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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 159 154
Rank change year-on-year -56 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Node.js 297 238 279
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.61% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 8.72% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 162 197
10th Percentile £400 £358 £313
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -3.52% -0.50%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £843
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +0.96% -4.59% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £59.25 £56.25 £62.50
25th Percentile £63.50 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.13 £66.25
90th Percentile £91.20 £67.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.77%

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 4,288 2,728 3,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.86% 18.50% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,829 1,854 2,210
10th Percentile £350 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £550 £608
90th Percentile £675 £635 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 115 244
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.25 £25.72
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%
75th Percentile £73.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.48 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +16.07% +0.67% -14.42%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -44 140 £525 +7.69% 43
North West -46 72 £550 +18.28% 26
Yorkshire -18 54 £515 +3.00% 7
Midlands -22 53 £434 +18.19% 25
South West -20 36 £525 -4.55% 10
West Midlands -37 36 £425 -26.09% 15
East of England -33 30 £550 +14.29% 11
Scotland -3 28 £425 -10.53% 7
South East -67 18 £550 +7.00% 54
East Midlands -13 16 £445 +64.72% 10
North East -33 16 £400 -16.67% 10
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 10 (3.37%) CMS
2 9 (3.03%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) WordPress
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.34%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (57.58%) AWS
2 75 (25.25%) Azure
3 50 (16.84%) Serverless
4 47 (15.82%) GCP
5 37 (12.46%) GitHub
6 34 (11.45%) Amazon SQS
7 33 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 28 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.71%) AWS KMS
14 13 (4.38%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.04%) Route 53
16 10 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
18 7 (2.36%) Power Platform
18 7 (2.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.35%) HTTP
2 4 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.67%) CTI
3 2 (0.67%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.75%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.73%) MongoDB
3 20 (6.73%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.04%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.03%) MySQL
7 9 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.36%) DocumentDB
9 6 (2.02%) Metadata
10 4 (1.35%) Redis
11 3 (1.01%) Aerospike
11 3 (1.01%) Big Data
11 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.67%) Power BI
12 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 48 (16.16%) Git
2 46 (15.49%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.42%) JUnit
3 25 (8.42%) Maven
3 25 (8.42%) SonarQube
4 24 (8.08%) GitLab
5 14 (4.71%) JIRA
6 13 (4.38%) Eclipse
6 13 (4.38%) Visual Studio
7 12 (4.04%) Mockito
8 11 (3.70%) Cucumber
9 10 (3.37%) Gradle
10 8 (2.69%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.69%) jMock
10 8 (2.69%) Selenium
11 7 (2.36%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.02%) GoCD
13 4 (1.35%) Mocha
13 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
General
1 69 (23.23%) Public Sector
1 69 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.44%) Finance
3 24 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.41%) Military
5 14 (4.71%) Retail
6 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.69%) Banking
8 5 (1.68%) Publishing
9 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.35%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (49.49%) Developer
2 48 (16.16%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (13.47%) Lead
4 38 (12.79%) Senior
4 38 (12.79%) Software Engineer
5 30 (10.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 29 (9.76%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.42%) Senior Developer
8 23 (7.74%) Architect
9 22 (7.41%) Lead Developer
10 16 (5.39%) Software Developer
11 15 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 14 (4.71%) Node.js Developer
12 14 (4.71%) Technical Architect
13 13 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (3.03%) Test Engineer
16 8 (2.69%) C++ Software Engineer
16 8 (2.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (41.08%) React
2 78 (26.26%) REST
3 55 (18.52%) Spring
4 52 (17.51%) Spring Boot
5 47 (15.82%) AngularJS
6 33 (11.11%) Web Services
7 32 (10.77%) RESTful
8 26 (8.75%) HTML
9 25 (8.42%) CSS
9 25 (8.42%) Express.js
10 19 (6.40%) Jest
10 19 (6.40%) YAML
11 18 (6.06%) .NET
12 17 (5.72%) AWS CDK
13 16 (5.39%) Django
13 16 (5.39%) Flask
13 16 (5.39%) Redux
14 15 (5.05%) GraphQL
14 15 (5.05%) Hibernate
15 14 (4.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.02%) NHS
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.67%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.67%) IoT
9 2 (0.67%) IVR
9 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.67%) PKI
9 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.43%) Linux
2 14 (4.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Tizen
3 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (60.94%) CI/CD
2 136 (45.79%) Agile
3 120 (40.40%) DevOps
4 111 (37.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 99 (33.33%) Microservices
6 75 (25.25%) Software Engineering
7 51 (17.17%) Containerisation
7 51 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (17.17%) TDD
8 48 (16.16%) Front End Development
9 44 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 42 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (13.47%) Event-Driven
12 39 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (12.79%) Mentoring
14 35 (11.78%) Scrum
15 34 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (11.11%) Observability
16 33 (11.11%) Workflow
17 30 (10.10%) AI
Programming Languages
1 129 (43.43%) JavaScript
2 105 (35.35%) Java
3 100 (33.67%) TypeScript
4 80 (26.94%) Python
5 42 (14.14%) SQL
6 30 (10.10%) C#
7 16 (5.39%) Go
8 13 (4.38%) Bash
8 13 (4.38%) C++
9 7 (2.36%) Groovy
9 7 (2.36%) Rust
10 6 (2.02%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.02%) Ruby
11 4 (1.35%) PHP
11 4 (1.35%) Scala
12 3 (1.01%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.37%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.68%) Degree
8 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.78%) Accessibility
2 25 (8.42%) QA
3 13 (4.38%) WCAG
4 6 (2.02%) GDPR
5 4 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 78 (26.26%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 68 (22.90%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.51%) Terraform
3 28 (9.43%) Grafana
4 13 (4.38%) Ansible
5 10 (3.37%) Argo
6 9 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.01%) Podman
9 2 (0.67%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.67%) Istio
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.73%) Google
3 12 (4.04%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.37%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.37%) SAP
5 10 (3.37%) Sitecore
6 9 (3.03%) Oracle
7 8 (2.69%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.02%) Sonatype
10 5 (1.68%) Databricks
11 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.35%) Okta
12 3 (1.01%) Checkmarx
12 3 (1.01%) NEC
13 2 (0.67%) HP
13 2 (0.67%) Workday