Node.js Contracts in the UK excluding London

Node
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Node.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Node.js over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 154 147
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Node.js 212 287 382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.36% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.25% 8.33% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 206 282
10th Percentile £363 £313 £382
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £599
90th Percentile £650 £831 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 9
10th Percentile £56.25 £57.00 £59.00
25th Percentile £61.25 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +52.63%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £74.60 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +81.25%

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 2,569 3,444 4,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.48% 16.35% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,758 2,205 3,033
10th Percentile £318 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 244 93
10th Percentile £31.36 £24.00 £22.28
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.87 £74.31 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +25.30%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

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 1 July 2025.

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

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 July 2025. 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 +3 100 £488 -15.22% 514
North West -14 65 £475 -28.30% 341
South East +25 26 £514 +2.80% 546
East of England +25 22 £481 -19.79% 209
South West +9 22 £550 +15.79% 217
Scotland -3 21 £478 +6.11% 90
Yorkshire +5 19 £525 -4.55% 143
North East +15 17 £480 +12.94% 31
Midlands +10 17 £367 +7.15% 231
East Midlands +2 9 £270 +20.00% 100
West Midlands +5 8 £575 +27.78% 125
Wales +10 7 £425 - 59
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.08%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) WebLogic
2 5 (2.36%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Camunda
4 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.47%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (0.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.70%) AWS
2 45 (21.23%) Serverless
3 42 (19.81%) Azure
4 29 (13.68%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (9.91%) Amazon S3
6 19 (8.96%) GitHub
7 12 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (5.19%) SaaS
9 10 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.25%) GCP
11 8 (3.77%) npm
12 7 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.83%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.36%) IaaS
14 5 (2.36%) Kong
14 5 (2.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.13%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.66%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.89%) HTTP
4 3 (1.42%) SNMP
4 3 (1.42%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.94%) DNS
6 1 (0.47%) DHCP
6 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.34%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (14.15%) MongoDB
3 27 (12.74%) NoSQL
4 26 (12.26%) MySQL
5 17 (8.02%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.94%) Big Data
10 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.94%) Redis
11 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.47%) GIS
11 1 (0.47%) ObjectStore
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (21.23%) Git
2 26 (12.26%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.32%) JIRA
4 21 (9.91%) GitLab
5 19 (8.96%) SonarQube
6 15 (7.08%) Maven
7 14 (6.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (6.13%) Cypress.io
9 12 (5.66%) Eclipse
9 12 (5.66%) Visual Studio
10 9 (4.25%) gulp
11 8 (3.77%) Artifactory
11 8 (3.77%) JUnit
11 8 (3.77%) Selenium
12 7 (3.30%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.83%) Cucumber
14 5 (2.36%) Mockito
15 4 (1.89%) Grunt
16 3 (1.42%) Gradle
16 3 (1.42%) Robot Framework
General
1 54 (25.47%) Public Sector
2 41 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.08%) Military
4 14 (6.60%) Finance
5 13 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.42%) Banking
8 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.42%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.42%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Back Office
9 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.94%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (58.96%) Developer
2 42 (19.81%) Senior
3 38 (17.92%) Software Engineer
4 34 (16.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (12.26%) Lead
6 23 (10.85%) Java Developer
7 22 (10.38%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.38%) Software Developer
8 19 (8.96%) Node.js Developer
9 17 (8.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.19%) C# Software Engineer
12 11 (5.19%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 7 (3.30%) AWS Software Engineer
14 7 (3.30%) C++ Software Engineer
14 7 (3.30%) React Developer
15 6 (2.83%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (41.98%) React
2 49 (23.11%) HTML
3 45 (21.23%) CSS
4 37 (17.45%) Spring Boot
5 33 (15.57%) RESTful
6 30 (14.15%) AngularJS
6 30 (14.15%) Jest
7 29 (13.68%) Spring
8 20 (9.43%) Express.js
8 20 (9.43%) REST
8 20 (9.43%) Web Services
9 19 (8.96%) HTML5
10 16 (7.55%) .NET
11 15 (7.08%) Next.js
11 15 (7.08%) Redux
12 13 (6.13%) CSS3
12 13 (6.13%) GraphQL
12 13 (6.13%) Hibernate
13 12 (5.66%) Kafka
14 11 (5.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.36%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.42%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.42%) NHS
6 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.32%) Linux
2 20 (9.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.94%) Android
3 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.04%) Agile
2 78 (36.79%) CI/CD
3 62 (29.25%) Microservices
4 58 (27.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (25.00%) TDD
6 50 (23.58%) Software Engineering
7 42 (19.81%) DevOps
8 35 (16.51%) Test Automation
9 28 (13.21%) Front End Development
9 28 (13.21%) User Experience
10 26 (12.26%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (9.91%) Mentoring
13 20 (9.43%) Continuous Delivery
13 20 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (8.96%) Scrum
14 19 (8.96%) Unit Testing
15 16 (7.55%) API Development
16 15 (7.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 114 (53.77%) JavaScript
2 75 (35.38%) Java
3 61 (28.77%) TypeScript
4 50 (23.58%) Python
5 35 (16.51%) SQL
6 19 (8.96%) C++
7 16 (7.55%) C#
8 14 (6.60%) Bash
9 11 (5.19%) PHP
10 6 (2.83%) C
11 5 (2.36%) Perl
12 4 (1.89%) ABAP
12 4 (1.89%) Go
13 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.94%) Ruby
15 1 (0.47%) Groovy
15 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.47%) Scala
15 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 63 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.72%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.83%) Degree
6 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.96%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.72%) QA
2 10 (4.72%) WCAG
3 4 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 36 (16.98%) Terraform
3 12 (5.66%) Grafana
4 7 (3.30%) Ansible
5 4 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.89%) Puppet
6 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.94%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) Graylog
8 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (8.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.19%) Google
3 10 (4.72%) Oracle
4 8 (3.77%) Adobe
5 7 (3.30%) SAP
6 5 (2.36%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.36%) Veracode
7 4 (1.89%) Perforce
7 4 (1.89%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.42%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.42%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.94%) Brio
9 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.94%) Spotify
10 1 (0.47%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.47%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.47%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.47%) VMware