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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 176 180
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -35
Contract jobs citing Node.js 290 208 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.31% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.74% 7.41% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 115 214
10th Percentile £350 £324 £363
25th Percentile £400 £369 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £630 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 2
10th Percentile £62.73 £63.25 £51.20
25th Percentile - - £53.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.06 - £59.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.75 £60.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

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 3,317 2,808 3,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.58% 17.72% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 1,733 2,472
10th Percentile £328 £340 £325
25th Percentile £402 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 80 144
10th Percentile £30.95 £22.00 £38.28
25th Percentile £43.38 £45.26 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £74.00 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 9 December 2025.

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
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 9 December 2025. 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 +31 128 £445 -1.11% 150
North West +21 67 £400 -11.11% 81
Yorkshire +6 53 £500 -8.05% 56
East of England 0 50 £553 +47.33% 80
South West -10 36 £600 +11.63% 55
Scotland -1 31 £420 -4.00% 36
Midlands -18 26 £500 +17.65% 111
South East -34 20 £508 -11.74% 174
West Midlands -19 18 £600 +17.07% 61
North East +1 12 £500 +17.65% 13
East Midlands -10 8 £402 +23.69% 46
Wales +2 3 £375 -34.78% 17
Northern Ireland -8 1 - - 14
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 17 (5.86%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.17%) WebSphere
3 8 (2.76%) Confluence
4 4 (1.38%) CMS
5 3 (1.03%) Apache
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.69%) Drupal
6 2 (0.69%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.10%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 151 (52.07%) AWS
2 74 (25.52%) Serverless
3 63 (21.72%) Azure
4 60 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (11.72%) GCP
6 32 (11.03%) GitHub
7 31 (10.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (8.97%) npm
10 25 (8.62%) Amazon S3
11 21 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (5.52%) OpenShift
14 15 (5.17%) SaaS
15 14 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (4.14%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.59%) TCP/IP
2 21 (7.24%) Ethernet
3 9 (3.10%) Firewall
4 2 (0.69%) VoIP
5 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.62%) Redis
3 24 (8.28%) Relational Database
4 23 (7.93%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.93%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.24%) DynamoDB
6 19 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (6.21%) MySQL
8 11 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.76%) DocumentDB
10 7 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.03%) Aerospike
12 3 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.03%) Power BI
13 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.69%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 72 (24.83%) Git
2 57 (19.66%) GitLab
3 52 (17.93%) Jenkins
4 34 (11.72%) JIRA
5 30 (10.34%) Visual Studio
6 22 (7.59%) Cypress.io
6 22 (7.59%) SonarQube
7 21 (7.24%) Eclipse
8 19 (6.55%) Cucumber
9 15 (5.17%) Bitbucket
10 14 (4.83%) Selenium
10 14 (4.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (3.45%) Mocha
12 9 (3.10%) Artifactory
12 9 (3.10%) Mockito
13 8 (2.76%) JUnit
13 8 (2.76%) Maven
14 7 (2.41%) webpack
15 6 (2.07%) Grunt
15 6 (2.07%) gulp
General
1 65 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 36 (12.41%) Finance
4 25 (8.62%) Military
5 22 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.48%) Banking
8 6 (2.07%) Law
9 5 (1.72%) Retail
10 3 (1.03%) Games
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Automotive
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (42.76%) Developer
2 57 (19.66%) Software Engineer
3 40 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (13.10%) Lead
4 38 (13.10%) Senior
5 30 (10.34%) Node.js Developer
6 20 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 19 (6.55%) C# Software Engineer
8 16 (5.52%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.17%) Architect
9 15 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.83%) Consultant
10 14 (4.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (4.83%) Test Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) AWS Developer
11 13 (4.48%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) Technical Leader
12 12 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) JavaScript Developer
13 11 (3.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (41.38%) React
2 64 (22.07%) HTML
3 49 (16.90%) CSS
4 48 (16.55%) AngularJS
5 42 (14.48%) Jest
6 41 (14.14%) REST
6 41 (14.14%) RESTful
7 31 (10.69%) .NET
8 30 (10.34%) Express.js
9 28 (9.66%) Web Services
10 26 (8.97%) Redux
11 22 (7.59%) CSS3
11 22 (7.59%) HTML5
12 21 (7.24%) Next.js
13 20 (6.90%) Spring Boot
14 18 (6.21%) Spring
14 18 (6.21%) Vue
15 17 (5.86%) Middleware
16 15 (5.17%) GraphQL
17 14 (4.83%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.41%) NHS
5 7 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.07%) IVR
6 6 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Tandem
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.28%) Linux
2 34 (11.72%) Windows
3 4 (1.38%) Android
3 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) CentOS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 121 (41.72%) Agile
3 105 (36.21%) Microservices
4 90 (31.03%) DevOps
5 73 (25.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (23.79%) Software Engineering
7 58 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 55 (18.97%) TDD
9 53 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (13.79%) Test Automation
11 39 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (12.76%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (12.41%) Unit Testing
14 30 (10.34%) Clean Code
15 29 (10.00%) Mentoring
16 28 (9.66%) Continuous Delivery
17 27 (9.31%) Code Quality
18 25 (8.62%) ETL
18 25 (8.62%) Validation
18 25 (8.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (41.03%) JavaScript
2 103 (35.52%) TypeScript
3 90 (31.03%) Java
4 88 (30.34%) Python
5 46 (15.86%) C++
6 39 (13.45%) SQL
7 36 (12.41%) C#
8 28 (9.66%) PHP
9 18 (6.21%) C
10 15 (5.17%) Bash
10 15 (5.17%) Ruby
11 13 (4.48%) PowerShell
12 11 (3.79%) Perl
13 8 (2.76%) Go
14 6 (2.07%) VBA
15 4 (1.38%) Bicep
15 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.69%) Groovy
16 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 15 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.76%) Degree
6 6 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.34%) CCNA
8 1 (0.34%) CCNP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.31%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.90%) QA
3 17 (5.86%) WCAG
4 8 (2.76%) GDPR
5 7 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.03%) PMO
8 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 83 (28.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.07%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 65 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 57 (19.66%) Terraform
3 28 (9.66%) Grafana
4 14 (4.83%) Ansible
5 7 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.38%) Packer
7 3 (1.03%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.69%) Istio
8 2 (0.69%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Consul
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.59%) Oracle
3 18 (6.21%) Dynatrace
3 18 (6.21%) Google
4 11 (3.79%) AppDynamics
5 8 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.76%) Splunk
6 6 (2.07%) Cisco
6 6 (2.07%) Perforce
7 5 (1.72%) Avaya
7 5 (1.72%) Genesys
7 5 (1.72%) Veracode
8 4 (1.38%) Adobe
8 4 (1.38%) Databricks
8 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.03%) Pega
9 3 (1.03%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.69%) Virgin Media