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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 175 186
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 -54
Contract jobs citing Node.js 287 189 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.27% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.63% 7.11% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 110 192
10th Percentile £351 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £366 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £544 £588 £588
90th Percentile £623 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £570 £509
% change year-on-year -12.28% +12.04% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 2
10th Percentile - - £51.20
25th Percentile - - £53.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% -14.50%
75th Percentile £65.25 - £59.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £60.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

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 3,325 2,657 3,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.14% 17.91% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 1,655 2,340
10th Percentile £332 £340 £325
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 64 135
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £40.12
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.57 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.31 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%

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 December 2025.

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
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 December 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 +25 129 £450 - 230
North West +6 66 £420 -6.67% 124
Yorkshire +9 57 £482 -11.40% 94
East of England -5 45 £478 +23.23% 137
South West 0 38 £581 +29.17% 109
Scotland -1 31 £420 -4.27% 32
Midlands -26 25 £500 +17.65% 163
South East -42 24 £475 -17.39% 233
West Midlands -24 18 £600 +17.07% 80
North East -1 12 £450 -10.00% 12
East Midlands -14 7 £412 +26.62% 74
Wales -3 3 £375 -23.08% 31
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 10
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 17 (5.92%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.23%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.39%) CMS
4 3 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) Drupal
5 2 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 158 (55.05%) AWS
2 79 (27.53%) Serverless
3 64 (22.30%) Azure
4 60 (20.91%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (14.29%) GitHub
6 35 (12.20%) GCP
7 32 (11.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (8.01%) Amazon S3
9 23 (8.01%) npm
10 20 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (6.27%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.18%) Apigee
14 12 (4.18%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.27%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.92%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.83%) Firewall
4 2 (0.70%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) LAN
4 2 (0.70%) VoIP
4 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.68%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.06%) Redis
3 23 (8.01%) DynamoDB
3 23 (8.01%) MongoDB
3 23 (8.01%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (6.62%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.23%) MySQL
6 9 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.79%) DocumentDB
8 7 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.39%) Aerospike
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.05%) Power BI
12 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 76 (26.48%) Git
2 62 (21.60%) GitLab
3 55 (19.16%) Jenkins
4 30 (10.45%) JIRA
5 26 (9.06%) Visual Studio
6 23 (8.01%) Cypress.io
7 17 (5.92%) Eclipse
8 16 (5.57%) Cucumber
9 15 (5.23%) SonarQube
10 13 (4.53%) Bitbucket
10 13 (4.53%) Mocha
11 11 (3.83%) Selenium
11 11 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (3.14%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.79%) JUnit
14 7 (2.44%) webpack
15 6 (2.09%) CircleCI
15 6 (2.09%) Mockito
16 5 (1.74%) Maven
17 4 (1.39%) Storybook
General
1 66 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.65%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.89%) Finance
4 20 (6.97%) Military
5 19 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.88%) Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Law
9 4 (1.39%) Retail
10 3 (1.05%) Games
11 2 (0.70%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.35%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (44.60%) Developer
2 51 (17.77%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.33%) Senior
4 39 (13.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (11.85%) Lead
6 32 (11.15%) Node.js Developer
7 23 (8.01%) Senior Developer
8 17 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (5.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 16 (5.57%) AWS Developer
9 16 (5.57%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.23%) C# Software Engineer
10 15 (5.23%) Consultant
10 15 (5.23%) Technical Leader
11 14 (4.88%) Architect
11 14 (4.88%) Test Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) JavaScript Developer
12 12 (4.18%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.83%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (41.81%) React
2 57 (19.86%) HTML
3 44 (15.33%) AngularJS
4 42 (14.63%) CSS
4 42 (14.63%) REST
5 39 (13.59%) RESTful
6 38 (13.24%) Jest
7 32 (11.15%) .NET
8 31 (10.80%) Express.js
9 22 (7.67%) Web Services
10 21 (7.32%) Spring
11 20 (6.97%) Next.js
12 19 (6.62%) Playwright
12 19 (6.62%) Redux
13 18 (6.27%) CSS3
13 18 (6.27%) HTML5
13 18 (6.27%) Spring Boot
13 18 (6.27%) Vue
14 17 (5.92%) Middleware
15 14 (4.88%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.44%) NHS
7 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.09%) IVR
7 6 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.35%) Tandem
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.68%) Linux
2 25 (8.71%) Windows
3 2 (0.70%) Android
3 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 118 (41.11%) Agile
3 110 (38.33%) Microservices
4 97 (33.80%) DevOps
5 72 (25.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (22.30%) Software Engineering
7 55 (19.16%) Containerisation
7 55 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (16.72%) TDD
9 43 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (13.94%) Test Automation
11 33 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (10.80%) Code Quality
13 30 (10.45%) Clean Code
14 28 (9.76%) Unit Testing
15 26 (9.06%) User Experience
16 25 (8.71%) Continuous Delivery
16 25 (8.71%) Mentoring
17 23 (8.01%) Analytics
17 23 (8.01%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 116 (40.42%) JavaScript
2 114 (39.72%) TypeScript
3 87 (30.31%) Java
4 84 (29.27%) Python
5 42 (14.63%) C++
6 35 (12.20%) SQL
7 33 (11.50%) C#
8 23 (8.01%) PHP
9 18 (6.27%) C
10 16 (5.57%) Ruby
11 15 (5.23%) Bash
11 15 (5.23%) PowerShell
12 12 (4.18%) Perl
13 8 (2.79%) Go
14 6 (2.09%) VBA
15 4 (1.39%) Bicep
15 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.70%) Scala
16 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.57%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.44%) Degree
7 6 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) CCNP
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.10%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.01%) QA
3 22 (7.67%) WCAG
4 8 (2.79%) GDPR
5 7 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.05%) PMO
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (27.87%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.05%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (21.25%) Kubernetes
1 61 (21.25%) Terraform
2 23 (8.01%) Grafana
3 14 (4.88%) Ansible
4 7 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.05%) Argo
5 3 (1.05%) Packer
6 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.35%) Icinga
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.27%) Dynatrace
2 18 (6.27%) Oracle
3 16 (5.57%) Google
4 10 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.14%) Splunk
6 6 (2.09%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.09%) Cisco
7 5 (1.74%) Adobe
7 5 (1.74%) Avaya
7 5 (1.74%) Databricks
7 5 (1.74%) Genesys
8 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.39%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.05%) Pega
9 3 (1.05%) Perforce
9 3 (1.05%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.70%) Veracode