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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 164 154
Rank change year-on-year -37 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing Node.js 290 221 285
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.55% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.94% 8.39% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 158 203
10th Percentile £400 £358 £313
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £631
90th Percentile £645 £650 £835
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 29
10th Percentile £59.25 £56.25 £57.00
25th Percentile £63.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 - £67.50
90th Percentile £91.20 - £74.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.34%

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 4,181 2,635 3,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.51% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,761 1,798 2,211
10th Percentile £350 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £550 £606
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 103 243
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%
75th Percentile £73.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.74 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -46 135 £525 +9.38% 71
North West -39 70 £550 +18.28% 42
Yorkshire -20 54 £515 -1.90% 14
Midlands -19 53 £434 +18.19% 26
West Midlands -35 36 £425 -26.09% 14
South West -19 35 £525 -4.55% 21
East of England -25 29 £550 +14.29% 16
Scotland -4 28 £425 -10.99% 8
South East -64 18 £550 +7.00% 77
East Midlands -8 16 £445 +64.72% 12
North East -39 13 £400 -16.67% 15
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 (3.10%) CMS
1 9 (3.10%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 164 (56.55%) AWS
2 75 (25.86%) Azure
3 48 (16.55%) Serverless
4 47 (16.21%) GCP
5 35 (12.07%) GitHub
6 34 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
7 31 (10.69%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.83%) AWS KMS
14 13 (4.48%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.14%) Route 53
16 10 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 7 (2.41%) Power Platform
18 7 (2.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.48%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.38%) HTTP
2 4 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.69%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.28%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 20 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.14%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.10%) MySQL
7 9 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.41%) DocumentDB
9 6 (2.07%) Metadata
10 4 (1.38%) Redis
11 3 (1.03%) Aerospike
11 3 (1.03%) Big Data
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.69%) Power BI
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 45 (15.52%) Git
1 45 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.62%) GitLab
2 25 (8.62%) JUnit
2 25 (8.62%) SonarQube
3 24 (8.28%) Maven
4 13 (4.48%) Eclipse
4 13 (4.48%) Visual Studio
5 12 (4.14%) JIRA
5 12 (4.14%) Mockito
6 9 (3.10%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.10%) Gradle
7 8 (2.76%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.76%) DbUnit
7 8 (2.76%) jMock
8 6 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (2.07%) Selenium
9 5 (1.72%) GoCD
9 5 (1.72%) Mocha
10 4 (1.38%) JProfiler
General
1 69 (23.79%) Public Sector
2 68 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.00%) Finance
4 24 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.59%) Military
6 12 (4.14%) Retail
7 11 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.41%) Banking
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.38%) Publishing
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (50.00%) Developer
2 49 (16.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 38 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 37 (12.76%) Lead
5 34 (11.72%) Senior
6 28 (9.66%) Java Developer
7 27 (9.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 23 (7.93%) Architect
8 23 (7.93%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.55%) Lead Developer
10 16 (5.52%) Node.js Developer
10 16 (5.52%) Software Developer
11 15 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 14 (4.83%) Technical Architect
13 12 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (3.10%) Test Engineer
16 8 (2.76%) C++ Software Engineer
16 8 (2.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (40.34%) React
2 73 (25.17%) REST
3 55 (18.97%) Spring
4 52 (17.93%) Spring Boot
5 47 (16.21%) AngularJS
6 33 (11.38%) Web Services
7 32 (11.03%) RESTful
8 25 (8.62%) Express.js
9 24 (8.28%) CSS
9 24 (8.28%) HTML
10 20 (6.90%) Jest
11 19 (6.55%) YAML
12 18 (6.21%) .NET
13 17 (5.86%) AWS CDK
14 16 (5.52%) Django
14 16 (5.52%) Flask
15 15 (5.17%) GraphQL
15 15 (5.17%) Redux
16 14 (4.83%) OAuth
16 14 (4.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (9.31%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.07%) NHS
7 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.69%) IoT
9 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.69%) PKI
9 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.66%) Linux
2 14 (4.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Tizen
3 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 131 (45.17%) Agile
3 116 (40.00%) DevOps
4 108 (37.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 96 (33.10%) Microservices
6 72 (24.83%) Software Engineering
7 51 (17.59%) Containerisation
8 50 (17.24%) TDD
9 47 (16.21%) Front End Development
10 46 (15.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (13.45%) Test Automation
13 37 (12.76%) Event-Driven
13 37 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (12.07%) Mentoring
15 34 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
15 34 (11.72%) Scrum
16 33 (11.38%) Workflow
17 30 (10.34%) Observability
18 26 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 125 (43.10%) JavaScript
2 105 (36.21%) Java
3 95 (32.76%) TypeScript
4 76 (26.21%) Python
5 41 (14.14%) SQL
6 30 (10.34%) C#
7 16 (5.52%) Go
8 13 (4.48%) C++
9 11 (3.79%) Bash
10 7 (2.41%) Groovy
10 7 (2.41%) Rust
11 6 (2.07%) Ruby
12 4 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.38%) Scala
13 3 (1.03%) Bicep
13 3 (1.03%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.10%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.72%) Degree
8 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.07%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.59%) QA
3 13 (4.48%) WCAG
4 6 (2.07%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 75 (25.86%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 65 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.21%) Terraform
3 28 (9.66%) Grafana
4 12 (4.14%) Ansible
5 10 (3.45%) Argo
6 9 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.03%) Podman
9 2 (0.69%) Istio
9 2 (0.69%) Puppet
9 2 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.90%) Google
3 12 (4.14%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.45%) SAP
5 10 (3.45%) Sitecore
6 9 (3.10%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.76%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.76%) Oracle
7 8 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.07%) Sonatype
10 5 (1.72%) Databricks
11 4 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.38%) Okta
12 3 (1.03%) Checkmarx
12 3 (1.03%) NEC
13 2 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.69%) Workday