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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 140 101
Rank change year-on-year +28 -39 -21
Contract jobs citing Node.js 354 285 464
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 1.83% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.52% 7.08% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 188 307
10th Percentile £352 £400 £400
25th Percentile £427 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £532
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +17.48% -11.33%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £631
90th Percentile £850 £850 £700
England median daily rate £500 £580 £519
% change year-on-year -13.79% +11.81% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.30
25th Percentile £66.00 - £72.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.50
75th Percentile £70.00 - £74.25
90th Percentile - - £74.70
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 3,717 4,025 5,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 25.80% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,514 2,632 3,816
10th Percentile £357 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +15 32 £475 +17.28% 5
Central London -2 27 £485 -11.21% 51
South London +7 13 £500 - 11
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 18 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.82%) CMS
3 6 (1.69%) SAS
4 5 (1.41%) Confluence
5 4 (1.13%) Apache
6 3 (0.85%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.98%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Shopify
2 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 173 (48.87%) AWS
2 93 (26.27%) Azure
3 81 (22.88%) Serverless
4 76 (21.47%) GitHub
5 56 (15.82%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (15.54%) GCP
7 49 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (9.04%) SaaS
10 30 (8.47%) Amazon S3
11 28 (7.91%) Azure AKS
12 23 (6.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (4.52%) Azure Functions
16 16 (4.52%) dbt
17 15 (4.24%) Entra ID
18 12 (3.39%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Network Security
2 4 (1.13%) Firewall
3 3 (0.85%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.56%) HTTP
4 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) DKIM
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) STUN
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (21.47%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 35 (9.89%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.37%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.24%) Apache Arrow
5 15 (4.24%) Apache Iceberg
5 15 (4.24%) Dremio
6 12 (3.39%) Redis
7 10 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.26%) MySQL
9 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.13%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.85%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (16.38%) Git
2 52 (14.69%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.21%) GitLab
4 20 (5.65%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.95%) JIRA
6 9 (2.54%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.98%) Maven
8 5 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.41%) Selenium
8 5 (1.41%) Subversion
9 4 (1.13%) JUnit
9 4 (1.13%) Mockito
10 3 (0.85%) Hudson
10 3 (0.85%) Lerna
10 3 (0.85%) Mocha
10 3 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (21.47%) Finance
2 75 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.60%) Front Office
4 31 (8.76%) Banking
5 25 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.54%) Retail
8 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.13%) Marketing
11 3 (0.85%) Back Office
11 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Electronics
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 177 (50.00%) Developer
2 61 (17.23%) Senior
3 58 (16.38%) Software Engineer
4 53 (14.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (8.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 31 (8.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 28 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.63%) Lead
8 24 (6.78%) AWS Developer
9 23 (6.50%) Consultant
10 22 (6.21%) React Developer
11 21 (5.93%) Python Developer
12 20 (5.65%) Java Developer
13 18 (5.08%) AWS Software Engineer
13 18 (5.08%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.80%) Technical Consultant
15 15 (4.24%) Azure Developer
15 15 (4.24%) Python Engineer
16 14 (3.95%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (50.00%) React
2 75 (21.19%) GraphQL
3 51 (14.41%) AngularJS
4 46 (12.99%) RESTful
5 45 (12.71%) CSS
6 41 (11.58%) HTML
7 35 (9.89%) Playwright
8 31 (8.76%) Kafka
8 31 (8.76%) Redux
9 30 (8.47%) Jest
10 29 (8.19%) Next.js
11 28 (7.91%) Vitest
12 27 (7.63%) .NET
13 26 (7.34%) Vue
14 23 (6.50%) Spring
14 23 (6.50%) YAML
15 22 (6.21%) REST
16 18 (5.08%) Express.js
17 17 (4.80%) OAuth
18 16 (4.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.76%) Fixed Income
3 27 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.08%) Mobile App
6 17 (4.80%) Equities
6 17 (4.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (4.24%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.13%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.85%) Blog
11 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.56%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.56%) Music Streaming
12 2 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.24%) Linux
2 6 (1.69%) Android
2 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.69%) Unix
3 3 (0.85%) CentOS
3 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.85%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (54.52%) CI/CD
2 185 (52.26%) Agile
3 139 (39.27%) DevOps
4 118 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 102 (28.81%) Software Engineering
6 97 (27.40%) Microservices
7 77 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (20.34%) Containerisation
9 70 (19.77%) Test Automation
10 54 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (13.84%) Mentoring
12 44 (12.43%) E-Commerce
13 40 (11.30%) AI
14 38 (10.73%) TDD
15 35 (9.89%) API Design
15 35 (9.89%) User Experience
16 31 (8.76%) Continuous Integration
16 31 (8.76%) Investment Management
17 30 (8.47%) Performance Optimisation
18 28 (7.91%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 189 (53.39%) TypeScript
2 160 (45.20%) JavaScript
3 134 (37.85%) Python
4 100 (28.25%) Java
5 69 (19.49%) SQL
6 24 (6.78%) Go
7 21 (5.93%) C#
7 21 (5.93%) Ruby
8 14 (3.95%) Bicep
9 7 (1.98%) JSX
10 6 (1.69%) PHP
11 5 (1.41%) Bash
11 5 (1.41%) Perl
12 3 (0.85%) C
12 3 (0.85%) C++
12 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) Scala
14 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 78 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.08%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.80%) Degree
4 12 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.56%) CCNA
9 2 (0.56%) CCNP
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.65%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.52%) QA
3 5 (1.41%) WCAG
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 124 (35.03%) Docker
2 10 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 62 (17.51%) Terraform
3 19 (5.37%) Grafana
4 16 (4.52%) Ansible
5 11 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.54%) Argo
7 5 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.41%) Kibana
7 5 (1.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) Istio
8 2 (0.56%) Rancher
8 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.28%) Icinga
9 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (6.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.52%) Google
3 14 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.11%) Oracle
4 11 (3.11%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.26%) Databricks
6 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.69%) Splunk
7 4 (1.13%) SAP
8 3 (0.85%) Adobe
8 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.56%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.56%) Genesys
9 2 (0.56%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco
10 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.28%) Solace