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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 113 141
Rank change year-on-year -101 +28 -68
Contract jobs citing Node.js 264 342 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 2.54% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 8.72% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 286 190
10th Percentile £381 £400 £399
25th Percentile £450 £425 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +4.44%
75th Percentile £647 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £789
England median daily rate £525 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% -

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 5,303 3,924 4,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.13% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,733 3,509
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £766 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.59
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -37.04%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £67.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.32% -10.82% -5.23%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -28 20 £563 +13.64% 26
West London -23 10 £604 +27.16% 10
South London -2 3 - -
East London - 2 £432 - 1
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 (3.41%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.52%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) CMS
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Quorum
1 4 (1.52%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.52%) Ripple
2 3 (1.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.76%) Endur
3 2 (0.76%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (56.82%) AWS
2 76 (28.79%) Azure
3 48 (18.18%) Serverless
4 37 (14.02%) GCP
5 31 (11.74%) GitHub
6 28 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (6.82%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.55%) Datadog
13 11 (4.17%) Azure AKS
14 10 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
17 6 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (10.61%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 17 (6.44%) DynamoDB
5 16 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.79%) Redis
7 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.89%) MySQL
10 2 (0.76%) Big Data
10 2 (0.76%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.76%) GIS
10 2 (0.76%) Metadata
10 2 (0.76%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 58 (21.97%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.83%) Git
3 24 (9.09%) GitLab
4 14 (5.30%) Cypress.io
5 13 (4.92%) JIRA
6 9 (3.41%) Maven
7 7 (2.65%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.27%) Mocha
8 6 (2.27%) webpack
9 5 (1.89%) JSUnit
9 5 (1.89%) Vite
10 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.52%) Gatling
10 4 (1.52%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.52%) Selenium
11 3 (1.14%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.14%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 55 (20.83%) Finance
2 45 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 34 (12.88%) Front Office
5 20 (7.58%) Banking
6 14 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.65%) Retail
9 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.52%) Games
11 3 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.14%) iGaming
11 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.14%) Marketing
11 3 (1.14%) Military
11 3 (1.14%) Publishing
11 3 (1.14%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (56.06%) Developer
2 49 (18.56%) Senior
3 48 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 39 (14.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (13.64%) Lead
6 30 (11.36%) React Developer
7 26 (9.85%) Lead Developer
8 24 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 23 (8.71%) Node.js Developer
10 21 (7.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 18 (6.82%) Senior Developer
12 17 (6.44%) Lead Software Developer
12 17 (6.44%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (5.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 14 (5.30%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.41%) Architect
15 9 (3.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 7 (2.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (2.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (49.62%) React
2 59 (22.35%) REST
3 52 (19.70%) GraphQL
4 44 (16.67%) Terraform
5 43 (16.29%) RESTful
6 40 (15.15%) Kafka
7 37 (14.02%) Redux
8 32 (12.12%) Spring
9 30 (11.36%) .NET
9 30 (11.36%) Spring Boot
10 28 (10.61%) AngularJS
11 26 (9.85%) CSS
12 24 (9.09%) Next.js
13 22 (8.33%) HTML
14 20 (7.58%) Jest
14 20 (7.58%) Playwright
15 17 (6.44%) HTML5
16 16 (6.06%) Vue
17 15 (5.68%) Express.js
18 12 (4.55%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 58 (21.97%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.12%) Fixed Income
3 21 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.41%) Equities
5 9 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.03%) Derivative
7 7 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.89%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.76%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.65%) Linux
2 2 (0.76%) VMS
2 2 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (50.38%) Agile
2 125 (47.35%) CI/CD
3 100 (37.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (32.58%) Microservices
5 82 (31.06%) Software Engineering
6 77 (29.17%) DevOps
7 49 (18.56%) Test Automation
8 43 (16.29%) AI
8 43 (16.29%) Containerisation
9 41 (15.53%) Event-Driven
9 41 (15.53%) Mentoring
9 41 (15.53%) TDD
10 39 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (11.74%) Observability
13 30 (11.36%) Investment Management
13 30 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (10.23%) Scrum
15 26 (9.85%) Code Quality
15 26 (9.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 149 (56.44%) TypeScript
2 118 (44.70%) JavaScript
3 99 (37.50%) Java
4 79 (29.92%) Python
5 37 (14.02%) SQL
6 24 (9.09%) C#
7 22 (8.33%) Go
8 10 (3.79%) Scala
9 9 (3.41%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.03%) Ruby
11 5 (1.89%) Solidity
12 3 (1.14%) Bash
12 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.14%) Rust
13 2 (0.76%) Bicep
13 2 (0.76%) Elixir
13 2 (0.76%) Korn
14 1 (0.38%) DAML
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 64 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.65%) Degree
5 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.85%) QA
2 21 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.27%) WCAG
4 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 55 (20.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.41%) Grafana
3 5 (1.89%) Ansible
4 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.76%) Rancher
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
6 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.38%) linkerd
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.03%) Google
3 6 (2.27%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.52%) Databricks
4 4 (1.52%) New Relic
4 4 (1.52%) Oracle
5 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.14%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.14%) SAP
6 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.76%) Netlify
6 2 (0.76%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
6 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.38%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.38%) Okta