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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 112 150
Rank change year-on-year -127 +38 -73
Contract jobs citing Node.js 229 339 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 2.51% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.28% 8.49% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 272 192
10th Percentile £385 £400 £388
25th Percentile £450 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% -1.04% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £800 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £733
England median daily rate £520 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +1.07% -10.52% +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 5,352 3,995 4,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.32% 29.63% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,596 2,747 3,388
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £452 £432 £469
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 £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 32 22
10th Percentile £27.64 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.19 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.75 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £66.06 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £82.00 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%

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 September 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 September 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 -36 21 £550 +7.84% 53
West London -36 7 £604 +27.16% 13
South London -8 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 (2.62%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) CMS
2 4 (1.75%) Ethereum
2 4 (1.75%) Hyperledger
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Quorum
1 4 (1.75%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.75%) Ripple
2 2 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.87%) Endur
2 2 (0.87%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (51.53%) AWS
2 64 (27.95%) Azure
3 54 (23.58%) Serverless
4 37 (16.16%) GitHub
5 30 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (10.04%) GCP
7 18 (7.86%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (6.99%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (3.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (3.49%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (2.62%) Datadog
15 6 (2.62%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.90%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (12.23%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.42%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.42%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.11%) MySQL
4 14 (6.11%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.11%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.06%) Redis
7 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.31%) Big Data
9 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.44%) Chroma
11 1 (0.44%) Milvus
11 1 (0.44%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (22.27%) Git
1 51 (22.27%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.17%) GitLab
3 14 (6.11%) Maven
4 13 (5.68%) Cypress.io
5 12 (5.24%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.93%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.93%) JIRA
7 6 (2.62%) JUnit
7 6 (2.62%) Mocha
8 5 (2.18%) JSUnit
8 5 (2.18%) Mockito
8 5 (2.18%) Selenium
8 5 (2.18%) webpack
9 4 (1.75%) Gatling
9 4 (1.75%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.31%) Gradle
10 3 (1.31%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.87%) JMeter
General
1 53 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.90%) Finance
3 31 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.17%) Banking
5 15 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.93%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.49%) Front Office
7 8 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.49%) Retail
8 7 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Games
9 4 (1.75%) Marketing
9 4 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Military
11 2 (0.87%) Back Office
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
12 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 117 (51.09%) Developer
2 45 (19.65%) Senior
3 39 (17.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (10.92%) Software Engineer
5 20 (8.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 20 (8.73%) React Developer
6 16 (6.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 16 (6.99%) Node.js Developer
7 15 (6.55%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.68%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.68%) Lead
9 11 (4.80%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Architect
11 7 (3.06%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.06%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Principal Software Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (53.28%) React
2 64 (27.95%) REST
3 41 (17.90%) RESTful
4 38 (16.59%) GraphQL
5 36 (15.72%) Spring Boot
6 35 (15.28%) Spring
7 34 (14.85%) .NET
7 34 (14.85%) CSS
7 34 (14.85%) Terraform
8 33 (14.41%) HTML
9 28 (12.23%) AngularJS
10 27 (11.79%) Kafka
11 24 (10.48%) HTML5
12 23 (10.04%) Next.js
13 20 (8.73%) CSS3
14 18 (7.86%) Jest
14 18 (7.86%) OAuth
15 15 (6.55%) Playwright
15 15 (6.55%) Vue
16 14 (6.11%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.71%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.61%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.06%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.62%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.75%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.49%) Linux
2 3 (1.31%) Windows
3 2 (0.87%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.87%) Unix
3 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (51.09%) CI/CD
2 107 (46.72%) Agile
3 92 (40.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 89 (38.86%) Microservices
5 75 (32.75%) DevOps
6 56 (24.45%) Software Engineering
7 54 (23.58%) Event-Driven
8 46 (20.09%) Test Automation
9 44 (19.21%) AI
10 39 (17.03%) Containerisation
10 39 (17.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 39 (17.03%) TDD
11 35 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (12.66%) Front End Development
13 29 (12.66%) Mentoring
13 29 (12.66%) Observability
14 27 (11.79%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (11.35%) Code Quality
15 26 (11.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (56.33%) TypeScript
2 99 (43.23%) JavaScript
3 89 (38.86%) Java
4 63 (27.51%) Python
5 48 (20.96%) SQL
6 22 (9.61%) C#
7 9 (3.93%) Scala
8 8 (3.49%) Go
8 8 (3.49%) Ruby
9 7 (3.06%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.62%) Bash
11 5 (2.18%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.75%) Solidity
13 3 (1.31%) Rust
14 2 (0.87%) Elixir
14 2 (0.87%) Korn
15 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.44%) PHP
15 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 51 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.93%) Degree
5 8 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.92%) QA
2 15 (6.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.44%) PSD2
4 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (21.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Postfix
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.49%) Grafana
3 5 (2.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
5 1 (0.44%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 22 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.68%) Google
3 7 (3.06%) Databricks
4 6 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.18%) Oracle
6 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.75%) SAP
7 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.31%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.31%) New Relic
8 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.87%) NEC
8 2 (0.87%) Netlify
8 2 (0.87%) Okta
8 2 (0.87%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.87%) SGI
8 2 (0.87%) Splunk
9 1 (0.44%) ATG