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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 112 145
Rank change year-on-year -135 +33 -68
Contract jobs citing Node.js 222 327 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 2.46% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.18% 8.32% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 260 193
10th Percentile £385 £400 £389
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -1.04% +7.14%
75th Percentile £604 £750 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £747
England median daily rate £520 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +0.97% -10.43% +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 5,315 3,928 4,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.59% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,576 2,697 3,324
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £452 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £708
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 31 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.61 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.87 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +21.04% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.88 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £74.60
England median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.20% -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 29 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 29 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 -32 21 £550 +7.84% 55
West London -32 7 £604 +27.16% 14
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 (2.70%) Confluence
2 4 (1.80%) Ethereum
2 4 (1.80%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.35%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Quorum
1 4 (1.80%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.80%) Ripple
2 2 (0.90%) Endur
2 2 (0.90%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (51.35%) AWS
2 63 (28.38%) Azure
3 51 (22.97%) Serverless
4 36 (16.22%) GitHub
5 28 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (9.91%) GCP
7 17 (7.66%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.76%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.05%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (2.70%) Datadog
13 6 (2.70%) Kong
14 5 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.66%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.66%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.31%) MySQL
4 14 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.15%) Redis
8 5 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.35%) Big Data
10 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.90%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.45%) Chroma
12 1 (0.45%) Milvus
12 1 (0.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 50 (22.52%) Git
1 50 (22.52%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.01%) GitLab
3 14 (6.31%) Maven
4 13 (5.86%) Cypress.io
5 12 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.60%) JIRA
8 6 (2.70%) JUnit
8 6 (2.70%) Mocha
9 5 (2.25%) JSUnit
9 5 (2.25%) Mockito
9 5 (2.25%) Selenium
9 5 (2.25%) webpack
10 4 (1.80%) Gatling
10 4 (1.80%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.35%) Gradle
11 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.90%) JMeter
General
1 51 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.57%) Finance
3 31 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.46%) Banking
5 15 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.05%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.60%) Front Office
7 8 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.60%) Retail
8 7 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.80%) Marketing
9 4 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.35%) Games
10 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Back Office
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 114 (51.35%) Developer
2 45 (20.27%) Senior
3 39 (17.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (11.26%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 20 (9.01%) React Developer
6 16 (7.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 15 (6.76%) Node.js Developer
7 15 (6.76%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.95%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.95%) Lead
8 11 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (4.05%) Architect
10 7 (3.15%) Lead Developer
10 7 (3.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Principal Software Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (53.60%) React
2 61 (27.48%) REST
3 41 (18.47%) RESTful
4 38 (17.12%) GraphQL
5 34 (15.32%) .NET
6 33 (14.86%) CSS
6 33 (14.86%) Spring Boot
7 32 (14.41%) HTML
7 32 (14.41%) Spring
7 32 (14.41%) Terraform
8 28 (12.61%) AngularJS
9 26 (11.71%) Kafka
10 24 (10.81%) HTML5
11 23 (10.36%) Next.js
12 20 (9.01%) CSS3
13 18 (8.11%) Jest
14 17 (7.66%) OAuth
15 15 (6.76%) Vue
16 14 (6.31%) Nunjucks
16 14 (6.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.91%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.15%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.80%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.60%) Linux
2 3 (1.35%) Windows
3 2 (0.90%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.90%) Unix
3 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (51.80%) CI/CD
2 107 (48.20%) Agile
3 91 (40.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 85 (38.29%) Microservices
5 72 (32.43%) DevOps
6 56 (25.23%) Software Engineering
7 54 (24.32%) Event-Driven
8 44 (19.82%) AI
8 44 (19.82%) Test Automation
9 39 (17.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 39 (17.57%) TDD
10 35 (15.77%) Containerisation
10 35 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (13.06%) Front End Development
13 26 (11.71%) Code Quality
13 26 (11.71%) Mentoring
13 26 (11.71%) Observability
13 26 (11.71%) Scrum
13 26 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 126 (56.76%) TypeScript
2 96 (43.24%) JavaScript
3 84 (37.84%) Java
4 62 (27.93%) Python
5 47 (21.17%) SQL
6 22 (9.91%) C#
7 8 (3.60%) Go
7 8 (3.60%) Scala
8 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.15%) Ruby
9 6 (2.70%) Bash
10 5 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.80%) Solidity
12 3 (1.35%) Rust
13 2 (0.90%) Elixir
13 2 (0.90%) Korn
14 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.45%) PHP
14 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.60%) Degree
4 8 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.26%) QA
2 15 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.80%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.45%) PSD2
4 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (21.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Postfix
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.15%) Grafana
3 5 (2.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Kibana
4 1 (0.45%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.86%) Google
3 7 (3.15%) Databricks
4 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.80%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.80%) SAP
6 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.35%) New Relic
6 3 (1.35%) Oracle
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.90%) NEC
7 2 (0.90%) Netlify
7 2 (0.90%) Okta
7 2 (0.90%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.90%) SGI
7 2 (0.90%) Splunk
8 1 (0.45%) ATG