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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 81 81
Rank change year-on-year -39 0 +42
Contract jobs citing Node.js 35 30 59
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.94% 1.56% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.43% 9.87% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 31
10th Percentile £484 £378 £400
25th Percentile £513 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £622 £605 £588
90th Percentile £691 £649 £700
England median daily rate £515 £500 £570
% change year-on-year +3.00% -12.28% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile - - £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 - - -13.33%

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 645 304 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.41% 15.82% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 197 292
10th Percentile £383 £335 £363
25th Percentile £433 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 51
10th Percentile £50.50 £61.38 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.13
Median hourly rate £71.50 £66.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £93.45 £68.19 £72.00
90th Percentile £98.94 £79.87 £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 - 15 £525 - 1
Bristol -25 14 £513 +5.89% 15
Gloucestershire -7 2 £588 -6.00% 8
Devon - 2 £550 - 3
Somerset - 1 - - 2
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 (5.71%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) OpenShift
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (14.29%) GitHub
6 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.43%) Figma
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.86%) OCI
9 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Ethernet
1 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.71%) CTI
2 2 (5.71%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
1 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Eclipse
2 3 (8.57%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.71%) Gradle
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.86%) Gatling
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) GoCD
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.29%) Military
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Backend Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (2.86%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (60.00%) React
2 9 (25.71%) HTML
3 8 (22.86%) CSS
3 8 (22.86%) Express.js
3 8 (22.86%) REST
4 6 (17.14%) Terraform
5 5 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 5 (14.29%) Next.js
6 4 (11.43%) Playwright
6 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
6 4 (11.43%) Web Services
7 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.57%) React Native
8 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
8 2 (5.71%) Flask
8 2 (5.71%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.71%) OpenID
8 2 (5.71%) Swagger
8 2 (5.71%) Vue
8 2 (5.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) IVR
3 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 17 (48.57%) Agile
3 13 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (31.43%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.86%) GitOps
5 8 (22.86%) Microservices
5 8 (22.86%) Observability
5 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
6 7 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.43%) API Design
9 4 (11.43%) API Management
9 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 13 (37.14%) TypeScript
3 7 (20.00%) Python
4 5 (14.29%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 3 (8.57%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) C++
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Argo
2 9 (25.71%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (22.86%) Grafana
4 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.71%) Ansible
5 2 (5.71%) Podman
6 1 (2.86%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) webMethods