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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 129 119
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -50
Contract jobs citing Node.js 356 279 362
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 2.06% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.83% 7.86% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 203 234
10th Percentile £356 £400 £354
25th Percentile £425 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +14.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £647
90th Percentile £800 £825 £734
England median daily rate £505 £575 £516
% change year-on-year -12.17% +11.38% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +6.87%

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 4,033 3,548 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.87% 26.20% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,718 2,361 3,376
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £657 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 31
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.51
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.94
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +8.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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
West London +6 33 £550 +35.14% 4
Central London -20 27 £525 +5.00% 57
South London - 24 £521 - 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 (2.25%) CMS
2 6 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.69%) SAS
3 5 (1.40%) Confluence
4 4 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.28%) Maya
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Shopify
2 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 176 (49.44%) AWS
2 115 (32.30%) Azure
3 81 (22.75%) Serverless
4 75 (21.07%) GitHub
5 61 (17.13%) GCP
6 55 (15.45%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (10.39%) SaaS
9 28 (7.87%) Amazon S3
10 21 (5.90%) Azure AKS
11 20 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (4.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 16 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (4.21%) Azure Functions
16 15 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Network Security
2 3 (0.84%) Firewall
2 3 (0.84%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) DKIM
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (17.98%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.46%) DynamoDB
3 23 (6.46%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.25%) Redis
7 6 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.69%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.40%) MySQL
8 5 (1.40%) Pinecone
8 5 (1.40%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.12%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.12%) Dremio
10 3 (0.84%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 66 (18.54%) Jenkins
2 54 (15.17%) Git
3 24 (6.74%) GitLab
4 16 (4.49%) JIRA
5 15 (4.21%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.12%) Maven
7 4 (1.12%) Mocha
7 4 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.12%) Vite
8 3 (0.84%) Hudson
8 3 (0.84%) Lerna
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.84%) Subversion
9 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.56%) Mockito
9 2 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 67 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.29%) Finance
3 40 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.99%) Front Office
5 25 (7.02%) Banking
6 22 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.97%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.97%) Retail
8 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Advertising
10 1 (0.28%) Law
10 1 (0.28%) Legal
10 1 (0.28%) Local Government
10 1 (0.28%) Military
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (53.09%) Developer
2 71 (19.94%) Full-Stack Developer
3 64 (17.98%) Senior
4 50 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 37 (10.39%) Lead
6 28 (7.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 26 (7.30%) Consultant
7 26 (7.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 24 (6.74%) Lead Developer
9 22 (6.18%) React Developer
10 21 (5.90%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.62%) Technical Consultant
12 18 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.06%) Lead Software Developer
12 18 (5.06%) Python Developer
13 17 (4.78%) Node.js Developer
13 17 (4.78%) Senior Consultant
13 17 (4.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 17 (4.78%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 17 (4.78%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (47.47%) React
2 70 (19.66%) GraphQL
3 51 (14.33%) AngularJS
3 51 (14.33%) RESTful
4 48 (13.48%) CSS
5 46 (12.92%) HTML
6 45 (12.64%) Playwright
7 44 (12.36%) Spring
8 43 (12.08%) Kafka
9 36 (10.11%) Redux
10 32 (8.99%) Vitest
11 27 (7.58%) Jest
11 27 (7.58%) Next.js
11 27 (7.58%) REST
11 27 (7.58%) Spring Boot
12 26 (7.30%) .NET
13 23 (6.46%) Vue
13 23 (6.46%) YAML
14 21 (5.90%) OAuth
15 20 (5.62%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.87%) Fixed Income
3 23 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.90%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.06%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.37%) Equities
7 9 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.53%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.25%) Derivative
9 6 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.78%) Linux
2 7 (1.97%) Unix
3 3 (0.84%) CentOS
3 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.84%) VMS
4 2 (0.56%) Windows
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (56.74%) CI/CD
2 176 (49.44%) Agile
3 150 (42.13%) DevOps
4 130 (36.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 96 (26.97%) Software Engineering
6 95 (26.69%) Microservices
7 88 (24.72%) Containerisation
8 74 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (19.38%) Test Automation
11 56 (15.73%) Mentoring
12 50 (14.04%) AI
13 49 (13.76%) E-Commerce
14 36 (10.11%) Observability
15 35 (9.83%) Code Quality
15 35 (9.83%) TDD
16 32 (8.99%) Performance Optimisation
17 31 (8.71%) Coaching
18 30 (8.43%) Front End Development
18 30 (8.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 188 (52.81%) TypeScript
2 172 (48.31%) JavaScript
3 143 (40.17%) Python
4 109 (30.62%) Java
5 51 (14.33%) SQL
6 29 (8.15%) C#
7 26 (7.30%) Go
8 12 (3.37%) Bicep
8 12 (3.37%) Ruby
9 7 (1.97%) JSX
9 7 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.40%) Bash
10 5 (1.40%) C++
10 5 (1.40%) Perl
11 3 (0.84%) C
11 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) Ada
12 2 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.56%) Scala
12 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.49%) Degree
4 10 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.46%) QA
3 8 (2.25%) WCAG
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 135 (37.92%) Docker
2 9 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) HDFS
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 64 (17.98%) Terraform
3 22 (6.18%) Grafana
4 18 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.93%) Argo
6 10 (2.81%) Ansible
7 8 (2.25%) Istio
8 5 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.56%) Kibana
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) Icinga
Vendors
1 27 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.34%) OpenAI
3 15 (4.21%) Google
4 11 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.81%) Databricks
6 9 (2.53%) Oracle
7 8 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.97%) Adobe
9 6 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.12%) Foundry
11 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.56%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.56%) Genesys
11 2 (0.56%) Netlify
11 2 (0.56%) SAP
11 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.28%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.28%) Jaspersoft
12 1 (0.28%) NEC
12 1 (0.28%) Ping Identity