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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 126 113
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 -43
Contract jobs citing Node.js 365 279 370
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 2.20% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.64% 8.43% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 223 249
10th Percentile £356 £400 £395
25th Percentile £432 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £703 £713 £675
90th Percentile £800 £838 £754
England median daily rate £513 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.82% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 4,225 3,310 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.30% 26.05% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 2,319 3,342
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -16 27 £505 -6.91% 47
South London - 24 £521 - 1
West London -8 23 £550 - 1
East London -2 2 £432 -26.15% 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 8 (2.19%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.37%) CMS
3 4 (1.10%) SAS
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Maya
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 206 (56.44%) AWS
2 133 (36.44%) Azure
3 76 (20.82%) Serverless
4 66 (18.08%) GCP
5 61 (16.71%) GitHub
6 45 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.58%) SaaS
11 23 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (5.48%) Azure AKS
14 19 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (4.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 18 (4.93%) Azure Functions
16 16 (4.38%) Datadog
17 15 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.64%) Network Security
2 3 (0.82%) Firewall
2 3 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (18.36%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.58%) DynamoDB
4 23 (6.30%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.74%) Redis
8 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.64%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.37%) Weaviate
11 4 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.10%) MySQL
12 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.82%) GIS
12 3 (0.82%) Metadata
12 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 64 (17.53%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.70%) Git
3 24 (6.58%) GitLab
4 19 (5.21%) JIRA
5 10 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.47%) Vite
7 8 (2.19%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.37%) Mocha
10 4 (1.10%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.10%) Maven
10 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.10%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.82%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 3 (0.82%) Subversion
11 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 75 (20.55%) Finance
2 54 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.52%) Front Office
4 47 (12.88%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.03%) Banking
7 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.19%) Retail
8 5 (1.37%) iGaming
8 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.82%) Publishing
10 2 (0.55%) Advertising
10 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Games
11 1 (0.27%) Police
11 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (55.34%) Developer
2 68 (18.63%) Senior
3 67 (18.36%) Software Engineer
4 60 (16.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 60 (16.44%) Lead
5 44 (12.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 42 (11.51%) Lead Developer
7 35 (9.59%) React Developer
8 34 (9.32%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (9.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 31 (8.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 27 (7.40%) Node.js Developer
12 23 (6.30%) Senior Developer
13 19 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.93%) Java Developer
15 17 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (4.66%) Consultant
15 17 (4.66%) Python Developer
16 16 (4.38%) Technical Consultant
17 14 (3.84%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (46.58%) React
2 71 (19.45%) GraphQL
3 64 (17.53%) Kafka
4 58 (15.89%) Redux
5 50 (13.70%) RESTful
6 47 (12.88%) Spring
7 46 (12.60%) AngularJS
8 38 (10.41%) REST
9 34 (9.32%) Playwright
10 33 (9.04%) .NET
10 33 (9.04%) CSS
11 32 (8.77%) Spring Boot
12 31 (8.49%) HTML
13 25 (6.85%) Vitest
14 24 (6.58%) OAuth
15 21 (5.75%) Jest
15 21 (5.75%) OpenTelemetry
15 21 (5.75%) Vue
16 20 (5.48%) JWT
17 18 (4.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.70%) Fixed Income
3 27 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.75%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.66%) Equities
6 16 (4.38%) Derivative
7 13 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.55%) Blog
12 2 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.11%) Linux
2 4 (1.10%) VMS
2 4 (1.10%) Windows
3 2 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (51.23%) CI/CD
2 175 (47.95%) Agile
3 145 (39.73%) DevOps
4 127 (34.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 110 (30.14%) Software Engineering
6 106 (29.04%) Microservices
7 82 (22.47%) Containerisation
8 74 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (19.73%) Test Automation
10 67 (18.36%) Mentoring
11 57 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (13.97%) AI
13 49 (13.42%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (13.15%) Investment Management
15 39 (10.68%) Observability
16 36 (9.86%) TDD
17 34 (9.32%) E-Commerce
18 32 (8.77%) Order Management
19 29 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
19 29 (7.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 184 (50.41%) TypeScript
2 172 (47.12%) JavaScript
3 149 (40.82%) Python
4 119 (32.60%) Java
5 49 (13.42%) SQL
6 40 (10.96%) Go
7 35 (9.59%) C#
8 10 (2.74%) Bicep
9 9 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.47%) Ruby
10 5 (1.37%) C++
11 3 (0.82%) JSX
11 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.82%) Scala
12 2 (0.55%) Ada
12 2 (0.55%) Bash
12 2 (0.55%) Perl
12 2 (0.55%) R
12 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (17.81%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.38%) Degree
4 9 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.12%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.03%) QA
3 8 (2.19%) WCAG
4 3 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 122 (33.42%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) HDFS
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (26.30%) Kubernetes
2 76 (20.82%) Terraform
3 23 (6.30%) Grafana
4 20 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.19%) Ansible
5 8 (2.19%) Istio
6 6 (1.64%) Argo
7 4 (1.10%) Rancher
7 4 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.27%) Icinga
9 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 19 (5.21%) Microsoft
1 19 (5.21%) OpenAI
2 13 (3.56%) Databricks
3 11 (3.01%) Google
4 9 (2.47%) Oracle
5 8 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.92%) Adobe
7 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.10%) Foundry
8 4 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.10%) Netlify
9 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.55%) SAP
10 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.27%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.27%) New Relic
11 1 (0.27%) Solace