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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 179 184
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 -41
Contract jobs citing Node.js 272 210 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.23% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.67% 7.15% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 110 212
10th Percentile £350 £313 £381
25th Percentile £400 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £597 £588
90th Percentile £630 £670 £690
UK median daily rate £508 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -10.18% +7.62% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 3
10th Percentile - £62.50 £52.40
25th Percentile - - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -5.34%
75th Percentile £65.19 - £66.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.50 £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 3,137 2,938 3,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.37% 17.27% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 1,780 2,723
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 122 149
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.50 £45.88
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 - £77.60
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -20.86% +16.07% -13.85%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +26 113 £425 -5.56% 126
North West -2 55 £400 -11.11% 90
Yorkshire +12 49 £500 -9.09% 24
East of England +6 45 £505 +30.32% 26
South West +12 43 £550 -12.00% 27
Scotland +10 28 £463 +15.63% 6
Midlands -9 24 £500 -9.09% 43
South East -13 21 £520 -9.65% 262
West Midlands -12 18 £600 +4.35% 29
North East +3 12 £500 +17.65% 12
East Midlands -5 6 £270 -16.92% 13
Wales +2 3 £415 -26.22% 19
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 (6.25%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.51%) WebSphere
3 11 (4.04%) Confluence
4 6 (2.21%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.74%) Drupal
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Chatbot
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 137 (50.37%) AWS
2 70 (25.74%) Azure
3 57 (20.96%) Serverless
4 43 (15.81%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (11.76%) GCP
6 28 (10.29%) GitHub
7 27 (9.93%) npm
8 26 (9.56%) Amazon S3
9 23 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.51%) OpenShift
12 15 (5.51%) SaaS
13 14 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (4.78%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.68%) IaaS
16 10 (3.68%) PaaS
17 8 (2.94%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.99%) TCP/IP
2 18 (6.62%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.21%) Firewall
4 2 (0.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) LAN
5 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.85%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.93%) MongoDB
2 27 (9.93%) MySQL
2 27 (9.93%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 18 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (6.25%) Redis
6 12 (4.41%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.31%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.47%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.10%) Big Data
11 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (25.37%) Git
2 46 (16.91%) GitLab
3 43 (15.81%) Jenkins
4 36 (13.24%) JIRA
5 27 (9.93%) Visual Studio
6 23 (8.46%) Cypress.io
7 21 (7.72%) SonarQube
8 18 (6.62%) Eclipse
9 15 (5.51%) Cucumber
9 15 (5.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (4.41%) Artifactory
10 12 (4.41%) Bitbucket
11 11 (4.04%) Selenium
12 9 (3.31%) Mockito
12 9 (3.31%) webpack
13 8 (2.94%) Maven
13 8 (2.94%) Mocha
14 7 (2.57%) JUnit
15 6 (2.21%) Grunt
15 6 (2.21%) gulp
General
1 59 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.85%) Public Sector
3 24 (8.82%) Finance
4 21 (7.72%) Military
5 20 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.04%) Banking
8 5 (1.84%) Law
8 5 (1.84%) Retail
9 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (45.59%) Developer
2 52 (19.12%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.44%) Senior
4 38 (13.97%) Lead
5 34 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (8.82%) Senior Developer
7 23 (8.46%) Node.js Developer
8 19 (6.99%) Software Developer
9 18 (6.62%) C# Software Engineer
10 16 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (5.51%) Consultant
12 14 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (5.15%) C++ Software Engineer
13 13 (4.78%) JavaScript Developer
13 13 (4.78%) Technical Leader
14 12 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (4.41%) Java Developer
15 11 (4.04%) Backend Developer
15 11 (4.04%) Test Engineer
16 10 (3.68%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (47.43%) React
2 71 (26.10%) HTML
3 51 (18.75%) CSS
4 46 (16.91%) AngularJS
5 44 (16.18%) RESTful
6 40 (14.71%) Jest
7 34 (12.50%) .NET
8 31 (11.40%) REST
9 30 (11.03%) Express.js
10 29 (10.66%) Redux
11 27 (9.93%) Web Services
12 26 (9.56%) Next.js
13 23 (8.46%) HTML5
14 22 (8.09%) CSS3
15 21 (7.72%) Vue
16 19 (6.99%) Spring Boot
17 17 (6.25%) Middleware
18 16 (5.88%) Spring
19 13 (4.78%) GraphQL
19 13 (4.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.68%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.68%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.10%) NHS
9 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Tandem
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.91%) Linux
2 32 (11.76%) Windows
3 4 (1.47%) Android
3 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.37%) CentOS
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (51.47%) CI/CD
2 116 (42.65%) Agile
3 99 (36.40%) Microservices
4 85 (31.25%) DevOps
5 73 (26.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 66 (24.26%) Software Engineering
7 57 (20.96%) Containerisation
8 56 (20.59%) TDD
9 41 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (12.13%) Clean Code
12 32 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.40%) Mentoring
14 28 (10.29%) Design Patterns
14 28 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (10.29%) Unit Testing
15 27 (9.93%) Front End Development
16 26 (9.56%) Code Quality
17 25 (9.19%) Continuous Delivery
17 25 (9.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 129 (47.43%) JavaScript
2 107 (39.34%) TypeScript
3 82 (30.15%) Java
4 71 (26.10%) Python
5 45 (16.54%) SQL
6 42 (15.44%) C++
7 31 (11.40%) C#
8 28 (10.29%) PHP
9 19 (6.99%) C
10 16 (5.88%) Bash
11 14 (5.15%) Ruby
12 9 (3.31%) Perl
12 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.94%) Go
14 6 (2.21%) VBA
15 5 (1.84%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.10%) Bicep
17 2 (0.74%) Scala
18 1 (0.37%) Groovy
18 1 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 77 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.41%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.57%) Degree
7 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.37%) CCNA
10 1 (0.37%) CCNP
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.66%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.72%) QA
3 19 (6.99%) WCAG
4 3 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (31.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 69 (25.37%) Kubernetes
2 55 (20.22%) Terraform
3 26 (9.56%) Grafana
4 15 (5.51%) Ansible
5 4 (1.47%) Packer
6 3 (1.10%) Argo
6 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Podman
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.72%) Oracle
3 19 (6.99%) Google
4 16 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.04%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.21%) Perforce
6 6 (2.21%) Veracode
7 5 (1.84%) Splunk
8 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.74%) Adobe
10 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.74%) Brio
10 2 (0.74%) SAP
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco
11 1 (0.37%) Databricks
11 1 (0.37%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.37%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.37%) VMware