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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 93 108
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Node.js 34 22 52
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.95% 1.18% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.64% 7.69% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 35
10th Percentile £400 £385 £385
25th Percentile £513 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £588
90th Percentile £691 £681 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £63.13 - £62.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.34%

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 512 286 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.27% 15.36% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 180 301
10th Percentile £325 £355 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 77
10th Percentile £54.00 £61.25 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.19 -
90th Percentile - £70.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 9 July 2026.

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 9 July 2026. 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 -6 18 £400 - 4
Wiltshire +2 13 £525 -10.64% 3
Gloucestershire -10 2 £588 -13.76% 3
Cornwall - 1 £750 -
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 (5.88%) nginx
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) OpenShift
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) Figma
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.94%) OCI
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Ethernet
1 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Eclipse
1 6 (17.65%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Gradle
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.94%) Gatling
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) GoCD
3 1 (2.94%) JUnit
3 1 (2.94%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.94%) Maven
3 1 (2.94%) Postman
3 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Military
3 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Retail
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) C# Software Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) React
2 8 (23.53%) Express.js
3 7 (20.59%) Web Services
4 6 (17.65%) HTML
5 5 (14.71%) CSS
5 5 (14.71%) REST
6 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
6 4 (11.76%) Playwright
6 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.88%) Next.js
8 2 (5.88%) OAuth
8 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.88%) OpenID
8 2 (5.88%) React Native
8 2 (5.88%) SignalR
8 2 (5.88%) Swagger
8 2 (5.88%) Vue
8 2 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) PKI
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 18 (52.94%) Agile
3 14 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (26.47%) Observability
7 8 (23.53%) Front End Development
7 8 (23.53%) GitOps
8 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 7 (20.59%) TDD
8 7 (20.59%) Unit Testing
8 7 (20.59%) Visualisation
9 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (17.65%) DevOps
9 6 (17.65%) Digital Twin
9 6 (17.65%) Validation
9 6 (17.65%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 10 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 6 (17.65%) C#
3 6 (17.65%) C++
4 5 (14.71%) Java
5 3 (8.82%) Bash
6 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) Python
7 1 (2.94%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Argo
2 9 (26.47%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (23.53%) Grafana
4 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
5 6 (17.65%) Terraform
6 2 (5.88%) Ansible
6 2 (5.88%) Podman
7 1 (2.94%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Red Hat
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) webMethods