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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 119 143
Rank change year-on-year -66 +24 -71
Contract jobs citing Node.js 301 328 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 2.41% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.59% 9.23% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 276 195
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £675
90th Percentile £850 £875 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +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 4,566 3,555 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.66% 26.07% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,025 2,493 3,217
10th Percentile £390 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 25
10th Percentile £23.69 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.09 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.16 £51.97 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +38.59% -43.18%
75th Percentile £60.63 £62.81 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.03 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 1 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 1 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 -13 24 £568 +14.65% 29
West London -17 10 £604 +27.16% 6
South London -7 8 £521 -16.32%
East London - 2 £432 - 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 10 (3.32%) Confluence
2 5 (1.66%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.33%) Hyperledger
4 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 2 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.33%) Maya
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Quorum
1 4 (1.33%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.33%) Ripple
2 3 (1.00%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.66%) Endur
4 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 190 (63.12%) AWS
2 91 (30.23%) Azure
3 55 (18.27%) GCP
4 53 (17.61%) Serverless
5 34 (11.30%) GitHub
6 30 (9.97%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.65%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (2.99%) Datadog
15 7 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.63%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.64%) DynamoDB
4 18 (5.98%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.65%) Redis
7 8 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.99%) MySQL
9 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.66%) Big Data
10 2 (0.66%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.66%) GIS
10 2 (0.66%) Metadata
10 2 (0.66%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 57 (18.94%) Jenkins
2 55 (18.27%) Git
3 21 (6.98%) GitLab
4 14 (4.65%) Cypress.io
4 14 (4.65%) JIRA
5 8 (2.66%) webpack
6 7 (2.33%) Maven
6 7 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.99%) Mocha
7 6 (1.99%) Vite
8 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.66%) JSUnit
9 4 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.33%) Gatling
9 4 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.33%) Selenium
10 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.00%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.00%) jMock
10 3 (1.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 80 (26.58%) Finance
2 59 (19.60%) Front Office
3 44 (14.62%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.62%) Social Skills
4 22 (7.31%) Banking
5 15 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.33%) Retail
8 5 (1.66%) iGaming
8 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.33%) Games
9 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.00%) Military
10 3 (1.00%) Publishing
10 3 (1.00%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Advertising
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (59.80%) Developer
2 68 (22.59%) Software Engineer
3 57 (18.94%) Lead
4 54 (17.94%) Senior
5 50 (16.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (15.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (13.95%) Lead Developer
8 38 (12.62%) React Developer
9 33 (10.96%) Lead Software Developer
9 33 (10.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 29 (9.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 27 (8.97%) Node.js Developer
12 22 (7.31%) Senior Developer
13 21 (6.98%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 12 (3.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (3.65%) Principal Engineer
17 9 (2.99%) Java Engineer
17 9 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
17 9 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (52.16%) React
2 69 (22.92%) GraphQL
3 63 (20.93%) Redux
4 61 (20.27%) REST
5 60 (19.93%) Kafka
6 46 (15.28%) RESTful
7 36 (11.96%) Spring
8 33 (10.96%) AngularJS
9 31 (10.30%) CSS
10 30 (9.97%) Spring Boot
11 27 (8.97%) .NET
12 26 (8.64%) HTML
13 24 (7.97%) Jest
14 23 (7.64%) Playwright
15 22 (7.31%) Next.js
16 21 (6.98%) Vue
17 19 (6.31%) HTML5
18 16 (5.32%) Express.js
19 14 (4.65%) CSS3
19 14 (4.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 56 (18.60%) Fixed Income
3 23 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.65%) Equities
5 16 (5.32%) Derivative
6 15 (4.98%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.66%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.66%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.32%) Linux
2 2 (0.66%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) VMS
2 2 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (53.82%) Agile
2 137 (45.51%) CI/CD
3 123 (40.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 104 (34.55%) Software Engineering
5 95 (31.56%) Microservices
6 76 (25.25%) DevOps
7 58 (19.27%) Test Automation
8 56 (18.60%) Mentoring
9 54 (17.94%) Containerisation
9 54 (17.94%) Investment Management
10 50 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (16.28%) Portfolio Management
11 49 (16.28%) TDD
12 39 (12.96%) Event-Driven
12 39 (12.96%) Order Management
13 37 (12.29%) AI
14 35 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (9.63%) Scrum
16 28 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 28 (9.30%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 173 (57.48%) TypeScript
2 149 (49.50%) JavaScript
3 119 (39.53%) Java
4 105 (34.88%) Python
5 39 (12.96%) Go
6 35 (11.63%) SQL
7 21 (6.98%) C#
8 10 (3.32%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.99%) Ruby
9 9 (2.99%) Scala
10 5 (1.66%) Solidity
11 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.00%) Rust
12 2 (0.66%) Bash
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) Elixir
12 2 (0.66%) Korn
12 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.33%) DAML
13 1 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 66 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.99%) Degree
4 8 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 27 (8.97%) QA
3 9 (2.99%) WCAG
4 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (21.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Postfix
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.28%) Terraform
3 11 (3.65%) Grafana
4 5 (1.66%) Ansible
4 5 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.66%) Rancher
7 1 (0.33%) Istio
7 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (4.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.66%) Google
3 7 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.66%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.33%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.33%) New Relic
5 4 (1.33%) Oracle
6 3 (1.00%) Databricks
6 3 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.00%) Netlify
7 2 (0.66%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.66%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.66%) SAP
7 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) Adobe
8 1 (0.33%) Ariba
8 1 (0.33%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.33%) NEC