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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 154 173
Rank change year-on-year -91 +19 +16
Contract jobs citing Node.js 270 273 213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.70% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.52% 7.80% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 180 115
10th Percentile £350 £350 £317
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £606 £631 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 24
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.19 -
90th Percentile £75.60 £67.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.45%

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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,888 3,500 3,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.17% 21.85% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,107 2,297 2,068
10th Percentile £356 £325 £328
25th Percentile £419 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 138 134
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £76.75 £66.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.78 £75.00 £73.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year +26.36% -20.86% +10.11%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -41 153 £475 +9.83% 129
Yorkshire -13 67 £493 -1.50% 28
North West -47 56 £540 +35.00% 81
Scotland -17 33 £377 -18.49% 29
South West -48 31 £525 -4.55% 37
North East -23 30 £400 -20.00% 20
Midlands -35 29 £440 -12.00% 37
West Midlands -40 19 £456 -24.08% 30
South East -66 15 £400 -23.00% 67
East of England -58 11 £544 +7.72% 39
East Midlands -7 10 £425 +57.41% 7
Wales -12 1 - - 7
Node.js
UK

Node.js Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1React44.1%119
2REST31.9%86
3Terraform19.3%52
4Spring Boot17.8%48
5Spring17.0%46
6HTML16.3%44
7CSS15.6%42
8RESTful14.8%40
9Playwright11.5%31
10Jest10.7%29
11AngularJS10.0%27
12Express.js8.9%24
13OAuth8.1%22
13Web Services8.1%22
15Next.js7.0%19
16HTML56.7%18
16OpenID6.7%18
18Kafka6.3%17
18OAuth26.3%17
20CSS35.6%15