Node.js Contracts in the North West

Node
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Node.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Node.js over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 42 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing Node.js 68 110 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.46% 3.99% 3.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.56% 21.87% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 85 79
10th Percentile £393 £405 £363
25th Percentile £403 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £825 £581
90th Percentile £665 £850 £602
England median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +55.56% +38.46%
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +55.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the North West

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the North West

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the North West

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Node.js in the North West

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester -5 59 £515 -22.26% 61
Cheshire - 3 £358 - 15
Lancashire -3 1 £525 -16.00% 25
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.35%) Camunda
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 39 (57.35%) AWS
2 18 (26.47%) Serverless
3 12 (17.65%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (8.82%) GitHub
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.94%) Apigee
8 2 (2.94%) GCP
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.47%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.41%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (4.41%) GIS
5 2 (2.94%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) ObjectStore
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Git
2 7 (10.29%) Jasmine
2 7 (10.29%) Mocha
3 6 (8.82%) GitLab
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.35%) gulp
4 5 (7.35%) JIRA
4 5 (7.35%) Subversion
5 4 (5.88%) Grunt
6 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.41%) Maven
7 2 (2.94%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.94%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.47%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (1.47%) Gradle
8 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.35%) Finance
2 5 (7.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Military
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.47%) Banking
4 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (63.24%) Developer
2 21 (30.88%) Senior
3 15 (22.06%) Node.js Developer
4 13 (19.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (16.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 10 (14.71%) Software Engineer
7 9 (13.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
8 8 (11.76%) Lead
9 7 (10.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (10.29%) Java Developer
10 6 (8.82%) AWS Developer
10 6 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Azure Developer
10 6 (8.82%) Lead Developer
11 5 (7.35%) AWS Software Engineer
12 4 (5.88%) Architect
12 4 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.35%) React
2 14 (20.59%) CSS
2 14 (20.59%) HTML
3 11 (16.18%) HTML5
4 10 (14.71%) RESTful
5 9 (13.24%) AngularJS
6 7 (10.29%) Express.js
7 6 (8.82%) jQuery
7 6 (8.82%) Sass
8 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
8 5 (7.35%) Jest
8 5 (7.35%) Mustache
8 5 (7.35%) Spring
8 5 (7.35%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.88%) Playwright
10 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
10 3 (4.41%) Kafka
10 3 (4.41%) Next.js
10 3 (4.41%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (4.41%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (7.35%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
3 3 (4.41%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (26.47%) Agile
3 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 15 (22.06%) Microservices
4 15 (22.06%) User Experience
5 14 (20.59%) Front End Development
5 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
6 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
7 10 (14.71%) DevOps
8 9 (13.24%) Event-Driven
9 8 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (10.29%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (10.29%) Responsive Web Design
10 7 (10.29%) TDD
11 6 (8.82%) Event-Driven Programming
11 6 (8.82%) Web Accessibility
12 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
12 5 (7.35%) Web Design
12 5 (7.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 26 (38.24%) Java
3 21 (30.88%) TypeScript
4 8 (11.76%) Python
5 6 (8.82%) Bash
6 5 (7.35%) SQL
7 2 (2.94%) C#
8 1 (1.47%) Perl
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) Scala
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.29%) WCAG
3 4 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
3 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (1.47%) Ansible
5 1 (1.47%) Graylog
5 1 (1.47%) Packer
5 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Virgin Media
2 7 (10.29%) Google
3 3 (4.41%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) Mapbox
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) TIBCO