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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 173 147
Rank change year-on-year -19 -26 -10
Contract jobs citing Node.js 287 182 300
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.43% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.47% 7.68% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 141 232
10th Percentile £394 £358 £313
25th Percentile £413 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £570 £575 £625
90th Percentile £635 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 11
10th Percentile £58.75 £54.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 3,844 2,369 3,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.12% 18.58% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,586 1,637 2,141
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £411 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £661 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 82 190
10th Percentile £40.68 £30.62 £21.25
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -40 128 £525 +3.45% 72
North West -25 75 £525 - 47
Midlands -25 54 £434 +3.27% 41
Yorkshire -25 45 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -8 34 £550 +11.39% 13
West Midlands -33 34 £425 -5.56% 17
South West -19 31 £525 -4.55% 28
Scotland -4 25 £413 -14.06% 6
South East -61 24 £514 +1.33% 72
East Midlands -23 19 £445 +36.43% 23
North East -22 13 £425 -11.46% 13
Wales -19 1 £375 -6.25% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
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 6 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.39%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.70%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.35%) Moodle
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.70%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 176 (61.32%) AWS
2 79 (27.53%) Azure
3 71 (24.74%) Serverless
4 52 (18.12%) GitHub
5 47 (16.38%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (12.54%) GCP
8 33 (11.50%) Amazon S3
9 30 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.53%) Amazon EventBridge
16 12 (4.18%) AWS KMS
17 11 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (3.48%) Route 53
19 9 (3.14%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.88%) Ethernet
1 14 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.74%) Firewall
3 4 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.70%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.68%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (13.94%) DynamoDB
3 24 (8.36%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.32%) MongoDB
5 19 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (5.92%) Redis
7 12 (4.18%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.83%) Aerospike
8 11 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.48%) MySQL
10 8 (2.79%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.74%) Metadata
12 4 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.05%) Big Data
13 3 (1.05%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.05%) Power BI
13 3 (1.05%) Weaviate
14 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (20.21%) Git
1 58 (20.21%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.68%) GitLab
3 26 (9.06%) JUnit
3 26 (9.06%) SonarQube
4 17 (5.92%) Maven
5 14 (4.88%) Eclipse
5 14 (4.88%) Visual Studio
6 12 (4.18%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.48%) Mocha
7 10 (3.48%) Mockito
8 9 (3.14%) JIRA
9 8 (2.79%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.44%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.44%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.44%) jMock
11 6 (2.09%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.09%) Selenium
12 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.04%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.50%) Finance
4 21 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.23%) Military
6 14 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.44%) Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Games
9 3 (1.05%) Marketing
9 3 (1.05%) Publishing
10 2 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (51.92%) Developer
2 52 (18.12%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (12.20%) Lead
4 33 (11.50%) Software Engineer
5 32 (11.15%) Java Developer
6 29 (10.10%) Senior
7 28 (9.76%) Node.js Developer
8 23 (8.01%) Architect
9 20 (6.97%) Senior Developer
10 18 (6.27%) AWS Developer
11 17 (5.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.23%) Lead Developer
12 15 (5.23%) Software Developer
13 13 (4.53%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.53%) JavaScript Developer
14 12 (4.18%) Technical Architect
15 11 (3.83%) Technical Leader
16 10 (3.48%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (35.54%) React
2 64 (22.30%) REST
3 52 (18.12%) Spring
4 48 (16.72%) AngularJS
5 44 (15.33%) Spring Boot
6 33 (11.50%) RESTful
7 30 (10.45%) Jest
8 28 (9.76%) Web Services
9 21 (7.32%) Express.js
9 21 (7.32%) YAML
10 19 (6.62%) Kafka
11 18 (6.27%) .NET
11 18 (6.27%) CSS
11 18 (6.27%) OAuth
12 17 (5.92%) Flask
12 17 (5.92%) GraphQL
13 16 (5.57%) Django
13 16 (5.57%) Playwright
13 16 (5.57%) Vue
14 15 (5.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.48%) NHS
4 10 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.09%) IVR
7 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.35%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
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
8 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.10%) Linux
2 17 (5.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (58.89%) CI/CD
2 127 (44.25%) Agile
3 120 (41.81%) DevOps
4 106 (36.93%) Microservices
5 91 (31.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (18.82%) Software Engineering
8 50 (17.42%) Containerisation
9 47 (16.38%) Test Automation
10 45 (15.68%) TDD
11 43 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (12.54%) Front End Development
13 35 (12.20%) Code Quality
14 34 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (10.45%) Event-Driven
16 28 (9.76%) Scrum
17 26 (9.06%) Secure Coding
17 26 (9.06%) Unit Testing
18 25 (8.71%) AI
18 25 (8.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 116 (40.42%) JavaScript
2 102 (35.54%) TypeScript
3 101 (35.19%) Java
4 83 (28.92%) Python
5 36 (12.54%) SQL
6 33 (11.50%) C#
7 16 (5.57%) C++
8 12 (4.18%) Bash
9 11 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.48%) Go
11 6 (2.09%) Groovy
11 6 (2.09%) Ruby
12 4 (1.39%) Bicep
12 4 (1.39%) Perl
13 3 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.05%) Scala
14 2 (0.70%) PHP
14 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 74 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.74%) Degree
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.36%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.62%) QA
3 18 (6.27%) WCAG
4 11 (3.83%) GDPR
5 8 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.74%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.05%) PMO
7 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (29.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Postfix
3 3 (1.05%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 55 (19.16%) Terraform
3 21 (7.32%) Grafana
4 9 (3.14%) Ansible
5 8 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Podman
7 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Rancher
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
Vendors
1 24 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.53%) Databricks
3 11 (3.83%) Google
4 10 (3.48%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.48%) Sitecore
5 7 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.74%) Avaya
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco
7 5 (1.74%) Genesys
7 5 (1.74%) Oracle
7 5 (1.74%) Ping Identity
7 5 (1.74%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.39%) Adobe
8 4 (1.39%) Okta
8 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.39%) Splunk
8 4 (1.39%) Virgin Media