Node.js Contracts in Reading

Node
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 72 75
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Node.js 7 21 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.19% 1.82% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 9.25% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 10
10th Percentile £427 £344 -
25th Percentile £454 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +7.87% +12.37%
75th Percentile £616 £656 £586
90th Percentile £663 £670 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £470 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -21.67% +9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 130 227 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.11% 19.65% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 166 133
10th Percentile £350 £369 £353
25th Percentile £400 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +0.79% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £675
90th Percentile £638 £688 £718
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £58.54 £32.79
25th Percentile - - £56.71
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £74.60
Median % change year-on-year - -17.42% +129.52%
75th Percentile - - £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £78.50
% change year-on-year -47.55% -21.53% +124.29%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in Reading

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in Reading

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in Reading over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in Reading

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) npm
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Mocha
2 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) React Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) HTML Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) Material-UI
3 3 (42.86%) Next.js
3 3 (42.86%) OpenAPI
3 3 (42.86%) Swagger
4 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) TanStack
5 1 (14.29%) Express.js
5 1 (14.29%) Fastify
5 1 (14.29%) Framer.js
5 1 (14.29%) Jest
5 1 (14.29%) Laravel
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (14.29%) OpenID
5 1 (14.29%) Prisma
5 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Application Security
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Blocking Code
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk