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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 125 126
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 -63
Contract jobs citing Node.js 300 287 338
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 2.32% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 8.92% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 230 234
10th Percentile £383 £400 £390
25th Percentile £445 £413 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.50% -1.48%
75th Percentile £763 £713 £675
90th Percentile £805 £838 £762
England median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -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 4,162 3,216 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.06% 26.03% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,249 3,358
10th Percentile £372 £385 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +14.12% -36.80%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -19 22 £575 +16.16% 45
South London 0 16 £521 -16.32% 6
West London -24 11 - - 10
East London - 2 £432 - 10
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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 5 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.00%) CMS
4 2 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.33%) Maya
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Endur
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 176 (58.67%) AWS
2 106 (35.33%) Azure
3 58 (19.33%) GCP
4 54 (18.00%) Serverless
5 42 (14.00%) GitHub
6 28 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 18 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (5.33%) Azure AKS
13 15 (5.00%) Azure Functions
14 14 (4.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 14 (4.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (4.33%) Datadog
15 13 (4.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 12 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.00%) Network Security
1 3 (1.00%) SSL
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.67%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.67%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.33%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.00%) Redis
8 6 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.00%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.33%) MySQL
10 3 (1.00%) Big Data
10 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.00%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.00%) GIS
10 3 (1.00%) Metadata
10 3 (1.00%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.00%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 50 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.00%) Git
3 18 (6.00%) GitLab
4 16 (5.33%) JIRA
5 8 (2.67%) Vite
6 5 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.33%) Maven
7 4 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.33%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.33%) webpack
8 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.00%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.00%) DbUnit
8 3 (1.00%) jMock
8 3 (1.00%) Mocha
8 3 (1.00%) Mockito
8 3 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (22.67%) Finance
2 53 (17.67%) Front Office
3 46 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.00%) Social Skills
5 17 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.33%) Banking
7 8 (2.67%) Retail
8 7 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.67%) iGaming
10 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.00%) Publishing
11 2 (0.67%) Advertising
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (58.67%) Developer
2 61 (20.33%) Software Engineer
3 58 (19.33%) Lead
4 56 (18.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (18.33%) Senior
6 44 (14.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 39 (13.00%) Lead Developer
8 35 (11.67%) React Developer
9 34 (11.33%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (11.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 26 (8.67%) Node.js Developer
12 25 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (6.67%) Senior Developer
14 18 (6.00%) Java Developer
15 16 (5.33%) Python Developer
16 13 (4.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 12 (4.00%) Software Developer
18 11 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
19 10 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 10 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (48.67%) React
2 63 (21.00%) Kafka
3 62 (20.67%) GraphQL
4 56 (18.67%) Redux
5 46 (15.33%) Spring
6 44 (14.67%) AngularJS
7 43 (14.33%) REST
8 39 (13.00%) RESTful
9 35 (11.67%) Spring Boot
10 28 (9.33%) .NET
11 26 (8.67%) HTML
12 25 (8.33%) CSS
13 22 (7.33%) Playwright
14 20 (6.67%) Vue
15 15 (5.00%) Jest
15 15 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (4.67%) HTML5
16 14 (4.67%) OAuth
16 14 (4.67%) WireMock
17 13 (4.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 19 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.67%) Equities
5 16 (5.33%) Derivative
6 12 (4.00%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.67%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.67%) Linux
2 3 (1.00%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) VMS
4 1 (0.33%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (47.00%) Agile
2 136 (45.33%) CI/CD
3 111 (37.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 106 (35.33%) DevOps
5 96 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 83 (27.67%) Microservices
7 64 (21.33%) Containerisation
8 58 (19.33%) Test Automation
9 57 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 53 (17.67%) Mentoring
11 49 (16.33%) Portfolio Management
12 48 (16.00%) Investment Management
13 40 (13.33%) AI
14 36 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (11.67%) Observability
16 33 (11.00%) Order Management
17 31 (10.33%) TDD
18 26 (8.67%) Event-Driven
19 24 (8.00%) Data Modelling
20 23 (7.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 151 (50.33%) TypeScript
2 146 (48.67%) JavaScript
3 114 (38.00%) Python
4 106 (35.33%) Java
5 39 (13.00%) Go
6 35 (11.67%) SQL
7 29 (9.67%) C#
8 7 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.00%) Ruby
10 5 (1.67%) Bicep
11 4 (1.33%) C++
11 4 (1.33%) Scala
12 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.67%) Ada
13 2 (0.67%) Bash
13 2 (0.67%) PHP
13 2 (0.67%) R
13 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.00%) Degree
4 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.33%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.67%) QA
3 7 (2.33%) WCAG
4 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 85 (28.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.67%) HDFS
2 2 (0.67%) Postfix
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 59 (19.67%) Terraform
3 18 (6.00%) Grafana
4 15 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.67%) Istio
6 6 (2.00%) Argo
7 4 (1.33%) Ansible
7 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.67%) Rancher
9 1 (0.33%) Icinga
9 1 (0.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (4.67%) OpenAI
2 11 (3.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.00%) Google
4 8 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.33%) Databricks
6 4 (1.33%) Adobe
6 4 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.33%) Foundry
6 4 (1.33%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.33%) Netlify
6 4 (1.33%) Oracle
6 4 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.67%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.33%) New Relic
9 1 (0.33%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Workday