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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 170 193
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -62
Contract jobs citing Node.js 277 185 224
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 1.31% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.37% 7.26% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 110 181
10th Percentile £357 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £588 £600
90th Percentile £621 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £64.35 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -5.34%
75th Percentile £65.88 - -
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
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 3,308 2,549 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.14% 18.06% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 1,588 2,256
10th Percentile £345 £346 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 54 132
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.00 £37.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.36 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.74 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 8 January 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
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 8 January 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 +15 124 £450 - 165
North West +2 62 £425 -5.56% 69
Yorkshire +2 56 £475 -12.64% 72
South West +16 43 £550 +22.22% 108
Scotland -4 31 £420 -4.55% 32
East of England -14 31 £505 +34.67% 145
Midlands -20 29 £463 -9.76% 112
South East -33 24 £475 -17.39% 247
West Midlands -31 18 £600 +17.07% 32
North East -4 12 £450 -10.00% 24
East Midlands - 11 £401 - 79
Wales -2 3 £375 -23.08% 53
Northern Ireland -9 1 - - 22
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 5 (1.81%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.44%) CMS
3 3 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.08%) Apache
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.08%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.72%) Drupal
4 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Chatbot
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 158 (57.04%) AWS
2 78 (28.16%) Serverless
3 60 (21.66%) Azure
4 59 (21.30%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (15.88%) GitHub
6 33 (11.91%) GCP
7 31 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (8.30%) Amazon S3
9 23 (8.30%) npm
10 18 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (6.50%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.05%) OpenShift
12 14 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.33%) Apigee
14 9 (3.25%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.78%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.42%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.97%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) LAN
4 2 (0.72%) VoIP
4 2 (0.72%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.88%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (10.83%) Redis
3 26 (9.39%) DynamoDB
4 21 (7.58%) NoSQL
5 20 (7.22%) MongoDB
6 19 (6.86%) Relational Database
7 18 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (5.42%) MySQL
9 8 (2.89%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.89%) DocumentDB
10 7 (2.53%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.72%) Power BI
13 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.72%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 75 (27.08%) Git
2 60 (21.66%) GitLab
3 56 (20.22%) Jenkins
4 28 (10.11%) JIRA
5 24 (8.66%) Visual Studio
6 23 (8.30%) Cypress.io
7 15 (5.42%) Eclipse
8 14 (5.05%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.69%) Mocha
9 13 (4.69%) SonarQube
10 11 (3.97%) Bitbucket
11 9 (3.25%) Artifactory
11 9 (3.25%) JUnit
11 9 (3.25%) Selenium
11 9 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (2.53%) webpack
13 6 (2.17%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.44%) Mockito
14 4 (1.44%) Storybook
15 3 (1.08%) Maven
General
1 67 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.74%) Public Sector
3 37 (13.36%) Finance
4 19 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.50%) Military
6 16 (5.78%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.97%) Banking
8 5 (1.81%) Law
9 4 (1.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.08%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (48.38%) Developer
2 47 (16.97%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.88%) Senior
4 37 (13.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (13.00%) Lead
5 36 (13.00%) Node.js Developer
6 23 (8.30%) Senior Developer
7 20 (7.22%) AWS Developer
8 17 (6.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 16 (5.78%) Architect
9 16 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (5.42%) Technical Leader
11 14 (5.05%) Java Developer
11 14 (5.05%) JavaScript Developer
11 14 (5.05%) Test Engineer
12 13 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
12 13 (4.69%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.97%) React Developer
14 10 (3.61%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (41.88%) React
2 41 (14.80%) AngularJS
2 41 (14.80%) HTML
3 40 (14.44%) REST
4 39 (14.08%) Jest
5 38 (13.72%) CSS
6 35 (12.64%) RESTful
7 28 (10.11%) Express.js
8 21 (7.58%) Spring
9 20 (7.22%) Vue
9 20 (7.22%) Web Services
10 19 (6.86%) .NET
10 19 (6.86%) Playwright
11 18 (6.50%) Next.js
12 17 (6.14%) Kafka
12 17 (6.14%) Redux
13 16 (5.78%) CSS3
13 16 (5.78%) HTML5
13 16 (5.78%) Spring Boot
14 13 (4.69%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.72%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.61%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.17%) IVR
6 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.17%) NHS
7 5 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.52%) Linux
2 23 (8.30%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) Android
3 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) CentOS
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (52.35%) CI/CD
2 116 (41.88%) Agile
3 108 (38.99%) Microservices
4 92 (33.21%) DevOps
5 72 (25.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 60 (21.66%) Software Engineering
7 58 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (20.22%) Containerisation
9 43 (15.52%) TDD
10 42 (15.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (14.80%) Test Automation
12 32 (11.55%) Clean Code
12 32 (11.55%) Code Quality
13 31 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (10.47%) Unit Testing
15 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
16 24 (8.66%) Migration
17 23 (8.30%) Analytics
17 23 (8.30%) Continuous Delivery
17 23 (8.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 111 (40.07%) JavaScript
2 107 (38.63%) TypeScript
3 83 (29.96%) Python
4 77 (27.80%) Java
5 31 (11.19%) SQL
6 30 (10.83%) C#
7 28 (10.11%) C++
8 16 (5.78%) Ruby
9 15 (5.42%) Bash
9 15 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.97%) Perl
10 11 (3.97%) PHP
11 7 (2.53%) Go
12 6 (2.17%) C
12 6 (2.17%) VBA
13 4 (1.44%) Bicep
14 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.72%) Scala
15 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.78%) AWS Certification
3 16 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.89%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.53%) Degree
6 6 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.11%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.94%) WCAG
3 19 (6.86%) QA
4 8 (2.89%) GDPR
5 7 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.08%) PMO
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (28.16%) Docker
2 6 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.08%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (21.30%) Kubernetes
2 58 (20.94%) Terraform
3 23 (8.30%) Grafana
4 15 (5.42%) Ansible
5 7 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Argo
7 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.72%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) Icinga
8 1 (0.36%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.50%) Oracle
3 16 (5.78%) Google
4 10 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.25%) Databricks
5 9 (3.25%) Splunk
6 6 (2.17%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.17%) Cisco
6 6 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.81%) Adobe
7 5 (1.81%) Avaya
7 5 (1.81%) Genesys
7 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.44%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.08%) Pega
9 3 (1.08%) Perforce
9 3 (1.08%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.36%) Denodo