% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 274 189
10th Percentile £385 £400 £386
25th Percentile £450 £451 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £800 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £727
England median daily rate £518 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +1.05% -10.87% +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 5,356 3,982 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.57% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,590 2,747 3,469
10th Percentile £400 £366 £377
25th Percentile £450 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £811 £850
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £32.10 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.61 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.44 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.85 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

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 19 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 19 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 -33 21 £550 +7.84% 49
West London -35 7 £604 +27.16% 12
South London -8 3 - - 4
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 (4.13%) Confluence
2 5 (2.07%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.65%) CMS
3 4 (1.65%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Quorum
1 4 (1.65%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.65%) Ripple
2 3 (1.24%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.83%) Endur
3 2 (0.83%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 122 (50.41%) AWS
2 69 (28.51%) Azure
3 54 (22.31%) Serverless
4 37 (15.29%) GitHub
5 31 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (9.50%) GCP
7 18 (7.44%) Amazon S3
7 18 (7.44%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.72%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (3.31%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (3.31%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.89%) Datadog
14 6 (2.48%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (2.48%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.57%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.85%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.61%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.20%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 13 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (5.37%) MySQL
8 7 (2.89%) Redis
9 5 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.24%) Big Data
11 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.83%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.83%) Metadata
12 2 (0.83%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.41%) Chroma
Development Applications
1 56 (23.14%) Git
2 55 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.68%) GitLab
4 14 (5.79%) JIRA
5 13 (5.37%) Cypress.io
5 13 (5.37%) Maven
6 11 (4.55%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.31%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.48%) Mocha
9 5 (2.07%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.07%) JUnit
9 5 (2.07%) Selenium
9 5 (2.07%) webpack
10 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.65%) Gatling
10 4 (1.65%) Mockito
10 4 (1.65%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.24%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.83%) JMeter
12 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.77%) Finance
3 32 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.09%) Banking
5 16 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.72%) Front Office
8 8 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.31%) Retail
9 7 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.65%) Games
10 4 (1.65%) Marketing
10 4 (1.65%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Military
11 3 (1.24%) Publishing
12 2 (0.83%) Back Office
12 2 (0.83%) Local Government
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (50.83%) Developer
2 47 (19.42%) Senior
3 40 (16.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (11.57%) Software Engineer
5 22 (9.09%) React Developer
6 21 (8.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (6.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 16 (6.61%) Lead
7 16 (6.61%) Node.js Developer
7 16 (6.61%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.37%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Architect
11 8 (3.31%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (2.89%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.48%) Principal Software Engineer
13 6 (2.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (50.00%) React
2 65 (26.86%) REST
3 42 (17.36%) Terraform
4 40 (16.53%) RESTful
5 38 (15.70%) GraphQL
6 36 (14.88%) Spring Boot
7 35 (14.46%) Spring
8 34 (14.05%) .NET
8 34 (14.05%) CSS
9 33 (13.64%) HTML
10 31 (12.81%) AngularJS
11 28 (11.57%) Kafka
12 25 (10.33%) HTML5
13 22 (9.09%) Next.js
14 20 (8.26%) CSS3
15 18 (7.44%) Jest
15 18 (7.44%) OAuth
16 15 (6.20%) Playwright
16 15 (6.20%) Vue
17 14 (5.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.68%) Product Ownership
3 20 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.89%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.89%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.07%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.83%) Mashup
10 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.89%) Linux
2 4 (1.65%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 111 (45.87%) Agile
3 93 (38.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 90 (37.19%) Microservices
5 75 (30.99%) DevOps
6 61 (25.21%) Software Engineering
7 57 (23.55%) Event-Driven
8 51 (21.07%) Test Automation
9 47 (19.42%) AI
10 39 (16.12%) Containerisation
10 39 (16.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 38 (15.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (15.70%) TDD
12 35 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (14.05%) Mentoring
14 32 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (12.81%) Observability
16 29 (11.98%) Front End Development
17 27 (11.16%) Scrum
18 25 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 131 (54.13%) TypeScript
2 101 (41.74%) JavaScript
3 93 (38.43%) Java
4 66 (27.27%) Python
5 49 (20.25%) SQL
6 24 (9.92%) C#
7 10 (4.13%) Scala
8 8 (3.31%) Go
8 8 (3.31%) Ruby
9 7 (2.89%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.48%) Bash
10 6 (2.48%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.07%) Solidity
12 3 (1.24%) Rust
13 2 (0.83%) Elixir
13 2 (0.83%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 56 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.31%) Degree
4 8 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.16%) QA
2 15 (6.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.65%) WCAG
4 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.41%) PSD2
5 1 (0.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (19.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Postfix
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (21.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.31%) Grafana
3 5 (2.07%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.96%) Google
3 8 (3.31%) Databricks
4 6 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.07%) Oracle
5 5 (2.07%) SAP
6 4 (1.65%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.24%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.24%) New Relic
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%) SGI
8 2 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.41%) Guidewire