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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 164 147
Rank change year-on-year -13 -17 -7
Contract jobs citing Node.js 296 187 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.45% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.70% 7.84% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 146 219
10th Percentile £400 £372 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -2.44%
75th Percentile £556 £572 £625
90th Percentile £623 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 18
10th Percentile £59.50 £54.75 £54.25
25th Percentile £61.81 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -11.86%
75th Percentile £68.69 £65.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £89.30 - £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 3,844 2,385 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.85% 18.51% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 1,646 2,122
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £656 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 86 211
10th Percentile £40.75 £33.91 £21.73
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.56 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.73 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -32 133 £500 - 79
North West -33 79 £525 +0.96% 41
Midlands -22 56 £434 +3.27% 39
Yorkshire -18 45 £500 -4.76% 25
South West -10 38 £525 -4.55% 36
West Midlands -32 35 £425 -5.56% 14
East of England -7 33 £550 +11.39% 28
South East -52 27 £513 -0.49% 77
East Midlands -19 20 £443 +35.74% 25
Scotland -5 19 £425 -12.73% 7
North East -19 14 £425 -11.46% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
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 6 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 2 (0.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (59.12%) AWS
2 80 (27.03%) Azure
3 63 (21.28%) Serverless
4 53 (17.91%) GitHub
5 41 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (13.18%) GCP
8 34 (11.49%) Amazon S3
9 32 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (7.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.05%) AWS KMS
15 11 (3.72%) OpenShift
16 10 (3.38%) Route 53
17 9 (3.04%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (3.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.41%) Ethernet
1 16 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.35%) Firewall
2 4 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.68%) HTTP
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 44 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.82%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.09%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.74%) Redis
6 11 (3.72%) Aerospike
6 11 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.38%) DocumentDB
7 10 (3.38%) MySQL
8 5 (1.69%) Metadata
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.01%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) Power BI
10 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 55 (18.58%) Git
1 55 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.20%) GitLab
3 26 (8.78%) JUnit
3 26 (8.78%) SonarQube
4 17 (5.74%) Maven
5 16 (5.41%) Eclipse
5 16 (5.41%) Visual Studio
6 12 (4.05%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.38%) Mocha
7 10 (3.38%) Mockito
8 7 (2.36%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.36%) DbUnit
8 7 (2.36%) JIRA
8 7 (2.36%) jMock
9 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.69%) Selenium
11 3 (1.01%) IntelliJ
General
1 76 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 72 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.47%) Finance
4 19 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.74%) Military
6 14 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.36%) Banking
7 7 (2.36%) Retail
8 3 (1.01%) Games
8 3 (1.01%) Publishing
9 2 (0.68%) Law
9 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (53.38%) Developer
2 54 (18.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 34 (11.49%) Lead
5 31 (10.47%) Java Developer
6 29 (9.80%) Senior
7 28 (9.46%) Node.js Developer
8 21 (7.09%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.42%) Architect
10 18 (6.08%) AWS Developer
11 17 (5.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 17 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.41%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (5.07%) Lead Developer
14 13 (4.39%) JavaScript Developer
15 12 (4.05%) C# Software Engineer
15 12 (4.05%) Technical Architect
16 10 (3.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (37.16%) React
2 61 (20.61%) REST
3 53 (17.91%) Spring
4 48 (16.22%) AngularJS
5 44 (14.86%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.47%) RESTful
7 30 (10.14%) Jest
7 30 (10.14%) Web Services
8 27 (9.12%) Express.js
9 21 (7.09%) YAML
10 20 (6.76%) CSS
11 19 (6.42%) GraphQL
11 19 (6.42%) Kafka
12 18 (6.08%) .NET
12 18 (6.08%) OAuth
13 17 (5.74%) Flask
13 17 (5.74%) HTML
14 16 (5.41%) Django
14 16 (5.41%) Playwright
14 16 (5.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.24%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.36%) NHS
6 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) IVR
8 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Replication
8 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.81%) Linux
2 19 (6.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 132 (44.59%) Agile
3 117 (39.53%) DevOps
4 104 (35.14%) Microservices
5 100 (33.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 62 (20.95%) Software Engineering
7 55 (18.58%) Containerisation
7 55 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (15.88%) TDD
9 43 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (14.53%) Test Automation
10 41 (13.85%) Front End Development
11 35 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (11.49%) Code Quality
13 32 (10.81%) Event-Driven
14 30 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (9.46%) Scrum
15 28 (9.46%) Unit Testing
16 26 (8.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 26 (8.78%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 122 (41.22%) JavaScript
2 106 (35.81%) TypeScript
3 104 (35.14%) Java
4 77 (26.01%) Python
5 35 (11.82%) C#
5 35 (11.82%) SQL
6 18 (6.08%) C++
7 12 (4.05%) Bash
7 12 (4.05%) Go
8 10 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.03%) Groovy
10 5 (1.69%) Ruby
10 5 (1.69%) Scala
11 4 (1.35%) Bicep
12 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.01%) Perl
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) Rust
13 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 75 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.04%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.35%) Degree
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.80%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.08%) QA
2 18 (6.08%) WCAG
3 7 (2.36%) GDPR
4 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (28.72%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) Postfix
3 3 (1.01%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (21.96%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.57%) Terraform
3 28 (9.46%) Grafana
4 10 (3.38%) Ansible
5 8 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.69%) Argo
6 5 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.01%) Podman
8 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.68%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) Rancher
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
Vendors
1 27 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.39%) Databricks
2 13 (4.39%) Google
3 10 (3.38%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (3.38%) Sitecore
4 9 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.36%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.36%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.36%) SAP
6 5 (1.69%) Oracle
6 5 (1.69%) Sonatype
7 4 (1.35%) Okta
7 4 (1.35%) Splunk
7 4 (1.35%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.01%) Adobe
8 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.01%) NEC
8 3 (1.01%) Ping Identity