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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -90 +37 -77
Contract jobs citing Node.js 262 340 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 2.51% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.74% 9.66% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 282 185
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £795
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -

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 4,568 3,520 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.74% 25.95% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,446 3,162
10th Percentile £393 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%

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 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 17 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 -20 20 £563 +13.64% 26
West London -19 10 £604 +27.16% 4
South London -3 6 £542 -12.94%
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 (3.44%) Confluence
2 5 (1.91%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.53%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.15%) 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 (2.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Quorum
1 4 (1.53%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.53%) Ripple
2 3 (1.15%) 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
1 151 (57.63%) AWS
2 74 (28.24%) Azure
3 47 (17.94%) Serverless
4 36 (13.74%) GCP
5 29 (11.07%) GitHub
6 27 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.25%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (4.20%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.20%) Datadog
12 10 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.94%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.31%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.87%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (6.11%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.44%) Redis
7 8 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.91%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.53%) MySQL
11 2 (0.76%) Big Data
11 2 (0.76%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.76%) GIS
11 2 (0.76%) Metadata
11 2 (0.76%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.38%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 57 (21.76%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.99%) Git
3 23 (8.78%) GitLab
4 13 (4.96%) Cypress.io
4 13 (4.96%) JIRA
5 9 (3.44%) Maven
6 8 (3.05%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.67%) webpack
8 5 (1.91%) JSUnit
8 5 (1.91%) Mocha
8 5 (1.91%) Vite
9 4 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.53%) Gatling
9 4 (1.53%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.53%) Selenium
10 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.15%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.15%) Mockito
10 3 (1.15%) Spinnaker
General
1 53 (20.23%) Finance
2 45 (17.18%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 34 (12.98%) Front Office
5 20 (7.63%) Banking
6 15 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.44%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.67%) Retail
9 6 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.91%) iGaming
11 4 (1.53%) Games
12 3 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.15%) Military
12 3 (1.15%) Publishing
12 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Marketing
13 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (55.73%) Developer
2 52 (19.85%) Senior
3 46 (17.56%) Software Engineer
4 39 (14.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (14.12%) Lead
6 29 (11.07%) React Developer
7 26 (9.92%) Lead Developer
8 24 (9.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 22 (8.40%) Node.js Developer
10 21 (8.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 18 (6.87%) Senior Developer
12 17 (6.49%) Lead Software Developer
12 17 (6.49%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (5.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 14 (5.34%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.20%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 8 (3.05%) Architect
17 7 (2.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 7 (2.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (49.24%) React
2 58 (22.14%) REST
3 52 (19.85%) GraphQL
4 43 (16.41%) RESTful
5 40 (15.27%) Kafka
6 38 (14.50%) Redux
7 33 (12.60%) Spring
8 30 (11.45%) Spring Boot
9 28 (10.69%) AngularJS
10 27 (10.31%) .NET
11 26 (9.92%) CSS
12 24 (9.16%) Next.js
13 21 (8.02%) HTML
13 21 (8.02%) Jest
13 21 (8.02%) Playwright
14 16 (6.11%) HTML5
15 15 (5.73%) Vue
16 14 (5.34%) Express.js
17 11 (4.20%) CSS3
17 11 (4.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.21%) Fixed Income
3 22 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.44%) Equities
5 9 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.05%) Derivative
7 7 (2.67%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.67%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.91%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.76%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.05%) 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
1 131 (50.00%) Agile
2 123 (46.95%) CI/CD
3 98 (37.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (32.06%) Microservices
5 78 (29.77%) Software Engineering
6 75 (28.63%) DevOps
7 51 (19.47%) Test Automation
8 42 (16.03%) Containerisation
8 42 (16.03%) Mentoring
8 42 (16.03%) TDD
9 41 (15.65%) AI
10 40 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (14.89%) Event-Driven
12 35 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (11.45%) Investment Management
14 29 (11.07%) Observability
15 28 (10.69%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (10.31%) Scrum
17 25 (9.54%) Data Modelling
17 25 (9.54%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (55.73%) TypeScript
2 116 (44.27%) JavaScript
3 96 (36.64%) Java
4 75 (28.63%) Python
5 36 (13.74%) SQL
6 22 (8.40%) C#
6 22 (8.40%) Go
7 10 (3.82%) Scala
8 9 (3.44%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.05%) Ruby
10 5 (1.91%) Solidity
11 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.76%) Bash
12 2 (0.76%) Bicep
12 2 (0.76%) Elixir
12 2 (0.76%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) DAML
13 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.29%) Degree
5 5 (1.91%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.15%) 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 25 (9.54%) QA
2 22 (8.40%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.29%) WCAG
4 3 (1.15%) 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 53 (20.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (19.47%) Kubernetes
2 42 (16.03%) Terraform
3 10 (3.82%) Grafana
4 5 (1.91%) Ansible
5 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.76%) Rancher
6 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) Istio
7 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.38%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (6.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.05%) Google
3 6 (2.29%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.29%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.91%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.53%) New Relic
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle
6 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.15%) Databricks
6 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.15%) SAP
7 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.76%) Netlify
7 2 (0.76%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.38%) ATG
8 1 (0.38%) Guidewire