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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 166 150
Rank change year-on-year -19 -16 -4
Contract jobs citing Node.js 291 191 284
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.50% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.55% 8.10% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 150 213
10th Percentile £400 £367 £313
25th Percentile £413 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £556 £563 £625
90th Percentile £610 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.32% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 18
10th Percentile £59.00 £54.75 £54.25
25th Percentile £61.44 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -11.86%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £93.10 - £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 3,854 2,358 3,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.47% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 1,629 2,121
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £413 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £650 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 85 210
10th Percentile £38.25 £35.46 £21.68
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 15 May 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

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

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 15 May 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
North of England -34 135 £515 +3.00% 74
North West -27 78 £525 +0.96% 40
Midlands -22 57 £425 +1.19% 34
Yorkshire -20 48 £500 -4.76% 21
South West -5 41 £525 -4.55% 31
West Midlands -33 35 £425 -5.56% 11
East of England -12 30 £550 +11.39% 18
South East -58 22 £533 +3.50% 61
East Midlands -13 21 £433 +32.90% 23
Scotland -10 17 £425 -13.97% 8
North East -21 14 £425 -11.46% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
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 9 (3.09%) CMS
1 9 (3.09%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 166 (57.04%) AWS
2 78 (26.80%) Azure
3 57 (19.59%) Serverless
4 49 (16.84%) GitHub
5 41 (14.09%) GCP
6 38 (13.06%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (11.34%) Amazon S3
8 31 (10.65%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (10.65%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.12%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.12%) OpenShift
13 11 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.44%) Route 53
15 9 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.47%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.47%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.03%) Firewall
4 2 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.68%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.90%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.15%) Redis
6 11 (3.78%) Aerospike
6 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.09%) DocumentDB
9 8 (2.75%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.41%) MySQL
11 5 (1.72%) Metadata
12 3 (1.03%) Big Data
13 2 (0.69%) Power BI
13 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.34%) GIS
14 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 53 (18.21%) Jenkins
2 52 (17.87%) Git
3 43 (14.78%) GitLab
4 26 (8.93%) JUnit
4 26 (8.93%) SonarQube
5 17 (5.84%) Maven
6 13 (4.47%) Eclipse
6 13 (4.47%) Visual Studio
7 12 (4.12%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.44%) Mockito
9 9 (3.09%) Mocha
10 7 (2.41%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.41%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.41%) JIRA
10 7 (2.41%) jMock
11 6 (2.06%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.72%) Selenium
13 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.03%) Jasmine
General
1 72 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.40%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.65%) Finance
4 17 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.81%) Military
6 11 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.75%) Retail
8 6 (2.06%) Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Games
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing
9 3 (1.03%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (53.95%) Developer
2 50 (17.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (12.03%) Software Engineer
4 34 (11.68%) Lead
5 31 (10.65%) Senior
6 29 (9.97%) Java Developer
7 27 (9.28%) Node.js Developer
8 23 (7.90%) Senior Developer
9 20 (6.87%) Architect
10 19 (6.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) Software Developer
12 17 (5.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (5.15%) AWS Developer
13 15 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.15%) Lead Developer
14 14 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (4.47%) JavaScript Developer
15 13 (4.47%) Technical Architect
16 10 (3.44%) C# Software Engineer
16 10 (3.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (37.46%) React
2 58 (19.93%) REST
3 53 (18.21%) Spring
4 48 (16.49%) AngularJS
5 44 (15.12%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.65%) RESTful
7 29 (9.97%) Jest
8 28 (9.62%) Express.js
9 26 (8.93%) Web Services
10 22 (7.56%) CSS
11 21 (7.22%) YAML
12 19 (6.53%) HTML
12 19 (6.53%) Kafka
13 18 (6.19%) .NET
14 17 (5.84%) Flask
14 17 (5.84%) Playwright
15 16 (5.50%) Django
15 16 (5.50%) Vue
16 15 (5.15%) GraphQL
16 15 (5.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.41%) NHS
6 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) IVR
8 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.34%) PKI
8 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Replication
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.62%) Linux
2 16 (5.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (58.76%) CI/CD
2 131 (45.02%) Agile
3 115 (39.52%) DevOps
4 99 (34.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 98 (33.68%) Microservices
6 61 (20.96%) Software Engineering
7 54 (18.56%) Containerisation
8 51 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (15.81%) TDD
10 43 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (14.43%) Front End Development
12 41 (14.09%) Test Automation
13 33 (11.34%) Code Quality
13 33 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (11.00%) Event-Driven
15 29 (9.97%) Observability
16 28 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (9.62%) Scrum
17 27 (9.28%) Workflow
18 26 (8.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 125 (42.96%) JavaScript
2 108 (37.11%) TypeScript
3 99 (34.02%) Java
4 72 (24.74%) Python
5 35 (12.03%) SQL
6 32 (11.00%) C#
7 15 (5.15%) C++
8 13 (4.47%) Bash
8 13 (4.47%) Go
9 8 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.06%) Groovy
11 5 (1.72%) Ruby
11 5 (1.72%) Scala
12 4 (1.37%) Bicep
13 3 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.03%) PHP
13 3 (1.03%) Rust
14 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.37%) Degree
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.65%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.19%) QA
2 18 (6.19%) WCAG
3 7 (2.41%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 80 (27.49%) Docker
2 6 (2.06%) Postfix
3 3 (1.03%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 63 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.87%) Terraform
3 28 (9.62%) Grafana
4 10 (3.44%) Ansible
5 8 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.06%) Argo
6 6 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.03%) Istio
7 3 (1.03%) Podman
8 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.69%) Puppet
8 2 (0.69%) Rancher
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
Vendors
1 27 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.81%) Google
3 13 (4.47%) Databricks
4 10 (3.44%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (3.44%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.44%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.75%) SAP
6 7 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.72%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.37%) Okta
8 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.37%) Splunk
8 4 (1.37%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.03%) Adobe
9 3 (1.03%) NEC
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle