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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 165 157
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Node.js 288 215 284
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.58% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 8.47% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 156 205
10th Percentile £400 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -2.85% -
75th Percentile £564 £550 £625
90th Percentile £645 £650 £833
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 27
10th Percentile £59.25 £56.25 £51.50
25th Percentile £63.50 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 - £67.50
90th Percentile £91.20 - £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.34%

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 4,119 2,537 3,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.65% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,722 1,742 2,200
10th Percentile £350 £320 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £550 £606
90th Percentile £678 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 99 241
10th Percentile £35.00 £32.10 £24.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -42 133 £525 +7.69% 57
North West -47 69 £545 +14.74% 34
Midlands -22 56 £425 +15.80% 24
Yorkshire -6 53 £515 -1.90% 9
South West -22 36 £525 -4.55% 14
West Midlands -34 36 £425 -26.09% 14
East of England -17 29 £550 +14.29% 14
Scotland -2 25 £425 -11.46% 6
East Midlands -3 19 £425 +57.41% 10
South East -69 17 £550 +7.00% 66
North East -40 13 £400 -16.67% 14
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 (3.13%) CMS
1 9 (3.13%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.04%) Apache
3 3 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Moodle
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (55.90%) AWS
2 74 (25.69%) Azure
3 47 (16.32%) Serverless
4 46 (15.97%) GCP
5 36 (12.50%) GitHub
6 33 (11.46%) Amazon SQS
7 30 (10.42%) Amazon S3
8 24 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.86%) AWS KMS
12 14 (4.86%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.17%) Route 53
14 9 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (2.43%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.51%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.04%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) Firewall
5 1 (0.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.24%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.94%) MongoDB
3 20 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.78%) MySQL
9 7 (2.43%) DocumentDB
9 7 (2.43%) Redis
10 6 (2.08%) Aerospike
10 6 (2.08%) Metadata
11 3 (1.04%) Big Data
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.69%) Power BI
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 46 (15.97%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.28%) Git
3 27 (9.38%) JUnit
4 26 (9.03%) GitLab
5 25 (8.68%) SonarQube
6 23 (7.99%) Maven
7 13 (4.51%) Eclipse
7 13 (4.51%) Visual Studio
8 12 (4.17%) JIRA
8 12 (4.17%) Mockito
9 9 (3.13%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.78%) Cypress.io
10 8 (2.78%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.78%) Gradle
10 8 (2.78%) jMock
11 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.08%) Selenium
12 5 (1.74%) GoCD
12 5 (1.74%) Mocha
13 4 (1.39%) JProfiler
General
1 67 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.57%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.07%) Finance
4 24 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.94%) Military
6 11 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.47%) Retail
8 7 (2.43%) Banking
9 4 (1.39%) Marketing
9 4 (1.39%) Publishing
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (51.04%) Developer
2 49 (17.01%) Full-Stack Developer
3 36 (12.50%) Lead
4 35 (12.15%) Software Engineer
5 33 (11.46%) Senior
6 28 (9.72%) Java Developer
7 26 (9.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 23 (7.99%) Architect
9 22 (7.64%) Senior Developer
10 19 (6.60%) Lead Developer
11 18 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
12 17 (5.90%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 14 (4.86%) Technical Architect
15 12 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
16 10 (3.47%) AWS Developer
16 10 (3.47%) C# Software Engineer
17 9 (3.13%) JavaScript Developer
17 9 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (40.28%) React
2 71 (24.65%) REST
3 53 (18.40%) Spring
4 50 (17.36%) Spring Boot
5 46 (15.97%) AngularJS
6 33 (11.46%) Web Services
7 31 (10.76%) RESTful
8 25 (8.68%) Express.js
9 24 (8.33%) CSS
9 24 (8.33%) HTML
10 21 (7.29%) Jest
11 20 (6.94%) YAML
12 18 (6.25%) .NET
13 16 (5.56%) AWS CDK
13 16 (5.56%) Django
13 16 (5.56%) Flask
14 15 (5.21%) GraphQL
14 15 (5.21%) Kafka
15 14 (4.86%) Playwright
15 14 (4.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.68%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.08%) NHS
6 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.69%) IoT
8 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.69%) PKI
8 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.72%) Linux
2 14 (4.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Tizen
3 1 (0.35%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (59.72%) CI/CD
2 130 (45.14%) Agile
3 113 (39.24%) DevOps
4 109 (37.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 94 (32.64%) Microservices
6 68 (23.61%) Software Engineering
7 52 (18.06%) Containerisation
8 49 (17.01%) TDD
9 47 (16.32%) Front End Development
9 47 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (14.24%) Test Automation
11 38 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (11.81%) Event-Driven
13 33 (11.46%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (11.46%) Mentoring
13 33 (11.46%) Scrum
14 32 (11.11%) Workflow
15 29 (10.07%) Observability
16 27 (9.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 125 (43.40%) JavaScript
2 104 (36.11%) Java
3 91 (31.60%) TypeScript
4 76 (26.39%) Python
5 41 (14.24%) SQL
6 29 (10.07%) C#
7 16 (5.56%) Go
8 13 (4.51%) C++
9 10 (3.47%) Bash
10 7 (2.43%) Rust
11 6 (2.08%) Groovy
11 6 (2.08%) Ruby
12 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.39%) Scala
13 3 (1.04%) PHP
14 2 (0.69%) Bicep
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 72 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.74%) Degree
7 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.15%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.64%) QA
3 13 (4.51%) WCAG
4 6 (2.08%) GDPR
5 4 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 63 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.32%) Terraform
3 27 (9.38%) Grafana
4 13 (4.51%) Ansible
5 10 (3.47%) Argo
6 9 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.04%) Podman
9 2 (0.69%) Istio
9 2 (0.69%) Puppet
9 2 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.94%) Google
3 12 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.47%) Sitecore
5 9 (3.13%) SAP
6 8 (2.78%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.78%) Databricks
6 8 (2.78%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.78%) Oracle
6 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.08%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.39%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.39%) Okta
10 3 (1.04%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.04%) NEC
11 2 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.69%) Confluent