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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 141 100
Rank change year-on-year +28 -41 -21
Contract jobs citing Node.js 358 288 487
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.52% 1.81% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.52% 6.97% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 190 329
10th Percentile £352 £400 £385
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £650
90th Percentile £850 £850 £700
England median daily rate £500 £593 £525
% change year-on-year -15.61% +12.86% -8.70%
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 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +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 3,761 4,133 5,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.47% 25.98% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,702 3,856
10th Percentile £359 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 34
10th Percentile £34.48 £35.13 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.31 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.38 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.40 £83.84
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.85% +20.93% -17.31%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 31 £475 +17.28% 5
Central London -4 29 £495 -8.76% 47
South London +3 12 £500 - 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 20 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.35%) CMS
3 6 (1.68%) SAS
4 5 (1.40%) Confluence
5 4 (1.12%) Apache
5 4 (1.12%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 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%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 181 (50.56%) AWS
2 91 (25.42%) Azure
3 80 (22.35%) Serverless
4 78 (21.79%) GitHub
5 59 (16.48%) GCP
6 57 (15.92%) AWS Lambda
7 50 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (8.66%) Amazon S3
9 31 (8.66%) SaaS
10 25 (6.98%) Azure AKS
11 20 (5.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (5.03%) dbt
14 16 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (4.19%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (3.63%) Apigee
17 13 (3.63%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.40%) Firewall
1 5 (1.40%) Network Security
2 3 (0.84%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) DKIM
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) STUN
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (22.91%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (9.78%) MongoDB
2 35 (9.78%) NoSQL
3 20 (5.59%) DynamoDB
4 17 (4.75%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (4.75%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (4.75%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (4.75%) Dremio
5 16 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.91%) Redis
7 10 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.23%) MySQL
9 7 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.12%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 53 (14.80%) Git
2 48 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.98%) GitLab
4 20 (5.59%) Cypress.io
5 12 (3.35%) JIRA
6 9 (2.51%) Maven
7 8 (2.23%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.96%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.40%) JUnit
9 5 (1.40%) Selenium
10 4 (1.12%) Mockito
11 3 (0.84%) Lerna
11 3 (0.84%) Mocha
11 3 (0.84%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.84%) Subversion
11 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.56%) Jaeger
General
1 83 (23.18%) Finance
2 73 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.61%) Front Office
4 32 (8.94%) Banking
5 28 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Retail
8 8 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.12%) Back Office
10 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.12%) Marketing
11 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Electronics
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 183 (51.12%) Developer
2 63 (17.60%) Software Engineer
3 61 (17.04%) Senior
4 53 (14.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (9.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 32 (8.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 30 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (7.54%) AWS Developer
8 27 (7.54%) Lead
9 23 (6.42%) Java Developer
9 23 (6.42%) React Developer
10 21 (5.87%) Consultant
11 20 (5.59%) AWS Software Engineer
11 20 (5.59%) Python Developer
11 20 (5.59%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.47%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.19%) Node.js Developer
14 15 (4.19%) Python Software Engineer
14 15 (4.19%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (49.72%) React
2 74 (20.67%) GraphQL
3 53 (14.80%) AngularJS
4 47 (13.13%) RESTful
5 44 (12.29%) CSS
6 40 (11.17%) HTML
7 33 (9.22%) Playwright
7 33 (9.22%) Redux
8 32 (8.94%) Kafka
9 31 (8.66%) Jest
10 29 (8.10%) Next.js
10 29 (8.10%) Vue
11 27 (7.54%) .NET
12 26 (7.26%) Vitest
13 24 (6.70%) REST
13 24 (6.70%) Spring
14 22 (6.15%) YAML
15 19 (5.31%) Express.js
16 17 (4.75%) Pandas
16 17 (4.75%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 70 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.78%) Fixed Income
3 26 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.59%) Equities
4 20 (5.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (5.31%) Mobile App
6 18 (5.03%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.91%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (1.12%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Blog
11 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.56%) IVR
12 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.47%) Linux
2 6 (1.68%) Unix
3 5 (1.40%) Android
3 5 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.84%) CentOS
4 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (53.07%) CI/CD
2 182 (50.84%) Agile
3 133 (37.15%) DevOps
4 117 (32.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 106 (29.61%) Software Engineering
6 98 (27.37%) Microservices
7 75 (20.95%) Containerisation
8 71 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (18.16%) Test Automation
10 57 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (13.41%) Mentoring
12 41 (11.45%) E-Commerce
13 39 (10.89%) AI
13 39 (10.89%) TDD
14 37 (10.34%) User Experience
15 36 (10.06%) API Design
16 35 (9.78%) Investment Management
17 30 (8.38%) Performance Optimisation
18 29 (8.10%) Design Patterns
18 29 (8.10%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 196 (54.75%) TypeScript
2 164 (45.81%) JavaScript
3 136 (37.99%) Python
4 105 (29.33%) Java
5 66 (18.44%) SQL
6 23 (6.42%) Go
7 22 (6.15%) Ruby
8 18 (5.03%) C#
9 13 (3.63%) Bicep
10 9 (2.51%) PHP
11 7 (1.96%) JSX
12 6 (1.68%) Bash
13 5 (1.40%) Perl
14 4 (1.12%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.84%) C
15 3 (0.84%) C++
15 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 78 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.59%) Degree
4 12 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.56%) CCNA
9 2 (0.56%) CCNP
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.87%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.35%) QA
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%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 124 (34.64%) Docker
2 10 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 65 (18.16%) Terraform
3 20 (5.59%) Grafana
4 17 (4.75%) Ansible
5 12 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.79%) Argo
7 6 (1.68%) Puppet
8 5 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.40%) Kibana
9 3 (0.84%) Istio
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
10 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.28%) Icinga
Vendors
1 23 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.31%) Google
3 13 (3.63%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.07%) Oracle
4 11 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.96%) Databricks
5 7 (1.96%) Splunk
6 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.12%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.12%) SAP
7 4 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.12%) YouTube
8 3 (0.84%) Adobe
8 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.56%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.56%) Genesys
9 2 (0.56%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.28%) Workday