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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 173 187
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -62
Contract jobs citing Node.js 283 189 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 1.31% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.48% 7.28% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 110 184
10th Percentile £357 £325 £364
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £621 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 1
10th Percentile £64.68 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -5.34%
75th Percentile £65.56 - -
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

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 3,338 2,595 3,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.22% 18.03% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,196 1,620 2,333
10th Percentile £345 £341 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £509 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.39% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 57 135
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.00 £38.53
25th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.61 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.68% -16.15%

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 2 January 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
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 2 January 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 +28 128 £459 +2.00% 82
North West -4 64 £425 -5.56% 52
Yorkshire +2 58 £476 -12.46% 23
South West +8 40 £563 +25.00% 26
East of England -8 37 £505 +34.67% 22
Scotland +1 31 £420 -4.55% 12
Midlands -20 28 £463 -9.76% 39
South East -28 24 £475 -17.39% 78
West Midlands -30 18 £600 +17.07% 14
North East -1 12 £450 -10.00% 7
East Midlands - 10 £402 - 25
Wales -1 3 £375 -23.08% 10
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 1
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 10 (3.53%) WebLogic
2 8 (2.83%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.41%) CMS
4 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.06%) Apache
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.71%) Drupal
5 2 (0.71%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 161 (56.89%) AWS
2 79 (27.92%) Serverless
3 63 (22.26%) Azure
4 60 (21.20%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (15.19%) GitHub
6 35 (12.37%) GCP
7 32 (11.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (10.60%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (9.89%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (8.13%) Amazon S3
10 23 (8.13%) npm
11 19 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.95%) OpenShift
14 14 (4.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.24%) Apigee
16 9 (3.18%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.01%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.65%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.89%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) LAN
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
4 2 (0.71%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.25%) Redis
3 26 (9.19%) DynamoDB
4 23 (8.13%) MongoDB
4 23 (8.13%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (6.71%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.30%) MySQL
7 8 (2.83%) DocumentDB
8 7 (2.47%) Aerospike
8 7 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.47%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.06%) Power BI
11 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 76 (26.86%) Git
2 62 (21.91%) GitLab
3 57 (20.14%) Jenkins
4 28 (9.89%) JIRA
5 25 (8.83%) Visual Studio
6 23 (8.13%) Cypress.io
7 16 (5.65%) Eclipse
8 14 (4.95%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.59%) Mocha
9 13 (4.59%) SonarQube
10 11 (3.89%) Bitbucket
11 9 (3.18%) Artifactory
11 9 (3.18%) Selenium
11 9 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (2.83%) JUnit
13 7 (2.47%) webpack
14 6 (2.12%) CircleCI
15 4 (1.41%) Mockito
15 4 (1.41%) Storybook
16 3 (1.06%) Maven
General
1 68 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.61%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.43%) Finance
4 19 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.71%) Military
5 17 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (4.95%) Banking
7 5 (1.77%) Law
8 4 (1.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Games
10 2 (0.71%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (46.64%) Developer
2 48 (16.96%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.55%) Senior
4 40 (14.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (12.37%) Lead
5 35 (12.37%) Node.js Developer
6 23 (8.13%) Senior Developer
7 19 (6.71%) AWS Developer
8 17 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 15 (5.30%) Architect
9 15 (5.30%) Technical Leader
10 14 (4.95%) C# Software Engineer
10 14 (4.95%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.95%) Test Engineer
11 13 (4.59%) JavaScript Developer
11 13 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) React Developer
13 10 (3.53%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (41.34%) React
2 48 (16.96%) HTML
3 44 (15.55%) AngularJS
4 42 (14.84%) REST
5 40 (14.13%) CSS
6 38 (13.43%) Jest
6 38 (13.43%) RESTful
7 30 (10.60%) Express.js
8 24 (8.48%) .NET
9 21 (7.42%) Spring
9 21 (7.42%) Web Services
10 19 (6.71%) Next.js
10 19 (6.71%) Playwright
10 19 (6.71%) Vue
11 18 (6.36%) CSS3
11 18 (6.36%) HTML5
12 17 (6.01%) Redux
13 16 (5.65%) Kafka
13 16 (5.65%) Spring Boot
14 13 (4.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.12%) IVR
6 6 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.12%) NHS
7 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.35%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.35%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.55%) Linux
2 24 (8.48%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Android
3 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (52.30%) CI/CD
2 117 (41.34%) Agile
3 110 (38.87%) Microservices
4 95 (33.57%) DevOps
5 75 (26.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (21.55%) Software Engineering
7 58 (20.49%) Containerisation
8 57 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (15.90%) TDD
10 40 (14.13%) Test Automation
11 33 (11.66%) Code Quality
12 32 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (10.95%) Clean Code
14 29 (10.25%) Unit Testing
15 26 (9.19%) User Experience
16 25 (8.83%) Mentoring
17 24 (8.48%) Continuous Delivery
18 23 (8.13%) Analytics
18 23 (8.13%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 112 (39.58%) JavaScript
1 112 (39.58%) TypeScript
2 87 (30.74%) Python
3 81 (28.62%) Java
4 34 (12.01%) C++
5 33 (11.66%) SQL
6 31 (10.95%) C#
7 16 (5.65%) PHP
7 16 (5.65%) Ruby
8 15 (5.30%) Bash
8 15 (5.30%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.24%) Perl
10 11 (3.89%) C
11 8 (2.83%) Go
12 6 (2.12%) VBA
13 4 (1.41%) Bicep
13 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.71%) Scala
14 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.65%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.47%) Degree
7 6 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) CCNP
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.89%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.77%) QA
2 22 (7.77%) WCAG
3 8 (2.83%) GDPR
4 7 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.06%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (28.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.12%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.06%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (21.55%) Kubernetes
1 61 (21.55%) Terraform
2 23 (8.13%) Grafana
3 16 (5.65%) Ansible
4 7 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.06%) Argo
5 3 (1.06%) Packer
6 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.35%) Icinga
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (8.48%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.36%) Oracle
3 16 (5.65%) Google
4 11 (3.89%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.18%) Splunk
7 8 (2.83%) Databricks
8 6 (2.12%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.12%) Cisco
9 5 (1.77%) Adobe
9 5 (1.77%) Avaya
9 5 (1.77%) Genesys
9 5 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.41%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.06%) Pega
11 3 (1.06%) Perforce
11 3 (1.06%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.35%) Blue Prism