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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 89 121
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 -31
Contract jobs citing Node.js 37 53 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.87% 1.99% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.31% 12.16% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 27
10th Percentile £379 £405 £393
25th Percentile £495 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £644
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.50
% change year-on-year - -11.56% +12.21%

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 278 436 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.08% 16.40% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 245 400
10th Percentile £313 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £616 £630 £650
90th Percentile £669 £690 £725
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 51 34
10th Percentile £62.75 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 24 £531 +18.06% 16
Dorset +3 6 £550 +25.71%
Gloucestershire -3 6 £625 - 11
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure
3 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (18.92%) npm
3 7 (18.92%) Serverless
4 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Ethernet
1 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Law
3 2 (5.41%) Military
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Software Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Lead
4 5 (13.51%) Backend Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Software Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Leader
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.41%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (64.86%) React
2 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.81%) Next.js
4 3 (8.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.11%) Express.js
5 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.41%) Vue
5 2 (5.41%) Web Services
6 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.70%) JWT
6 1 (2.70%) Kafka
6 1 (2.70%) OAuth
6 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) Spring
6 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.70%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) Software Engineering
3 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) Microservices
5 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (24.32%) TDD
6 8 (21.62%) DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
7 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
8 6 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (16.22%) Clean Code
9 5 (13.51%) BDD
9 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.51%) SOLID
10 4 (10.81%) OO
10 4 (10.81%) OOP
11 3 (8.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 3 (8.11%) Event-Driven
11 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
12 2 (5.41%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) TypeScript
2 16 (43.24%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.03%) Python
4 7 (18.92%) Java
5 5 (13.51%) Bash
6 4 (10.81%) C
6 4 (10.81%) C++
7 3 (8.11%) C#
7 3 (8.11%) SQL
8 2 (5.41%) Bicep
8 2 (5.41%) Go
8 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (48.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
1 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Terraform
2 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.22%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Kibana
4 2 (5.41%) Podman
5 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft