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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 166 187
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 -53
Contract jobs citing Node.js 296 187 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.42% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.77% 7.57% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 138 193
10th Percentile £361 £349 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -1.36% -0.50%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £600 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £507
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.59% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 6
10th Percentile £59.00 £61.63 £48.50
25th Percentile £62.19 £62.19 £62.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +6.87%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.69 £76.88
90th Percentile £93.10 £64.88 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £66.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -3.41% +0.76%

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 3,808 2,470 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.95% 18.77% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,561 1,621 2,224
10th Percentile £350 £350 £320
25th Percentile £412 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 61 181
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.50 £20.82
25th Percentile £54.38 £61.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.86 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.01 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -16 133 £500 -4.76% 89
North West -20 73 £500 -6.89% 50
Yorkshire -21 54 £500 -4.76% 30
Midlands -26 47 £450 - 58
South West +1 39 £525 -8.70% 34
West Midlands -32 32 £475 -20.83% 38
East of England -5 31 £550 +12.82% 31
Scotland 0 29 £400 -10.11% 7
South East -52 26 £500 -4.76% 87
North East -5 14 £450 -2.17% 9
East Midlands -18 14 £402 +16.02% 18
Wales -7 3 £375 -9.09% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
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 9 (3.04%) CMS
1 9 (3.04%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.01%) Apache
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) Drupal
4 2 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 182 (61.49%) AWS
2 80 (27.03%) Azure
3 70 (23.65%) Serverless
4 55 (18.58%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (17.23%) GitHub
6 39 (13.18%) GCP
7 36 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (9.12%) Amazon S3
10 26 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (4.39%) npm
17 10 (3.38%) Amazon EventBridge
17 10 (3.38%) AWS KMS
17 10 (3.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.41%) Ethernet
1 16 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) HTTP
3 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.68%) VoIP
4 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.24%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.82%) DynamoDB
3 32 (10.81%) NoSQL
4 24 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 23 (7.77%) Redis
6 21 (7.09%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.41%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (4.39%) MySQL
8 13 (4.39%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.38%) Aerospike
10 9 (3.04%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.01%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.68%) Metadata
13 2 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 82 (27.70%) Git
2 66 (22.30%) Jenkins
3 57 (19.26%) GitLab
4 21 (7.09%) Cypress.io
4 21 (7.09%) JUnit
5 19 (6.42%) SonarQube
6 17 (5.74%) JIRA
6 17 (5.74%) Mocha
7 16 (5.41%) Eclipse
7 16 (5.41%) Visual Studio
8 13 (4.39%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.39%) Maven
9 12 (4.05%) Bitbucket
9 12 (4.05%) Mockito
10 11 (3.72%) Selenium
11 9 (3.04%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (2.36%) CircleCI
13 6 (2.03%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.03%) jMock
14 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 82 (27.70%) Public Sector
2 76 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.50%) Finance
4 28 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.42%) Military
6 17 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.72%) Banking
8 3 (1.01%) Games
8 3 (1.01%) Law
9 2 (0.68%) Back Office
9 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (50.68%) Developer
2 43 (14.53%) Full-Stack Developer
2 43 (14.53%) Senior
3 37 (12.50%) Lead
4 36 (12.16%) Node.js Developer
5 34 (11.49%) Software Engineer
6 25 (8.45%) Java Developer
6 25 (8.45%) Senior Developer
7 19 (6.42%) AWS Developer
8 18 (6.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 16 (5.41%) Architect
9 16 (5.41%) React Developer
10 15 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (4.73%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.73%) Test Engineer
12 13 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.39%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.05%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (39.53%) React
2 61 (20.61%) REST
3 51 (17.23%) AngularJS
4 41 (13.85%) Jest
5 36 (12.16%) Spring
6 35 (11.82%) RESTful
7 30 (10.14%) CSS
7 30 (10.14%) Web Services
8 29 (9.80%) Spring Boot
9 28 (9.46%) HTML
10 23 (7.77%) Express.js
11 19 (6.42%) Playwright
12 18 (6.08%) .NET
13 17 (5.74%) Vue
13 17 (5.74%) YAML
14 16 (5.41%) GraphQL
15 15 (5.07%) Kafka
16 14 (4.73%) NestJS
17 13 (4.39%) Flask
17 13 (4.39%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.70%) NHS
6 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.03%) IVR
7 2 (0.68%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.34%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.18%) Linux
2 21 (7.09%) Windows
3 3 (1.01%) Android
3 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) CentOS
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (55.41%) CI/CD
2 131 (44.26%) Agile
3 125 (42.23%) DevOps
4 119 (40.20%) Microservices
5 78 (26.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (18.58%) Containerisation
8 54 (18.24%) Software Engineering
9 50 (16.89%) Test Automation
10 48 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (13.85%) TDD
12 39 (13.18%) Front End Development
13 34 (11.49%) Code Quality
14 32 (10.81%) Scrum
15 31 (10.47%) Mentoring
16 29 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (9.80%) Unit Testing
17 28 (9.46%) Clean Code
17 28 (9.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.19%) JavaScript
2 108 (36.49%) TypeScript
3 94 (31.76%) Java
4 91 (30.74%) Python
5 41 (13.85%) SQL
6 35 (11.82%) C#
7 18 (6.08%) C++
8 16 (5.41%) Ruby
9 14 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.72%) Bash
11 10 (3.38%) Perl
12 9 (3.04%) Go
13 5 (1.69%) Bicep
14 4 (1.35%) PHP
14 4 (1.35%) VBA
15 3 (1.01%) Groovy
15 3 (1.01%) Scala
16 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 65 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (6.42%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.70%) Degree
7 6 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.49%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.77%) WCAG
3 15 (5.07%) QA
4 9 (3.04%) GDPR
4 9 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.69%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.01%) PMO
7 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (27.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.69%) Postfix
4 3 (1.01%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (21.62%) Terraform
2 56 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.11%) Grafana
4 12 (4.05%) Ansible
5 5 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.68%) Istio
7 2 (0.68%) Rancher
8 1 (0.34%) Consul
8 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.34%) Icinga
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.73%) Google
3 11 (3.72%) Oracle
4 10 (3.38%) Databricks
4 10 (3.38%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.36%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.36%) Splunk
7 6 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.69%) Adobe
8 5 (1.69%) Avaya
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 5 (1.69%) Genesys
8 5 (1.69%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.35%) Okta
9 4 (1.35%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace