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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 156 154
Rank change year-on-year -79 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Node.js 266 255 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.65% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 7.76% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 168 159
10th Percentile £356 £347 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £548 £673
90th Percentile £680 £625 £850
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 27
10th Percentile - £58.75 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.70 £67.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 4,834 3,288 3,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.18% 21.25% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,130 2,200 2,182
10th Percentile £356 £317 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £610
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 129 161
10th Percentile £30.00 £32.10 £27.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.00 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -53 132 £515 +18.96% 96
Yorkshire -27 54 £518 +3.58% 18
North West -51 54 £570 +42.50% 65
South West -41 37 £525 -4.55% 37
Scotland -13 33 £425 -8.11% 21
Midlands -33 33 £443 +0.28% 29
North East -37 24 £400 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -36 22 £456 -17.18% 22
South East -65 17 £413 -22.54% 77
East of England -50 16 £503 -0.50% 31
East Midlands -13 11 £425 +57.41% 7
Wales -17 1 - - 9
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 (2.26%) WordPress
2 5 (1.88%) CMS
3 4 (1.50%) Confluence
4 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (54.89%) AWS
2 50 (18.80%) GCP
3 47 (17.67%) Azure
4 42 (15.79%) Serverless
5 32 (12.03%) GitHub
6 24 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (8.27%) Amazon S3
7 22 (8.27%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.39%) OpenShift
10 16 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.38%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.38%) OCI
12 9 (3.38%) Slack
13 8 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.01%) AWS KMS
13 8 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.63%) Figma
14 7 (2.63%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.14%) Ethernet
1 11 (4.14%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.13%) HTTP
3 2 (0.75%) CTI
3 2 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.27%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.02%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.51%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.14%) MySQL
6 10 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.38%) Metadata
8 6 (2.26%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.13%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Power BI
11 2 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 56 (21.05%) Git
2 45 (16.92%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.90%) Maven
4 23 (8.65%) JIRA
5 21 (7.89%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.77%) GitLab
7 16 (6.02%) JUnit
8 15 (5.64%) Cucumber
8 15 (5.64%) Gradle
9 11 (4.14%) Eclipse
9 11 (4.14%) Visual Studio
10 10 (3.76%) Selenium
11 9 (3.38%) GoCD
12 8 (3.01%) REST Assured
13 7 (2.63%) Claude Code
13 7 (2.63%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.63%) JProfiler
14 4 (1.50%) IntelliJ
14 4 (1.50%) Mockito
14 4 (1.50%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (22.93%) Public Sector
2 50 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 32 (12.03%) Finance
4 22 (8.27%) Military
5 18 (6.77%) Retail
6 17 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.14%) Publishing
8 9 (3.38%) Banking
9 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (50.75%) Developer
2 50 (18.80%) Senior
3 39 (14.66%) Software Engineer
4 38 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (13.16%) Lead
6 33 (12.41%) Senior Developer
7 28 (10.53%) Java Developer
8 21 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (7.89%) Lead Developer
9 18 (6.77%) Architect
10 16 (6.02%) Software Developer
11 15 (5.64%) Node.js Developer
12 14 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 13 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.76%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.76%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.38%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (3.38%) Python Developer
15 9 (3.38%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (43.98%) React
2 75 (28.20%) REST
3 52 (19.55%) Spring
4 50 (18.80%) Spring Boot
5 49 (18.42%) Terraform
6 37 (13.91%) HTML
7 35 (13.16%) CSS
8 27 (10.15%) RESTful
9 26 (9.77%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.77%) Express.js
10 22 (8.27%) Web Services
11 20 (7.52%) Playwright
12 19 (7.14%) Next.js
13 18 (6.77%) Jest
14 17 (6.39%) Kafka
15 16 (6.02%) Nunjucks
15 16 (6.02%) OAuth
16 15 (5.64%) HTML5
16 15 (5.64%) JSON
16 15 (5.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.15%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.50%) NHS
8 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) IVR
9 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
9 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.52%) Linux
2 11 (4.14%) Windows
3 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Tizen
4 1 (0.38%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 118 (44.36%) Agile
3 93 (34.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 83 (31.20%) DevOps
5 82 (30.83%) Microservices
5 82 (30.83%) Software Engineering
6 64 (24.06%) Test Automation
7 54 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (17.29%) TDD
9 42 (15.79%) Mentoring
10 38 (14.29%) Observability
10 38 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (13.91%) Containerisation
11 37 (13.91%) Event-Driven
11 37 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (12.78%) Front End Development
13 33 (12.41%) AI
14 30 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (11.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 132 (49.62%) JavaScript
2 105 (39.47%) TypeScript
3 100 (37.59%) Java
4 67 (25.19%) Python
5 29 (10.90%) SQL
6 16 (6.02%) C#
7 15 (5.64%) Bash
8 12 (4.51%) Groovy
9 11 (4.14%) C++
10 10 (3.76%) Go
11 7 (2.63%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.63%) Ruby
11 7 (2.63%) Rust
12 6 (2.26%) PHP
13 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.75%) Scala
15 1 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 67 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.01%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.50%) Degree
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.17%) Accessibility
2 31 (11.65%) QA
3 15 (5.64%) WCAG
4 3 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (22.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 63 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.89%) Grafana
3 13 (4.89%) Ansible
4 10 (3.76%) Argo
4 10 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.13%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.13%) Podman
7 2 (0.75%) Istio
7 2 (0.75%) Puppet
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.89%) Google
3 14 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.51%) Oracle
5 10 (3.76%) SAP
6 9 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.38%) Sonatype
7 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.88%) Confluent
10 4 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (1.13%) Adobe
11 3 (1.13%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.13%) HP
12 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.75%) Databricks
12 2 (0.75%) Workday
13 1 (0.38%) Adyen