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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 175 185
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -53
Contract jobs citing Node.js 286 185 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.44% 1.37% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.97% 7.38% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 127 198
10th Percentile £358 £354 £325
25th Percentile £400 £411 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.01% -0.50%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
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% +6.87%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £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 3,587 2,506 3,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.03% 18.52% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,407 1,602 2,285
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £409 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £598
90th Percentile £675 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 56 153
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.81 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72.59 £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -6 141 £482 -8.24% 88
North West -7 75 £450 -14.29% 48
Yorkshire -8 60 £494 -5.95% 30
South West +10 40 £539 +13.42% 38
Midlands -27 35 £481 +6.94% 42
East of England -15 28 £550 +14.88% 16
Scotland -1 27 £379 -14.83% 9
South East -36 25 £500 -9.09% 68
West Midlands -36 23 £600 +33.33% 28
North East -8 14 £450 +11.11% 10
East Midlands - 12 £400 - 14
Wales -3 3 £375 -25.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
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 13 (4.55%) CMS
2 9 (3.15%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.05%) Apache
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) Drupal
4 2 (0.70%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.45%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 176 (61.54%) AWS
2 77 (26.92%) Serverless
3 72 (25.17%) Azure
4 56 (19.58%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (16.78%) GitHub
6 40 (13.99%) GCP
7 34 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (9.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (7.69%) Amazon S3
12 19 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (4.90%) npm
14 14 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (4.55%) OpenShift
16 12 (4.20%) Apigee
17 11 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.85%) Firewall
1 11 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.50%) Ethernet
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 49 (17.13%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.84%) NoSQL
3 29 (10.14%) DynamoDB
4 25 (8.74%) Redis
5 24 (8.39%) MongoDB
6 19 (6.64%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (5.24%) MySQL
8 12 (4.20%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.15%) Aerospike
9 9 (3.15%) DocumentDB
10 7 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.05%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.05%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.70%) Big Data
13 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (27.27%) Git
2 58 (20.28%) Jenkins
3 57 (19.93%) GitLab
4 23 (8.04%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.29%) JIRA
6 17 (5.94%) Mocha
7 15 (5.24%) JUnit
8 14 (4.90%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.90%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.20%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.50%) Eclipse
10 10 (3.50%) Selenium
10 10 (3.50%) Visual Studio
11 9 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (2.45%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.45%) Maven
13 6 (2.10%) Mockito
14 4 (1.40%) Storybook
15 3 (1.05%) Grunt
15 3 (1.05%) Jasmine
General
1 72 (25.17%) Public Sector
2 68 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.94%) Finance
4 27 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.55%) Military
6 12 (4.20%) Banking
7 11 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Games
9 3 (1.05%) Law
10 2 (0.70%) Back Office
10 2 (0.70%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (50.35%) Developer
2 44 (15.38%) Senior
3 40 (13.99%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (13.29%) Node.js Developer
5 37 (12.94%) Lead
6 31 (10.84%) Software Engineer
7 24 (8.39%) Senior Developer
8 21 (7.34%) AWS Developer
9 19 (6.64%) Java Developer
10 18 (6.29%) Architect
11 17 (5.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 14 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.90%) React Developer
12 14 (4.90%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.90%) Test Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Technical Leader
14 12 (4.20%) JavaScript Developer
14 12 (4.20%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (41.61%) React
2 55 (19.23%) REST
3 43 (15.03%) Jest
4 42 (14.69%) AngularJS
5 35 (12.24%) CSS
5 35 (12.24%) RESTful
6 32 (11.19%) HTML
7 30 (10.49%) Spring
8 29 (10.14%) Express.js
9 23 (8.04%) Spring Boot
10 20 (6.99%) Playwright
11 18 (6.29%) .NET
11 18 (6.29%) Web Services
12 16 (5.59%) GraphQL
12 16 (5.59%) Next.js
12 16 (5.59%) Redux
12 16 (5.59%) Vue
13 14 (4.90%) Kafka
14 13 (4.55%) NestJS
15 12 (4.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.80%) NHS
6 6 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.10%) IVR
7 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.84%) Linux
2 15 (5.24%) Windows
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (51.05%) CI/CD
2 120 (41.96%) Agile
3 112 (39.16%) Microservices
4 110 (38.46%) DevOps
5 75 (26.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (17.83%) Containerisation
7 51 (17.83%) Test Automation
8 50 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (17.48%) Software Engineering
9 38 (13.29%) Front End Development
10 36 (12.59%) Code Quality
11 30 (10.49%) TDD
12 29 (10.14%) Mentoring
13 28 (9.79%) Clean Code
14 27 (9.44%) Analytics
14 27 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (8.74%) Scrum
15 25 (8.74%) User Experience
16 24 (8.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 107 (37.41%) TypeScript
2 105 (36.71%) JavaScript
3 92 (32.17%) Python
4 90 (31.47%) Java
5 34 (11.89%) SQL
6 28 (9.79%) C#
7 16 (5.59%) Ruby
8 15 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 14 (4.90%) Bash
10 13 (4.55%) C++
11 10 (3.50%) Perl
12 9 (3.15%) Go
13 6 (2.10%) VBA
14 4 (1.40%) Bicep
14 4 (1.40%) PHP
15 3 (1.05%) Groovy
16 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.70%) Scala
16 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (6.29%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.15%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.15%) Degree
6 7 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.75%) 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 34 (11.89%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.04%) WCAG
3 14 (4.90%) QA
4 9 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.80%) GDPR
6 7 (2.45%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.75%) 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 75 (26.22%) Docker
2 6 (2.10%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.05%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 64 (22.38%) Terraform
2 57 (19.93%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.34%) Grafana
4 14 (4.90%) Ansible
5 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Argo
7 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.94%) Google
3 13 (4.55%) Oracle
4 10 (3.50%) Databricks
4 10 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.50%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.80%) Splunk
6 7 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.10%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.75%) Adobe
8 5 (1.75%) Avaya
8 5 (1.75%) Cisco
8 5 (1.75%) Genesys
8 5 (1.75%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.40%) Okta
9 4 (1.40%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.05%) Perforce