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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 159 171
Rank change year-on-year -90 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Node.js 271 270 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.70% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 7.84% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 182 110
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £597
90th Percentile £669 £630 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 27
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.19 -
90th Percentile £75.60 £67.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.45%

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 4,857 3,443 3,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.06% 21.64% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,087 2,273 2,051
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £418 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 136 139
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £72.50 £71.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -41 147 £478 +12.35% 127
Yorkshire -16 66 £500 - 28
North West -57 51 £575 +43.75% 84
South West -44 34 £525 -4.55% 36
Scotland -13 33 £377 -19.57% 29
Midlands -43 31 £443 -11.50% 37
North East -23 30 £400 -20.00% 15
West Midlands -42 20 £456 -24.08% 27
South East -65 17 £400 -23.00% 66
East of England -61 12 £505 +3.06% 44
East Midlands -13 11 £425 +23.19% 10
Wales -15 1 - - 5
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 7 (2.58%) nginx
2 6 (2.21%) Apache
2 6 (2.21%) WordPress
3 5 (1.85%) CMS
3 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Tomcat
3 5 (1.85%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.85%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.48%) IBM HTTP Server
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (1.48%) WebLogic Portal
4 4 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (1.48%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 132 (48.71%) AWS
2 54 (19.93%) GCP
3 44 (16.24%) Azure
4 33 (12.18%) GitHub
4 33 (12.18%) Serverless
5 22 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (6.64%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (6.27%) Amazon S3
7 17 (6.27%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.69%) Slack
11 9 (3.32%) Figma
12 8 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.95%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (2.95%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.58%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.58%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.43%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.58%) HTTP
2 7 (2.58%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.74%) CTI
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
5 1 (0.37%) DNS
5 1 (0.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.69%) MySQL
5 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.58%) DocumentDB
7 6 (2.21%) Metadata
7 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.48%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.11%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.37%) Big Data
12 1 (0.37%) Redis
12 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (24.35%) Git
2 39 (14.39%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.23%) Maven
4 23 (8.49%) JIRA
5 16 (5.90%) GitLab
6 15 (5.54%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.54%) Gradle
7 13 (4.80%) JUnit
8 12 (4.43%) Eclipse
8 12 (4.43%) SonarQube
8 12 (4.43%) Visual Studio
9 11 (4.06%) Selenium
10 9 (3.32%) Cypress.io
10 9 (3.32%) GoCD
11 8 (2.95%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.95%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.58%) JProfiler
13 5 (1.85%) Storybook
14 4 (1.48%) Mockito
14 4 (1.48%) webpack
General
1 68 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.35%) Public Sector
3 35 (12.92%) Finance
4 26 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.49%) Military
6 18 (6.64%) Retail
7 13 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.43%) Banking
9 9 (3.32%) Publishing
10 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Back Office
12 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 138 (50.92%) Developer
2 46 (16.97%) Senior
3 38 (14.02%) Software Engineer
4 34 (12.55%) Lead
5 32 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (10.70%) Senior Developer
7 26 (9.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 25 (9.23%) Java Developer
9 19 (7.01%) Architect
10 18 (6.64%) Node.js Developer
11 17 (6.27%) Lead Developer
12 16 (5.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 14 (5.17%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.32%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (3.32%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.32%) Technical Leader
16 8 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
16 8 (2.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (45.39%) React
2 86 (31.73%) REST
3 52 (19.19%) Terraform
4 48 (17.71%) Spring Boot
5 46 (16.97%) Spring
6 44 (16.24%) HTML
7 42 (15.50%) CSS
8 40 (14.76%) RESTful
9 31 (11.44%) AngularJS
9 31 (11.44%) Playwright
10 28 (10.33%) Jest
11 24 (8.86%) Express.js
12 23 (8.49%) Web Services
13 22 (8.12%) OAuth
14 19 (7.01%) Next.js
15 18 (6.64%) HTML5
15 18 (6.64%) OpenID
16 17 (6.27%) Kafka
16 17 (6.27%) OAuth2
17 15 (5.54%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.33%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.06%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.48%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.11%) NHS
8 2 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.74%) IoT
8 2 (0.74%) IVR
8 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.74%) PKI
8 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.12%) Linux
2 12 (4.43%) Windows
3 4 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Tizen
4 1 (0.37%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (62.36%) CI/CD
2 132 (48.71%) Agile
3 98 (36.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (31.73%) Microservices
5 84 (31.00%) Software Engineering
6 83 (30.63%) DevOps
7 82 (30.26%) Test Automation
8 59 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (17.71%) Mentoring
10 47 (17.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (16.61%) Front End Development
12 44 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (15.50%) TDD
14 40 (14.76%) Containerisation
14 40 (14.76%) Observability
15 38 (14.02%) Event-Driven
16 35 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (11.81%) AI
18 31 (11.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 136 (50.18%) JavaScript
2 117 (43.17%) TypeScript
3 88 (32.47%) Java
4 61 (22.51%) Python
5 30 (11.07%) SQL
6 15 (5.54%) Bash
6 15 (5.54%) C#
7 13 (4.80%) C++
8 12 (4.43%) Go
9 9 (3.32%) Groovy
10 8 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.58%) Ruby
11 7 (2.58%) Rust
12 6 (2.21%) PHP
13 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.74%) Dart
14 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.74%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) Bicep
15 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 66 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.95%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.95%) Degree
5 7 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISSP
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.45%) Accessibility
2 29 (10.70%) QA
3 15 (5.54%) WCAG
4 5 (1.85%) GDPR
5 4 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.48%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.11%) HL7
7 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (19.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 59 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.27%) Grafana
3 13 (4.80%) Ansible
4 10 (3.69%) Argo
4 10 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.11%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.11%) Podman
6 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.23%) Google
3 16 (5.90%) Oracle
4 14 (5.17%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.69%) SAP
5 10 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.32%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.95%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.21%) Sonatype
9 5 (1.85%) Confluent
9 5 (1.85%) IBM
9 5 (1.85%) Okta
10 4 (1.48%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.11%) Adobe
11 3 (1.11%) HP
11 3 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.74%) Splunk