Node.js Contract Job Trends in the North East

Node
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 33 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing Node.js 13 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.39% 2.66% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.85% 9.64% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 3
10th Percentile £388 £335 £422
25th Percentile £400 £348 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% -14.09%
75th Percentile £572 £603 £492
90th Percentile £600 £650 £497
England median daily rate £500 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -13.04% +12.20% -7.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 82 83 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 21.41% 27.57% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 47 39
10th Percentile £376 £335 £351
25th Percentile £406 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -12.96% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £623
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £46.53 £34.37 -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Node.js job vacancy trend in the North East

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the North East over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the North East

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -2 13 £450 -10.00% 8
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) GitLab
2 4 (30.77%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Mocha
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Node.js Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Java Scala Developer
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Scala Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Express.js
1 4 (30.77%) Jest
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) MERN Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Next.js
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (23.08%) Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
6 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (15.38%) Line Management
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
6 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Icinga
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
5 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Blue Prism
1 1 (7.69%) UiPath