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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 150 174
Rank change year-on-year -82 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing Node.js 274 276 227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 1.77% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 8.17% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 185 129
10th Percentile £350 £351 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £689 £625 £825
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -0.78% -6.55% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 26 27
10th Percentile - £58.75 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.60 £67.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

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 4,842 3,378 3,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.09% 21.66% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,116 2,238 2,111
10th Percentile £356 £319 £325
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.75%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £682 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 136 163
10th Percentile £29.07 £33.11 £27.15
25th Percentile £55.88 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -51 140 £500 +17.65% 156
Yorkshire -19 59 £514 +5.44% 39
North West -55 54 £570 +42.50% 99
Midlands -31 36 £448 -6.91% 55
South West -47 36 £525 -4.55% 60
Scotland -13 34 £425 -9.33% 30
North East -28 27 £400 -16.67% 18
West Midlands -35 25 £463 -15.76% 36
South East -78 17 £400 -22.33% 101
East of England -64 14 £505 +3.06% 58
East Midlands -11 11 £425 +57.41% 19
Wales -11 1 - - 10
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 (2.19%) nginx
1 6 (2.19%) WordPress
2 5 (1.82%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) CMS
3 4 (1.46%) Confluence
3 4 (1.46%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.46%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.46%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (1.09%) WebLogic Portal
4 3 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.09%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (50.73%) AWS
2 50 (18.25%) GCP
3 47 (17.15%) Azure
4 38 (13.87%) Serverless
5 28 (10.22%) GitHub
6 22 (8.03%) Amazon S3
6 22 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (6.20%) OpenShift
9 15 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (3.28%) AWS KMS
11 9 (3.28%) Figma
11 9 (3.28%) Slack
12 8 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.55%) Google Gemini
13 7 (2.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.38%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.55%) Reverse Proxy
3 6 (2.19%) HTTP
4 3 (1.09%) Internet
5 2 (0.73%) CTI
5 2 (0.73%) Firewall
6 1 (0.36%) DNS
6 1 (0.36%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.39%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.84%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (4.01%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.28%) MySQL
7 7 (2.55%) DocumentDB
7 7 (2.55%) Metadata
8 6 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.09%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.73%) Redis
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.36%) Big Data
12 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (20.80%) Git
2 41 (14.96%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.85%) Maven
4 23 (8.39%) JIRA
5 17 (6.20%) GitLab
6 16 (5.84%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.47%) Cucumber
7 15 (5.47%) Gradle
8 14 (5.11%) JUnit
9 12 (4.38%) Eclipse
9 12 (4.38%) Visual Studio
10 10 (3.65%) Selenium
11 9 (3.28%) GoCD
12 8 (2.92%) REST Assured
13 7 (2.55%) Claude Code
13 7 (2.55%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.55%) JProfiler
14 5 (1.82%) Storybook
15 4 (1.46%) Mockito
15 4 (1.46%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (24.45%) Public Sector
2 60 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.04%) Finance
4 25 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.39%) Military
6 18 (6.57%) Retail
7 13 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.65%) Banking
9 9 (3.28%) Publishing
10 8 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
12 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 146 (53.28%) Developer
2 50 (18.25%) Senior
3 41 (14.96%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (13.50%) Software Engineer
5 36 (13.14%) Lead
6 33 (12.04%) Senior Developer
7 29 (10.58%) Java Developer
8 23 (8.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (7.66%) Lead Developer
10 17 (6.20%) Architect
10 17 (6.20%) Node.js Developer
11 16 (5.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (5.47%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.65%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.28%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (3.28%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (3.28%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.28%) Technical Leader
16 8 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (45.26%) React
2 79 (28.83%) REST
3 51 (18.61%) Terraform
4 50 (18.25%) Spring
5 49 (17.88%) Spring Boot
6 42 (15.33%) HTML
7 40 (14.60%) CSS
8 31 (11.31%) RESTful
9 29 (10.58%) Express.js
10 28 (10.22%) AngularJS
11 24 (8.76%) Web Services
12 22 (8.03%) OAuth
12 22 (8.03%) Playwright
13 20 (7.30%) Jest
14 19 (6.93%) Next.js
15 18 (6.57%) OpenID
16 17 (6.20%) Nunjucks
16 17 (6.20%) OAuth2
17 16 (5.84%) HTML5
17 16 (5.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.22%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.46%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.46%) NHS
7 2 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.73%) IoT
7 2 (0.73%) IVR
7 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.73%) PKI
7 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.66%) Linux
2 12 (4.38%) Windows
3 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Tizen
4 1 (0.36%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (59.12%) CI/CD
2 125 (45.62%) Agile
3 100 (36.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (31.39%) Microservices
5 84 (30.66%) DevOps
5 84 (30.66%) Software Engineering
6 71 (25.91%) Test Automation
7 57 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (17.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (16.42%) Mentoring
9 45 (16.42%) TDD
10 42 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (14.96%) Observability
12 40 (14.60%) Event-Driven
12 40 (14.60%) Front End Development
13 39 (14.23%) Containerisation
14 36 (13.14%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (12.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 32 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
17 31 (11.31%) AI
Programming Languages
1 141 (51.46%) JavaScript
2 111 (40.51%) TypeScript
3 96 (35.04%) Java
4 62 (22.63%) Python
5 27 (9.85%) SQL
6 15 (5.47%) Bash
6 15 (5.47%) C#
7 13 (4.74%) C++
7 13 (4.74%) Go
8 10 (3.65%) Groovy
9 8 (2.92%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.55%) Ruby
10 7 (2.55%) Rust
11 6 (2.19%) PHP
12 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.92%) Degree
5 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.09%) CISSP
8 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.42%) Accessibility
2 30 (10.95%) QA
3 15 (5.47%) WCAG
4 4 (1.46%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.46%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.09%) GDPR
6 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (20.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (22.26%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.93%) Grafana
3 13 (4.74%) Ansible
4 10 (3.65%) Argo
4 10 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.09%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.09%) Podman
5 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.76%) Google
3 14 (5.11%) MuleSoft
3 14 (5.11%) Oracle
4 10 (3.65%) SAP
4 10 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.55%) Sonatype
8 5 (1.82%) Confluent
8 5 (1.82%) Okta
9 4 (1.46%) IBM
9 4 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.46%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.09%) Adobe
10 3 (1.09%) HP
11 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.73%) Databricks