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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 112 141
Rank change year-on-year -143 +29 -54
Contract jobs citing Node.js 218 330 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 2.46% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 8.34% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 254 193
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £731 £688
90th Percentile £738 £875 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £575
% change year-on-year - -10.87% +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 5,419 3,957 4,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 29.54% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 2,710 3,232
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £850
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 23
10th Percentile £31.20 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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 14 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 14 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 -27 22 £550 +4.76% 44
West London -34 8 £604 +27.16% 6
South London -14 2 - - 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 7 (3.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) Ethereum
2 4 (1.83%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.38%) CMS
4 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.46%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Quorum
1 4 (1.83%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.83%) Ripple
2 2 (0.92%) Endur
2 2 (0.92%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (50.46%) AWS
2 60 (27.52%) Azure
3 47 (21.56%) Serverless
4 33 (15.14%) GitHub
5 25 (11.47%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.17%) GCP
7 17 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.05%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (3.21%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (3.21%) Datadog
13 7 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.75%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.75%) Azure Databricks
15 5 (2.29%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.97%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.93%) NoSQL
3 19 (8.72%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.80%) DynamoDB
5 15 (6.88%) MySQL
5 15 (6.88%) SQL Server
6 14 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.13%) Redis
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.38%) Big Data
9 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.92%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.46%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (22.94%) Git
1 50 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.09%) GitLab
3 15 (6.88%) Maven
4 13 (5.96%) Cypress.io
4 13 (5.96%) SonarQube
5 10 (4.59%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.13%) JIRA
7 7 (3.21%) JUnit
8 6 (2.75%) Mocha
8 6 (2.75%) Mockito
8 6 (2.75%) Selenium
9 5 (2.29%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.29%) webpack
10 4 (1.83%) Gatling
10 4 (1.83%) Gradle
10 4 (1.83%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.38%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.92%) JMeter
General
1 57 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.27%) Finance
3 33 (15.14%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.17%) Banking
5 13 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.67%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.67%) Retail
7 7 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.75%) Front Office
9 4 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 4 (1.83%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Back Office
10 3 (1.38%) Games
10 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Military
11 2 (0.92%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 108 (49.54%) Developer
2 47 (21.56%) Senior
3 36 (16.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (11.47%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (7.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 16 (7.34%) React Developer
7 13 (5.96%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.50%) Node.js Developer
8 12 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Lead
11 9 (4.13%) Architect
12 8 (3.67%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) JavaScript Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.75%) Azure Developer
14 6 (2.75%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (54.59%) React
2 60 (27.52%) REST
3 41 (18.81%) GraphQL
4 40 (18.35%) RESTful
5 33 (15.14%) CSS
5 33 (15.14%) Terraform
6 32 (14.68%) .NET
6 32 (14.68%) HTML
6 32 (14.68%) Spring Boot
7 31 (14.22%) Spring
8 30 (13.76%) AngularJS
9 27 (12.39%) Kafka
10 25 (11.47%) Next.js
11 23 (10.55%) HTML5
12 20 (9.17%) CSS3
13 18 (8.26%) Jest
13 18 (8.26%) OAuth
14 16 (7.34%) Playwright
15 15 (6.88%) Nunjucks
15 15 (6.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.75%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.83%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.92%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.67%) Linux
2 3 (1.38%) macOS
2 3 (1.38%) Unix
3 2 (0.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (54.13%) CI/CD
2 109 (50.00%) Agile
3 86 (39.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (38.53%) Microservices
5 69 (31.65%) DevOps
6 58 (26.61%) Event-Driven
7 55 (25.23%) Software Engineering
8 43 (19.72%) Test Automation
9 42 (19.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 41 (18.81%) AI
10 41 (18.81%) TDD
11 36 (16.51%) Containerisation
11 36 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (13.30%) Front End Development
14 28 (12.84%) Code Quality
14 28 (12.84%) Observability
14 28 (12.84%) Scrum
15 27 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (58.72%) TypeScript
2 92 (42.20%) JavaScript
3 89 (40.83%) Java
4 55 (25.23%) Python
5 43 (19.72%) SQL
6 22 (10.09%) C#
7 8 (3.67%) Go
7 8 (3.67%) Scala
8 7 (3.21%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.75%) Bash
9 6 (2.75%) Ruby
10 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.83%) Solidity
11 3 (1.38%) Rust
12 2 (0.92%) Bicep
12 2 (0.92%) Elixir
12 2 (0.92%) Korn
13 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.21%) Degree
6 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.39%) QA
2 15 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.83%) WCAG
4 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.46%) PSD2
5 1 (0.46%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (21.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 49 (22.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.13%) Grafana
3 5 (2.29%) Ansible
4 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.46%) Kibana
5 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.42%) Google
3 9 (4.13%) Databricks
4 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.29%) Oracle
6 4 (1.83%) SAP
7 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.38%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.38%) New Relic
7 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.92%) NEC
8 2 (0.92%) Okta
8 2 (0.92%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.92%) SGI
8 2 (0.92%) Splunk
9 1 (0.46%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.46%) HubSpot