Node.js Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Node
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 171 185
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 -45
Contract jobs citing Node.js 293 196 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.31% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.76% 7.33% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 109 207
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £547 £588 £588
90th Percentile £627 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 2
10th Percentile £62.40 £64.50 £51.20
25th Percentile - - £53.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.13 - £59.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £65.50 £60.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,345 2,674 3,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.49% 17.88% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 1,667 2,412
10th Percentile £331 £340 £325
25th Percentile £404 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 72 138
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £35.66
25th Percentile £45.94 £43.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Node.js job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Node.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Node.js

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
North of England +37 131 £450 - 84
North West +6 67 £420 -6.67% 49
Yorkshire +6 57 £488 -10.34% 29
East of England -7 48 £478 +23.23% 31
South West -2 38 £594 +10.47% 35
Scotland 0 31 £410 -6.29% 12
Midlands -23 26 £500 +17.65% 44
South East -30 24 £475 -17.39% 80
West Midlands -23 18 £600 +17.07% 25
North East -2 13 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -8 8 £402 +23.69% 18
Wales +1 3 £375 -34.78% 9
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 3
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (5.80%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.12%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.37%) CMS
3 4 (1.37%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) Drupal
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.73%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 160 (54.61%) AWS
2 81 (27.65%) Serverless
3 67 (22.87%) Azure
4 63 (21.50%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (12.97%) GitHub
6 36 (12.29%) GCP
7 32 (10.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (10.24%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (8.87%) npm
10 25 (8.53%) Amazon S3
11 20 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (4.44%) OpenShift
17 12 (4.10%) Apigee
17 12 (4.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.83%) TCP/IP
2 19 (6.48%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.75%) Firewall
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 2 (0.68%) LAN
4 2 (0.68%) VoIP
4 2 (0.68%) WAN
5 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.87%) Redis
3 24 (8.19%) DynamoDB
4 23 (7.85%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.85%) NoSQL
5 20 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (6.83%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.46%) MySQL
7 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.73%) DocumentDB
9 7 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.37%) Aerospike
12 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.02%) Power BI
13 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 77 (26.28%) Git
2 61 (20.82%) GitLab
3 56 (19.11%) Jenkins
4 31 (10.58%) JIRA
5 28 (9.56%) Visual Studio
6 24 (8.19%) Cypress.io
7 20 (6.83%) SonarQube
8 19 (6.48%) Eclipse
9 17 (5.80%) Cucumber
10 14 (4.78%) Bitbucket
11 13 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (4.10%) Selenium
13 11 (3.75%) Mocha
14 9 (3.07%) Artifactory
15 7 (2.39%) JUnit
15 7 (2.39%) Mockito
15 7 (2.39%) webpack
16 6 (2.05%) Grunt
16 6 (2.05%) gulp
16 6 (2.05%) Maven
General
1 67 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.50%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.97%) Finance
4 23 (7.85%) Military
5 20 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.83%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (4.78%) Banking
7 5 (1.71%) Law
7 5 (1.71%) Retail
8 3 (1.02%) Games
9 2 (0.68%) Back Office
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (42.66%) Developer
2 56 (19.11%) Software Engineer
3 42 (14.33%) Senior
4 38 (12.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (12.29%) Lead
6 31 (10.58%) Node.js Developer
7 21 (7.17%) Senior Developer
8 17 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) C# Software Engineer
9 16 (5.46%) AWS Developer
10 15 (5.12%) Architect
10 15 (5.12%) Consultant
10 15 (5.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (5.12%) Technical Leader
11 14 (4.78%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.78%) Test Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) C++ Software Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) JavaScript Developer
12 12 (4.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (41.30%) React
2 62 (21.16%) HTML
3 47 (16.04%) CSS
4 45 (15.36%) AngularJS
5 43 (14.68%) REST
6 42 (14.33%) Jest
7 41 (13.99%) RESTful
8 32 (10.92%) .NET
9 31 (10.58%) Express.js
10 24 (8.19%) Web Services
11 23 (7.85%) Redux
12 22 (7.51%) CSS3
12 22 (7.51%) HTML5
13 20 (6.83%) Next.js
14 18 (6.14%) Spring
14 18 (6.14%) Vue
15 17 (5.80%) Middleware
15 17 (5.80%) Playwright
15 17 (5.80%) Spring Boot
16 16 (5.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.41%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.39%) NHS
7 6 (2.05%) IVR
7 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.68%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.38%) Linux
2 28 (9.56%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Android
3 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) CentOS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (52.22%) CI/CD
2 124 (42.32%) Agile
3 109 (37.20%) Microservices
4 97 (33.11%) DevOps
5 71 (24.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (23.55%) Software Engineering
7 58 (19.80%) Containerisation
8 57 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (18.43%) TDD
10 43 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (14.33%) Test Automation
12 35 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (11.60%) Unit Testing
14 31 (10.58%) Clean Code
15 30 (10.24%) Code Quality
16 28 (9.56%) Mentoring
17 27 (9.22%) Continuous Delivery
18 26 (8.87%) User Experience
19 23 (7.85%) Analytics
19 23 (7.85%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 120 (40.96%) JavaScript
2 112 (38.23%) TypeScript
3 89 (30.38%) Java
4 85 (29.01%) Python
5 44 (15.02%) C++
6 36 (12.29%) SQL
7 35 (11.95%) C#
8 24 (8.19%) PHP
9 18 (6.14%) C
10 16 (5.46%) Bash
10 16 (5.46%) Ruby
11 15 (5.12%) PowerShell
12 12 (4.10%) Perl
13 8 (2.73%) Go
14 6 (2.05%) VBA
15 4 (1.37%) Bicep
15 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.68%) Groovy
16 2 (0.68%) Scala
16 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.46%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.73%) Degree
7 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) CCNP
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.90%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.85%) QA
3 19 (6.48%) WCAG
4 8 (2.73%) GDPR
5 7 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.39%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.02%) PMO
7 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 83 (28.33%) Docker
2 6 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.02%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 62 (21.16%) Terraform
3 24 (8.19%) Grafana
4 15 (5.12%) Ansible
5 7 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Packer
7 3 (1.02%) Argo
8 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.68%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Consul
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
9 1 (0.34%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.48%) Oracle
3 18 (6.14%) Dynatrace
4 17 (5.80%) Google
5 10 (3.41%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.07%) Splunk
7 7 (2.39%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.05%) Cisco
8 6 (2.05%) Perforce
9 5 (1.71%) Adobe
9 5 (1.71%) Avaya
9 5 (1.71%) Databricks
9 5 (1.71%) Genesys
10 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.02%) Pega
11 3 (1.02%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.02%) Veracode
11 3 (1.02%) Virgin Media