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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 153 166
Rank change year-on-year -84 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Node.js 268 260 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.68% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.53% 7.86% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 171 141
10th Percentile £350 £340 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.28% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £550 £548 £638
90th Percentile £680 £625 £825
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 26 27
10th Percentile - £58.75 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.60 £67.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.56%

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 4,845 3,309 3,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.11% 21.39% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,127 2,198 2,165
10th Percentile £355 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £561 £608
90th Percentile £675 £644 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 131 162
10th Percentile £32.00 £33.91 £27.08
25th Percentile £56.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -56 133 £514 +20.94% 142
Yorkshire -19 56 £515 +3.00% 32
North West -64 52 £570 +42.50% 86
South West -38 36 £525 -4.55% 56
Midlands -34 35 £445 -3.73% 50
Scotland -6 34 £425 -8.11% 32
North East -39 25 £400 -16.67% 24
West Midlands -38 24 £463 -7.40% 33
East of England -54 16 £503 +2.55% 49
South East -67 16 £400 -23.08% 91
East Midlands -10 11 £425 +57.41% 17
Wales -12 1 - - 9
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 6 (2.24%) WordPress
2 5 (1.87%) CMS
3 4 (1.49%) Confluence
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (52.61%) AWS
2 52 (19.40%) GCP
3 45 (16.79%) Azure
4 39 (14.55%) Serverless
5 31 (11.57%) GitHub
6 23 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (8.21%) Amazon S3
7 22 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.34%) OpenShift
10 15 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.36%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.36%) Figma
12 9 (3.36%) OCI
12 9 (3.36%) Slack
13 8 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.99%) AWS KMS
13 8 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.48%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.87%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.12%) HTTP
4 2 (0.75%) CTI
4 2 (0.75%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) DNS
5 1 (0.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.84%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.97%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.36%) Metadata
6 9 (3.36%) MySQL
7 6 (2.24%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.12%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Redis
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.37%) Big Data
12 1 (0.37%) Power BI
12 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (21.64%) Git
2 45 (16.79%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.82%) Maven
4 23 (8.58%) JIRA
5 19 (7.09%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.72%) GitLab
7 15 (5.60%) Cucumber
7 15 (5.60%) Gradle
7 15 (5.60%) JUnit
8 12 (4.48%) Eclipse
8 12 (4.48%) Visual Studio
9 10 (3.73%) Selenium
10 9 (3.36%) GoCD
11 8 (2.99%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.61%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.61%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.61%) JProfiler
13 5 (1.87%) Storybook
14 4 (1.49%) WebDriver
14 4 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 63 (23.51%) Public Sector
2 54 (20.15%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.31%) Finance
4 23 (8.58%) Military
5 21 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.72%) Retail
7 12 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.10%) Publishing
9 10 (3.73%) Banking
10 8 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Marketing
12 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 141 (52.61%) Developer
2 49 (18.28%) Senior
3 39 (14.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (13.43%) Software Engineer
5 35 (13.06%) Lead
6 32 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 28 (10.45%) Java Developer
8 21 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (7.84%) Lead Developer
9 18 (6.72%) Architect
10 15 (5.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (5.60%) Node.js Developer
11 14 (5.22%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.36%) C# Software Engineer
14 9 (3.36%) Lead Java Developer
14 9 (3.36%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.36%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.36%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (44.78%) React
2 77 (28.73%) REST
3 53 (19.78%) Terraform
4 49 (18.28%) Spring
5 48 (17.91%) Spring Boot
6 42 (15.67%) HTML
7 40 (14.93%) CSS
8 28 (10.45%) Express.js
9 27 (10.07%) RESTful
10 26 (9.70%) AngularJS
11 24 (8.96%) Web Services
12 22 (8.21%) Playwright
13 21 (7.84%) OAuth
14 19 (7.09%) Jest
14 19 (7.09%) Next.js
15 16 (5.97%) HTML5
15 16 (5.97%) Kafka
15 16 (5.97%) Nunjucks
15 16 (5.97%) OAuth2
15 16 (5.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.45%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.49%) NHS
8 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) IVR
9 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
9 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.84%) Linux
2 12 (4.48%) Windows
3 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Tizen
4 1 (0.37%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (61.19%) CI/CD
2 120 (44.78%) Agile
3 94 (35.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (31.34%) DevOps
5 82 (30.60%) Microservices
6 80 (29.85%) Software Engineering
7 69 (25.75%) Test Automation
8 54 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 46 (17.16%) TDD
11 44 (16.42%) Mentoring
12 40 (14.93%) Observability
12 40 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (14.55%) Event-Driven
14 37 (13.81%) Containerisation
14 37 (13.81%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (13.43%) Front End Development
16 32 (11.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 31 (11.57%) AI
18 30 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 137 (51.12%) JavaScript
2 106 (39.55%) TypeScript
3 98 (36.57%) Java
4 66 (24.63%) Python
5 27 (10.07%) SQL
6 16 (5.97%) C#
7 15 (5.60%) Bash
8 12 (4.48%) C++
8 12 (4.48%) Go
8 12 (4.48%) Groovy
9 7 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.61%) Ruby
9 7 (2.61%) Rust
10 6 (2.24%) PHP
11 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.75%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) Bicep
13 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.24%) Degree
6 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.04%) Accessibility
2 30 (11.19%) QA
3 15 (5.60%) WCAG
4 3 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.12%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (21.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.84%) Grafana
3 13 (4.85%) Ansible
4 10 (3.73%) Argo
4 10 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.12%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.12%) Podman
7 2 (0.75%) Istio
7 2 (0.75%) Puppet
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.58%) Google
3 14 (5.22%) MuleSoft
4 11 (4.10%) Oracle
5 10 (3.73%) SAP
6 9 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.36%) Sonatype
7 8 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.24%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.87%) Confluent
10 4 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (1.12%) Adobe
11 3 (1.12%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) Okta
12 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.75%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.75%) Databricks
12 2 (0.75%) Ping Identity