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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 116 146
Rank change year-on-year -100 +30 -74
Contract jobs citing Node.js 257 341 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 2.53% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.84% 8.67% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 282 192
10th Percentile £376 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £594
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -4.21% +6.03%
75th Percentile £608 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £766
England median daily rate £520 £500 £570
% change year-on-year +3.90% -12.28% +3.64%

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 5,310 3,934 4,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 29.22% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,736 3,480
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £455 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £30.82
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -35.61%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £57.59
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £67.03
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%

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 29 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 29 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 -25 20 £550 +11.11% 15
West London -24 9 £604 +27.16% 13
South London -11 3 - -
East London - 2 £432 - 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 10 (3.89%) Confluence
2 5 (1.95%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.56%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Quorum
1 4 (1.56%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.56%) Ripple
2 3 (1.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.78%) Endur
3 2 (0.78%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 138 (53.70%) AWS
2 73 (28.40%) Azure
3 53 (20.62%) Serverless
4 34 (13.23%) GitHub
5 31 (12.06%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (11.67%) GCP
7 19 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (7.00%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.61%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (3.89%) Azure AKS
15 9 (3.50%) Datadog
16 7 (2.72%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.51%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.28%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.39%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.00%) DynamoDB
5 16 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.28%) Redis
6 11 (4.28%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.50%) MySQL
7 9 (3.50%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.78%) Big Data
9 2 (0.78%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.78%) GIS
9 2 (0.78%) Metadata
9 2 (0.78%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 62 (24.12%) Jenkins
2 59 (22.96%) Git
3 25 (9.73%) GitLab
4 14 (5.45%) Cypress.io
4 14 (5.45%) JIRA
5 11 (4.28%) Maven
6 10 (3.89%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.72%) Mocha
8 6 (2.33%) webpack
9 5 (1.95%) JSUnit
9 5 (1.95%) Selenium
9 5 (1.95%) Vite
10 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.56%) Gatling
10 4 (1.56%) JUnit
10 4 (1.56%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.17%) Mockito
11 3 (1.17%) Spinnaker
General
1 49 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.29%) Finance
3 37 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.56%) Front Office
5 21 (8.17%) Banking
6 15 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.72%) Retail
9 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Games
11 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.17%) iGaming
12 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.17%) Marketing
12 3 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (1.17%) Publishing
12 3 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 138 (53.70%) Developer
2 47 (18.29%) Senior
3 40 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (14.01%) Software Engineer
5 27 (10.51%) React Developer
6 26 (10.12%) Lead
7 22 (8.56%) Node.js Developer
8 20 (7.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 17 (6.61%) Lead Developer
10 16 (6.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (5.84%) Senior Developer
12 13 (5.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 13 (5.06%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.50%) Architect
14 9 (3.50%) Lead Software Developer
14 9 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (3.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (2.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 7 (2.72%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (49.42%) React
2 60 (23.35%) REST
3 46 (17.90%) Terraform
4 44 (17.12%) GraphQL
5 42 (16.34%) RESTful
6 34 (13.23%) Spring
7 33 (12.84%) CSS
7 33 (12.84%) Kafka
8 32 (12.45%) Spring Boot
9 30 (11.67%) .NET
9 30 (11.67%) AngularJS
10 29 (11.28%) HTML
11 25 (9.73%) Redux
12 22 (8.56%) HTML5
12 22 (8.56%) Next.js
13 19 (7.39%) Jest
14 17 (6.61%) CSS3
14 17 (6.61%) Playwright
14 17 (6.61%) Vue
15 15 (5.84%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.78%) Fixed Income
4 19 (7.39%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.11%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.95%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.95%) Equities
8 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.56%) Derivative
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.11%) Linux
2 3 (1.17%) Windows
3 2 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (49.42%) CI/CD
2 124 (48.25%) Agile
3 96 (37.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (33.85%) Microservices
5 81 (31.52%) DevOps
6 67 (26.07%) Software Engineering
7 50 (19.46%) Test Automation
8 48 (18.68%) Event-Driven
9 43 (16.73%) AI
10 41 (15.95%) TDD
11 40 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (15.18%) Containerisation
13 36 (14.01%) Mentoring
14 35 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (12.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 31 (12.06%) Observability
16 30 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
17 29 (11.28%) Scrum
18 28 (10.89%) Front End Development
19 25 (9.73%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 136 (52.92%) TypeScript
2 112 (43.58%) JavaScript
3 96 (37.35%) Java
4 75 (29.18%) Python
5 44 (17.12%) SQL
6 23 (8.95%) C#
7 15 (5.84%) Go
8 10 (3.89%) Scala
9 8 (3.11%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.11%) Ruby
10 5 (1.95%) Solidity
11 4 (1.56%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.78%) Bicep
13 2 (0.78%) Elixir
13 2 (0.78%) Korn
14 1 (0.39%) DAML
14 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.11%) Degree
5 7 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.12%) QA
2 20 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.33%) WCAG
4 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (20.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Postfix
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.50%) Grafana
3 5 (1.95%) Ansible
4 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.78%) Rancher
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.89%) Google
3 7 (2.72%) Databricks
4 6 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.17%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.17%) New Relic
6 3 (1.17%) SAP
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.78%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.78%) NEC
7 2 (0.78%) Netlify
7 2 (0.78%) Okta
7 2 (0.78%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe
8 1 (0.39%) Ariba
8 1 (0.39%) ATG