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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 123 142
Rank change year-on-year -131 +19 -62
Contract jobs citing Node.js 222 327 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 2.43% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.14% 8.17% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 255 194
10th Percentile £385 £400 £390
25th Percentile £450 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £745
England median daily rate £520 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +0.97% -10.43% +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 5,359 4,004 4,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.33% 29.71% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,736 3,352
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £703
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 22
10th Percentile £26.19 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.19 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -35 22 £550 +4.76% 56
West London -35 8 £604 +27.16% 15
South London -10 2 - - 4
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 6 (2.70%) Confluence
2 4 (1.80%) Ethereum
2 4 (1.80%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.35%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Quorum
1 4 (1.80%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.80%) Ripple
2 2 (0.90%) Endur
2 2 (0.90%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (51.35%) AWS
2 62 (27.93%) Azure
3 51 (22.97%) Serverless
4 36 (16.22%) GitHub
5 28 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.01%) GCP
7 17 (7.66%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.76%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.05%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (2.70%) Datadog
14 5 (2.25%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.25%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.71%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.66%) DynamoDB
4 16 (7.21%) MongoDB
5 14 (6.31%) MySQL
6 13 (5.86%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.15%) Redis
10 5 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.35%) Big Data
12 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.90%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
14 1 (0.45%) Chroma
14 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.45%) Milvus
Development Applications
1 50 (22.52%) Git
1 50 (22.52%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.01%) GitLab
3 14 (6.31%) Maven
4 13 (5.86%) Cypress.io
5 12 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.60%) JIRA
8 6 (2.70%) JUnit
8 6 (2.70%) Mocha
9 5 (2.25%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.25%) Mockito
9 5 (2.25%) Selenium
9 5 (2.25%) webpack
10 4 (1.80%) Gatling
10 4 (1.80%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.35%) Gradle
11 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.90%) JMeter
12 2 (0.90%) jMock
General
1 50 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.57%) Finance
3 31 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.01%) Banking
5 13 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.60%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.60%) Retail
7 7 (3.15%) Front Office
7 7 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.80%) Marketing
8 4 (1.80%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Games
9 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Back Office
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 113 (50.90%) Developer
2 44 (19.82%) Senior
3 39 (17.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (11.26%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (9.01%) React Developer
7 16 (7.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 15 (6.76%) Node.js Developer
9 14 (6.31%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.41%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.95%) Lead
11 11 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.05%) Architect
13 7 (3.15%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (2.70%) JavaScript Engineer
14 6 (2.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (54.50%) React
2 61 (27.48%) REST
3 40 (18.02%) GraphQL
3 40 (18.02%) RESTful
4 33 (14.86%) .NET
5 32 (14.41%) CSS
5 32 (14.41%) Spring Boot
5 32 (14.41%) Terraform
6 31 (13.96%) HTML
6 31 (13.96%) Spring
7 28 (12.61%) AngularJS
8 26 (11.71%) Kafka
9 24 (10.81%) Next.js
10 23 (10.36%) HTML5
11 20 (9.01%) CSS3
12 18 (8.11%) Jest
13 16 (7.21%) OAuth
14 15 (6.76%) Vue
15 14 (6.31%) Nunjucks
15 14 (6.31%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.52%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.91%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.15%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.80%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Mac OS X
2 2 (0.90%) Unix
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (52.25%) CI/CD
2 107 (48.20%) Agile
3 92 (41.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (38.74%) Microservices
5 70 (31.53%) DevOps
6 56 (25.23%) Event-Driven
6 56 (25.23%) Software Engineering
7 44 (19.82%) AI
7 44 (19.82%) Test Automation
8 40 (18.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 40 (18.02%) TDD
9 34 (15.32%) Containerisation
9 34 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (13.06%) Front End Development
11 27 (12.16%) Observability
11 27 (12.16%) Scrum
12 26 (11.71%) Code Quality
12 26 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (11.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 126 (56.76%) TypeScript
2 95 (42.79%) JavaScript
3 83 (37.39%) Java
4 60 (27.03%) Python
5 45 (20.27%) SQL
6 22 (9.91%) C#
7 8 (3.60%) Go
7 8 (3.60%) Scala
8 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.15%) Ruby
9 6 (2.70%) Bash
10 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.80%) Solidity
11 3 (1.35%) Rust
12 2 (0.90%) Elixir
12 2 (0.90%) Korn
13 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.45%) Bicep
13 1 (0.45%) PHP
13 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (23.87%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.60%) Degree
4 8 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.81%) QA
2 14 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.80%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) PSD2
4 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (20.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Postfix
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.60%) Grafana
3 5 (2.25%) Ansible
4 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Kibana
5 1 (0.45%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 22 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.86%) Google
3 7 (3.15%) Databricks
4 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.80%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.80%) Oracle
5 4 (1.80%) SAP
6 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.35%) New Relic
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.90%) NEC
7 2 (0.90%) Netlify
7 2 (0.90%) Okta
7 2 (0.90%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.90%) SGI
7 2 (0.90%) Splunk
8 1 (0.45%) Guidewire