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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 120 130
Rank change year-on-year -57 +10 -62
Contract jobs citing Node.js 307 323 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 2.39% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.79% 9.16% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 267 213
10th Percentile £400 £385 £353
25th Percentile £450 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £675
90th Percentile £850 £875 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -16 23 £588 +18.69% 27
South London +4 14 £521 -16.32%
West London -19 10 £604 +27.16% 9
East London - 2 £432 - 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 10 (3.26%) Confluence
2 5 (1.63%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.30%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.65%) CMS
4 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.98%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) Maya
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Quorum
1 4 (1.30%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.30%) Ripple
2 3 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.65%) Endur
4 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 188 (61.24%) AWS
2 101 (32.90%) Azure
3 55 (17.92%) GCP
4 54 (17.59%) Serverless
5 34 (11.07%) GitHub
6 30 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (7.82%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (4.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 13 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.58%) Azure AKS
14 10 (3.26%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.93%) Datadog
16 7 (2.28%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (20.52%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.84%) DynamoDB
4 18 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.21%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (4.23%) Redis
8 7 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.63%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.30%) MySQL
12 2 (0.65%) Big Data
12 2 (0.65%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.65%) GIS
12 2 (0.65%) Metadata
12 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.65%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 57 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 56 (18.24%) Git
3 18 (5.86%) GitLab
4 15 (4.89%) JIRA
5 11 (3.58%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.61%) Maven
6 8 (2.61%) Vite
6 8 (2.61%) webpack
7 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.63%) JSUnit
9 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.30%) Gatling
9 4 (1.30%) Mocha
9 4 (1.30%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.98%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.98%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.98%) Mockito
10 3 (0.98%) Spinnaker
General
1 78 (25.41%) Finance
2 59 (19.22%) Front Office
3 47 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 45 (14.66%) Social Skills
5 26 (8.47%) Banking
6 16 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.95%) Retail
9 5 (1.63%) iGaming
9 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.30%) Games
10 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.98%) Military
11 3 (0.98%) Publishing
11 3 (0.98%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Advertising
12 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (60.91%) Developer
2 66 (21.50%) Software Engineer
3 57 (18.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 56 (18.24%) Lead
5 50 (16.29%) Senior
6 46 (14.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 41 (13.36%) Lead Developer
8 38 (12.38%) React Developer
9 33 (10.75%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (10.75%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (8.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (8.47%) Node.js Developer
11 22 (7.17%) Senior Developer
12 21 (6.84%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 10 (3.26%) Java Engineer
15 10 (3.26%) Python Developer
15 10 (3.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (51.79%) React
2 66 (21.50%) Kafka
3 65 (21.17%) GraphQL
3 65 (21.17%) Redux
4 61 (19.87%) REST
5 52 (16.94%) RESTful
6 48 (15.64%) Spring
7 37 (12.05%) AngularJS
7 37 (12.05%) Spring Boot
8 32 (10.42%) CSS
9 28 (9.12%) HTML
10 27 (8.79%) .NET
11 22 (7.17%) Playwright
12 21 (6.84%) HTML5
12 21 (6.84%) Jest
12 21 (6.84%) Vue
13 19 (6.19%) Next.js
14 16 (5.21%) CSS3
15 15 (4.89%) OAuth
16 13 (4.23%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.89%) Cloud Native
2 56 (18.24%) Fixed Income
3 20 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.54%) Equities
5 16 (5.21%) Derivative
5 16 (5.21%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.63%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.65%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.58%) Linux
2 3 (0.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (50.16%) Agile
2 136 (44.30%) CI/CD
3 121 (39.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 102 (33.22%) Software Engineering
5 93 (30.29%) Microservices
6 84 (27.36%) DevOps
7 58 (18.89%) Test Automation
8 56 (18.24%) Containerisation
9 54 (17.59%) Investment Management
10 51 (16.61%) Mentoring
11 49 (15.96%) Portfolio Management
12 48 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (14.33%) TDD
14 39 (12.70%) Order Management
15 37 (12.05%) AI
15 37 (12.05%) Event-Driven
16 36 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (9.45%) Scrum
18 26 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (8.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 165 (53.75%) TypeScript
2 152 (49.51%) JavaScript
3 127 (41.37%) Java
4 105 (34.20%) Python
5 41 (13.36%) Go
6 30 (9.77%) SQL
7 26 (8.47%) C#
8 10 (3.26%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.93%) Ruby
9 9 (2.93%) Scala
10 5 (1.63%) Solidity
11 3 (0.98%) Bicep
11 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.98%) Rust
12 2 (0.65%) Elixir
12 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.33%) Cypher
13 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.58%) Degree
4 9 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.12%) Accessibility
2 24 (7.82%) QA
3 8 (2.61%) WCAG
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.65%) 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 65 (21.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Postfix
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.29%) Terraform
3 12 (3.91%) Grafana
4 7 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.63%) Ansible
6 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.65%) Istio
7 2 (0.65%) Rancher
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.26%) OpenAI
3 9 (2.93%) Google
4 5 (1.63%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.30%) Foundry
5 4 (1.30%) Netlify
5 4 (1.30%) Oracle
5 4 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.98%) Adobe
6 3 (0.98%) Databricks
6 3 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.65%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.65%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.65%) SAP
7 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) Ariba
8 1 (0.33%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.33%) NEC