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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 169 152
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 -9
Contract jobs citing Node.js 289 201 275
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.51% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.16% 8.16% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 151 208
10th Percentile £400 £358 £313
25th Percentile £413 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £639
90th Percentile £602 £650 £829
UK median daily rate £521 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.10% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 19
10th Percentile £59.25 £55.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £63.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 - £72.00
90th Percentile £91.20 - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 4,036 2,463 3,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.55% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,677 1,706 2,208
10th Percentile £350 £322 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 88 224
10th Percentile £37.05 £33.43 £22.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £81.01 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -44 129 £515 +5.64% 50
North West -31 66 £525 +11.70% 35
Midlands -22 56 £425 +8.01% 19
Yorkshire -16 54 £515 -2.00% 7
South West -6 39 £525 -4.55% 19
West Midlands -30 36 £425 -26.09% 11
East of England -4 29 £550 +14.29% 12
Scotland -8 23 £425 -12.73% 5
South East -77 21 £533 +3.60% 58
East Midlands -10 19 £425 +42.62% 8
North East -38 11 £400 -16.67% 8
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 (3.11%) CMS
1 9 (3.11%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.04%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) 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 (1.38%) 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
1 158 (54.67%) AWS
2 74 (25.61%) Azure
3 46 (15.92%) Serverless
4 42 (14.53%) GCP
5 38 (13.15%) GitHub
6 32 (11.07%) Amazon SQS
7 30 (10.38%) Amazon S3
8 27 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (5.54%) OpenShift
13 14 (4.84%) AWS KMS
14 12 (4.15%) Route 53
15 9 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (2.42%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.50%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.04%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) Firewall
5 1 (0.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.69%) DynamoDB
3 21 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.57%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.11%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.77%) MySQL
9 8 (2.77%) Redis
10 7 (2.42%) Aerospike
10 7 (2.42%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.08%) Metadata
12 3 (1.04%) Big Data
13 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.69%) Power BI
13 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.35%) GIS
14 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 48 (16.61%) Git
2 44 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.03%) GitLab
4 27 (9.34%) JUnit
5 24 (8.30%) SonarQube
6 20 (6.92%) Maven
7 13 (4.50%) Eclipse
7 13 (4.50%) Visual Studio
8 12 (4.15%) Mockito
9 11 (3.81%) JIRA
10 9 (3.11%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.77%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.77%) jMock
12 7 (2.42%) Mocha
13 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.08%) Cucumber
14 5 (1.73%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.73%) Selenium
15 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.38%) Gradle
General
1 68 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.49%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.34%) Finance
4 21 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.88%) Military
6 11 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.11%) Retail
8 6 (2.08%) Banking
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.38%) Publishing
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (51.21%) Developer
2 51 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (12.11%) Senior
4 34 (11.76%) Lead
5 33 (11.42%) Software Engineer
6 29 (10.03%) Java Developer
7 26 (9.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 23 (7.96%) Architect
8 23 (7.96%) Senior Developer
9 18 (6.23%) Node.js Developer
9 18 (6.23%) Software Developer
10 16 (5.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.19%) Lead Developer
12 14 (4.84%) Technical Architect
13 13 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (3.81%) JavaScript Developer
15 10 (3.46%) C# Software Engineer
16 9 (3.11%) AWS Developer
16 9 (3.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (39.45%) React
2 67 (23.18%) REST
3 52 (17.99%) Spring
4 49 (16.96%) Spring Boot
5 46 (15.92%) AngularJS
6 32 (11.07%) Web Services
7 30 (10.38%) RESTful
8 26 (9.00%) Express.js
9 24 (8.30%) CSS
10 23 (7.96%) HTML
10 23 (7.96%) Jest
11 21 (7.27%) YAML
12 18 (6.23%) .NET
13 16 (5.54%) AWS CDK
13 16 (5.54%) Django
13 16 (5.54%) Flask
13 16 (5.54%) GraphQL
14 15 (5.19%) Kafka
14 15 (5.19%) Vue
15 14 (4.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.76%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.08%) NHS
6 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
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%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.34%) Linux
2 14 (4.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.35%) Tizen
3 1 (0.35%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 131 (45.33%) Agile
3 113 (39.10%) DevOps
4 109 (37.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (32.87%) Microservices
6 62 (21.45%) Software Engineering
7 54 (18.69%) Containerisation
8 48 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (15.92%) Front End Development
9 46 (15.92%) TDD
10 39 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (13.49%) Test Automation
11 38 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (12.11%) Event-Driven
13 33 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (11.07%) Scrum
15 31 (10.73%) Code Quality
15 31 (10.73%) Workflow
16 28 (9.69%) Mentoring
16 28 (9.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 125 (43.25%) JavaScript
2 103 (35.64%) Java
3 94 (32.53%) TypeScript
4 75 (25.95%) Python
5 39 (13.49%) SQL
6 29 (10.03%) C#
7 13 (4.50%) C++
7 13 (4.50%) Go
8 9 (3.11%) Bash
9 6 (2.08%) Groovy
9 6 (2.08%) Ruby
10 5 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.38%) Rust
11 4 (1.38%) Scala
12 3 (1.04%) PHP
13 2 (0.69%) Bicep
14 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 69 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.73%) Degree
8 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.46%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.96%) QA
3 16 (5.54%) WCAG
4 6 (2.08%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) 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 75 (25.95%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 64 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.26%) Terraform
3 27 (9.34%) Grafana
4 11 (3.81%) Ansible
5 10 (3.46%) Argo
6 9 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.73%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.04%) Podman
9 2 (0.69%) Puppet
9 2 (0.69%) Rancher
10 1 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.88%) Google
3 13 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.15%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (3.46%) Sitecore
6 9 (3.11%) Databricks
7 8 (2.77%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.77%) SAP
7 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.08%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.08%) Oracle
9 6 (2.08%) Sonatype
10 4 (1.38%) Okta
11 3 (1.04%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.04%) NEC
12 2 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.69%) Confluent