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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 115 150
Rank change year-on-year -119 +35 -77
Contract jobs citing Node.js 239 346 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 2.56% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% 8.75% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 282 187
10th Percentile £384 £400 £381
25th Percentile £444 £438 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +4.91%
75th Percentile £600 £800 £663
90th Percentile £738 £875 £725
England median daily rate £515 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +3.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 5,341 3,953 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.27% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,551 2,731 3,446
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -26 21 £550 +11.11% 21
West London -30 7 £604 +27.16% 9
South London -8 3 - - 3
East London - 2 £432 - 3
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 10 (4.18%) Confluence
2 5 (2.09%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.67%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.26%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Quorum
1 4 (1.67%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.67%) Ripple
2 3 (1.26%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.84%) Endur
3 2 (0.84%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (50.21%) AWS
2 68 (28.45%) Azure
3 51 (21.34%) Serverless
4 36 (15.06%) GitHub
5 30 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (8.79%) GCP
7 18 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.11%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.77%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (3.35%) Azure AKS
15 7 (2.93%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (2.93%) Datadog
16 6 (2.51%) Azure Databricks
16 6 (2.51%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.72%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.95%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.69%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.02%) MySQL
6 12 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.35%) Redis
8 5 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.84%) Big Data
10 2 (0.84%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.84%) Metadata
10 2 (0.84%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.42%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (23.85%) Git
2 56 (23.43%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.21%) GitLab
4 14 (5.86%) Cypress.io
4 14 (5.86%) JIRA
5 11 (4.60%) Maven
6 10 (4.18%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.93%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.93%) Mocha
8 6 (2.51%) webpack
9 5 (2.09%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.09%) Selenium
10 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.67%) Gatling
10 4 (1.67%) JUnit
10 4 (1.67%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.26%) Mockito
11 3 (1.26%) Vite
12 2 (0.84%) JMeter
General
1 53 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.74%) Finance
3 34 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.79%) Banking
5 16 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.18%) Front Office
6 10 (4.18%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.35%) Retail
8 7 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Games
10 3 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
10 3 (1.26%) Military
10 3 (1.26%) Publishing
10 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (51.88%) Developer
2 45 (18.83%) Senior
3 40 (16.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (10.46%) Software Engineer
5 22 (9.21%) React Developer
6 20 (8.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (8.37%) Node.js Developer
7 17 (7.11%) Lead
8 16 (6.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 16 (6.69%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.02%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.77%) Architect
12 8 (3.35%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.93%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.51%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (2.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (2.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (50.21%) React
2 61 (25.52%) REST
3 43 (17.99%) Terraform
4 40 (16.74%) RESTful
5 36 (15.06%) GraphQL
6 34 (14.23%) CSS
7 33 (13.81%) Spring
8 32 (13.39%) .NET
8 32 (13.39%) HTML
8 32 (13.39%) Spring Boot
9 31 (12.97%) AngularJS
10 25 (10.46%) HTML5
10 25 (10.46%) Kafka
11 21 (8.79%) Next.js
12 20 (8.37%) CSS3
13 19 (7.95%) Jest
14 17 (7.11%) Vue
15 16 (6.69%) OAuth
16 15 (6.28%) Playwright
17 13 (5.44%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.59%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.37%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.35%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.93%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.51%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.09%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.84%) Mashup
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.93%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.21%) CI/CD
2 111 (46.44%) Agile
3 94 (39.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (35.98%) Microservices
5 74 (30.96%) DevOps
6 57 (23.85%) Software Engineering
7 53 (22.18%) Event-Driven
8 48 (20.08%) Test Automation
9 43 (17.99%) AI
10 39 (16.32%) TDD
11 38 (15.90%) Containerisation
12 37 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (14.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 33 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (13.39%) Mentoring
16 29 (12.13%) Front End Development
16 29 (12.13%) Observability
16 29 (12.13%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (11.72%) Scrum
18 23 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 127 (53.14%) TypeScript
2 103 (43.10%) JavaScript
3 89 (37.24%) Java
4 64 (26.78%) Python
5 46 (19.25%) SQL
6 22 (9.21%) C#
7 10 (4.18%) Scala
8 8 (3.35%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.35%) Ruby
9 7 (2.93%) Go
10 6 (2.51%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.09%) Bash
11 5 (2.09%) Solidity
12 3 (1.26%) Rust
13 2 (0.84%) Elixir
13 2 (0.84%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
14 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.93%) Degree
4 7 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.09%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.88%) QA
2 19 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.09%) WCAG
4 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (19.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Postfix
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (20.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.93%) Grafana
3 5 (2.09%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.42%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.18%) Google
3 9 (3.77%) Databricks
4 6 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.67%) Oracle
6 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.26%) New Relic
6 3 (1.26%) SAP
7 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.84%) NEC
7 2 (0.84%) Netlify
7 2 (0.84%) Okta
7 2 (0.84%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.84%) Splunk
8 1 (0.42%) Adyen