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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 132 121
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 -55
Contract jobs citing Node.js 322 279 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.22% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.70% 8.54% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 226 246
10th Percentile £374 £400 £369
25th Percentile £439 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +5.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £675
90th Percentile £805 £838 £759
England median daily rate £521 £537 £543
% change year-on-year -2.98% -1.01% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 4,183 3,268 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.49% 26.00% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,294 3,338
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
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 6 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 6 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 -26 23 £550 +4.76% 49
South London - 19 £521 -
West London -13 17 £550 +15.79% 7
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 8 (2.48%) Confluence
2 5 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.24%) CMS
4 2 (0.62%) Apache
4 2 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.62%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Maya
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.62%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 183 (56.83%) AWS
2 118 (36.65%) Azure
3 63 (19.57%) GCP
4 59 (18.32%) Serverless
5 46 (14.29%) GitHub
6 34 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.52%) Amazon S3
10 20 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (5.59%) Azure AKS
12 17 (5.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (4.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (4.97%) Azure Functions
14 15 (4.66%) Datadog
15 14 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.24%) Network Security
2 3 (0.93%) SSL
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.32%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.39%) NoSQL
3 22 (6.83%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (4.97%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.11%) Redis
8 7 (2.17%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.86%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.86%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.55%) Weaviate
11 4 (1.24%) MySQL
11 4 (1.24%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.93%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.93%) GIS
12 3 (0.93%) Metadata
13 2 (0.62%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 55 (17.08%) Jenkins
2 39 (12.11%) Git
3 19 (5.90%) GitLab
4 16 (4.97%) JIRA
5 9 (2.80%) Vite
6 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.24%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.24%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.24%) Maven
8 4 (1.24%) Mocha
8 4 (1.24%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.24%) Spinnaker
8 4 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.93%) webpack
10 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.62%) git-flow
10 2 (0.62%) Hudson
General
1 70 (21.74%) Finance
2 53 (16.46%) Front Office
3 48 (14.91%) Social Skills
4 45 (13.98%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.90%) Banking
7 8 (2.48%) Retail
8 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.55%) iGaming
9 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.93%) Publishing
11 2 (0.62%) Advertising
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Police
12 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 186 (57.76%) Developer
2 62 (19.25%) Senior
2 62 (19.25%) Software Engineer
3 58 (18.01%) Lead
4 57 (17.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 44 (13.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 39 (12.11%) Lead Developer
7 36 (11.18%) React Developer
8 34 (10.56%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (10.25%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (8.07%) Node.js Developer
11 25 (7.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 21 (6.52%) Senior Developer
13 17 (5.28%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.97%) Python Developer
15 15 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
16 13 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 12 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (3.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
17 12 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (46.89%) React
2 65 (20.19%) GraphQL
3 62 (19.25%) Kafka
4 58 (18.01%) Redux
5 47 (14.60%) Spring
6 43 (13.35%) AngularJS
7 40 (12.42%) REST
8 39 (12.11%) RESTful
9 32 (9.94%) HTML
9 32 (9.94%) Spring Boot
10 31 (9.63%) .NET
10 31 (9.63%) CSS
11 28 (8.70%) Playwright
12 20 (6.21%) Vue
13 19 (5.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 19 (5.90%) Vitest
14 16 (4.97%) HTML5
14 16 (4.97%) Jest
15 15 (4.66%) Next.js
15 15 (4.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 68 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 50 (15.53%) Fixed Income
3 19 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.28%) AI Agents
4 17 (5.28%) Equities
5 16 (4.97%) Derivative
6 12 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.62%) Blog
10 2 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.04%) Linux
2 4 (1.24%) VMS
2 4 (1.24%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.45%) Agile
2 152 (47.20%) CI/CD
3 121 (37.58%) DevOps
4 114 (35.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 102 (31.68%) Software Engineering
6 91 (28.26%) Microservices
7 71 (22.05%) Containerisation
8 65 (20.19%) Test Automation
9 62 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (18.01%) Mentoring
11 49 (15.22%) Portfolio Management
12 48 (14.91%) Investment Management
13 47 (14.60%) AI
13 47 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (11.80%) Observability
15 32 (9.94%) Order Management
16 31 (9.63%) E-Commerce
16 31 (9.63%) TDD
17 26 (8.07%) Scrum
18 25 (7.76%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 162 (50.31%) TypeScript
2 157 (48.76%) JavaScript
3 127 (39.44%) Python
4 113 (35.09%) Java
5 40 (12.42%) Go
6 36 (11.18%) SQL
7 34 (10.56%) C#
8 8 (2.48%) Bicep
9 7 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.86%) Ruby
11 5 (1.55%) C++
12 4 (1.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.62%) Ada
14 2 (0.62%) Bash
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
14 2 (0.62%) R
14 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.04%) Degree
4 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.76%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.52%) QA
3 7 (2.17%) WCAG
4 3 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 98 (30.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) HDFS
4 1 (0.31%) Postfix
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 65 (20.19%) Terraform
3 22 (6.83%) Grafana
4 19 (5.90%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.48%) Istio
6 6 (1.86%) Argo
7 4 (1.24%) Rancher
7 4 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.93%) Ansible
9 1 (0.31%) Icinga
9 1 (0.31%) linkerd
Vendors
1 18 (5.59%) OpenAI
2 16 (4.97%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.42%) Databricks
4 9 (2.80%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.80%) Google
5 5 (1.55%) Oracle
6 4 (1.24%) Adobe
6 4 (1.24%) Foundry
6 4 (1.24%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.24%) Netlify
7 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.62%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.62%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.31%) New Relic
9 1 (0.31%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.31%) Solace
9 1 (0.31%) Workday