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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 157 151
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Node.js 297 237 284
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.60% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 8.66% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 160 198
10th Percentile £398 £352 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% +0.65%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £648
90th Percentile £654 £650 £841
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £59.25 £56.25 £62.50
25th Percentile £63.50 £63.38 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.88 £66.25
90th Percentile £91.20 £67.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.34%

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 4,284 2,737 3,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.85% 18.47% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,822 1,864 2,153
10th Percentile £350 £314 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £675 £630 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £539
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 112 232
10th Percentile £33.50 £31.25 £24.16
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.48% -1.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.95 £80.91 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -49 137 £525 +9.38% 44
North West -50 73 £550 +19.70% 24
Midlands -17 54 £434 +18.19% 15
Yorkshire -12 50 £519 +3.80% 8
South West -24 37 £525 -4.55% 4
West Midlands -30 37 £425 -26.09% 8
East of England -25 31 £550 +12.82% 9
Scotland -6 30 £425 -8.11% 6
East Midlands -5 16 £445 +64.72% 7
South East -63 16 £550 +7.00% 49
North East -36 14 £400 -16.67% 12
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 12 (4.04%) CMS
2 9 (3.03%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.35%) WordPress
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.34%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (58.92%) AWS
2 72 (24.24%) Azure
3 51 (17.17%) Serverless
4 46 (15.49%) GCP
5 39 (13.13%) GitHub
6 35 (11.78%) Amazon SQS
7 34 (11.45%) Amazon S3
8 28 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.71%) AWS KMS
14 12 (4.04%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.04%) Route 53
15 11 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
18 7 (2.36%) Power Platform
18 7 (2.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.35%) HTTP
3 3 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.67%) CTI
4 2 (0.67%) Firewall
5 1 (0.34%) DNS
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.75%) DynamoDB
3 21 (7.07%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.73%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (4.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.70%) MySQL
9 10 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.36%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.02%) Metadata
12 4 (1.35%) Redis
13 3 (1.01%) Aerospike
13 3 (1.01%) Big Data
13 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.67%) Power BI
14 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
15 1 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 52 (17.51%) Git
2 49 (16.50%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.09%) Maven
4 26 (8.75%) JUnit
5 25 (8.42%) SonarQube
6 22 (7.41%) GitLab
7 15 (5.05%) JIRA
8 13 (4.38%) Eclipse
8 13 (4.38%) Visual Studio
9 12 (4.04%) Mockito
10 11 (3.70%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.70%) Gradle
11 8 (2.69%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.69%) jMock
12 7 (2.36%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.36%) GoCD
12 7 (2.36%) Selenium
13 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.68%) Claude Code
14 5 (1.68%) JProfiler
General
1 70 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.90%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.44%) Finance
4 23 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.41%) Military
6 16 (5.39%) Retail
7 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.36%) Banking
9 5 (1.68%) Publishing
10 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.01%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (49.49%) Developer
2 52 (17.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 42 (14.14%) Senior
4 40 (13.47%) Software Engineer
5 39 (13.13%) Lead
6 31 (10.44%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 28 (9.43%) Senior Developer
9 23 (7.74%) Architect
10 22 (7.41%) Lead Developer
11 16 (5.39%) Software Developer
12 15 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.71%) Technical Architect
14 13 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (4.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 12 (4.04%) Node.js Developer
16 10 (3.37%) C# Software Engineer
17 9 (3.03%) Python Developer
17 9 (3.03%) React Developer
18 8 (2.69%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (44.11%) React
2 83 (27.95%) REST
3 56 (18.86%) Spring
4 54 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 47 (15.82%) AngularJS
6 34 (11.45%) Web Services
7 30 (10.10%) HTML
7 30 (10.10%) RESTful
8 28 (9.43%) CSS
9 25 (8.42%) Express.js
10 18 (6.06%) .NET
10 18 (6.06%) YAML
11 17 (5.72%) AWS CDK
11 17 (5.72%) Jest
11 17 (5.72%) Redux
12 16 (5.39%) Django
12 16 (5.39%) Flask
13 15 (5.05%) GraphQL
13 15 (5.05%) Hibernate
13 15 (5.05%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (9.76%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.02%) NHS
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.67%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.67%) IoT
9 2 (0.67%) IVR
9 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.67%) PKI
9 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.43%) Linux
2 14 (4.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Tizen
3 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (61.62%) CI/CD
2 137 (46.13%) Agile
3 119 (40.07%) DevOps
4 114 (38.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 101 (34.01%) Microservices
6 80 (26.94%) Software Engineering
7 51 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (17.17%) TDD
8 49 (16.50%) Containerisation
9 48 (16.16%) Front End Development
10 44 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (14.81%) Test Automation
11 40 (13.47%) Event-Driven
11 40 (13.47%) Mentoring
11 40 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (12.79%) Scrum
13 34 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (11.45%) Observability
14 31 (10.44%) Workflow
15 30 (10.10%) AI
Programming Languages
1 133 (44.78%) JavaScript
2 103 (34.68%) TypeScript
3 102 (34.34%) Java
4 76 (25.59%) Python
5 45 (15.15%) SQL
6 30 (10.10%) C#
7 13 (4.38%) Bash
7 13 (4.38%) C++
7 13 (4.38%) Go
8 7 (2.36%) Groovy
8 7 (2.36%) Rust
9 6 (2.02%) PHP
9 6 (2.02%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.68%) Ruby
11 4 (1.35%) Scala
12 3 (1.01%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.37%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.35%) Degree
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.46%) Accessibility
2 25 (8.42%) QA
3 14 (4.71%) WCAG
4 6 (2.02%) GDPR
5 4 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 78 (26.26%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 67 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.84%) Terraform
3 28 (9.43%) Grafana
4 13 (4.38%) Ansible
5 10 (3.37%) Argo
6 9 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.01%) Podman
9 2 (0.67%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.67%) Istio
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.06%) Google
3 12 (4.04%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.37%) Oracle
5 10 (3.37%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.37%) SAP
5 10 (3.37%) Sitecore
6 8 (2.69%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.02%) Sonatype
9 5 (1.68%) Databricks
10 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.01%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.01%) NEC
12 2 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.67%) Confluent
12 2 (0.67%) HP