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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 164 150
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing Node.js 294 181 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.42% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.65% 7.60% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 140 223
10th Percentile £400 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £564 £575 £625
90th Percentile £629 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 13
10th Percentile £59.00 £54.75 £41.00
25th Percentile £61.44 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -8.77%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £93.10 - £77.00
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 2,382 3,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.03% 18.65% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,582 1,646 2,137
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £575 £606
90th Percentile £663 £658 £694
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 86 202
10th Percentile £41.10 £32.08 £21.81
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.73 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -34 130 £525 +5.47% 72
North West -29 78 £525 +0.96% 37
Midlands -29 55 £443 +5.36% 38
Yorkshire -12 44 £500 -4.76% 22
West Midlands -33 35 £425 -5.56% 13
South West -12 34 £525 -4.55% 31
East of England -12 34 £550 +11.39% 16
South East -50 26 £514 -0.15% 68
Scotland -9 25 £413 -15.30% 7
East Midlands -19 19 £445 +36.43% 25
North East -24 13 £425 -11.46% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
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 (3.06%) CMS
1 9 (3.06%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.36%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.34%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (60.88%) AWS
2 78 (26.53%) Azure
3 70 (23.81%) Serverless
4 53 (18.03%) GitHub
5 47 (15.99%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (12.59%) GCP
8 33 (11.22%) Amazon S3
9 30 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.42%) Amazon EventBridge
15 12 (4.08%) AWS KMS
16 11 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (3.40%) Route 53
18 9 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.76%) Ethernet
1 14 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.70%) Firewall
3 4 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (13.95%) DynamoDB
3 24 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 19 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (5.78%) Redis
7 11 (3.74%) Aerospike
7 11 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.40%) MySQL
9 8 (2.72%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.70%) Metadata
11 4 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.02%) Big Data
12 3 (1.02%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.02%) Power BI
12 3 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (19.05%) Git
1 56 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 44 (14.97%) GitLab
3 26 (8.84%) JUnit
3 26 (8.84%) SonarQube
4 17 (5.78%) Maven
5 14 (4.76%) Eclipse
5 14 (4.76%) Visual Studio
6 12 (4.08%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.40%) Mocha
7 10 (3.40%) Mockito
8 8 (2.72%) JIRA
9 7 (2.38%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.38%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.38%) DbUnit
9 7 (2.38%) jMock
10 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.70%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.70%) Selenium
11 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 72 (24.49%) Public Sector
3 34 (11.56%) Finance
4 21 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.10%) Military
6 14 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.72%) Banking
8 5 (1.70%) Retail
9 3 (1.02%) Games
9 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 3 (1.02%) Publishing
10 2 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (51.70%) Developer
2 54 (18.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (11.90%) Software Engineer
4 34 (11.56%) Lead
5 31 (10.54%) Java Developer
6 30 (10.20%) Senior
7 28 (9.52%) Node.js Developer
8 23 (7.82%) Architect
9 20 (6.80%) Senior Developer
10 18 (6.12%) AWS Developer
11 17 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 16 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (4.76%) Lead Developer
14 14 (4.76%) Software Developer
15 13 (4.42%) JavaScript Developer
16 12 (4.08%) Technical Architect
17 11 (3.74%) Technical Leader
18 10 (3.40%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (36.05%) React
2 64 (21.77%) REST
3 52 (17.69%) Spring
4 47 (15.99%) AngularJS
5 43 (14.63%) Spring Boot
6 33 (11.22%) RESTful
7 29 (9.86%) Jest
8 28 (9.52%) Web Services
9 24 (8.16%) Express.js
10 21 (7.14%) YAML
11 20 (6.80%) CSS
12 19 (6.46%) GraphQL
12 19 (6.46%) Kafka
13 18 (6.12%) .NET
13 18 (6.12%) OAuth
14 17 (5.78%) Flask
14 17 (5.78%) HTML
15 16 (5.44%) Django
15 16 (5.44%) Vue
16 15 (5.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.40%) NHS
4 10 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.04%) IVR
7 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.54%) Linux
2 17 (5.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (58.84%) CI/CD
2 129 (43.88%) Agile
3 121 (41.16%) DevOps
4 106 (36.05%) Microservices
5 97 (32.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 59 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 59 (20.07%) Software Engineering
7 54 (18.37%) Containerisation
8 46 (15.65%) Test Automation
9 45 (15.31%) TDD
10 43 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (12.93%) Front End Development
12 35 (11.90%) Code Quality
12 35 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (10.88%) Event-Driven
14 28 (9.52%) Scrum
15 26 (8.84%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (8.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 26 (8.84%) Secure Coding
15 26 (8.84%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 118 (40.14%) JavaScript
2 105 (35.71%) Java
3 104 (35.37%) TypeScript
4 86 (29.25%) Python
5 36 (12.24%) SQL
6 33 (11.22%) C#
7 16 (5.44%) C++
8 14 (4.76%) Bash
9 11 (3.74%) Go
9 11 (3.74%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.04%) Groovy
10 6 (2.04%) Ruby
11 5 (1.70%) Scala
12 4 (1.36%) Bicep
12 4 (1.36%) Perl
13 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.70%) Degree
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.12%) QA
2 18 (6.12%) WCAG
3 12 (4.08%) GDPR
4 8 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.72%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.70%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.02%) PMO
7 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (28.91%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) Postfix
3 3 (1.02%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (22.11%) Kubernetes
2 57 (19.39%) Terraform
3 26 (8.84%) Grafana
4 10 (3.40%) Ansible
4 10 (3.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) Argo
5 3 (1.02%) Podman
5 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.68%) Istio
6 2 (0.68%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) Rancher
7 1 (0.34%) Icinga
Vendors
1 24 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.42%) Databricks
3 12 (4.08%) Google
4 10 (3.40%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.40%) Sitecore
5 7 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.38%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.70%) Avaya
7 5 (1.70%) Cisco
7 5 (1.70%) Genesys
7 5 (1.70%) Oracle
7 5 (1.70%) Ping Identity
7 5 (1.70%) SAP
7 5 (1.70%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.36%) Adobe
8 4 (1.36%) Okta
8 4 (1.36%) Virgin Media