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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 183 180
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 -34
Contract jobs citing Node.js 281 205 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.54% 7.20% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 115 213
10th Percentile £350 £324 £363
25th Percentile £385 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £634 £670 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 3
10th Percentile £63.38 £62.50 £52.40
25th Percentile - - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -4.98%
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.50 £68.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

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 3,290 2,846 3,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.96% 17.38% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 1,736 2,580
10th Percentile £325 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 83 146
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £45.24
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +18.66% -15.72%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.95 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -12.30%

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 November 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 18 November 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 +33 115 £445 -1.11% 91
North West +3 54 £400 -11.11% 71
Yorkshire +7 53 £500 -9.09% 16
East of England -1 52 £553 +47.33% 38
South West 0 38 £581 -7.00% 41
Scotland +7 31 £420 -4.00% 22
South East -17 24 £513 -10.87% 112
Midlands -23 22 £503 -8.64% 54
West Midlands -22 17 £600 +4.35% 33
North East +1 11 £500 +17.65% 4
East Midlands -12 5 £346 +6.31% 20
Wales +4 4 £375 -31.82% 20
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 (6.05%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.34%) WebSphere
3 10 (3.56%) Confluence
4 4 (1.42%) CMS
5 3 (1.07%) Apache
5 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) Drupal
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 144 (51.25%) AWS
2 71 (25.27%) Azure
3 69 (24.56%) Serverless
4 57 (20.28%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (11.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (11.03%) GCP
7 26 (9.25%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (9.25%) GitHub
7 26 (9.25%) npm
8 22 (7.83%) Amazon S3
9 17 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.69%) OpenShift
11 15 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (5.34%) SaaS
12 13 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.54%) TCP/IP
2 23 (8.19%) Ethernet
3 9 (3.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
5 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.86%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.96%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.61%) NoSQL
4 26 (9.25%) MySQL
5 25 (8.90%) Relational Database
6 20 (7.12%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (6.76%) Redis
8 17 (6.05%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.91%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.78%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.07%) Power BI
14 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 72 (25.62%) Git
2 49 (17.44%) GitLab
3 45 (16.01%) Jenkins
4 37 (13.17%) JIRA
5 32 (11.39%) Visual Studio
6 23 (8.19%) Eclipse
7 21 (7.47%) SonarQube
8 19 (6.76%) Cypress.io
9 17 (6.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (5.69%) Cucumber
11 15 (5.34%) Bitbucket
12 12 (4.27%) Artifactory
12 12 (4.27%) Selenium
13 10 (3.56%) Mocha
14 9 (3.20%) Mockito
15 7 (2.49%) Maven
15 7 (2.49%) webpack
16 6 (2.14%) Grunt
16 6 (2.14%) gulp
16 6 (2.14%) JUnit
General
1 61 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.86%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.74%) Finance
4 26 (9.25%) Military
5 24 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.63%) Banking
8 6 (2.14%) Law
9 5 (1.78%) Retail
10 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (42.70%) Developer
2 53 (18.86%) Software Engineer
3 40 (14.23%) Senior
4 39 (13.88%) Lead
5 37 (13.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (8.54%) Node.js Developer
7 22 (7.83%) Senior Developer
8 21 (7.47%) C# Software Engineer
9 15 (5.34%) Architect
9 15 (5.34%) C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (5.34%) Consultant
9 15 (5.34%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.63%) Technical Leader
10 13 (4.63%) Test Engineer
11 12 (4.27%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (4.27%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.27%) JavaScript Developer
12 11 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (43.42%) React
2 64 (22.78%) HTML
3 47 (16.73%) CSS
4 46 (16.37%) AngularJS
5 43 (15.30%) RESTful
6 38 (13.52%) Jest
6 38 (13.52%) REST
7 33 (11.74%) .NET
8 31 (11.03%) Web Services
9 28 (9.96%) Express.js
10 25 (8.90%) Redux
11 23 (8.19%) Next.js
12 21 (7.47%) HTML5
13 20 (7.12%) CSS3
13 20 (7.12%) Vue
14 18 (6.41%) Spring Boot
15 17 (6.05%) Middleware
16 15 (5.34%) GraphQL
16 15 (5.34%) Spring
17 11 (3.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.56%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.56%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.49%) NHS
4 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.14%) IVR
6 5 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.86%) Linux
2 37 (13.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) Android
3 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) CentOS
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (52.67%) CI/CD
2 121 (43.06%) Agile
3 102 (36.30%) Microservices
4 92 (32.74%) DevOps
5 71 (25.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (23.13%) Software Engineering
7 58 (20.64%) TDD
8 55 (19.57%) Containerisation
9 43 (15.30%) Continuous Integration
9 43 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (13.17%) Test Automation
11 33 (11.74%) Unit Testing
12 31 (11.03%) Mentoring
13 28 (9.96%) Clean Code
13 28 (9.96%) Continuous Delivery
14 27 (9.61%) Code Quality
15 26 (9.25%) Validation
16 25 (8.90%) Visualisation
17 23 (8.19%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.77%) JavaScript
2 95 (33.81%) TypeScript
3 87 (30.96%) Java
4 86 (30.60%) Python
5 47 (16.73%) C++
6 44 (15.66%) SQL
7 36 (12.81%) C#
8 28 (9.96%) PHP
9 19 (6.76%) C
10 17 (6.05%) Ruby
11 16 (5.69%) Bash
12 12 (4.27%) Perl
12 12 (4.27%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.85%) Go
14 6 (2.14%) VBA
15 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.07%) Bicep
17 1 (0.36%) ABAP
17 1 (0.36%) Groovy
17 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.34%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.49%) Degree
7 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.96%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.47%) QA
3 19 (6.76%) WCAG
4 8 (2.85%) GDPR
5 7 (2.49%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.07%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.07%) PMO
8 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.71%) NIST
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.36%) NCSC
9 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 85 (30.25%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 69 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 55 (19.57%) Terraform
3 24 (8.54%) Grafana
4 15 (5.34%) Ansible
5 4 (1.42%) Packer
5 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.07%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) Kibana
7 2 (0.71%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.19%) Oracle
3 18 (6.41%) Google
4 16 (5.69%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.91%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.14%) Cisco
7 6 (2.14%) Perforce
8 5 (1.78%) Avaya
8 5 (1.78%) Genesys
8 5 (1.78%) Splunk
8 5 (1.78%) Veracode
9 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.07%) Adobe
10 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) Pega
10 3 (1.07%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.71%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.71%) SAP