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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 165 164
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -35
Contract jobs citing Node.js 278 191 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.26% 1.49% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 7.87% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 143 211
10th Percentile £366 £360 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £544 £588 £625
90th Percentile £600 £652 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 7
10th Percentile £58.75 £62.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £63.13 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £76.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - £78.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +4.84% -5.34%

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 3,814 2,426 3,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.31% 18.90% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,566 1,650 2,168
10th Percentile £350 £350 £318
25th Percentile £410 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £495
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +0.05% -2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £592
90th Percentile £658 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 70 161
10th Percentile £40.23 £26.48 £20.82
25th Percentile £53.75 £59.94 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.66 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -35 126 £500 -4.76% 83
North West -19 68 £500 -8.00% 48
Yorkshire -16 51 £500 -4.76% 27
Midlands -19 49 £421 -3.77% 41
West Midlands -40 33 £425 -26.09% 29
East of England -2 30 £550 +10.00% 18
South West -17 28 £525 -4.55% 25
Scotland -12 27 £358 -20.00% 7
South East -56 27 £501 -8.86% 55
East Midlands -22 15 £402 +16.02% 12
North East -12 13 £450 -6.25% 8
Wales -12 2 £375 -6.25% 7
Northern Ireland - 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 9 (3.24%) CMS
1 9 (3.24%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.44%) Apache
4 3 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) Drupal
5 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (62.23%) AWS
2 79 (28.42%) Azure
3 71 (25.54%) Serverless
4 55 (19.78%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (18.35%) GitHub
6 37 (13.31%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (11.51%) Amazon SQS
7 32 (11.51%) GCP
8 30 (10.79%) Amazon S3
9 25 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (8.63%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.96%) Amazon EventBridge
15 10 (3.60%) AWS KMS
15 10 (3.60%) Power Platform
16 9 (3.24%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.04%) Ethernet
1 14 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.60%) Firewall
3 2 (0.72%) HTTP
3 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.63%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (12.95%) DynamoDB
3 29 (10.43%) NoSQL
4 24 (8.63%) Redis
5 23 (8.27%) MongoDB
6 21 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (4.68%) MySQL
7 13 (4.68%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.68%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.96%) Aerospike
10 9 (3.24%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.08%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.08%) Power BI
12 3 (1.08%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.72%) Big Data
13 2 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 74 (26.62%) Git
2 62 (22.30%) Jenkins
3 53 (19.06%) GitLab
4 22 (7.91%) JUnit
5 19 (6.83%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.47%) Cypress.io
7 16 (5.76%) JIRA
8 15 (5.40%) Mocha
9 14 (5.04%) Eclipse
9 14 (5.04%) Visual Studio
10 12 (4.32%) Cucumber
10 12 (4.32%) Maven
11 11 (3.96%) Bitbucket
11 11 (3.96%) Mockito
12 9 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (2.88%) Selenium
14 7 (2.52%) CircleCI
15 6 (2.16%) DbUnit
15 6 (2.16%) jMock
16 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 74 (26.62%) Public Sector
2 71 (25.54%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.95%) Finance
4 26 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.12%) Military
6 15 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.96%) Banking
8 3 (1.08%) Games
9 2 (0.72%) Back Office
9 2 (0.72%) Law
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Electronics
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 140 (50.36%) Developer
2 45 (16.19%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (14.75%) Senior
4 32 (11.51%) Software Engineer
5 29 (10.43%) Node.js Developer
6 26 (9.35%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.99%) Lead
8 22 (7.91%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 17 (6.12%) AWS Developer
11 16 (5.76%) Architect
11 16 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (5.04%) Software Developer
14 13 (4.68%) React Developer
15 11 (3.96%) Test Engineer
16 10 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
16 10 (3.60%) Data Engineer
17 9 (3.24%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (35.61%) React
2 58 (20.86%) REST
3 47 (16.91%) AngularJS
4 44 (15.83%) Spring
5 37 (13.31%) Jest
6 36 (12.95%) RESTful
6 36 (12.95%) Spring Boot
7 29 (10.43%) CSS
7 29 (10.43%) Web Services
8 26 (9.35%) HTML
9 22 (7.91%) Express.js
10 21 (7.55%) YAML
11 18 (6.47%) .NET
11 18 (6.47%) Kafka
11 18 (6.47%) Playwright
12 17 (6.12%) Flask
12 17 (6.12%) Vue
13 16 (5.76%) Django
14 14 (5.04%) NestJS
15 13 (4.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.88%) NHS
6 6 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.16%) IVR
7 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.72%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.36%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.31%) Linux
2 18 (6.47%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) Android
3 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) CentOS
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (58.27%) CI/CD
2 128 (46.04%) Agile
3 122 (43.88%) DevOps
4 118 (42.45%) Microservices
5 81 (29.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (19.78%) Containerisation
7 52 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (17.27%) Test Automation
10 45 (16.19%) Software Engineering
11 41 (14.75%) TDD
12 39 (14.03%) Front End Development
13 32 (11.51%) Code Quality
13 32 (11.51%) Scrum
14 30 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (10.43%) Event-Driven
16 26 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (9.35%) Unit Testing
16 26 (9.35%) User Experience
17 24 (8.63%) AI
Programming Languages
1 104 (37.41%) JavaScript
2 100 (35.97%) Java
3 95 (34.17%) TypeScript
4 90 (32.37%) Python
5 42 (15.11%) SQL
6 33 (11.87%) C#
7 16 (5.76%) C++
7 16 (5.76%) Ruby
8 14 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.24%) Bash
9 9 (3.24%) Go
9 9 (3.24%) Perl
10 4 (1.44%) Bicep
10 4 (1.44%) PHP
11 3 (1.08%) Groovy
11 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.08%) Scala
12 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (5.40%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.52%) Degree
7 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.87%) Accessibility
2 25 (8.99%) WCAG
3 17 (6.12%) QA
4 9 (3.24%) GDPR
4 9 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.52%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.80%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.08%) PMO
7 3 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.36%) NCSC
9 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (31.29%) Docker
2 6 (2.16%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.80%) Postfix
4 3 (1.08%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 62 (22.30%) Kubernetes
2 55 (19.78%) Terraform
3 20 (7.19%) Grafana
4 9 (3.24%) Ansible
5 6 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Argo
7 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.72%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Rancher
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) Icinga
Vendors
1 20 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.32%) Google
2 12 (4.32%) Oracle
3 11 (3.96%) Databricks
4 10 (3.60%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.88%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.52%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.52%) Splunk
7 6 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.80%) Adobe
8 5 (1.80%) Avaya
8 5 (1.80%) Cisco
8 5 (1.80%) Genesys
8 5 (1.80%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.44%) Okta
9 4 (1.44%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace