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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 134 105
Rank change year-on-year +19 -29 -24
Contract jobs citing Node.js 358 287 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.50% 1.91% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.52% 7.43% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 192 296
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £535
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +16.88% -10.88%
75th Percentile £657 £713 £638
90th Percentile £826 £850 £700
England median daily rate £500 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.05% -5.00%
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 3,762 3,862 4,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 25.74% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,520 3,652
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.46% -1.75%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 30
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

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 21 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 21 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 +14 35 £513 +26.54% 4
Central London -8 29 £495 -7.26% 40
South London +7 13 £500 - 1
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 13 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.79%) CMS
3 6 (1.68%) Confluence
3 6 (1.68%) SAS
4 4 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (0.84%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Shopify
2 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 172 (48.04%) AWS
2 97 (27.09%) Azure
3 85 (23.74%) GitHub
4 84 (23.46%) Serverless
5 57 (15.92%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (15.64%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (15.08%) GCP
8 44 (12.29%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (9.78%) SaaS
10 29 (8.10%) Amazon S3
10 29 (8.10%) Azure AKS
11 23 (6.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.03%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.75%) Azure Functions
15 15 (4.19%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.91%) Datadog
17 13 (3.63%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.68%) Network Security
2 4 (1.12%) Firewall
3 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 2 (0.56%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.28%) DKIM
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) STUN
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.16%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (10.06%) NoSQL
3 32 (8.94%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.31%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.07%) Redis
8 10 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (2.79%) Apache Arrow
8 10 (2.79%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (2.79%) Dremio
9 7 (1.96%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.96%) MySQL
10 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.40%) Weaviate
12 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.12%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 62 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.36%) Git
3 26 (7.26%) GitLab
4 20 (5.59%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.47%) JIRA
6 8 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.68%) Maven
9 5 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.40%) Selenium
10 4 (1.12%) Mockito
10 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.84%) Hudson
11 3 (0.84%) JUnit
11 3 (0.84%) Mocha
11 3 (0.84%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.84%) Subversion
11 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.04%) Finance
3 27 (7.54%) Banking
4 26 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.98%) Front Office
6 19 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.63%) Retail
8 7 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Back Office
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (47.77%) Developer
2 68 (18.99%) Senior
3 56 (15.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 47 (13.13%) Software Engineer
5 34 (9.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 26 (7.26%) Consultant
7 25 (6.98%) Lead
8 23 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (6.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 20 (5.59%) Technical Consultant
11 19 (5.31%) AWS Developer
11 19 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.31%) Python Developer
12 18 (5.03%) React Developer
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Consultant
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (48.88%) React
2 76 (21.23%) GraphQL
3 49 (13.69%) AngularJS
4 47 (13.13%) RESTful
5 43 (12.01%) CSS
6 42 (11.73%) HTML
7 41 (11.45%) Playwright
8 33 (9.22%) Kafka
9 32 (8.94%) Vitest
10 30 (8.38%) Next.js
11 29 (8.10%) Spring
12 28 (7.82%) Jest
13 26 (7.26%) .NET
14 25 (6.98%) YAML
15 24 (6.70%) Redux
16 22 (6.15%) Spring Boot
17 21 (5.87%) Vue
18 20 (5.59%) REST
19 18 (5.03%) Express.js
20 17 (4.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 83 (23.18%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.15%) Fixed Income
4 21 (5.87%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.75%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.63%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.79%) Equities
8 10 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.12%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.56%) Blog
12 2 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.63%) Linux
2 6 (1.68%) Unix
3 3 (0.84%) CentOS
3 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.84%) VMS
4 2 (0.56%) Android
4 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (56.70%) CI/CD
2 181 (50.56%) Agile
3 153 (42.74%) DevOps
4 124 (34.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 100 (27.93%) Microservices
6 97 (27.09%) Software Engineering
7 80 (22.35%) Containerisation
8 79 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (20.11%) Test Automation
10 63 (17.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (14.25%) Mentoring
12 49 (13.69%) E-Commerce
13 47 (13.13%) AI
14 38 (10.61%) API Design
15 36 (10.06%) TDD
16 33 (9.22%) Observability
17 32 (8.94%) Front End Development
18 31 (8.66%) Coaching
18 31 (8.66%) Continuous Integration
19 29 (8.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 193 (53.91%) TypeScript
2 158 (44.13%) JavaScript
3 129 (36.03%) Python
4 97 (27.09%) Java
5 72 (20.11%) SQL
6 25 (6.98%) C#
7 24 (6.70%) Go
8 17 (4.75%) Ruby
9 15 (4.19%) Bicep
10 7 (1.96%) JSX
11 6 (1.68%) Bash
12 5 (1.40%) C++
12 5 (1.40%) Perl
12 5 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.84%) C
13 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.56%) Ada
14 2 (0.56%) PHP
14 2 (0.56%) R
14 2 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.75%) Degree
4 13 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.84%) MCP
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.31%) QA
2 18 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.40%) WCAG
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 137 (38.27%) Docker
2 10 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) HDFS
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (33.24%) Kubernetes
2 68 (18.99%) Terraform
3 24 (6.70%) Grafana
4 16 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.19%) Ansible
6 14 (3.91%) Argo
7 8 (2.23%) Istio
8 5 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.40%) Kibana
9 3 (0.84%) Puppet
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) Icinga
11 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.70%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.03%) Google
3 16 (4.47%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.79%) Databricks
5 10 (2.79%) Oracle
6 7 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.68%) Splunk
8 5 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.84%) Adobe
10 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.56%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.56%) Genesys
11 2 (0.56%) SAP
11 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.28%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.28%) Solace
12 1 (0.28%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.28%) Workday