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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 166 144
Rank change year-on-year -59 -22 +14
Contract jobs citing Node.js 281 240 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.02% 1.56% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.78% 8.55% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 151 170
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.24% +0.25%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £670
90th Percentile £661 £625 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 29
10th Percentile £61.70 £56.75 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.19 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £68.30
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 4,145 2,806 3,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.06% 18.30% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 1,866 1,995
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 £613
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 129 209
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.01 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -42 133 £518 +12.04% 115
North West -52 57 £570 +36.53% 73
Yorkshire -20 54 £538 +8.86% 23
Midlands -9 48 £425 +57.41% 44
South West -38 37 £525 -4.55% 49
Scotland -10 34 £400 -13.51% 18
West Midlands -17 32 £413 -1.79% 30
North East -37 22 £400 -16.67% 19
East of England -44 17 £503 -1.95% 34
East Midlands -7 15 £447 +65.56% 14
South East -77 15 £425 -20.19% 92
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 6 (2.14%) WordPress
2 5 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.78%) CMS
3 4 (1.42%) Apache
4 3 (1.07%) Confluence
4 3 (1.07%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (57.30%) AWS
2 66 (23.49%) Azure
3 53 (18.86%) GCP
4 45 (16.01%) Serverless
5 35 (12.46%) GitHub
6 29 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.61%) Amazon SQS
8 24 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.27%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.27%) OpenShift
13 10 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.20%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.20%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (3.20%) OCI
15 8 (2.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.63%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.07%) HTTP
3 2 (0.71%) CTI
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.19%) MongoDB
3 22 (7.83%) DynamoDB
4 14 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.27%) MySQL
7 9 (3.20%) Metadata
8 7 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.78%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.78%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.07%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.07%) Redis
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospike
11 2 (0.71%) Big Data
11 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) Power BI
11 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (20.64%) Git
2 52 (18.51%) Jenkins
3 33 (11.74%) Maven
4 25 (8.90%) SonarQube
5 21 (7.47%) JIRA
5 21 (7.47%) JUnit
6 20 (7.12%) GitLab
7 15 (5.34%) Gradle
8 14 (4.98%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.63%) Eclipse
9 13 (4.63%) Visual Studio
10 10 (3.56%) Selenium
11 9 (3.20%) GoCD
12 8 (2.85%) Cypress.io
12 8 (2.85%) Mockito
12 8 (2.85%) REST Assured
13 7 (2.49%) Claude Code
13 7 (2.49%) JProfiler
14 5 (1.78%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.78%) jMock
General
1 63 (22.42%) Public Sector
2 58 (20.64%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.74%) Finance
4 23 (8.19%) Military
5 18 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.41%) Retail
6 11 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.91%) Publishing
7 8 (2.85%) Banking
7 8 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.07%) Marketing
9 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (51.96%) Developer
2 50 (17.79%) Senior
3 48 (17.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 42 (14.95%) Software Engineer
5 35 (12.46%) Lead
5 35 (12.46%) Senior Developer
6 33 (11.74%) Java Developer
7 21 (7.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 21 (7.47%) Lead Developer
8 17 (6.05%) Architect
9 15 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.34%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.98%) Node.js Developer
11 11 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 10 (3.56%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.20%) Lead Java Developer
13 9 (3.20%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.85%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (40.57%) React
2 77 (27.40%) REST
3 57 (20.28%) Spring
4 55 (19.57%) Spring Boot
5 31 (11.03%) AngularJS
6 30 (10.68%) RESTful
7 29 (10.32%) Web Services
8 27 (9.61%) HTML
9 25 (8.90%) CSS
10 23 (8.19%) Express.js
11 19 (6.76%) Jest
11 19 (6.76%) Kafka
11 19 (6.76%) YAML
12 18 (6.41%) Playwright
13 17 (6.05%) AWS CDK
14 16 (5.69%) Redux
15 15 (5.34%) JSON
15 15 (5.34%) Next.js
15 15 (5.34%) Nunjucks
16 14 (4.98%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.61%) Product Ownership
3 24 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.42%) NHS
8 3 (1.07%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.71%) IoT
9 2 (0.71%) IVR
9 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.71%) PKI
9 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.90%) Linux
2 14 (4.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Tizen
4 1 (0.36%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (62.63%) CI/CD
2 126 (44.84%) Agile
3 100 (35.59%) DevOps
4 99 (35.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 88 (31.32%) Microservices
6 81 (28.83%) Software Engineering
7 54 (19.22%) TDD
7 54 (19.22%) Test Automation
8 52 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (14.59%) Containerisation
11 40 (14.23%) Mentoring
11 40 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (13.17%) Event-Driven
12 37 (13.17%) Observability
13 36 (12.81%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (12.10%) AI
14 34 (12.10%) Scrum
14 34 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (10.68%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 137 (48.75%) JavaScript
2 104 (37.01%) Java
3 103 (36.65%) TypeScript
4 75 (26.69%) Python
5 40 (14.23%) SQL
6 19 (6.76%) C#
7 16 (5.69%) Bash
8 13 (4.63%) C++
9 12 (4.27%) Groovy
10 11 (3.91%) Go
11 8 (2.85%) PHP
12 7 (2.49%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.49%) Ruby
12 7 (2.49%) Rust
13 4 (1.42%) Scala
14 3 (1.07%) Bicep
14 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.07%) Degree
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.17%) Accessibility
2 29 (10.32%) QA
3 11 (3.91%) WCAG
4 6 (2.14%) GDPR
5 4 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (24.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.42%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 69 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 53 (18.86%) Terraform
3 23 (8.19%) Grafana
4 14 (4.98%) Ansible
5 10 (3.56%) Argo
6 9 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.78%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.07%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.07%) Podman
9 2 (0.71%) Istio
9 2 (0.71%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.47%) Google
3 14 (4.98%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.27%) Oracle
5 11 (3.91%) SAP
6 9 (3.20%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.20%) Sonatype
7 8 (2.85%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.42%) Confluent
11 4 (1.42%) Databricks
12 3 (1.07%) Checkmarx
12 3 (1.07%) HP
12 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.71%) NEC
13 2 (0.71%) Workday