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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 119 137
Rank change year-on-year -56 +18 -69
Contract jobs citing Node.js 291 306 327
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 2.47% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.75% 9.35% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 249 222
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £775 £713 £675
90th Percentile £831 £875 £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 4,312 3,274 4,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.80% 26.47% 26.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 2,295 3,438
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £447 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 28
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £61.70
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 21 £575 +16.16% 24
South London +4 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -27 3 - - 9
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 8 (2.75%) Confluence
2 6 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.72%) Ethereum
4 4 (1.37%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.03%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Quorum
1 4 (1.37%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.37%) Ripple
2 3 (1.03%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.69%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (61.86%) AWS
2 100 (34.36%) Azure
3 57 (19.59%) GCP
4 49 (16.84%) Serverless
5 38 (13.06%) GitHub
6 28 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.22%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 13 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (4.12%) Azure AKS
12 12 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.09%) Azure Functions
15 8 (2.75%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (22.34%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.87%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.44%) Redis
7 6 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.06%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.37%) Big Data
8 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.37%) MySQL
9 3 (1.03%) Metadata
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.69%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.69%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.69%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 45 (15.46%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.12%) Git
3 18 (6.19%) GitLab
4 12 (4.12%) JIRA
5 8 (2.75%) Vite
5 8 (2.75%) webpack
6 6 (2.06%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.06%) Maven
7 5 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.37%) Gatling
8 4 (1.37%) Mocha
8 4 (1.37%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.37%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.03%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.03%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.03%) Mockito
9 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (24.40%) Finance
2 55 (18.90%) Front Office
3 44 (15.12%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.43%) Social Skills
5 20 (6.87%) Banking
6 13 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.44%) Retail
8 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.72%) iGaming
10 3 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Publishing
10 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Advertising
11 2 (0.69%) Games
11 2 (0.69%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (61.51%) Developer
2 61 (20.96%) Software Engineer
3 58 (19.93%) Lead
4 55 (18.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 49 (16.84%) Senior
6 44 (15.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 41 (14.09%) Lead Developer
8 39 (13.40%) React Developer
9 35 (12.03%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (11.34%) Lead Software Engineer
11 27 (9.28%) Node.js Developer
12 24 (8.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (7.90%) Senior Developer
14 20 (6.87%) Java Developer
15 13 (4.47%) Python Developer
16 12 (4.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 12 (4.12%) Software Developer
17 11 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
18 10 (3.44%) Java Engineer
19 9 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (52.23%) React
2 62 (21.31%) Kafka
3 60 (20.62%) Redux
4 57 (19.59%) REST
5 51 (17.53%) Spring
6 50 (17.18%) GraphQL
7 47 (16.15%) RESTful
8 41 (14.09%) AngularJS
9 39 (13.40%) Spring Boot
10 27 (9.28%) .NET
11 25 (8.59%) CSS
12 23 (7.90%) HTML
13 20 (6.87%) Vue
14 18 (6.19%) Jest
15 17 (5.84%) OAuth
15 17 (5.84%) Playwright
16 15 (5.15%) HTML5
17 14 (4.81%) Express.js
17 14 (4.81%) WireMock
18 13 (4.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.24%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.87%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.84%) Equities
4 16 (5.50%) Derivative
4 16 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.78%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.44%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.72%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.78%) Linux
2 3 (1.03%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (45.70%) Agile
2 122 (41.92%) CI/CD
3 110 (37.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 100 (34.36%) Software Engineering
5 86 (29.55%) DevOps
6 84 (28.87%) Microservices
7 56 (19.24%) Containerisation
8 52 (17.87%) Test Automation
9 51 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (17.18%) Investment Management
11 49 (16.84%) Portfolio Management
12 45 (15.46%) Mentoring
13 39 (13.40%) AI
14 35 (12.03%) Order Management
15 32 (11.00%) TDD
16 30 (10.31%) Event-Driven
16 30 (10.31%) Observability
17 29 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
18 26 (8.93%) Data Modelling
18 26 (8.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 149 (51.20%) TypeScript
2 145 (49.83%) JavaScript
3 120 (41.24%) Java
4 108 (37.11%) Python
5 38 (13.06%) Go
6 31 (10.65%) SQL
7 25 (8.59%) C#
8 8 (2.75%) Scala
9 7 (2.41%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.41%) Ruby
10 5 (1.72%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.72%) Solidity
11 3 (1.03%) Bicep
12 2 (0.69%) Ada
12 2 (0.69%) C++
12 2 (0.69%) R
12 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) Cypher
13 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.78%) Degree
4 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.93%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.87%) QA
3 8 (2.75%) WCAG
4 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.69%) 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 70 (24.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) HDFS
2 2 (0.69%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.90%) Terraform
3 13 (4.47%) Grafana
4 9 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.75%) Istio
6 6 (2.06%) Argo
7 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.03%) Ansible
9 2 (0.69%) Rancher
10 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (4.47%) Google
2 12 (4.12%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.72%) Databricks
5 5 (1.72%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.37%) Adobe
6 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.37%) Foundry
6 4 (1.37%) Netlify
6 4 (1.37%) Oracle
7 3 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.69%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.69%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.34%) Ariba
9 1 (0.34%) ATG
9 1 (0.34%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.34%) SAP