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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 134 117
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 -48
Contract jobs citing Node.js 366 277 366
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 2.19% 2.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.67% 8.37% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 221 244
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £433 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £697 £713 £675
90th Percentile £800 £838 £762
England median daily rate £513 £537 £529
% change year-on-year -4.56% +1.61% -3.91%
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% -0.76%

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 4,221 3,308 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.37% 26.12% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,317 3,332
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £654 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 21
10th Percentile £23.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £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 16 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 16 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 -14 27 £505 -6.91% 41
West London -7 23 £550 - 2
South London - 23 £521 - 1
East London -2 2 £432 -26.15% 5
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%) CMS
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.09%) SAS
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.55%) IIS
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
Cloud Services
1 207 (56.56%) AWS
2 132 (36.07%) Azure
3 79 (21.58%) Serverless
4 66 (18.03%) GCP
5 61 (16.67%) GitHub
6 46 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (8.47%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.56%) SaaS
11 23 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (6.01%) Azure AKS
13 21 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 18 (4.92%) Azure Functions
16 16 (4.37%) Datadog
17 15 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
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 66 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.56%) DynamoDB
4 23 (6.28%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.73%) Redis
8 7 (1.91%) 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 (1.09%) MySQL
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
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 65 (17.76%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.11%) Git
3 24 (6.56%) GitLab
4 19 (5.19%) JIRA
5 11 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.46%) Vite
7 8 (2.19%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.37%) Mocha
10 4 (1.09%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.09%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.82%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.82%) Hudson
11 3 (0.82%) Maven
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.82%) Subversion
11 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (21.04%) Finance
2 55 (15.03%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.48%) Front Office
4 45 (12.30%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.56%) Banking
7 8 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.91%) Retail
9 5 (1.37%) iGaming
9 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Publishing
11 2 (0.55%) Advertising
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 201 (54.92%) Developer
2 68 (18.58%) Senior
3 67 (18.31%) Software Engineer
4 60 (16.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 60 (16.39%) Lead
5 44 (12.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 42 (11.48%) Lead Developer
7 35 (9.56%) React Developer
8 34 (9.29%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (9.02%) Lead Software Engineer
10 31 (8.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 26 (7.10%) Node.js Developer
12 23 (6.28%) Senior Developer
13 19 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.92%) Python Developer
15 17 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (4.64%) Consultant
15 17 (4.64%) Java Developer
16 16 (4.37%) Technical Consultant
17 14 (3.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (46.45%) React
2 71 (19.40%) GraphQL
3 63 (17.21%) Kafka
4 59 (16.12%) Redux
5 49 (13.39%) RESTful
6 46 (12.57%) AngularJS
7 45 (12.30%) Spring
8 36 (9.84%) REST
9 35 (9.56%) Playwright
10 34 (9.29%) CSS
11 33 (9.02%) .NET
12 32 (8.74%) HTML
13 30 (8.20%) Spring Boot
14 25 (6.83%) Vitest
15 24 (6.56%) OAuth
16 22 (6.01%) Jest
17 21 (5.74%) OpenTelemetry
17 21 (5.74%) Vue
18 20 (5.46%) JWT
19 18 (4.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.66%) Fixed Income
3 26 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.74%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.64%) Equities
6 16 (4.37%) Derivative
7 13 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.28%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.55%) Blog
13 2 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.83%) Linux
2 4 (1.09%) VMS
2 4 (1.09%) Windows
3 2 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (51.37%) CI/CD
2 173 (47.27%) Agile
3 145 (39.62%) DevOps
4 126 (34.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 110 (30.05%) Software Engineering
6 106 (28.96%) Microservices
7 83 (22.68%) Containerisation
8 77 (21.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 73 (19.95%) Test Automation
10 67 (18.31%) Mentoring
11 59 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (14.21%) AI
13 49 (13.39%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (13.11%) Investment Management
15 40 (10.93%) Observability
16 35 (9.56%) TDD
17 33 (9.02%) E-Commerce
18 32 (8.74%) Order Management
19 29 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 29 (7.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 187 (51.09%) TypeScript
2 171 (46.72%) JavaScript
3 151 (41.26%) Python
4 117 (31.97%) Java
5 48 (13.11%) SQL
6 40 (10.93%) Go
7 35 (9.56%) C#
8 10 (2.73%) Bicep
9 9 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.46%) Ruby
10 5 (1.37%) C++
11 4 (1.09%) Bash
12 3 (0.82%) JSX
12 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) Scala
13 2 (0.55%) Ada
13 2 (0.55%) Perl
13 2 (0.55%) R
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.37%) Degree
4 9 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.38%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.01%) QA
3 9 (2.46%) 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
1 123 (33.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) HDFS
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 79 (21.58%) Terraform
3 22 (6.01%) Grafana
4 20 (5.46%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.73%) Ansible
6 8 (2.19%) Istio
7 6 (1.64%) Argo
8 4 (1.09%) Rancher
8 4 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 19 (5.19%) Microsoft
1 19 (5.19%) OpenAI
2 13 (3.55%) Databricks
3 11 (3.01%) Google
4 8 (2.19%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.19%) Oracle
5 7 (1.91%) Adobe
6 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.09%) Foundry
7 4 (1.09%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.09%) Netlify
8 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.55%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.55%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) Ariba
10 1 (0.27%) Genesys
10 1 (0.27%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.27%) NEC