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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 129 101
Rank change year-on-year +7 -28 -23
Contract jobs citing Node.js 338 288 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 2.03% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.95% 7.90% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 197 275
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £603 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +12.19% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £644
90th Percentile £743 £850 £700
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

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 3,778 3,644 4,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.34% 25.62% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,557 2,378 3,426
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 30
10th Percentile £35.05 £34.65 £29.60
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -18.07%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £69.25
90th Percentile £71.60 £72.80 £75.29
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.40% +20.45% -20.17%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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
West London +13 34 £550 +35.80% 3
Central London -12 29 £495 -8.76% 51
South London +7 13 £500 - 6
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 11 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.66%) CMS
3 6 (1.78%) Confluence
3 6 (1.78%) SAS
4 4 (1.18%) Apache
5 3 (0.89%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (2.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Shopify
2 2 (0.59%) Magento
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 156 (46.15%) AWS
2 99 (29.29%) Azure
3 86 (25.44%) Serverless
4 84 (24.85%) GitHub
5 59 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (15.68%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (15.38%) GCP
8 44 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (10.36%) SaaS
10 29 (8.58%) Amazon S3
10 29 (8.58%) Azure AKS
11 23 (6.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 21 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (5.92%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (5.03%) Azure Functions
15 15 (4.44%) Entra ID
16 14 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (4.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) Network Security
2 4 (1.18%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) HTTP
3 2 (0.59%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) DKIM
4 1 (0.30%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) STUN
4 1 (0.30%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (18.34%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 30 (8.88%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.62%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.66%) Redis
8 8 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.37%) Apache Arrow
8 8 (2.37%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (2.37%) Dremio
9 7 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.07%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.78%) MySQL
11 5 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.48%) Weaviate
12 4 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.18%) Metadata
12 4 (1.18%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 60 (17.75%) Jenkins
2 53 (15.68%) Git
3 24 (7.10%) GitLab
4 20 (5.92%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.73%) JIRA
6 8 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.07%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.48%) Maven
8 5 (1.48%) Selenium
9 4 (1.18%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.89%) Hudson
10 3 (0.89%) Lerna
10 3 (0.89%) Mocha
10 3 (0.89%) Mockito
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.89%) Subversion
10 3 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.31%) Finance
3 27 (7.99%) Banking
3 27 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.55%) Retail
6 11 (3.25%) Front Office
7 7 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.18%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Law
10 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.59%) Marketing
10 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.30%) Local Government
11 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (45.86%) Developer
2 69 (20.41%) Senior
3 54 (15.98%) Full-Stack Developer
4 33 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 33 (9.76%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.69%) Consultant
6 21 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (5.92%) Technical Consultant
8 18 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.33%) Python Developer
9 17 (5.03%) Lead
9 17 (5.03%) React Developer
9 17 (5.03%) Senior Consultant
9 17 (5.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 17 (5.03%) Senior Developer
9 17 (5.03%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 17 (5.03%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 17 (5.03%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 17 (5.03%) Technical Specialist
10 15 (4.44%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (48.52%) React
2 63 (18.64%) GraphQL
3 47 (13.91%) AngularJS
4 44 (13.02%) RESTful
5 42 (12.43%) CSS
6 41 (12.13%) HTML
6 41 (12.13%) Playwright
7 32 (9.47%) Vitest
8 30 (8.88%) Next.js
9 28 (8.28%) .NET
10 27 (7.99%) Jest
11 26 (7.69%) Spring
12 25 (7.40%) YAML
13 19 (5.62%) OAuth
13 19 (5.62%) REST
13 19 (5.62%) Spring Boot
13 19 (5.62%) Vue
14 17 (5.03%) Kafka
15 16 (4.73%) LangChain
16 15 (4.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.03%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.55%) Mobile App
6 11 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.37%) Equities
7 8 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.89%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.59%) Blog
12 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.59%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.85%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Unix
3 3 (0.89%) CentOS
3 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.89%) VMS
4 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (57.99%) CI/CD
2 168 (49.70%) Agile
3 150 (44.38%) DevOps
4 114 (33.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 97 (28.70%) Microservices
6 81 (23.96%) Software Engineering
7 79 (23.37%) Containerisation
8 78 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (20.41%) Test Automation
10 64 (18.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (14.50%) E-Commerce
12 48 (14.20%) Mentoring
13 47 (13.91%) AI
14 38 (11.24%) API Design
15 34 (10.06%) TDD
16 33 (9.76%) Observability
17 32 (9.47%) Front End Development
18 31 (9.17%) Coaching
18 31 (9.17%) Code Quality
19 29 (8.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 177 (52.37%) TypeScript
2 143 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 120 (35.50%) Python
4 81 (23.96%) Java
5 69 (20.41%) SQL
6 27 (7.99%) C#
7 16 (4.73%) Ruby
8 15 (4.44%) Bicep
9 12 (3.55%) Go
10 7 (2.07%) JSX
10 7 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.78%) Bash
12 5 (1.48%) C++
12 5 (1.48%) Perl
13 3 (0.89%) C
13 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Ada
14 2 (0.59%) PHP
14 2 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.03%) Degree
4 13 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.89%) MCP
10 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.62%) QA
2 17 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.48%) WCAG
4 2 (0.59%) GDPR
4 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 133 (39.35%) Docker
2 10 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.59%) HDFS
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (34.02%) Kubernetes
2 66 (19.53%) Terraform
3 23 (6.80%) Grafana
4 16 (4.73%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.14%) Ansible
5 14 (4.14%) Argo
6 8 (2.37%) Istio
7 5 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.48%) Kibana
8 3 (0.89%) Puppet
9 2 (0.59%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) Icinga
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.03%) Google
3 15 (4.44%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.96%) Databricks
5 10 (2.96%) Oracle
6 7 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.78%) Splunk
8 5 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.89%) Adobe
10 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.59%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.59%) Genesys
11 2 (0.59%) SAP
11 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.30%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.30%) Solace
12 1 (0.30%) Workday