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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 149 103
Rank change year-on-year +35 -46 -21
Contract jobs citing Node.js 361 284 460
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.51% 1.80% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.63% 6.93% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 190 305
10th Percentile £352 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £625 £532
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +17.48% -11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £625
90th Percentile £850 £850 £700
England median daily rate £500 £586 £515
% change year-on-year -14.71% +13.83% -8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.30
25th Percentile £66.00 - £72.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £73.50
75th Percentile £70.00 - £74.25
90th Percentile - - £74.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

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 3,749 4,100 5,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.09% 25.96% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 2,681 3,789
10th Percentile £356 £378 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £86.56
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -11.85% +19.27% -16.15%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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
West London +12 33 £475 +17.28% 4
Central London -9 28 £485 -11.21% 42
South London +7 13 £500 - 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 18 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.32%) CMS
3 6 (1.66%) SAS
4 5 (1.39%) Confluence
5 4 (1.11%) Apache
5 4 (1.11%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Shopify
2 2 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 175 (48.48%) AWS
2 96 (26.59%) Azure
3 82 (22.71%) Serverless
4 76 (21.05%) GitHub
5 56 (15.51%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (15.51%) GCP
6 49 (13.57%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (9.14%) SaaS
9 30 (8.31%) Amazon S3
10 28 (7.76%) Azure AKS
11 23 (6.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (4.43%) Azure Functions
15 16 (4.43%) dbt
15 16 (4.43%) Entra ID
16 12 (3.32%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Network Security
2 5 (1.39%) Firewall
3 3 (0.83%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.55%) HTTP
4 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) DKIM
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) STUN
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (21.33%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (10.25%) MongoDB
2 37 (10.25%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 15 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (4.16%) Apache Arrow
4 15 (4.16%) Apache Iceberg
4 15 (4.16%) Dremio
5 14 (3.88%) Redis
6 10 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.22%) MySQL
8 7 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.66%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.11%) Weaviate
11 3 (0.83%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.83%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 58 (16.07%) Git
2 53 (14.68%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.65%) GitLab
4 20 (5.54%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.88%) JIRA
6 9 (2.49%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.94%) Maven
8 5 (1.39%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.39%) Selenium
8 5 (1.39%) Subversion
9 4 (1.11%) JUnit
9 4 (1.11%) Mockito
10 3 (0.83%) Hudson
10 3 (0.83%) Lerna
10 3 (0.83%) Mocha
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.83%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (21.88%) Finance
2 76 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.42%) Front Office
4 31 (8.59%) Banking
5 26 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.49%) Retail
8 7 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.11%) Back Office
10 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.11%) Marketing
11 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Electronics
12 2 (0.55%) Law
12 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (50.42%) Developer
2 64 (17.73%) Senior
3 59 (16.34%) Software Engineer
4 54 (14.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (8.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 31 (8.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 28 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.48%) Lead
8 24 (6.65%) AWS Developer
9 23 (6.37%) Consultant
10 22 (6.09%) React Developer
11 21 (5.82%) Java Developer
12 20 (5.54%) Python Developer
12 20 (5.54%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.99%) AWS Software Engineer
14 17 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.71%) Technical Consultant
15 16 (4.43%) Node.js Developer
16 15 (4.16%) Azure Developer
16 15 (4.16%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (49.58%) React
2 77 (21.33%) GraphQL
3 52 (14.40%) AngularJS
4 46 (12.74%) RESTful
5 45 (12.47%) CSS
6 41 (11.36%) HTML
7 35 (9.70%) Playwright
8 32 (8.86%) Kafka
9 31 (8.59%) Redux
10 30 (8.31%) Jest
10 30 (8.31%) Next.js
11 29 (8.03%) .NET
12 28 (7.76%) Vitest
13 27 (7.48%) Vue
14 24 (6.65%) REST
15 23 (6.37%) Spring
15 23 (6.37%) YAML
16 19 (5.26%) Express.js
17 17 (4.71%) OAuth
18 16 (4.43%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.59%) Fixed Income
3 27 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.82%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.54%) Mobile App
6 17 (4.71%) Equities
6 17 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (4.16%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.11%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.83%) Blog
11 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.55%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.55%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.43%) Linux
2 6 (1.66%) Android
2 6 (1.66%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.66%) Unix
3 3 (0.83%) CentOS
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.83%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 185 (51.25%) Agile
3 139 (38.50%) DevOps
4 119 (32.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 103 (28.53%) Software Engineering
6 100 (27.70%) Microservices
7 77 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (20.78%) Containerisation
9 70 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 56 (15.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 50 (13.85%) Mentoring
12 44 (12.19%) E-Commerce
13 40 (11.08%) AI
13 40 (11.08%) TDD
14 36 (9.97%) API Design
15 35 (9.70%) User Experience
16 31 (8.59%) Continuous Integration
16 31 (8.59%) Investment Management
16 31 (8.59%) Performance Optimisation
17 28 (7.76%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (53.46%) TypeScript
2 163 (45.15%) JavaScript
3 136 (37.67%) Python
4 103 (28.53%) Java
5 69 (19.11%) SQL
6 24 (6.65%) Go
7 23 (6.37%) Ruby
8 21 (5.82%) C#
9 14 (3.88%) Bicep
10 8 (2.22%) PHP
11 7 (1.94%) JSX
12 6 (1.66%) Bash
13 5 (1.39%) Perl
14 3 (0.83%) C
14 3 (0.83%) C++
14 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.55%) Scala
16 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 65 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.26%) Degree
4 12 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.55%) CCNA
8 2 (0.55%) CCNP
8 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.82%) Accessibility
2 15 (4.16%) QA
3 5 (1.39%) WCAG
4 2 (0.55%) GDPR
4 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 126 (34.90%) Docker
2 11 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (30.47%) Kubernetes
2 63 (17.45%) Terraform
3 19 (5.26%) Grafana
4 16 (4.43%) Ansible
5 11 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.77%) Argo
7 5 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.39%) Kibana
7 5 (1.39%) Puppet
8 2 (0.55%) Istio
8 2 (0.55%) Rancher
8 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.28%) Icinga
Vendors
1 24 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.99%) Google
3 14 (3.88%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.05%) Oracle
4 11 (3.05%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.22%) Databricks
6 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.66%) Splunk
7 4 (1.11%) SAP
8 3 (0.83%) Adobe
8 3 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.83%) YouTube
9 2 (0.55%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.55%) Genesys
9 2 (0.55%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco
10 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.28%) Solace