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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 141 85
Rank change year-on-year +20 -56 -8
Contract jobs citing Node.js 325 302 572
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.43% 1.88% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.29% 6.95% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 197 402
10th Percentile £400 £400 £405
25th Percentile £463 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £731 £688 £675
90th Percentile £875 £750 £713
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.30
25th Percentile - - £72.75
Median hourly rate - - £73.50
75th Percentile - - £74.25
90th Percentile - - £74.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.40%

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 3,498 4,343 5,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.13% 27.06% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,370 2,890 4,085
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 23 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.97 £73.65
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%

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 October 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 16 October 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
Central London -5 27 £525 -9.68% 39
West London +10 20 £475 +35.71% 13
South London -3 3 £565 - 1
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 32 (9.85%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.00%) CMS
3 4 (1.23%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.62%) SAS
5 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.31%) Drupal
6 1 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.31%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.31%) Traefik
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Magento
1 2 (0.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 182 (56.00%) AWS
2 80 (24.62%) GCP
3 66 (20.31%) Azure
4 61 (18.77%) Serverless
5 58 (17.85%) GitHub
6 42 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (11.08%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (9.23%) dbt
9 21 (6.46%) Amazon S3
10 17 (5.23%) Azure AKS
11 14 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.31%) SaaS
12 11 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.38%) Firebase
13 10 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (2.77%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.77%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) Bluetooth
1 3 (0.92%) SMS
2 2 (0.62%) Firewall
2 2 (0.62%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) LAN
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) DKIM
3 1 (0.31%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) STUN
3 1 (0.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 29 (8.92%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (8.92%) Apache Arrow
3 29 (8.92%) Apache Iceberg
3 29 (8.92%) Dremio
3 29 (8.92%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.15%) Redis
5 14 (4.31%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.46%) MySQL
10 5 (1.54%) DB2
10 5 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.92%) GIS
12 2 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (15.38%) Git
2 33 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.85%) GitLab
4 17 (5.23%) Cypress.io
5 10 (3.08%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.77%) Maven
7 6 (1.85%) JIRA
8 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.54%) JUnit
8 5 (1.54%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.23%) Selenium
10 3 (0.92%) Gradle
10 3 (0.92%) Lerna
10 3 (0.92%) Mockito
10 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.62%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.62%) Postman
11 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 104 (32.00%) Finance
2 64 (19.69%) Front Office
3 62 (19.08%) Social Skills
4 41 (12.62%) Banking
5 20 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.77%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.46%) Retail
8 7 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.15%) Back Office
9 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.23%) Marketing
11 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Electronics
12 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Law
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Military
12 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (58.77%) Developer
2 82 (25.23%) Software Engineer
3 59 (18.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 52 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 49 (15.08%) Senior
6 38 (11.69%) AWS Developer
6 38 (11.69%) React Developer
7 36 (11.08%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (9.23%) AWS Software Engineer
8 30 (9.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 27 (8.31%) Java Developer
9 27 (8.31%) Python Developer
10 26 (8.00%) Lead
11 20 (6.15%) Python Engineer
11 20 (6.15%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (5.85%) Senior Developer
13 18 (5.54%) Java Engineer
14 17 (5.23%) Node.js Developer
15 15 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
16 13 (4.00%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (60.62%) React
2 68 (20.92%) GraphQL
3 59 (18.15%) AngularJS
4 47 (14.46%) Redux
5 42 (12.92%) HTML
5 42 (12.92%) Vue
6 41 (12.62%) CSS
7 40 (12.31%) RESTful
8 33 (10.15%) Next.js
9 29 (8.92%) NumPy
9 29 (8.92%) Pandas
9 29 (8.92%) SciPy
10 27 (8.31%) Kafka
10 27 (8.31%) REST
11 25 (7.69%) Jest
12 23 (7.08%) .NET
13 21 (6.46%) Spring
14 18 (5.54%) Express.js
14 18 (5.54%) Ruby on Rails
14 18 (5.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.15%) Fixed Income
2 48 (14.77%) Cloud Native
3 40 (12.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (11.69%) Equities
5 18 (5.54%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.31%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.23%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.92%) IVR
11 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.62%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.62%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.00%) Linux
2 8 (2.46%) Unix
3 5 (1.54%) Android
3 5 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.92%) CentOS
4 3 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.62%) Windows
6 1 (0.31%) AIX
6 1 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (54.15%) Agile
2 131 (40.31%) CI/CD
3 121 (37.23%) Software Engineering
4 114 (35.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (29.23%) DevOps
6 82 (25.23%) Microservices
7 59 (18.15%) Investment Management
8 56 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (16.62%) Containerisation
9 54 (16.62%) Fintech
10 51 (15.69%) User Experience
11 50 (15.38%) Asset Management
12 43 (13.23%) Mentoring
12 43 (13.23%) TDD
12 43 (13.23%) Test Automation
13 42 (12.92%) Order Management
14 33 (10.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (9.85%) Performance Attribution
15 32 (9.85%) Risk Management
16 29 (8.92%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 197 (60.62%) TypeScript
2 170 (52.31%) JavaScript
3 120 (36.92%) Python
4 101 (31.08%) Java
5 53 (16.31%) SQL
6 24 (7.38%) Go
7 19 (5.85%) Ruby
8 14 (4.31%) C#
9 9 (2.77%) PHP
10 8 (2.46%) Bicep
11 6 (1.85%) C++
12 5 (1.54%) C
13 4 (1.23%) JSX
14 3 (0.92%) Bash
14 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.92%) Perl
14 3 (0.92%) Scala
14 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 58 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 52 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.92%) Degree
4 11 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.62%) CCNA
7 2 (0.62%) CCNP
7 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.92%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.08%) QA
3 2 (0.62%) GDPR
3 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.62%) SLA
3 2 (0.62%) WCAG
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 89 (27.38%) Docker
2 6 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (25.23%) Kubernetes
2 40 (12.31%) Terraform
3 15 (4.62%) Grafana
4 10 (3.08%) Ansible
4 10 (3.08%) Argo
5 7 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.15%) Puppet
6 6 (1.85%) Kibana
7 4 (1.23%) Istio
8 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (6.15%) Google
2 15 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.69%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.08%) Splunk
5 6 (1.85%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.85%) Oracle
6 5 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.23%) YouTube
8 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.92%) SAP
8 3 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.62%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.62%) IBM
9 2 (0.62%) VMware
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco
10 1 (0.31%) Genesys
10 1 (0.31%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.31%) Workday