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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 160 159
Rank change year-on-year -52 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Node.js 293 236 262
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.08% 1.58% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.87% 8.57% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 156 178
10th Percentile £375 £355 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £668
90th Percentile £650 £650 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 29
10th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £57.00
25th Percentile - £64.19 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.56 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £67.00 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.86%

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 4,266 2,754 3,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 18.39% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,864 2,090
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £611
90th Percentile £675 £625 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 117 217
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £55.13 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.92% -1.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.41 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -14.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -48 136 £519 +9.26% 48
North West -51 67 £550 +22.22% 27
Midlands -15 54 £425 +22.66% 24
Yorkshire -25 48 £519 +3.80% 12
South West -16 38 £525 -4.55% 10
West Midlands -24 37 £413 -41.07% 18
Scotland -9 32 £400 -13.51% 8
East of England -32 24 £550 +7.32% 11
North East -37 21 £400 -16.67% 9
East Midlands -7 16 £445 +64.72% 6
South East -78 16 £550 +7.00% 54
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 7 (2.39%) CMS
2 5 (1.71%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) WordPress
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
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 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (59.73%) AWS
2 72 (24.57%) Azure
3 49 (16.72%) Serverless
4 48 (16.38%) GCP
5 38 (12.97%) GitHub
6 34 (11.60%) Amazon SQS
7 33 (11.26%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (5.12%) AWS KMS
13 12 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.10%) Route 53
14 11 (3.75%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (2.73%) Anthropic Claude
17 8 (2.73%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.44%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.37%) HTTP
3 2 (0.68%) CTI
3 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.90%) DynamoDB
3 24 (8.19%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.14%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (4.44%) MySQL
8 10 (3.41%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.07%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.73%) Metadata
11 6 (2.05%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.37%) Redis
13 3 (1.02%) Aerospike
13 3 (1.02%) Big Data
13 3 (1.02%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.68%) Power BI
14 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 54 (18.43%) Git
1 54 (18.43%) Jenkins
2 31 (10.58%) Maven
3 27 (9.22%) SonarQube
4 25 (8.53%) JUnit
5 21 (7.17%) GitLab
6 19 (6.48%) JIRA
7 14 (4.78%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.44%) Eclipse
8 13 (4.44%) Visual Studio
9 12 (4.10%) Gradle
9 12 (4.10%) Mockito
10 9 (3.07%) Selenium
11 8 (2.73%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.73%) GoCD
11 8 (2.73%) jMock
12 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.05%) Claude Code
12 6 (2.05%) JProfiler
12 6 (2.05%) REST Assured
General
1 67 (22.87%) Public Sector
2 65 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.58%) Finance
4 23 (7.85%) Military
5 21 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.80%) Retail
7 11 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.73%) Publishing
9 7 (2.39%) Banking
10 6 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.02%) Marketing
12 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (50.17%) Developer
2 50 (17.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 44 (15.02%) Senior
4 39 (13.31%) Lead
4 39 (13.31%) Software Engineer
5 34 (11.60%) Java Developer
6 30 (10.24%) Senior Developer
7 28 (9.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (7.51%) Lead Developer
9 20 (6.83%) Architect
10 17 (5.80%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.46%) Node.js Developer
12 13 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (4.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (3.75%) Technical Architect
15 10 (3.41%) C# Software Engineer
16 9 (3.07%) Lead Java Developer
16 9 (3.07%) Python Developer
16 9 (3.07%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (41.98%) React
2 84 (28.67%) REST
3 55 (18.77%) Spring
4 54 (18.43%) Spring Boot
5 41 (13.99%) AngularJS
6 34 (11.60%) Web Services
7 29 (9.90%) RESTful
8 28 (9.56%) HTML
9 26 (8.87%) CSS
9 26 (8.87%) Express.js
10 19 (6.48%) YAML
11 18 (6.14%) Kafka
12 17 (5.80%) AWS CDK
12 17 (5.80%) Jest
12 17 (5.80%) Redux
13 16 (5.46%) Flask
13 16 (5.46%) JPA
14 15 (5.12%) Django
14 15 (5.12%) Hibernate
14 15 (5.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.92%) Product Ownership
3 30 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.05%) NHS
6 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.68%) IoT
8 2 (0.68%) IVR
8 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.68%) PKI
8 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.56%) Linux
2 14 (4.78%) Windows
3 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Tizen
4 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (62.12%) CI/CD
2 134 (45.73%) Agile
3 111 (37.88%) DevOps
4 109 (37.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 97 (33.11%) Microservices
6 82 (27.99%) Software Engineering
7 56 (19.11%) TDD
8 51 (17.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (16.72%) Containerisation
10 48 (16.38%) Test Automation
11 46 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (14.33%) Mentoring
12 42 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (13.99%) Event-Driven
13 41 (13.99%) Front End Development
14 37 (12.63%) Observability
14 37 (12.63%) Scrum
15 35 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (11.26%) AI
17 32 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 135 (46.08%) JavaScript
2 102 (34.81%) Java
2 102 (34.81%) TypeScript
3 77 (26.28%) Python
4 43 (14.68%) SQL
5 24 (8.19%) C#
6 14 (4.78%) Bash
7 13 (4.44%) C++
8 12 (4.10%) Go
9 9 (3.07%) Groovy
10 7 (2.39%) PHP
10 7 (2.39%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.39%) Rust
11 6 (2.05%) Ruby
12 4 (1.37%) Scala
13 3 (1.02%) Bicep
14 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.02%) Degree
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.63%) Accessibility
2 28 (9.56%) QA
3 12 (4.10%) WCAG
4 6 (2.05%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (27.65%) Docker
2 7 (2.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 71 (24.23%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.75%) Terraform
3 27 (9.22%) Grafana
4 13 (4.44%) Ansible
5 10 (3.41%) Argo
6 9 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.02%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.02%) Podman
9 2 (0.68%) Istio
9 2 (0.68%) Puppet
9 2 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.14%) Google
3 12 (4.10%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (4.10%) MuleSoft
4 11 (3.75%) Oracle
5 10 (3.41%) SAP
6 9 (3.07%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.73%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.73%) Sonatype
8 7 (2.39%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.71%) Databricks
10 5 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.02%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.02%) Confluent
11 3 (1.02%) HP
11 3 (1.02%) NEC
11 3 (1.02%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.68%) BiZZdesign