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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 119 150
Rank change year-on-year -138 +31 -68
Contract jobs citing Node.js 215 325 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 2.42% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.06% 8.17% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 251 189
10th Percentile £384 £400 £397
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £744 £688
90th Percentile £738 £875 £750
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 5,298 3,980 4,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.69% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,575 2,719 3,319
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £789 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -29 21 £550 +4.76% 53
West London -32 8 £604 +27.16% 15
South London -9 2 - - 6
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 (2.79%) Confluence
2 4 (1.86%) Ethereum
2 4 (1.86%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.40%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Quorum
1 4 (1.86%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.86%) Ripple
2 2 (0.93%) Endur
2 2 (0.93%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (50.23%) AWS
2 60 (27.91%) Azure
3 46 (21.40%) Serverless
4 34 (15.81%) GitHub
5 24 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.30%) GCP
7 16 (7.44%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (5.12%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.72%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (2.79%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (2.79%) Datadog
14 5 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (12.09%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.44%) MongoDB
4 15 (6.98%) DynamoDB
5 14 (6.51%) MySQL
6 13 (6.05%) SQL Server
7 11 (5.12%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.26%) Redis
9 5 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.40%) Big Data
11 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.93%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.47%) Chroma
13 1 (0.47%) Milvus
Development Applications
1 49 (22.79%) Git
1 49 (22.79%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.30%) GitLab
3 14 (6.51%) Maven
4 12 (5.58%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.58%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.19%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.72%) JIRA
7 6 (2.79%) JUnit
7 6 (2.79%) Mocha
8 5 (2.33%) JSUnit
8 5 (2.33%) Mockito
8 5 (2.33%) Selenium
8 5 (2.33%) webpack
9 4 (1.86%) Gatling
9 4 (1.86%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.40%) Gradle
10 3 (1.40%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.93%) JMeter
11 2 (0.93%) jMock
General
1 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.67%) Finance
3 32 (14.88%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.84%) Banking
5 13 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.72%) Retail
7 7 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.79%) Front Office
9 4 (1.86%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.86%) Marketing
9 4 (1.86%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Games
10 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Military
11 2 (0.93%) Back Office
11 2 (0.93%) Local Government
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (50.70%) Developer
2 43 (20.00%) Senior
3 37 (17.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 18 (8.37%) React Developer
7 16 (7.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.05%) Node.js Developer
8 13 (6.05%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.58%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.12%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Lead
12 8 (3.72%) Architect
13 7 (3.26%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (3.26%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (2.79%) Azure Developer
14 6 (2.79%) JavaScript Engineer
14 6 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (54.42%) React
2 59 (27.44%) REST
3 40 (18.60%) GraphQL
3 40 (18.60%) RESTful
4 32 (14.88%) CSS
5 31 (14.42%) .NET
5 31 (14.42%) HTML
5 31 (14.42%) Spring Boot
5 31 (14.42%) Terraform
6 30 (13.95%) Spring
7 27 (12.56%) AngularJS
8 26 (12.09%) Kafka
9 24 (11.16%) Next.js
10 23 (10.70%) HTML5
11 20 (9.30%) CSS3
12 17 (7.91%) Jest
13 16 (7.44%) OAuth
14 15 (6.98%) Playwright
14 15 (6.98%) Vue
15 14 (6.51%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.86%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.70%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.79%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.79%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.86%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.93%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Mac OS X
2 2 (0.93%) Unix
2 2 (0.93%) Windows
2 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (53.02%) CI/CD
2 106 (49.30%) Agile
3 89 (41.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (39.07%) Microservices
5 67 (31.16%) DevOps
6 55 (25.58%) Software Engineering
7 54 (25.12%) Event-Driven
8 43 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 42 (19.53%) AI
10 40 (18.60%) TDD
11 39 (18.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 34 (15.81%) Containerisation
12 34 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (13.49%) Front End Development
15 27 (12.56%) Observability
15 27 (12.56%) Scrum
16 26 (12.09%) Code Quality
17 25 (11.63%) Mentoring
17 25 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 124 (57.67%) TypeScript
2 92 (42.79%) JavaScript
3 82 (38.14%) Java
4 58 (26.98%) Python
5 43 (20.00%) SQL
6 21 (9.77%) C#
7 8 (3.72%) Go
7 8 (3.72%) Scala
8 7 (3.26%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.26%) Ruby
9 6 (2.79%) Bash
10 4 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.86%) Solidity
11 3 (1.40%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) Elixir
12 2 (0.93%) Korn
13 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.47%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.79%) Degree
6 5 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.63%) QA
2 15 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.86%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) PSD2
4 1 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (20.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (22.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.26%) Grafana
3 5 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.05%) Google
3 7 (3.26%) Databricks
4 6 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.86%) Oracle
5 4 (1.86%) SAP
6 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.40%) New Relic
6 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.93%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.93%) NEC
7 2 (0.93%) Netlify
7 2 (0.93%) Okta
7 2 (0.93%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.93%) SGI
7 2 (0.93%) Splunk
8 1 (0.47%) Guidewire