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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 155 147
Rank change year-on-year -76 -8 +23
Contract jobs citing Node.js 274 245 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.60% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 7.70% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 157 166
10th Percentile £363 £352 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.24% +0.25%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £670
90th Percentile £669 £621 £850
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -7.27% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 28
10th Percentile £61.70 £57.75 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.06 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.86%

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 4,856 3,181 3,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.53% 20.76% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,146 2,142 2,218
10th Percentile £355 £319 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £612
90th Percentile £675 £635 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 133 185
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.25 £26.16
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.24 £77.96 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -46 130 £517 +13.64% 76
North West -53 55 £570 +36.53% 48
Yorkshire -18 53 £528 +5.65% 15
Midlands -22 40 £425 +23.19% 41
South West -30 38 £525 -4.55% 50
Scotland -5 37 £425 -10.53% 9
West Midlands -28 26 £413 -10.81% 24
North East -36 22 £400 -16.67% 13
East of England -47 17 £503 -1.95% 21
South East -76 15 £425 -22.73% 67
East Midlands -9 14 £445 +64.72% 17
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 6 (2.19%) WordPress
2 5 (1.82%) CMS
3 4 (1.46%) Apache
3 4 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 157 (57.30%) AWS
2 59 (21.53%) Azure
3 53 (19.34%) GCP
4 45 (16.42%) Serverless
5 34 (12.41%) GitHub
6 25 (9.12%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.76%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.47%) OpenShift
11 13 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.28%) AWS KMS
13 9 (3.28%) OCI
14 8 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (2.92%) Slack
15 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.74%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.74%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.09%) HTTP
3 2 (0.73%) CTI
3 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.03%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.93%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.38%) MySQL
6 11 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.28%) Metadata
8 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.46%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.09%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.09%) Redis
12 2 (0.73%) Big Data
12 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.73%) Power BI
12 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 56 (20.44%) Git
2 50 (18.25%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.95%) Maven
4 22 (8.03%) SonarQube
5 21 (7.66%) JIRA
6 19 (6.93%) GitLab
7 18 (6.57%) JUnit
8 15 (5.47%) Gradle
9 14 (5.11%) Cucumber
10 13 (4.74%) Eclipse
10 13 (4.74%) Visual Studio
11 10 (3.65%) Selenium
12 9 (3.28%) GoCD
13 8 (2.92%) REST Assured
14 7 (2.55%) Claude Code
14 7 (2.55%) Cypress.io
14 7 (2.55%) JProfiler
15 5 (1.82%) Mockito
16 4 (1.46%) IntelliJ
16 4 (1.46%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (21.90%) Public Sector
2 56 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.68%) Finance
4 23 (8.39%) Military
5 18 (6.57%) Retail
6 16 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.01%) Publishing
8 10 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.92%) Banking
9 8 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (50.36%) Developer
2 49 (17.88%) Senior
3 44 (16.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 42 (15.33%) Software Engineer
5 38 (13.87%) Lead
6 34 (12.41%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.95%) Java Developer
8 21 (7.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (7.66%) Lead Developer
9 17 (6.20%) Architect
10 15 (5.47%) Software Developer
11 14 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.11%) Node.js Developer
12 10 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (3.65%) Technical Leader
13 9 (3.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 9 (3.28%) Lead Java Developer
13 9 (3.28%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (41.61%) React
2 78 (28.47%) REST
3 57 (20.80%) Spring
4 55 (20.07%) Spring Boot
5 52 (18.98%) Terraform
6 31 (11.31%) HTML
7 29 (10.58%) CSS
8 27 (9.85%) RESTful
9 26 (9.49%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.49%) Web Services
10 23 (8.39%) Express.js
11 18 (6.57%) Jest
11 18 (6.57%) Kafka
11 18 (6.57%) Next.js
12 17 (6.20%) AWS CDK
12 17 (6.20%) Playwright
13 16 (5.84%) YAML
14 15 (5.47%) JSON
14 15 (5.47%) Nunjucks
14 15 (5.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.46%) NHS
8 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.73%) IoT
9 2 (0.73%) IVR
9 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.73%) PKI
9 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.03%) Linux
2 14 (5.11%) Windows
3 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Tizen
4 1 (0.36%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (62.41%) CI/CD
2 122 (44.53%) Agile
3 96 (35.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 95 (34.67%) DevOps
5 85 (31.02%) Microservices
6 83 (30.29%) Software Engineering
7 56 (20.44%) Test Automation
8 51 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (18.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (18.25%) TDD
10 42 (15.33%) Mentoring
11 39 (14.23%) Containerisation
11 39 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (13.87%) Event-Driven
13 37 (13.50%) Observability
13 37 (13.50%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (12.04%) AI
14 33 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (11.31%) Scrum
16 30 (10.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 136 (49.64%) JavaScript
2 105 (38.32%) TypeScript
3 102 (37.23%) Java
4 72 (26.28%) Python
5 38 (13.87%) SQL
6 18 (6.57%) C#
7 16 (5.84%) Bash
8 13 (4.74%) C++
9 12 (4.38%) Groovy
10 11 (4.01%) Go
11 7 (2.55%) PHP
11 7 (2.55%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.55%) Ruby
11 7 (2.55%) Rust
12 3 (1.09%) Bicep
12 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.09%) Degree
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.87%) Accessibility
2 28 (10.22%) QA
3 10 (3.65%) WCAG
4 6 (2.19%) GDPR
5 4 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (24.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 67 (24.45%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.03%) Grafana
3 13 (4.74%) Ansible
4 10 (3.65%) Argo
5 9 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.09%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.09%) Podman
8 2 (0.73%) Istio
8 2 (0.73%) Puppet
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.66%) Google
3 14 (5.11%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.38%) Oracle
5 11 (4.01%) SAP
6 9 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.28%) Sonatype
7 7 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.46%) Confluent
11 3 (1.09%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.09%) Databricks
11 3 (1.09%) HP
12 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.73%) Workday
13 1 (0.36%) HubSpot