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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 168 153
Rank change year-on-year -30 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing Node.js 291 190 275
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 1.46% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 7.85% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 143 209
10th Percentile £400 £379 £311
25th Percentile £413 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -0.99%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £514 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.15% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 19
10th Percentile £59.00 £55.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £73.56 - £72.00
90th Percentile £93.10 - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 3,963 2,420 3,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.65% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 1,676 2,172
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £568 £608
90th Percentile £675 £638 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 89 216
10th Percentile £37.25 £33.59 £22.63
25th Percentile £54.06 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -37 134 £514 +3.73% 67
North West -30 69 £525 +5.47% 49
Midlands -8 57 £425 +1.19% 28
Yorkshire -12 56 £514 -2.10% 11
South West -9 41 £525 -4.55% 28
West Midlands -28 35 £425 -26.09% 14
East of England -10 29 £550 +12.82% 24
Scotland -6 21 £425 -12.73% 7
East Midlands -9 21 £425 +30.37% 14
South East -68 21 £533 +5.03% 74
North East -29 13 £400 -16.67% 7
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 9 (3.09%) CMS
1 9 (3.09%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 158 (54.30%) AWS
2 75 (25.77%) Azure
3 50 (17.18%) Serverless
4 43 (14.78%) GitHub
5 42 (14.43%) GCP
6 31 (10.65%) Amazon SQS
6 31 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (10.31%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (8.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (5.15%) OpenShift
13 14 (4.81%) AWS KMS
14 12 (4.12%) Route 53
15 9 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
17 7 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (2.41%) Amazon EventBridge
17 7 (2.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.47%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.47%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.03%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.65%) DynamoDB
3 21 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 18 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.75%) Aerospike
8 8 (2.75%) Redis
9 7 (2.41%) DocumentDB
9 7 (2.41%) MySQL
9 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.06%) Metadata
11 3 (1.03%) Big Data
12 2 (0.69%) Power BI
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 49 (16.84%) Git
2 45 (15.46%) Jenkins
3 33 (11.34%) GitLab
4 26 (8.93%) JUnit
5 24 (8.25%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.19%) Maven
7 13 (4.47%) Eclipse
7 13 (4.47%) Visual Studio
8 12 (4.12%) Mockito
9 11 (3.78%) Cypress.io
9 11 (3.78%) JIRA
10 8 (2.75%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.75%) jMock
10 8 (2.75%) Mocha
11 7 (2.41%) CircleCI
12 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.06%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.72%) Selenium
14 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (22.68%) Public Sector
2 64 (21.99%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.31%) Finance
4 20 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.50%) Military
6 11 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.09%) Retail
8 7 (2.41%) Banking
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Publishing
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (51.89%) Developer
2 51 (17.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (11.68%) Lead
4 33 (11.34%) Senior
5 32 (11.00%) Software Engineer
6 26 (8.93%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (7.56%) Architect
8 22 (7.56%) Senior Developer
9 20 (6.87%) Node.js Developer
10 19 (6.53%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (5.15%) Lead Developer
13 14 (4.81%) Technical Architect
14 13 (4.47%) AWS Developer
14 13 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.78%) JavaScript Developer
16 10 (3.44%) C# Software Engineer
17 9 (3.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (39.18%) React
2 65 (22.34%) REST
3 49 (16.84%) Spring
4 45 (15.46%) AngularJS
5 44 (15.12%) Spring Boot
6 29 (9.97%) RESTful
6 29 (9.97%) Web Services
7 27 (9.28%) Express.js
8 24 (8.25%) Jest
9 23 (7.90%) CSS
10 22 (7.56%) HTML
10 22 (7.56%) YAML
11 18 (6.19%) .NET
12 16 (5.50%) Django
12 16 (5.50%) Flask
12 16 (5.50%) GraphQL
12 16 (5.50%) Kafka
12 16 (5.50%) Playwright
13 15 (5.15%) Vue
14 14 (4.81%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.06%) NHS
5 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.69%) IoT
7 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.28%) Linux
2 14 (4.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Tizen
3 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (59.79%) CI/CD
2 133 (45.70%) Agile
3 116 (39.86%) DevOps
4 108 (37.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (32.65%) Microservices
6 62 (21.31%) Software Engineering
7 55 (18.90%) Containerisation
8 50 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (16.15%) TDD
10 45 (15.46%) Front End Development
11 40 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 37 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (11.34%) Event-Driven
15 31 (10.65%) Code Quality
16 30 (10.31%) Scrum
16 30 (10.31%) Workflow
17 29 (9.97%) Observability
18 26 (8.93%) AI
Programming Languages
1 128 (43.99%) JavaScript
2 100 (34.36%) Java
2 100 (34.36%) TypeScript
3 75 (25.77%) Python
4 39 (13.40%) SQL
5 30 (10.31%) C#
6 13 (4.47%) C++
6 13 (4.47%) Go
7 10 (3.44%) Bash
8 6 (2.06%) Groovy
8 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.06%) Ruby
9 4 (1.37%) Rust
9 4 (1.37%) Scala
10 3 (1.03%) PHP
11 2 (0.69%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.34%) Perl
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.37%) Degree
7 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.03%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.53%) QA
3 18 (6.19%) WCAG
4 6 (2.06%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 75 (25.77%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 63 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.87%) Terraform
3 28 (9.62%) Grafana
4 9 (3.09%) Ansible
4 9 (3.09%) Argo
4 9 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.03%) Podman
7 2 (0.69%) Puppet
7 2 (0.69%) Rancher
8 1 (0.34%) Icinga
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 34 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.84%) Google
3 12 (4.12%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (4.12%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.44%) Databricks
4 10 (3.44%) Sitecore
5 9 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.75%) SAP
6 8 (2.75%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.06%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.37%) Okta
9 3 (1.03%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.03%) NEC
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) Adobe
10 2 (0.69%) Confluent