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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 165 150
Rank change year-on-year -27 -15 -16
Contract jobs citing Node.js 280 188 303
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.48% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.22% 7.91% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 142 243
10th Percentile £386 £356 £313
25th Percentile £404 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -
75th Percentile £545 £575 £625
90th Percentile £589 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile £58.75 £54.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +6.87%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £95.00 - £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -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 3,880 2,376 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.73% 18.71% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 1,649 2,185
10th Percentile £350 £350 £319
25th Percentile £412 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £580 £581 £600
90th Percentile £660 £663 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 76 154
10th Percentile £41.10 £26.80 £20.77
25th Percentile £55.00 £56.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -36 126 £500 -4.76% 63
North West -29 70 £525 -2.23% 39
Midlands -27 50 £413 -2.37% 36
Yorkshire -21 48 £500 -4.76% 11
West Midlands -39 35 £425 -5.56% 17
East of England -15 34 £550 +10.00% 16
Scotland +2 30 £400 -10.61% 13
South West -16 24 £525 -4.55% 19
South East -58 24 £508 +5.18% 65
North East -18 14 £425 -11.46% 13
East Midlands -25 14 £402 +23.31% 19
Wales -19 1 £375 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
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 (3.21%) CMS
1 9 (3.21%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.43%) Apache
4 3 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.71%) Confluence
5 2 (0.71%) Drupal
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (61.07%) AWS
2 78 (27.86%) Azure
3 68 (24.29%) Serverless
4 52 (18.57%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (18.57%) GitHub
5 39 (13.93%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (11.79%) GCP
7 32 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 31 (11.07%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (7.86%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.64%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (3.93%) AWS KMS
17 10 (3.57%) Power Platform
18 9 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.00%) Ethernet
1 14 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) HTTP
3 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.79%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (13.93%) DynamoDB
3 26 (9.29%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.86%) MongoDB
5 21 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (6.79%) Redis
7 13 (4.64%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.29%) MySQL
8 12 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.93%) Aerospike
10 10 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.86%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.79%) Metadata
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.07%) Pinecone
14 3 (1.07%) Power BI
14 3 (1.07%) Weaviate
15 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.71%) Big Data
15 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (23.21%) Git
2 61 (21.79%) Jenkins
3 47 (16.79%) GitLab
4 25 (8.93%) JUnit
4 25 (8.93%) SonarQube
5 16 (5.71%) Maven
6 14 (5.00%) Eclipse
6 14 (5.00%) JIRA
6 14 (5.00%) Visual Studio
7 12 (4.29%) Mocha
8 11 (3.93%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.93%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.93%) Mockito
9 8 (2.86%) Selenium
10 7 (2.50%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.50%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.14%) DbUnit
11 6 (2.14%) jMock
12 4 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 70 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 66 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.86%) Finance
4 20 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.36%) Military
5 15 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.57%) Banking
7 3 (1.07%) Games
7 3 (1.07%) Publishing
8 2 (0.71%) Back Office
8 2 (0.71%) Law
8 2 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Electronics
9 1 (0.36%) Legal
9 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 147 (52.50%) Developer
2 52 (18.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (12.14%) Software Engineer
4 33 (11.79%) Senior
5 31 (11.07%) Java Developer
6 29 (10.36%) Lead
7 28 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
8 21 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 18 (6.43%) AWS Developer
9 18 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (6.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (5.36%) Lead Developer
12 14 (5.00%) Architect
12 14 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.64%) JavaScript Developer
13 13 (4.64%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (35.00%) React
2 61 (21.79%) REST
3 51 (18.21%) Spring
4 45 (16.07%) AngularJS
5 43 (15.36%) Spring Boot
6 36 (12.86%) RESTful
7 32 (11.43%) Jest
8 29 (10.36%) Web Services
9 24 (8.57%) Express.js
10 22 (7.86%) CSS
11 21 (7.50%) YAML
12 19 (6.79%) HTML
12 19 (6.79%) Kafka
13 18 (6.43%) .NET
14 17 (6.07%) Flask
15 16 (5.71%) Django
16 15 (5.36%) GraphQL
17 14 (5.00%) NestJS
17 14 (5.00%) Playwright
18 13 (4.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.57%) NHS
4 10 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) IVR
7 2 (0.71%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.36%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.14%) Linux
2 18 (6.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (59.64%) CI/CD
2 128 (45.71%) Agile
3 125 (44.64%) DevOps
4 111 (39.64%) Microservices
5 90 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (20.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (18.93%) Containerisation
8 49 (17.50%) Software Engineering
9 47 (16.79%) Test Automation
10 46 (16.43%) TDD
11 42 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (13.21%) Front End Development
13 34 (12.14%) Code Quality
14 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (11.07%) Event-Driven
16 29 (10.36%) Scrum
17 26 (9.29%) Unit Testing
18 25 (8.93%) AI
18 25 (8.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 25 (8.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 104 (37.14%) Java
2 103 (36.79%) JavaScript
3 93 (33.21%) TypeScript
4 88 (31.43%) Python
5 37 (13.21%) SQL
6 33 (11.79%) C#
7 16 (5.71%) C++
8 11 (3.93%) Ruby
9 10 (3.57%) Go
9 10 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.21%) Bash
11 7 (2.50%) Perl
12 6 (2.14%) Groovy
13 4 (1.43%) Bicep
13 4 (1.43%) PHP
14 3 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.07%) Scala
15 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.36%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 65 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.43%) Degree
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.29%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.50%) WCAG
3 20 (7.14%) QA
4 9 (3.21%) GDPR
5 8 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.79%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.07%) PMO
8 3 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 89 (31.79%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Postfix
3 4 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.07%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 65 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 56 (20.00%) Terraform
3 20 (7.14%) Grafana
4 9 (3.21%) Ansible
5 8 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Rancher
7 1 (0.36%) Consul
7 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.36%) Icinga
Vendors
1 21 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.29%) Databricks
3 10 (3.57%) Sitecore
4 9 (3.21%) Google
4 9 (3.21%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (3.21%) Oracle
5 7 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.14%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.79%) Avaya
7 5 (1.79%) Cisco
7 5 (1.79%) Genesys
7 5 (1.79%) Ping Identity
7 5 (1.79%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.43%) Adobe
8 4 (1.43%) Okta
8 4 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.43%) Splunk
8 4 (1.43%) Virgin Media