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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Node.js 24 13 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.76% 0.76% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.10% 3.99% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 33
10th Percentile £400 £340 £363
25th Percentile £500 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £588
90th Percentile - £700 £600
England median daily rate £512 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -6.15% +3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £62.38 - -
25th Percentile £64.06 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +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 471 326 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.92% 19.02% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 227 293
10th Percentile £314 £355 £313
25th Percentile £400 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £580 £638 £675
90th Percentile £699 £725 £706
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 34
10th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.44 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -17.39%
75th Percentile - £67.88 £51.25
90th Percentile £66.38 £68.75 £66.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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
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 10 April 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
Wiltshire -6 15 £525 -10.64% 2
Bristol -17 8 £400 -11.11% 7
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 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
1 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) Mocha
General
1 4 (16.67%) Military
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
1 13 (54.17%) Node.js Developer
2 4 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) React Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) React
1 4 (16.67%) Web Services
2 3 (12.50%) Express.js
2 3 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Jest
4 1 (4.17%) JWT
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) ModSecurity
4 1 (4.17%) NestJS
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) Microservices
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Digital Twin
5 4 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
5 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 4 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.50%) Secure Coding
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) JSP 440
1 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Icinga
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft