Node.js Contracts in the UK excluding London

Node
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Node.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Node.js over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 147 142
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Node.js 183 300 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.43% 1.44% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.70% 9.10% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 231 325
10th Percentile £359 £313 £400
25th Percentile £408 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £825 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 12
10th Percentile £54.75 £41.00 £46.63
25th Percentile £56.25 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -8.77% +54.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £77.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +53.85%

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 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -11 92 £500 -16.67% 126
North West -11 68 £520 -16.80% 84
Scotland +9 26 £487 +6.45% 19
South East +6 23 £507 +6.74% 163
North East +14 16 £480 +0.52% 16
South West +24 14 £550 +15.79% 48
Midlands +13 13 £420 +10.53% 50
East of England +31 10 £494 -14.13% 54
Wales +5 9 £400 -4.48% 12
Yorkshire -8 9 £525 - 26
West Midlands +10 7 £450 - 30
East Midlands +5 6 £326 +44.89% 16
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) Camunda
3 2 (1.09%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Magento
1 2 (1.09%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (43.17%) AWS
2 38 (20.77%) Serverless
3 34 (18.58%) Azure
4 22 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.74%) Amazon S3
6 12 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.56%) GitHub
7 10 (5.46%) GCP
8 8 (4.37%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.73%) Kong
10 5 (2.73%) Route 53
10 5 (2.73%) SaaS
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.19%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.73%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.19%) HTTP
4 3 (1.64%) SNMP
4 3 (1.64%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (1.09%) DNS
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (10.38%) MongoDB
2 19 (10.38%) NoSQL
3 15 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.65%) MySQL
5 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.73%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.64%) GIS
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.09%) ObjectStore
9 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.09%) Redis
10 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 40 (21.86%) Git
2 20 (10.93%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.20%) JIRA
4 13 (7.10%) GitLab
5 11 (6.01%) Maven
6 10 (5.46%) gulp
7 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.83%) Jasmine
8 7 (3.83%) Mocha
8 7 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (3.83%) Subversion
9 6 (3.28%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.28%) webpack
10 5 (2.73%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.73%) Eclipse
10 5 (2.73%) Grunt
10 5 (2.73%) JUnit
10 5 (2.73%) Selenium
10 5 (2.73%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
General
1 57 (31.15%) Public Sector
2 29 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.10%) Finance
4 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.37%) Back Office
6 7 (3.83%) Military
7 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.64%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.64%) Retail
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 113 (61.75%) Developer
2 37 (20.22%) Senior
3 34 (18.58%) Software Engineer
4 29 (15.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (15.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (10.93%) Node.js Developer
7 19 (10.38%) Java Developer
7 19 (10.38%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.74%) Lead
9 14 (7.65%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (5.46%) AWS Developer
13 9 (4.92%) Azure Developer
14 8 (4.37%) AWS Software Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.83%) JavaScript Developer
16 5 (2.73%) Architect
16 5 (2.73%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (39.89%) React
2 56 (30.60%) CSS
3 51 (27.87%) HTML
4 32 (17.49%) AngularJS
5 30 (16.39%) RESTful
6 26 (14.21%) Spring Boot
7 25 (13.66%) HTML5
8 20 (10.93%) Jest
8 20 (10.93%) Spring
9 19 (10.38%) Express.js
10 18 (9.84%) REST
11 14 (7.65%) Sass
12 13 (7.10%) .NET
13 12 (6.56%) GraphQL
14 10 (5.46%) CSS3
14 10 (5.46%) Hibernate
14 10 (5.46%) Kafka
14 10 (5.46%) Next.js
15 9 (4.92%) jQuery
16 8 (4.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.73%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.64%) Mainframe
4 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.55%) EPoS
6 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.55%) NHS
6 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.20%) Linux
2 5 (2.73%) Unix
2 5 (2.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.64%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.25%) Agile
2 56 (30.60%) CI/CD
3 51 (27.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (24.04%) Software Engineering
5 43 (23.50%) Microservices
6 41 (22.40%) TDD
7 34 (18.58%) Front End Development
8 33 (18.03%) User Experience
9 32 (17.49%) Test Automation
10 31 (16.94%) DevOps
11 19 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.29%) API Development
12 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.74%) Scrum
14 15 (8.20%) Containerisation
14 15 (8.20%) Design Patterns
14 15 (8.20%) Event-Driven
15 14 (7.65%) Continuous Delivery
15 14 (7.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 14 (7.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 110 (60.11%) JavaScript
2 62 (33.88%) TypeScript
3 57 (31.15%) Java
4 39 (21.31%) Python
5 26 (14.21%) SQL
6 11 (6.01%) C#
7 8 (4.37%) Bash
8 6 (3.28%) C++
9 4 (2.19%) Perl
10 3 (1.64%) ABAP
10 3 (1.64%) Go
10 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.55%) Scala
12 1 (0.55%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 53 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.73%) Degree
3 5 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.11%) Accessibility
2 17 (9.29%) WCAG
3 9 (4.92%) QA
4 6 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (15.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Firmware
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (15.30%) Terraform
2 23 (12.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.83%) Ansible
4 4 (2.19%) Grafana
4 4 (2.19%) Packer
4 4 (2.19%) Puppet
5 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Graylog
Vendors
1 13 (7.10%) Google
2 12 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.01%) Oracle
4 10 (5.46%) SAP
5 8 (4.37%) Virgin Media
6 7 (3.83%) Adobe
7 3 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.09%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.09%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.09%) Spotify
8 2 (1.09%) Veracode
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.55%) Perforce
9 1 (0.55%) TIBCO