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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 113 143
Rank change year-on-year -101 +30 -70
Contract jobs citing Node.js 254 339 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 2.53% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 8.69% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 285 191
10th Percentile £379 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +2.68%
75th Percentile £604 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £750
England median daily rate £520 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +3.48% -8.64% -

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 5,256 3,901 4,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.18% 29.17% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,516 2,726 3,493
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +23.15% -11.35% -4.92%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -28 20 £550 +11.11% 10
West London -17 10 £604 +27.16% 14
South London -8 3 - -
East London - 2 £432 - 2
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 10 (3.94%) Confluence
2 5 (1.97%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.57%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Quorum
1 4 (1.57%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.57%) Ripple
2 3 (1.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.79%) Endur
3 2 (0.79%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (55.12%) AWS
2 73 (28.74%) Azure
3 51 (20.08%) Serverless
4 32 (12.60%) GitHub
5 31 (12.20%) GCP
6 29 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.48%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.72%) Datadog
12 11 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.33%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.36%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.93%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.42%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.48%) DynamoDB
3 19 (7.48%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.94%) Redis
6 9 (3.54%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.76%) MySQL
9 5 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.79%) Big Data
10 2 (0.79%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.79%) GIS
10 2 (0.79%) Metadata
10 2 (0.79%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 60 (23.62%) Jenkins
2 57 (22.44%) Git
3 25 (9.84%) GitLab
4 14 (5.51%) Cypress.io
4 14 (5.51%) JIRA
5 10 (3.94%) Maven
6 8 (3.15%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.36%) Mocha
7 6 (2.36%) webpack
8 5 (1.97%) JSUnit
8 5 (1.97%) Vite
9 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.57%) Gatling
9 4 (1.57%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.57%) Selenium
10 3 (1.18%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.18%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.79%) Claude Code
General
1 47 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.32%) Finance
3 40 (15.75%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.66%) Front Office
5 20 (7.87%) Banking
6 15 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.76%) Retail
9 6 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.57%) Games
11 3 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.18%) iGaming
11 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.18%) Marketing
11 3 (1.18%) Military
11 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Publishing
11 3 (1.18%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (53.94%) Developer
2 49 (19.29%) Senior
3 39 (15.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (14.57%) Software Engineer
5 27 (10.63%) Lead
6 26 (10.24%) React Developer
7 22 (8.66%) Node.js Developer
8 19 (7.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 17 (6.69%) Lead Developer
9 17 (6.69%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 13 (5.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (4.72%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) Architect
14 9 (3.54%) Lead Software Developer
14 9 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (3.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.15%) Software Developer
16 7 (2.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (47.64%) React
2 60 (23.62%) REST
3 45 (17.72%) GraphQL
3 45 (17.72%) Terraform
4 42 (16.54%) RESTful
5 33 (12.99%) Kafka
5 33 (12.99%) Spring
6 31 (12.20%) .NET
6 31 (12.20%) Spring Boot
7 29 (11.42%) CSS
8 28 (11.02%) AngularJS
9 25 (9.84%) HTML
9 25 (9.84%) Redux
10 23 (9.06%) Next.js
11 20 (7.87%) HTML5
11 20 (7.87%) Jest
12 19 (7.48%) Playwright
13 16 (6.30%) Vue
14 15 (5.91%) CSS3
14 15 (5.91%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.87%) Fixed Income
4 18 (7.09%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.97%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.97%) Equities
8 5 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.57%) Derivative
9 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.76%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) VMS
2 2 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (49.61%) CI/CD
2 123 (48.43%) Agile
3 96 (37.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 88 (34.65%) Microservices
5 80 (31.50%) DevOps
6 71 (27.95%) Software Engineering
7 50 (19.69%) Test Automation
8 44 (17.32%) Event-Driven
9 43 (16.93%) AI
10 41 (16.14%) Containerisation
10 41 (16.14%) TDD
11 40 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (14.96%) Mentoring
13 36 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (11.81%) Observability
14 30 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (11.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 29 (11.42%) Scrum
16 26 (10.24%) Code Quality
16 26 (10.24%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 137 (53.94%) TypeScript
2 108 (42.52%) JavaScript
3 94 (37.01%) Java
4 72 (28.35%) Python
5 40 (15.75%) SQL
6 23 (9.06%) C#
7 14 (5.51%) Go
8 10 (3.94%) Scala
9 9 (3.54%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.15%) Ruby
11 5 (1.97%) Solidity
12 3 (1.18%) Bash
12 3 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.18%) Rust
13 2 (0.79%) Bicep
13 2 (0.79%) Elixir
13 2 (0.79%) Korn
14 1 (0.39%) DAML
14 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 66 (25.98%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.76%) Degree
5 5 (1.97%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.24%) QA
2 20 (7.87%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.97%) WCAG
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (21.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Postfix
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.54%) Grafana
3 5 (1.97%) Ansible
4 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.79%) Rancher
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.39%) linkerd
6 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.15%) Google
3 6 (2.36%) Databricks
3 6 (2.36%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.36%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.57%) New Relic
4 4 (1.57%) Oracle
5 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.18%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.18%) SAP
6 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.79%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.79%) Netlify
6 2 (0.79%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.79%) PagerDuty
6 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Ariba
7 1 (0.39%) ATG
7 1 (0.39%) Okta