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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 168 143
Rank change year-on-year -65 -25 +26
Contract jobs citing Node.js 261 236 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.55% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 7.41% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 152 162
10th Percentile £363 £341 £325
25th Percentile £401 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £535
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -13.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £671
90th Percentile £676 £617 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 25 27
10th Percentile £56.30 £58.25 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.00 £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 4,800 3,185 3,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.29% 20.93% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 2,135 2,177
10th Percentile £356 £316 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £610
90th Percentile £677 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 129 162
10th Percentile £30.75 £31.25 £28.48
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +9.22%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.70 £70.00 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.32% -0.80%

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 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 5 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 5 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 -54 128 £515 +21.18% 100
North West -63 53 £570 +42.50% 71
Yorkshire -25 52 £528 +6.99% 17
Midlands -32 36 £431 +2.68% 46
South West -29 35 £525 -4.55% 56
Scotland -17 34 £425 -12.19% 21
West Midlands -30 24 £431 -10.39% 37
North East -32 23 £400 -16.67% 12
South East -75 17 £413 -25.00% 88
East Midlands -13 12 £434 +60.65% 9
East of England -55 12 £503 -0.50% 33
Wales -16 1 - - 11
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 (2.30%) WordPress
2 5 (1.92%) CMS
3 3 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (56.70%) AWS
2 50 (19.16%) Azure
3 49 (18.77%) GCP
4 43 (16.48%) Serverless
5 33 (12.64%) GitHub
6 25 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (8.81%) Amazon S3
8 22 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (6.13%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.45%) OCI
13 8 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.07%) AWS KMS
13 8 (3.07%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (3.07%) Slack
14 7 (2.68%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Ethernet
1 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.15%) HTTP
3 2 (0.77%) CTI
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.43%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (4.21%) MySQL
7 10 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.45%) Metadata
9 6 (2.30%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.15%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.15%) Redis
12 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.77%) Power BI
12 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 56 (21.46%) Git
2 46 (17.62%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.11%) Maven
4 22 (8.43%) JIRA
5 21 (8.05%) SonarQube
6 19 (7.28%) GitLab
7 17 (6.51%) JUnit
8 15 (5.75%) Gradle
9 14 (5.36%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.83%) Selenium
11 9 (3.45%) GoCD
12 8 (3.07%) REST Assured
13 7 (2.68%) Claude Code
13 7 (2.68%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.68%) JProfiler
14 5 (1.92%) Eclipse
14 5 (1.92%) Visual Studio
15 4 (1.53%) IntelliJ
15 4 (1.53%) Mockito
15 4 (1.53%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 48 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 32 (12.26%) Finance
4 19 (7.28%) Retail
5 16 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.75%) Military
7 11 (4.21%) Publishing
8 10 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.07%) Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Marketing
10 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (52.49%) Developer
2 48 (18.39%) Senior
3 40 (15.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (13.41%) Lead
5 33 (12.64%) Senior Developer
6 32 (12.26%) Software Engineer
7 27 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 21 (8.05%) Lead Developer
9 20 (7.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (6.90%) Architect
11 16 (6.13%) Software Developer
12 15 (5.75%) Node.js Developer
13 14 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 9 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
14 9 (3.45%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.45%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (44.83%) React
2 74 (28.35%) REST
3 52 (19.92%) Spring
4 50 (19.16%) Spring Boot
5 49 (18.77%) Terraform
6 36 (13.79%) HTML
7 35 (13.41%) CSS
8 27 (10.34%) RESTful
9 26 (9.96%) Express.js
10 25 (9.58%) AngularJS
11 20 (7.66%) Playwright
12 19 (7.28%) Jest
12 19 (7.28%) Next.js
13 17 (6.51%) Kafka
14 16 (6.13%) JSON
14 16 (6.13%) Nunjucks
14 16 (6.13%) Web Services
15 15 (5.75%) HTML5
15 15 (5.75%) OAuth
15 15 (5.75%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.53%) NHS
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) IVR
9 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.77%) PKI
9 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.38%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.36%) Linux
2 5 (1.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Tizen
4 1 (0.38%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (59.77%) CI/CD
2 113 (43.30%) Agile
3 94 (36.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (32.95%) DevOps
5 80 (30.65%) Microservices
6 74 (28.35%) Software Engineering
7 63 (24.14%) Test Automation
8 53 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (16.09%) Mentoring
11 39 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (14.94%) TDD
12 38 (14.56%) Containerisation
13 37 (14.18%) Event-Driven
13 37 (14.18%) Observability
13 37 (14.18%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (13.03%) Front End Development
15 32 (12.26%) AI
16 30 (11.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 28 (10.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 128 (49.04%) JavaScript
2 105 (40.23%) TypeScript
3 99 (37.93%) Java
4 68 (26.05%) Python
5 31 (11.88%) SQL
6 15 (5.75%) Bash
7 12 (4.60%) Groovy
8 10 (3.83%) C#
8 10 (3.83%) Go
9 7 (2.68%) PHP
9 7 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.68%) Ruby
9 7 (2.68%) Rust
10 5 (1.92%) C++
11 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.77%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 61 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.07%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.53%) Degree
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.48%) Accessibility
2 30 (11.49%) QA
3 15 (5.75%) WCAG
4 3 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
5 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (23.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 63 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.05%) Grafana
3 13 (4.98%) Ansible
4 10 (3.83%) Argo
5 9 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.15%) Podman
8 2 (0.77%) Istio
8 2 (0.77%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.05%) Google
3 14 (5.36%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.60%) Oracle
5 10 (3.83%) SAP
6 9 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.45%) Sonatype
7 8 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.92%) Confluent
10 4 (1.53%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (1.15%) Adobe
11 3 (1.15%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.15%) Databricks
11 3 (1.15%) HP
12 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.77%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.77%) Workday
13 1 (0.38%) Adyen