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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 168 157
Rank change year-on-year -47 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Node.js 290 233 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.06% 1.53% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.92% 8.26% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 148 170
10th Percentile £363 £352 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +1.15%
75th Percentile £553 £548 £671
90th Percentile £650 £625 £850
UK median daily rate £515 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -0.96% -5.45% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 28
10th Percentile £61.00 £56.75 £62.50
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.69 £65.19 -
90th Percentile £77.90 £67.00 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.86%

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 4,192 2,822 3,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.29% 18.55% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,726 1,888 1,999
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £612
90th Percentile £686 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 125 211
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £53.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +0.44% -2.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £80.61 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -41 136 £517 +11.14% 84
North West -42 59 £570 +34.12% 53
Yorkshire -10 55 £528 +5.65% 19
Midlands -15 50 £425 +22.66% 35
Scotland 0 37 £377 -18.49% 12
South West -33 37 £525 -4.55% 37
West Midlands -24 34 £413 -41.07% 22
North East -37 22 £400 -16.67% 12
East of England -39 19 £503 -1.95% 18
East Midlands -4 15 £447 +65.56% 13
South East -73 14 £438 -17.84% 75
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 6 (2.07%) CMS
1 6 (2.07%) WordPress
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 169 (58.28%) AWS
2 72 (24.83%) Azure
3 56 (19.31%) GCP
4 45 (15.52%) Serverless
5 38 (13.10%) GitHub
6 31 (10.69%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.83%) AWS KMS
13 12 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.14%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.45%) Route 53
15 9 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (2.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.48%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (0.69%) CTI
3 2 (0.69%) Firewall
3 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.31%) DynamoDB
3 26 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (5.17%) MySQL
7 10 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.76%) Metadata
9 6 (2.07%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.72%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.03%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.03%) Redis
12 2 (0.69%) Aerospike
12 2 (0.69%) Big Data
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.69%) Power BI
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (20.69%) Git
2 56 (19.31%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.72%) Maven
4 26 (8.97%) SonarQube
5 23 (7.93%) JUnit
6 21 (7.24%) JIRA
7 20 (6.90%) GitLab
8 15 (5.17%) Gradle
9 14 (4.83%) Cucumber
10 13 (4.48%) Eclipse
10 13 (4.48%) Visual Studio
11 11 (3.79%) Selenium
12 10 (3.45%) Mockito
13 9 (3.10%) GoCD
14 8 (2.76%) Cypress.io
14 8 (2.76%) REST Assured
15 7 (2.41%) Claude Code
15 7 (2.41%) JProfiler
16 6 (2.07%) DbUnit
16 6 (2.07%) jMock
General
1 65 (22.41%) Public Sector
2 60 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.38%) Finance
4 23 (7.93%) Military
5 19 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.21%) Retail
7 11 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.45%) Publishing
9 8 (2.76%) Banking
9 8 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Marketing
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 (0.34%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (51.03%) Developer
2 49 (16.90%) Senior
3 48 (16.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 40 (13.79%) Software Engineer
5 38 (13.10%) Lead
6 35 (12.07%) Java Developer
6 35 (12.07%) Senior Developer
7 27 (9.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (7.59%) Lead Developer
9 18 (6.21%) Architect
10 15 (5.17%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.83%) Node.js Developer
12 11 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 10 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
13 10 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.10%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.10%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (42.07%) React
2 83 (28.62%) REST
3 58 (20.00%) Spring
4 57 (19.66%) Spring Boot
5 36 (12.41%) AngularJS
6 34 (11.72%) RESTful
7 31 (10.69%) Web Services
8 28 (9.66%) HTML
9 26 (8.97%) CSS
9 26 (8.97%) Express.js
10 20 (6.90%) Jest
11 19 (6.55%) Kafka
11 19 (6.55%) Redux
11 19 (6.55%) YAML
12 18 (6.21%) Playwright
13 16 (5.52%) AWS CDK
13 16 (5.52%) Flask
13 16 (5.52%) JPA
14 15 (5.17%) Django
14 15 (5.17%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 66 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.69%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.38%) NHS
7 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.69%) IoT
8 2 (0.69%) IVR
8 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.69%) PKI
8 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.97%) Linux
2 14 (4.83%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Tizen
4 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (62.76%) CI/CD
2 134 (46.21%) Agile
3 105 (36.21%) DevOps
3 105 (36.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 97 (33.45%) Microservices
5 80 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 56 (19.31%) TDD
7 55 (18.97%) Test Automation
8 52 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (15.52%) Containerisation
11 42 (14.48%) Event-Driven
12 41 (14.14%) Mentoring
12 41 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (12.76%) Continuous Integration
13 37 (12.76%) Observability
13 37 (12.76%) Scrum
14 34 (11.72%) Front End Development
14 34 (11.72%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (11.03%) AI
Programming Languages
1 142 (48.97%) JavaScript
2 107 (36.90%) TypeScript
3 105 (36.21%) Java
4 75 (25.86%) Python
5 42 (14.48%) SQL
6 20 (6.90%) C#
7 16 (5.52%) Bash
8 13 (4.48%) C++
9 11 (3.79%) Go
9 11 (3.79%) Groovy
10 8 (2.76%) PHP
11 7 (2.41%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.41%) Ruby
11 7 (2.41%) Rust
12 4 (1.38%) Scala
13 3 (1.03%) Bicep
13 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 72 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.76%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.03%) Degree
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.10%) Accessibility
2 29 (10.00%) QA
3 11 (3.79%) WCAG
4 6 (2.07%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (25.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 70 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 51 (17.59%) Terraform
3 25 (8.62%) Grafana
4 14 (4.83%) Ansible
5 10 (3.45%) Argo
6 9 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.03%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.03%) Podman
9 2 (0.69%) Istio
9 2 (0.69%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) Kibana
10 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.24%) Google
3 14 (4.83%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.14%) Oracle
5 10 (3.45%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (3.45%) SAP
6 9 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.76%) Sonatype
8 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.07%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.38%) Confluent
10 4 (1.38%) Databricks
11 3 (1.03%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.03%) HP
11 3 (1.03%) NEC
11 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.69%) Workday