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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 117 123
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -54
Contract jobs citing Node.js 374 287 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.20% 2.28% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.95% 8.77% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 222 233
10th Percentile £363 £400 £380
25th Percentile £427 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £691 £713 £663
90th Percentile £800 £825 £750
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,180 3,274 4,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.63% 26.00% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,841 2,287 3,350
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £835 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £54.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +41.53% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -21 28 £505 -6.91% 64
West London -9 23 £550 +35.14% 1
South London - 23 £521 - 1
East London +1 2 £432 -26.15% 5
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 8 (2.14%) Confluence
2 7 (1.87%) CMS
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.07%) SAS
4 3 (0.80%) Apache
4 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.53%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.53%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 211 (56.42%) AWS
2 135 (36.10%) Azure
3 79 (21.12%) Serverless
4 68 (18.18%) GitHub
5 67 (17.91%) GCP
6 47 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (8.29%) Amazon S3
10 25 (6.68%) SaaS
11 22 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (5.88%) Azure AKS
12 19 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (4.55%) Azure Functions
13 17 (4.55%) Datadog
14 15 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.60%) Network Security
2 3 (0.80%) Firewall
2 3 (0.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (18.72%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.49%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.42%) DynamoDB
3 24 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.67%) Redis
7 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.87%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.60%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.60%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.34%) MySQL
9 5 (1.34%) Weaviate
10 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.80%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.80%) GIS
11 3 (0.80%) Metadata
11 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 67 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 57 (15.24%) Git
3 26 (6.95%) GitLab
4 19 (5.08%) JIRA
5 13 (3.48%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.41%) Vite
7 8 (2.14%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.34%) Mocha
10 4 (1.07%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.07%) Maven
10 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.07%) Spinnaker
10 4 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.07%) webpack
11 3 (0.80%) Hudson
11 3 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.80%) Selenium
11 3 (0.80%) Subversion
11 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (20.05%) Finance
2 61 (16.31%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.17%) Front Office
4 48 (12.83%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.42%) Banking
7 8 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.87%) Retail
9 5 (1.34%) iGaming
9 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Publishing
11 2 (0.53%) Advertising
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Local Government
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 208 (55.61%) Developer
2 69 (18.45%) Software Engineer
3 67 (17.91%) Senior
4 63 (16.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (15.51%) Lead
6 44 (11.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (11.23%) Lead Developer
8 35 (9.36%) React Developer
9 34 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
10 33 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (8.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 25 (6.68%) Node.js Developer
13 23 (6.15%) Senior Developer
14 20 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Python Developer
16 17 (4.55%) Consultant
16 17 (4.55%) Java Developer
17 16 (4.28%) Technical Consultant
18 14 (3.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (48.13%) React
2 70 (18.72%) GraphQL
3 61 (16.31%) Kafka
4 59 (15.78%) Redux
5 51 (13.64%) RESTful
6 48 (12.83%) AngularJS
7 47 (12.57%) Spring
8 42 (11.23%) CSS
9 37 (9.89%) HTML
9 37 (9.89%) Playwright
9 37 (9.89%) REST
10 32 (8.56%) Spring Boot
11 31 (8.29%) .NET
12 27 (7.22%) Jest
13 25 (6.68%) Vitest
14 24 (6.42%) OAuth
15 22 (5.88%) JWT
15 22 (5.88%) Vue
16 21 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
17 18 (4.81%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.37%) Fixed Income
3 24 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.61%) AI Agents
5 17 (4.55%) Equities
6 16 (4.28%) Derivative
7 15 (4.01%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.53%) Blog
13 2 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.01%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) VMS
2 4 (1.07%) Windows
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (51.60%) CI/CD
2 182 (48.66%) Agile
3 150 (40.11%) DevOps
4 127 (33.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 115 (30.75%) Software Engineering
6 105 (28.07%) Microservices
7 85 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 75 (20.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (19.25%) Test Automation
10 66 (17.65%) Mentoring
11 62 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (13.37%) AI
13 49 (13.10%) Portfolio Management
14 48 (12.83%) Investment Management
15 39 (10.43%) Observability
16 38 (10.16%) TDD
17 33 (8.82%) E-Commerce
18 32 (8.56%) Order Management
19 31 (8.29%) Front End Development
20 30 (8.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 196 (52.41%) TypeScript
2 180 (48.13%) JavaScript
3 149 (39.84%) Python
4 123 (32.89%) Java
5 49 (13.10%) SQL
6 40 (10.70%) Go
7 34 (9.09%) C#
8 10 (2.67%) Bicep
9 9 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.41%) Ruby
10 6 (1.60%) JSX
11 5 (1.34%) C++
12 4 (1.07%) Bash
13 3 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Scala
13 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.53%) Ada
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.28%) Degree
4 10 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.60%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.75%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.42%) QA
3 11 (2.94%) WCAG
4 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 125 (33.42%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) HDFS
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (27.01%) Kubernetes
2 79 (21.12%) Terraform
3 22 (5.88%) Grafana
4 20 (5.35%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.67%) Ansible
6 8 (2.14%) Argo
6 8 (2.14%) Istio
7 5 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.07%) Rancher
9 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 20 (5.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.81%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.48%) Databricks
4 11 (2.94%) Google
5 8 (2.14%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.14%) Oracle
6 7 (1.87%) Adobe
7 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.07%) Foundry
8 4 (1.07%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.53%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.53%) Genesys
9 2 (0.53%) Netlify
9 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) Ariba
10 1 (0.27%) Hitachi