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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 174 188
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -59
Contract jobs citing Node.js 287 186 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.42% 1.38% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.84% 7.44% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 132 191
10th Percentile £358 £348 £325
25th Percentile £400 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £616
90th Percentile £600 £652 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £539 £508
% change year-on-year -7.19% +6.16% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £58.75 £61.63 £45.80
25th Percentile £63.13 £62.19 £62.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +7.69%
75th Percentile £71.13 £64.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.40 £64.88 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £66.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -3.41% +0.76%

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 3,662 2,501 3,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.08% 18.60% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 1,612 2,250
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £410 £402 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.21%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £675 £683
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 56 162
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 £21.30
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.81 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.82 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year +2.80% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -14 138 £488 -7.14% 83
North West -9 76 £450 -14.29% 44
Yorkshire -9 56 £500 -4.76% 28
Midlands -37 42 £463 +2.78% 43
South West +10 39 £538 +2.38% 32
West Midlands -41 29 £500 -16.67% 30
East of England -13 27 £550 +12.82% 18
Scotland -6 26 £400 -9.09% 7
South East -33 25 £500 -9.09% 72
North East -9 14 £450 -2.17% 11
East Midlands -15 12 £400 +15.44% 13
Wales -7 3 £375 -25.00% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
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 (3.14%) CMS
1 9 (3.14%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.05%) Apache
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.05%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) Drupal
3 2 (0.70%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (62.02%) AWS
2 73 (25.44%) Azure
3 72 (25.09%) Serverless
4 55 (19.16%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (16.72%) GitHub
6 39 (13.59%) GCP
7 33 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (9.41%) Amazon SQS
8 27 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (8.01%) Amazon S3
10 22 (7.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (7.67%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.88%) npm
13 14 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.18%) Apigee
15 11 (3.83%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (3.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.48%) Firewall
2 9 (3.14%) Ethernet
2 9 (3.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.70%) HTTP
3 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.70%) VoIP
4 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.35%) LAN
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.47%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.80%) DynamoDB
2 31 (10.80%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.71%) MongoDB
4 23 (8.01%) Redis
5 19 (6.62%) Relational Database
6 18 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (5.23%) MySQL
8 13 (4.53%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.14%) Aerospike
10 9 (3.14%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.05%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.05%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.70%) Big Data
13 2 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 81 (28.22%) Git
2 61 (21.25%) Jenkins
3 57 (19.86%) GitLab
4 24 (8.36%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.27%) JUnit
6 17 (5.92%) JIRA
6 17 (5.92%) Mocha
6 17 (5.92%) SonarQube
7 14 (4.88%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.18%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.83%) Selenium
10 10 (3.48%) Maven
11 9 (3.14%) Eclipse
11 9 (3.14%) Mockito
11 9 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (3.14%) Visual Studio
12 7 (2.44%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.39%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.39%) jMock
14 3 (1.05%) git-flow
General
1 76 (26.48%) Public Sector
2 69 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.89%) Finance
4 28 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.18%) Military
6 11 (3.83%) Banking
7 10 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.05%) Games
9 2 (0.70%) Back Office
9 2 (0.70%) Law
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (52.26%) Developer
2 44 (15.33%) Senior
3 42 (14.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (13.24%) Node.js Developer
5 36 (12.54%) Lead
6 28 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 24 (8.36%) Senior Developer
8 22 (7.67%) Java Developer
9 21 (7.32%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.92%) Architect
10 17 (5.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.23%) React Developer
11 15 (5.23%) Test Engineer
12 14 (4.88%) Software Developer
13 13 (4.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (4.53%) Lead Developer
14 12 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (4.18%) JavaScript Developer
15 9 (3.14%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (40.77%) React
2 56 (19.51%) REST
3 48 (16.72%) AngularJS
4 45 (15.68%) Jest
5 33 (11.50%) Spring
6 32 (11.15%) RESTful
7 30 (10.45%) CSS
8 27 (9.41%) HTML
8 27 (9.41%) Spring Boot
9 24 (8.36%) Express.js
10 21 (7.32%) Playwright
11 20 (6.97%) Web Services
12 18 (6.27%) .NET
13 17 (5.92%) Vue
14 15 (5.23%) GraphQL
15 14 (4.88%) Kafka
16 13 (4.53%) NestJS
16 13 (4.53%) YAML
17 12 (4.18%) OAuth
17 12 (4.18%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.79%) NHS
5 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.09%) IVR
6 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.80%) Linux
2 14 (4.88%) Windows
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (51.92%) CI/CD
2 121 (42.16%) Agile
3 116 (40.42%) Microservices
4 115 (40.07%) DevOps
5 76 (26.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (18.47%) Containerisation
8 52 (18.12%) Test Automation
9 47 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 46 (16.03%) Software Engineering
11 38 (13.24%) Front End Development
12 33 (11.50%) TDD
13 32 (11.15%) Code Quality
14 30 (10.45%) Mentoring
15 28 (9.76%) Clean Code
15 28 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (9.76%) Scrum
16 25 (8.71%) AI
16 25 (8.71%) Event-Driven
16 25 (8.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 108 (37.63%) JavaScript
2 105 (36.59%) TypeScript
3 95 (33.10%) Java
4 93 (32.40%) Python
5 38 (13.24%) SQL
6 28 (9.76%) C#
7 16 (5.57%) Ruby
8 15 (5.23%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.53%) Bash
10 12 (4.18%) C++
11 10 (3.48%) Perl
12 9 (3.14%) Go
13 6 (2.09%) VBA
14 5 (1.74%) PHP
15 4 (1.39%) Scala
16 3 (1.05%) Bicep
16 3 (1.05%) Groovy
17 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 78 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (6.27%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.14%) Degree
6 6 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.20%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.01%) WCAG
3 15 (5.23%) QA
4 9 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.79%) GDPR
6 7 (2.44%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.74%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.05%) PMO
9 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.35%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (27.18%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.05%) ISA Server
3 3 (1.05%) Postfix
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (22.30%) Terraform
2 55 (19.16%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.36%) Grafana
4 15 (5.23%) Ansible
5 5 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Argo
7 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (5.92%) Google
2 13 (4.53%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.18%) Oracle
4 10 (3.48%) Databricks
4 10 (3.48%) Sitecore
5 7 (2.44%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.44%) Splunk
6 6 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.74%) Adobe
7 5 (1.74%) Avaya
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco
7 5 (1.74%) Genesys
7 5 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (1.74%) Ping Identity
8 4 (1.39%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.39%) Okta
8 4 (1.39%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace