Node.js Contracts in the South East

Node
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 136 142 150
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Node.js 23 63 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 1.13% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 8.63% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 41 38
10th Percentile £414 £250 £400
25th Percentile £454 £300 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £595
90th Percentile £588 - £654
England median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £53.25 - £67.00
25th Percentile £54.38 £35.00 £72.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +32.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £79.00 -
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
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the South East

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the South East

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the South East

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Node.js in the South East

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Thames Valley +18 13 £465 -7.00% 24
Berkshire +9 11 £465 -22.50% 9
Hampshire +18 5 £575 -3.97% 23
Surrey +8 3 £515 +101.76% 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 - 6
East Sussex - 1 - - 7
West Sussex - 1 £340 - 3
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Serverless
3 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) npm
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Akamai
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Datadog
5 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
1 3 (13.04%) SNMP
1 3 (13.04%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) Redis
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) GoogleTest
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Vite
General
1 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (21.74%) React Developer
3 3 (13.04%) ABAP Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior ABAP Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) React
2 7 (30.43%) CSS
2 7 (30.43%) HTML
3 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
3 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
3 4 (17.39%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) .NET
4 3 (13.04%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) Angular 2
5 2 (8.70%) HTML5
5 2 (8.70%) Next.js
5 2 (8.70%) OAuth
5 2 (8.70%) Parceljs
5 2 (8.70%) Prisma
5 2 (8.70%) SOAP
5 2 (8.70%) TanStack
6 1 (4.35%) Framer.js
6 1 (4.35%) Material-UI
6 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) API Integration
4 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
4 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
4 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 4 (17.39%) Validation
5 3 (13.04%) API Design
5 3 (13.04%) Front End Development
5 3 (13.04%) Integration Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Microservices
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
5 3 (13.04%) SysML
5 3 (13.04%) UML
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) UX Design
5 3 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 3 (13.04%) ABAP
5 3 (13.04%) Perl
6 2 (8.70%) C#
7 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe
2 3 (13.04%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Spotify
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian