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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 97 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +32 -30
Contract jobs citing Node.js 43 41 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.10% 1.67% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.99% 9.62% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 12 26
10th Percentile £376 £426 £381
25th Percentile £506 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £494
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +26.58% -5.95%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £625
90th Percentile £674 £723 £700
England median daily rate £508 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.74% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

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 331 426 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.17% 17.34% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 232 417
10th Percentile £331 £363 £359
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £674
90th Percentile £693 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 41 51
10th Percentile £61.50 - £48.32
25th Percentile - £65.00 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +12 28 £540 +13.68% 4
Gloucestershire -4 9 £625 -3.85% 10
Dorset - 5 £550 -
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 2 (4.65%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) Azure
3 9 (20.93%) GCP
4 8 (18.60%) npm
5 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.95%) Serverless
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.63%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) Lead
2 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior
3 7 (16.28%) Software Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Node.js Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Technical Leader
6 4 (9.30%) Backend Developer
6 4 (9.30%) React Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (74.42%) React
2 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
2 5 (11.63%) ARM Templates
2 5 (11.63%) Vue
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
3 4 (9.30%) Next.js
3 4 (9.30%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) Express.js
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) JWT
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.33%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.33%) TypeORM
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Agile
2 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
3 15 (34.88%) Software Engineering
4 14 (32.56%) DevOps
5 13 (30.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (30.23%) Microservices
6 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
7 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.93%) Mentoring
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) TDD
9 5 (11.63%) AI
9 5 (11.63%) BDD
9 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.63%) SOLID
10 4 (9.30%) Code Quality
10 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
10 4 (9.30%) OO
10 4 (9.30%) OOP
10 4 (9.30%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) TypeScript
2 23 (53.49%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.23%) Python
4 10 (23.26%) Java
5 5 (11.63%) Bash
6 4 (9.30%) C
6 4 (9.30%) SQL
7 3 (6.98%) C#
7 3 (6.98%) C++
7 3 (6.98%) Ruby
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
8 2 (4.65%) Go
8 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (69.77%) Security Cleared
2 25 (58.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.93%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (41.86%) Terraform
2 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) Argo
5 2 (4.65%) Kibana
5 2 (4.65%) Podman
6 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.98%) Red Hat