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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 155 175
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -24
Contract jobs citing Node.js 255 245 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.65% 1.38% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.73% 8.05% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 145 230
10th Percentile £338 £317 £379
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £548 £659 £588
90th Percentile £625 £833 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 5
10th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £58.00
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +14.50%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.50
% change year-on-year - -11.56% +12.64%

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 2,921 3,044 3,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.88% 17.10% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,933 1,898 2,731
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -4.67%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 160 125
10th Percentile £31.89 £27.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.44 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +9 112 £425 -22.73% 58
North West -18 63 £400 -30.43% 35
East of England +8 45 £490 +8.89% 22
Yorkshire +17 37 £500 -9.09% 13
South West +7 36 £550 +15.79% 29
South East +13 24 £533 -3.18% 93
Scotland +2 22 £463 +28.47% 11
Midlands -10 16 £441 -7.11% 28
North East +7 14 £480 +12.94% 11
West Midlands -15 9 £550 +10.00% 14
East Midlands +1 7 £270 -16.92% 13
Wales +5 2 £415 -26.22% 2
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (6.67%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 13 (5.10%) Confluence
4 7 (2.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 119 (46.67%) AWS
2 53 (20.78%) Azure
3 41 (16.08%) Serverless
4 30 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (9.80%) GitHub
5 25 (9.80%) npm
6 24 (9.41%) Amazon S3
7 18 (7.06%) GCP
8 17 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.88%) SaaS
10 12 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (4.71%) OpenShift
11 10 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.92%) IaaS
11 10 (3.92%) PaaS
12 7 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.35%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.84%) TCP/IP
2 19 (7.45%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.57%) HTTP
4 3 (1.18%) SNMP
4 3 (1.18%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.37%) MongoDB
3 28 (10.98%) MySQL
4 23 (9.02%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.06%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (4.31%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.53%) Redis
9 7 (2.75%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.18%) Big Data
11 3 (1.18%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (20.00%) Git
2 43 (16.86%) GitLab
3 40 (15.69%) Jenkins
4 35 (13.73%) JIRA
5 28 (10.98%) Visual Studio
6 25 (9.80%) SonarQube
7 19 (7.45%) Cypress.io
7 19 (7.45%) Eclipse
8 16 (6.27%) Artifactory
9 15 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (5.10%) Maven
11 10 (3.92%) Bitbucket
11 10 (3.92%) gulp
12 9 (3.53%) Cucumber
12 9 (3.53%) webpack
13 8 (3.14%) JUnit
13 8 (3.14%) Mockito
13 8 (3.14%) Selenium
14 6 (2.35%) Grunt
15 5 (1.96%) CircleCI
General
1 50 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.22%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.24%) Military
4 20 (7.84%) Finance
5 19 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.75%) Banking
7 5 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.96%) Law
7 5 (1.96%) Retail
8 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.39%) Automotive
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.39%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (47.84%) Developer
2 56 (21.96%) Software Engineer
3 37 (14.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (13.33%) Senior
5 33 (12.94%) Lead
6 20 (7.84%) Node.js Developer
6 20 (7.84%) Senior Developer
6 20 (7.84%) Software Developer
7 19 (7.45%) C# Software Engineer
8 15 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
8 15 (5.88%) Consultant
8 15 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 13 (5.10%) JavaScript Developer
10 12 (4.71%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) Technical Leader
11 11 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
11 11 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (49.41%) React
2 71 (27.84%) HTML
3 51 (20.00%) CSS
4 48 (18.82%) AngularJS
5 46 (18.04%) RESTful
6 34 (13.33%) Jest
7 32 (12.55%) .NET
8 31 (12.16%) Next.js
8 31 (12.16%) Redux
9 28 (10.98%) Express.js
10 27 (10.59%) Spring Boot
11 26 (10.20%) REST
12 25 (9.80%) Web Services
13 24 (9.41%) HTML5
14 23 (9.02%) CSS3
15 19 (7.45%) Spring
15 19 (7.45%) Vue
16 15 (5.88%) GraphQL
16 15 (5.88%) Middleware
17 14 (5.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.92%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.57%) NHS
8 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.39%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.47%) Linux
2 32 (12.55%) Windows
3 3 (1.18%) Android
3 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (48.63%) CI/CD
2 105 (41.18%) Agile
3 79 (30.98%) Microservices
4 74 (29.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 66 (25.88%) Software Engineering
6 65 (25.49%) DevOps
7 58 (22.75%) TDD
8 47 (18.43%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
10 31 (12.16%) Test Automation
11 29 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (11.37%) Unit Testing
12 27 (10.59%) Continuous Delivery
13 26 (10.20%) Design Patterns
13 26 (10.20%) Front End Development
14 25 (9.80%) Mentoring
15 24 (9.41%) User Experience
16 23 (9.02%) Code Quality
16 23 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (9.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 131 (51.37%) JavaScript
2 100 (39.22%) TypeScript
3 77 (30.20%) Java
4 60 (23.53%) Python
5 44 (17.25%) C++
6 40 (15.69%) SQL
7 31 (12.16%) C#
8 27 (10.59%) PHP
9 19 (7.45%) C
10 18 (7.06%) Bash
11 7 (2.75%) Go
11 7 (2.75%) Perl
12 5 (1.96%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.57%) ABAP
13 4 (1.57%) Ruby
14 3 (1.18%) Bicep
15 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.78%) Scala
15 2 (0.78%) VBA
16 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.57%) Degree
6 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.39%) CCNA
8 1 (0.39%) CCNP
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.06%) QA
2 17 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.71%) WCAG
4 3 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (27.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 57 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 55 (21.57%) Terraform
3 23 (9.02%) Grafana
4 16 (6.27%) Ansible
5 5 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.57%) Packer
7 2 (0.78%) Kibana
7 2 (0.78%) Podman
8 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.27%) Dynatrace
2 16 (6.27%) Oracle
3 13 (5.10%) Google
4 11 (4.31%) AppDynamics
5 7 (2.75%) Veracode
6 6 (2.35%) Perforce
7 5 (1.96%) Adobe
7 5 (1.96%) SAP
8 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.18%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.78%) Brio
10 2 (0.78%) Splunk
11 1 (0.39%) Cisco
11 1 (0.39%) Databricks
11 1 (0.39%) Netlify
11 1 (0.39%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.39%) VMware