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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 144 99
Rank change year-on-year +31 -45 -21
Contract jobs citing Node.js 359 296 503
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.55% 1.88% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.63% 7.18% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 194 344
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £650
90th Percentile £850 £834 £700
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.30
25th Percentile £66.00 - £72.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.50
75th Percentile £70.00 - £74.25
90th Percentile - - £74.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

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 3,729 4,120 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.49% 26.20% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 2,702 3,952
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £34.04 £33.80
25th Percentile £40.69 £37.88 £36.84
Median hourly rate £54.50 £44.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.86% -24.14% -
75th Percentile £63.19 £59.42 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.90 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
West London +12 27 £475 +17.28% 8
Central London -4 27 £495 -10.00% 186
South London +5 10 £500 - 2
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 24 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.34%) CMS
3 6 (1.67%) SAS
4 4 (1.11%) Confluence
4 4 (1.11%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.84%) Apache
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Drupal
7 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Magento
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 186 (51.81%) AWS
2 92 (25.63%) Azure
3 74 (20.61%) GitHub
3 74 (20.61%) Serverless
4 67 (18.66%) GCP
5 54 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (8.64%) Amazon S3
7 31 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (7.52%) SaaS
9 23 (6.41%) Azure AKS
10 22 (6.13%) dbt
11 19 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.90%) Entra ID
15 12 (3.34%) Apigee
16 11 (3.06%) Azure Functions
16 11 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) Firewall
2 3 (0.84%) Bluetooth
2 3 (0.84%) Network Security
3 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) DKIM
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) LAN
4 1 (0.28%) SMS
4 1 (0.28%) STUN
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (25.35%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (10.31%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.19%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (5.85%) Apache Arrow
4 21 (5.85%) Apache Iceberg
4 21 (5.85%) Dremio
4 21 (5.85%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.46%) Redis
6 12 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.23%) MySQL
7 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.67%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.11%) DB2
10 3 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (15.60%) Git
2 43 (11.98%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.69%) GitLab
4 23 (6.41%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.51%) JIRA
6 8 (2.23%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.23%) Maven
7 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.39%) JUnit
7 5 (1.39%) Selenium
8 4 (1.11%) Mockito
9 3 (0.84%) Lerna
9 3 (0.84%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.84%) Subversion
9 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.56%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 93 (25.91%) Finance
2 71 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 46 (12.81%) Front Office
4 35 (9.75%) Banking
5 24 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Retail
8 8 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.67%) Back Office
10 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.11%) Marketing
12 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Electronics
13 2 (0.56%) Law
13 2 (0.56%) Military
13 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (54.04%) Developer
2 70 (19.50%) Software Engineer
3 58 (16.16%) Senior
4 55 (15.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 43 (11.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 34 (9.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 31 (8.64%) AWS Developer
7 31 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (8.64%) React Developer
8 28 (7.80%) Lead
9 25 (6.96%) Java Developer
10 24 (6.69%) Python Developer
11 23 (6.41%) AWS Software Engineer
12 21 (5.85%) Senior Developer
13 18 (5.01%) Python Engineer
14 17 (4.74%) Node.js Developer
14 17 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 16 (4.46%) Consultant
15 16 (4.46%) Java Engineer
16 15 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (53.48%) React
2 71 (19.78%) GraphQL
3 57 (15.88%) AngularJS
4 51 (14.21%) RESTful
5 47 (13.09%) CSS
6 43 (11.98%) HTML
7 41 (11.42%) Redux
8 35 (9.75%) Vue
9 33 (9.19%) Next.js
10 32 (8.91%) Jest
11 30 (8.36%) Kafka
12 28 (7.80%) Playwright
13 27 (7.52%) .NET
14 25 (6.96%) REST
15 23 (6.41%) Spring
16 21 (5.85%) NumPy
16 21 (5.85%) Pandas
16 21 (5.85%) SciPy
16 21 (5.85%) Vitest
17 19 (5.29%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.99%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.98%) Fixed Income
3 26 (7.24%) Equities
3 26 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.29%) Mobile App
5 19 (5.29%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.06%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.11%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.46%) Linux
2 7 (1.95%) Unix
3 5 (1.39%) Android
3 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.84%) CentOS
4 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (52.09%) Agile
2 180 (50.14%) CI/CD
3 123 (34.26%) DevOps
4 122 (33.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 111 (30.92%) Software Engineering
6 96 (26.74%) Microservices
7 71 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (19.50%) Containerisation
9 55 (15.32%) Test Automation
10 51 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (13.65%) Mentoring
12 45 (12.53%) User Experience
13 44 (12.26%) TDD
14 43 (11.98%) Investment Management
15 36 (10.03%) AI
15 36 (10.03%) Fintech
16 35 (9.75%) E-Commerce
17 34 (9.47%) Asset Management
18 33 (9.19%) API Design
18 33 (9.19%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (56.82%) TypeScript
2 173 (48.19%) JavaScript
3 137 (38.16%) Python
4 107 (29.81%) Java
5 65 (18.11%) SQL
6 22 (6.13%) Go
6 22 (6.13%) Ruby
7 16 (4.46%) C#
8 12 (3.34%) Bicep
9 9 (2.51%) PHP
10 7 (1.95%) JSX
11 5 (1.39%) Bash
11 5 (1.39%) Perl
12 4 (1.11%) C
13 3 (0.84%) C++
13 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.99%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.29%) Degree
4 11 (3.06%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.56%) CCNA
8 2 (0.56%) CCNP
8 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.29%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.90%) QA
3 5 (1.39%) WCAG
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 118 (32.87%) Docker
2 10 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (29.25%) Kubernetes
2 56 (15.60%) Terraform
3 17 (4.74%) Grafana
4 16 (4.46%) Ansible
5 10 (2.79%) Argo
6 9 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.67%) Kibana
7 6 (1.67%) Puppet
8 5 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.84%) Istio
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
10 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (6.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.29%) Google
3 11 (3.06%) OpenAI
3 11 (3.06%) Oracle
3 11 (3.06%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.23%) Splunk
5 6 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.39%) Databricks
7 4 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.11%) SAP
7 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.11%) YouTube
8 3 (0.84%) Adobe
9 2 (0.56%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.56%) Genesys
9 2 (0.56%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.28%) Virgin Media