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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 132 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 -31
Contract jobs citing Node.js 337 277 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 2.00% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.99% 7.67% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 191 256
10th Percentile £354 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £501 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +16.28% -9.28%
75th Percentile £624 £713 £628
90th Percentile £729 £850 £700
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
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 £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 3,750 3,611 4,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 26.01% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,542 2,362 3,462
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -0.86% -4.92%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 January 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 January 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 +9 33 £550 +35.80% 5
Central London -2 29 £498 -6.79% 59
South London +12 17 £500 - 14
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 9 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.37%) CMS
3 7 (2.08%) Confluence
4 6 (1.78%) SAS
5 5 (1.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.89%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.59%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Shopify
2 2 (0.59%) Magento
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 151 (44.81%) AWS
2 102 (30.27%) Azure
3 83 (24.63%) Serverless
4 78 (23.15%) GitHub
5 57 (16.91%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (14.84%) GCP
7 48 (14.24%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (10.98%) SaaS
10 28 (8.31%) Amazon S3
10 28 (8.31%) Azure AKS
11 22 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (6.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (5.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (5.04%) Azure Functions
16 15 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (4.45%) Entra ID
17 14 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (4.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) Network Security
2 4 (1.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.89%) SSL
4 2 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) DKIM
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) STUN
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.30%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (16.62%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (10.09%) NoSQL
3 30 (8.90%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.93%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.78%) Apache Arrow
7 6 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (1.78%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.78%) Dremio
8 5 (1.48%) MySQL
8 5 (1.48%) Redis
8 5 (1.48%) Weaviate
9 4 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.19%) Metadata
9 4 (1.19%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (19.29%) Jenkins
2 51 (15.13%) Git
3 28 (8.31%) GitLab
4 18 (5.34%) Cypress.io
4 18 (5.34%) JIRA
5 8 (2.37%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.48%) Maven
6 5 (1.48%) Selenium
7 4 (1.19%) Mocha
7 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.89%) Hudson
8 3 (0.89%) Lerna
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.89%) Subversion
8 3 (0.89%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.59%) Jaeger
General
1 78 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.17%) Finance
3 31 (9.20%) Banking
4 30 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.56%) Retail
7 9 (2.67%) Front Office
8 7 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Law
11 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.30%) Legal
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (47.77%) Developer
2 64 (18.99%) Senior
3 61 (18.10%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (9.20%) Software Engineer
5 30 (8.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 26 (7.72%) Consultant
7 20 (5.93%) Technical Consultant
8 19 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.34%) React Developer
10 17 (5.04%) Lead
10 17 (5.04%) Python Developer
10 17 (5.04%) Senior Consultant
10 17 (5.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 17 (5.04%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 17 (5.04%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 17 (5.04%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 17 (5.04%) Technical Specialist
11 16 (4.75%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.45%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (47.18%) React
2 62 (18.40%) GraphQL
3 51 (15.13%) RESTful
4 48 (14.24%) AngularJS
5 46 (13.65%) CSS
5 46 (13.65%) HTML
6 43 (12.76%) Playwright
7 34 (10.09%) Spring
8 32 (9.50%) Vitest
9 31 (9.20%) Next.js
10 27 (8.01%) .NET
10 27 (8.01%) Jest
11 25 (7.42%) YAML
12 24 (7.12%) Spring Boot
13 21 (6.23%) REST
14 20 (5.93%) Kafka
14 20 (5.93%) OAuth
15 17 (5.04%) Vue
16 16 (4.75%) JWT
17 15 (4.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.04%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.56%) Mobile App
6 11 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.78%) Equities
8 6 (1.78%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.89%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.59%) Blog
12 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.59%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.15%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Unix
3 3 (0.89%) CentOS
3 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.89%) VMS
4 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 166 (49.26%) Agile
3 150 (44.51%) DevOps
4 117 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (28.19%) Microservices
6 82 (24.33%) Containerisation
7 76 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (21.66%) Software Engineering
9 69 (20.47%) Test Automation
10 61 (18.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (14.54%) E-Commerce
12 45 (13.35%) AI
13 44 (13.06%) Mentoring
14 35 (10.39%) API Design
14 35 (10.39%) Observability
15 32 (9.50%) Code Quality
15 32 (9.50%) Front End Development
16 31 (9.20%) Coaching
17 30 (8.90%) TDD
18 29 (8.61%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 170 (50.45%) TypeScript
2 146 (43.32%) JavaScript
3 117 (34.72%) Python
4 88 (26.11%) Java
5 67 (19.88%) SQL
6 26 (7.72%) C#
7 14 (4.15%) Bicep
8 13 (3.86%) Ruby
9 11 (3.26%) Go
10 7 (2.08%) JSX
10 7 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.78%) Bash
12 5 (1.48%) C++
12 5 (1.48%) Perl
13 3 (0.89%) C
13 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Ada
14 2 (0.59%) PHP
14 2 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.15%) Degree
4 11 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.89%) MCP
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.93%) Accessibility
1 20 (5.93%) QA
2 5 (1.48%) WCAG
3 2 (0.59%) GDPR
3 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.59%) SLA
4 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 135 (40.06%) Docker
2 10 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.59%) HDFS
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (35.01%) Kubernetes
2 59 (17.51%) Terraform
3 22 (6.53%) Grafana
4 17 (5.04%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.15%) Ansible
5 14 (4.15%) Argo
6 8 (2.37%) Istio
7 5 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.19%) Kibana
9 3 (0.89%) Puppet
10 2 (0.59%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.72%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.34%) Google
3 15 (4.45%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.97%) Databricks
5 10 (2.97%) Oracle
6 8 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.78%) Adobe
8 5 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.48%) Splunk
9 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.59%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.59%) Genesys
11 2 (0.59%) SAP
11 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.30%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.30%) Solace
12 1 (0.30%) Workday