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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 118 141
Rank change year-on-year -62 +23 -71
Contract jobs citing Node.js 297 322 319
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 2.42% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 9.19% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 266 214
10th Percentile £400 £385 £365
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £778 £750 £675
90th Percentile £850 £875 £775
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 4,412 3,505 4,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.74% 26.40% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 2,440 3,490
10th Percentile £382 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 24 27
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +13.46% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.50 £62.81 £61.97
90th Percentile £93.13 £81.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -22 21 £588 +18.69% 53
South London +9 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -24 9 £604 +27.16% 15
East London - 2 £432 - 8
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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.68%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.35%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.67%) CMS
4 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.01%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.34%) Maya
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Quorum
1 4 (1.35%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.35%) Ripple
2 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.67%) Endur
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (60.61%) AWS
2 98 (33.00%) Azure
3 53 (17.85%) GCP
4 52 (17.51%) Serverless
5 34 (11.45%) GitHub
6 29 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.74%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (4.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (3.70%) Azure AKS
15 10 (3.37%) Azure Functions
16 9 (3.03%) Datadog
17 7 (2.36%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.88%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.07%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.39%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.70%) Redis
8 6 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.68%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.35%) MySQL
11 2 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.67%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.67%) GIS
11 2 (0.67%) Metadata
11 2 (0.67%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.67%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 51 (17.17%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.16%) Git
3 15 (5.05%) JIRA
4 14 (4.71%) GitLab
5 8 (2.69%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.69%) Vite
5 8 (2.69%) webpack
6 6 (2.02%) Maven
7 5 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.68%) JSUnit
8 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.35%) Gatling
8 4 (1.35%) Mocha
8 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.01%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.01%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.01%) Mockito
9 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.01%) Spinnaker
General
1 78 (26.26%) Finance
2 59 (19.87%) Front Office
3 45 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 44 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 26 (8.75%) Banking
6 15 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.68%) iGaming
8 5 (1.68%) Retail
9 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.01%) Games
10 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.01%) Military
10 3 (1.01%) Publishing
10 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Advertising
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (60.61%) Developer
2 66 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 54 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 54 (18.18%) Lead
4 47 (15.82%) Senior
5 46 (15.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 39 (13.13%) Lead Developer
6 39 (13.13%) React Developer
7 33 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
7 33 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
8 27 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (8.75%) Node.js Developer
10 21 (7.07%) Senior Developer
11 20 (6.73%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 11 (3.70%) Python Developer
14 10 (3.37%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (51.18%) React
2 65 (21.89%) Redux
3 61 (20.54%) GraphQL
3 61 (20.54%) Kafka
4 58 (19.53%) REST
5 50 (16.84%) RESTful
6 45 (15.15%) Spring
7 35 (11.78%) AngularJS
8 34 (11.45%) Spring Boot
9 26 (8.75%) .NET
9 26 (8.75%) CSS
10 22 (7.41%) HTML
11 21 (7.07%) Playwright
12 20 (6.73%) Jest
13 19 (6.40%) Next.js
14 18 (6.06%) Vue
15 16 (5.39%) OAuth
16 15 (5.05%) HTML5
17 13 (4.38%) Express.js
18 12 (4.04%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.86%) Cloud Native
1 56 (18.86%) Fixed Income
2 17 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (5.72%) Equities
3 16 (5.39%) Derivative
4 14 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.68%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.67%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.70%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (49.83%) Agile
2 126 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 116 (39.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 102 (34.34%) Software Engineering
5 86 (28.96%) Microservices
6 80 (26.94%) DevOps
7 56 (18.86%) Test Automation
8 55 (18.52%) Containerisation
9 54 (18.18%) Investment Management
10 49 (16.50%) Portfolio Management
11 48 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (16.16%) Mentoring
12 42 (14.14%) TDD
13 39 (13.13%) Order Management
14 35 (11.78%) AI
15 33 (11.11%) Event-Driven
16 32 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (8.75%) Observability
17 26 (8.75%) Scrum
18 25 (8.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 162 (54.55%) TypeScript
2 146 (49.16%) JavaScript
3 120 (40.40%) Java
4 104 (35.02%) Python
5 39 (13.13%) Go
6 29 (9.76%) SQL
7 24 (8.08%) C#
8 9 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.03%) Scala
9 8 (2.69%) Ruby
10 5 (1.68%) Solidity
11 3 (1.01%) Bicep
11 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.67%) Rust
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) Cypher
13 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Elixir
13 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.70%) Degree
4 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.75%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.41%) QA
3 8 (2.69%) WCAG
4 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) 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 64 (21.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.84%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) Grafana
4 7 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.68%) Ansible
6 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) Istio
7 2 (0.67%) Rancher
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (5.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.37%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.03%) Google
4 5 (1.68%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.35%) Adobe
5 4 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.35%) Foundry
5 4 (1.35%) Netlify
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle
5 4 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.67%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.67%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Ariba
8 1 (0.34%) ATG
8 1 (0.34%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.34%) SAP