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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 160 144
Rank change year-on-year -73 -16 +32
Contract jobs citing Node.js 260 243 270
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.58% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.41% 7.58% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 157 165
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £404 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £508
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -7.59% +1.50%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £670
90th Percentile £669 £608 £850
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 28
10th Percentile £64.40 £57.75 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £67.50
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 4,806 3,205 3,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.34% 20.78% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,124 2,151 2,196
10th Percentile £355 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £680 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 133 168
10th Percentile £30.25 £31.25 £32.83
25th Percentile £55.69 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.80 £75.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -52 129 £516 +14.64% 108
North West -64 55 £570 +42.50% 69
Yorkshire -24 53 £528 +6.99% 20
Midlands -24 38 £425 +1.19% 46
South West -31 35 £525 -4.55% 55
Scotland -8 34 £425 -9.33% 18
West Midlands -20 26 £413 -14.29% 32
North East -32 21 £400 -16.67% 19
South East -74 15 £425 -22.73% 90
East Midlands -9 12 £434 +60.65% 14
East of England -54 12 £503 -0.50% 24
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 (2.31%) WordPress
2 5 (1.92%) CMS
3 4 (1.54%) Apache
3 4 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 3 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.77%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) Moodle
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.08%) AWS
2 52 (20.00%) Azure
3 49 (18.85%) GCP
4 42 (16.15%) Serverless
5 33 (12.69%) GitHub
6 24 (9.23%) Amazon S3
7 23 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.46%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.15%) OpenShift
11 15 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.46%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.46%) OCI
15 8 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (3.08%) Slack
16 7 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (2.69%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Ethernet
1 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.15%) HTTP
3 2 (0.77%) CTI
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.08%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.54%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.23%) MySQL
6 10 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.46%) Metadata
8 6 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.92%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.15%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.15%) Redis
12 2 (0.77%) Big Data
12 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.77%) Power BI
12 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 55 (21.15%) Git
2 48 (18.46%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.15%) Maven
4 21 (8.08%) JIRA
4 21 (8.08%) SonarQube
5 18 (6.92%) GitLab
6 17 (6.54%) JUnit
7 15 (5.77%) Gradle
8 14 (5.38%) Cucumber
9 10 (3.85%) Selenium
10 9 (3.46%) GoCD
11 8 (3.08%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.69%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.69%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.69%) JProfiler
13 5 (1.92%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.92%) Visual Studio
14 4 (1.54%) IntelliJ
14 4 (1.54%) Mockito
14 4 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (21.54%) Public Sector
2 50 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 32 (12.31%) Finance
4 18 (6.92%) Retail
5 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.77%) Military
7 11 (4.23%) Publishing
8 8 (3.08%) Banking
8 8 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (52.31%) Developer
2 48 (18.46%) Senior
3 43 (16.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (13.85%) Lead
5 34 (13.08%) Software Engineer
6 33 (12.69%) Senior Developer
7 29 (11.15%) Java Developer
8 21 (8.08%) Lead Developer
9 20 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (6.54%) Architect
11 15 (5.77%) Software Developer
12 14 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.38%) Node.js Developer
13 11 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 10 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.46%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (3.46%) Python Developer
15 9 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.46%) Technical Leader
16 8 (3.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (43.85%) React
2 72 (27.69%) REST
3 56 (21.54%) Spring
4 54 (20.77%) Spring Boot
5 49 (18.85%) Terraform
6 31 (11.92%) HTML
7 30 (11.54%) CSS
8 25 (9.62%) RESTful
9 24 (9.23%) AngularJS
10 22 (8.46%) Express.js
11 18 (6.92%) Jest
11 18 (6.92%) Kafka
11 18 (6.92%) Next.js
12 17 (6.54%) Playwright
12 17 (6.54%) Web Services
13 16 (6.15%) AWS CDK
14 15 (5.77%) JSON
14 15 (5.77%) Nunjucks
14 15 (5.77%) YAML
15 14 (5.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.46%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.54%) NHS
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) IVR
9 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.77%) PKI
9 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Tizen
4 1 (0.38%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (60.77%) CI/CD
2 112 (43.08%) Agile
3 94 (36.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 89 (34.23%) DevOps
5 81 (31.15%) Microservices
6 74 (28.46%) Software Engineering
7 56 (21.54%) Test Automation
8 53 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (16.15%) Mentoring
11 41 (15.77%) TDD
12 39 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (14.62%) Containerisation
14 37 (14.23%) Observability
14 37 (14.23%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (13.46%) Event-Driven
16 33 (12.69%) AI
17 31 (11.92%) Front End Development
18 29 (11.15%) Scrum
19 28 (10.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 126 (48.46%) JavaScript
2 102 (39.23%) Java
2 102 (39.23%) TypeScript
3 71 (27.31%) Python
4 36 (13.85%) SQL
5 15 (5.77%) Bash
6 12 (4.62%) Groovy
7 10 (3.85%) C#
7 10 (3.85%) Go
8 7 (2.69%) PHP
8 7 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.69%) Ruby
8 7 (2.69%) Rust
9 5 (1.92%) C++
10 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.77%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 59 (22.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.69%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.15%) Degree
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 28 (10.77%) QA
3 12 (4.62%) WCAG
4 5 (1.92%) GDPR
5 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 66 (25.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.08%) Grafana
3 13 (5.00%) Ansible
4 10 (3.85%) Argo
5 9 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.15%) Podman
8 2 (0.77%) Istio
8 2 (0.77%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.08%) Google
3 14 (5.38%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.62%) Oracle
5 11 (4.23%) SAP
6 9 (3.46%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.46%) Sonatype
7 7 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.54%) Confluent
10 4 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (1.15%) Adobe
11 3 (1.15%) Checkmarx
11 3 (1.15%) Databricks
11 3 (1.15%) HP
12 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.77%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.77%) Workday
13 1 (0.38%) OpenAI