Node.js Contract Job Trends in the South West

Node
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 87 121
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 -19
Contract jobs citing Node.js 36 34 32
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.57% 1.54% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.78% 8.17% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 30
10th Percentile £413 £340 £363
25th Percentile £525 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £481
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +11.69% -3.75%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £726 £708
England median daily rate £500 £580 £519
% change year-on-year -13.79% +11.81% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 334 416 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.57% 18.79% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 240 382
10th Percentile £350 £383 £325
25th Percentile £419 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £720
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 44
10th Percentile £61.80 £61.88 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.40 £74.00 £75.60
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in the South West

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the South West over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the South West

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Node.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Node.js

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Bristol +8 22 £550 +29.41% 7
Gloucestershire -17 8 £613 -3.92% 8
Wiltshire - 6 £525 - 12
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) GCP
3 8 (22.22%) npm
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (19.44%) Git
3 5 (13.89%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.78%) Mocha
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Node.js Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Lead
3 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.11%) React Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior React Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (69.44%) React
2 6 (16.67%) Express.js
3 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 4 (11.11%) Next.js
3 4 (11.11%) Vue
4 3 (8.33%) CSS
4 3 (8.33%) HTML
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (8.33%) Spring
5 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 2 (5.56%) JWT
5 2 (5.56%) Kafka
5 2 (5.56%) OAuth
5 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 2 (5.56%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.78%) Jest
6 1 (2.78%) NestJS
6 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
1 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 13 (36.11%) Software Engineering
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 11 (30.56%) Microservices
4 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Data Integration
8 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.33%) Code Quality
9 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 3 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (8.33%) Secure Coding
9 3 (8.33%) TDD
9 3 (8.33%) Web Development
10 2 (5.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 23 (63.89%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.22%) Java
4 7 (19.44%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) C
5 3 (8.33%) C#
5 3 (8.33%) Ruby
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Bicep
6 2 (5.56%) C++
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (80.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (69.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
1 1 (2.78%) JSP 440
1 1 (2.78%) NCSC
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
1 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Argo
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Kibana
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Google
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.33%) Red Hat