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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 150 168
Rank change year-on-year -90 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Node.js 269 269 227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.71% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 7.94% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 183 124
10th Percentile £350 £351 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £691 £625 £701
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -0.78% -6.55% -
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 4,817 3,390 3,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.03% 21.60% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,075 2,250 2,088
10th Percentile £358 £320 £325
25th Percentile £419 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 135 160
10th Percentile £29.07 £32.95 £27.68
25th Percentile £55.88 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.11%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.67 £69.50 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -46 139 £500 +17.65% 376
Yorkshire -19 58 £514 +4.10% 119
North West -59 53 £573 +43.13% 176
Scotland -12 36 £425 -9.33% 405
South West -45 35 £525 -4.55% 185
Midlands -40 32 £448 -3.14% 205
North East -28 28 £400 -20.00% 83
West Midlands -34 21 £463 -15.76% 111
South East -68 17 £400 -22.33% 278
East of England -54 13 £603 +22.96% 165
East Midlands -14 11 £425 +57.41% 94
Wales -13 1 - - 192
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 (2.23%) nginx
1 6 (2.23%) WordPress
2 5 (1.86%) Apache
2 5 (1.86%) CMS
3 4 (1.49%) Confluence
3 4 (1.49%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.49%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.49%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.12%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (1.12%) WebLogic Portal
4 3 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.12%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (49.44%) AWS
2 49 (18.22%) GCP
3 44 (16.36%) Azure
4 34 (12.64%) Serverless
5 25 (9.29%) GitHub
6 19 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (6.69%) Amazon S3
7 18 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (6.32%) OpenShift
9 14 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.35%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (3.35%) AWS KMS
11 9 (3.35%) Figma
11 9 (3.35%) Slack
12 7 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.60%) Google Gemini
12 7 (2.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.46%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.46%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.60%) Reverse Proxy
3 6 (2.23%) HTTP
4 3 (1.12%) Internet
5 2 (0.74%) CTI
5 2 (0.74%) Firewall
6 1 (0.37%) DNS
6 1 (0.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.55%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.83%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.35%) MySQL
7 8 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.60%) DocumentDB
8 7 (2.60%) Metadata
9 6 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.86%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.49%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.12%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.74%) Redis
14 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
14 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (20.45%) Git
2 41 (15.24%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.04%) Maven
4 23 (8.55%) JIRA
5 17 (6.32%) GitLab
6 15 (5.58%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.58%) Gradle
6 15 (5.58%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.83%) JUnit
8 12 (4.46%) Eclipse
8 12 (4.46%) Visual Studio
9 10 (3.72%) Selenium
10 9 (3.35%) GoCD
11 8 (2.97%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.60%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.60%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.60%) JProfiler
13 5 (1.86%) Storybook
14 4 (1.49%) Mockito
14 4 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (25.65%) Public Sector
2 59 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.90%) Finance
4 25 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.55%) Military
6 18 (6.69%) Retail
7 13 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.72%) Banking
9 9 (3.35%) Publishing
10 8 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) 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
1 144 (53.53%) Developer
2 49 (18.22%) Senior
3 40 (14.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (13.38%) Software Engineer
5 35 (13.01%) Lead
6 32 (11.90%) Senior Developer
7 29 (10.78%) Java Developer
8 24 (8.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 20 (7.43%) Lead Developer
10 17 (6.32%) Architect
11 16 (5.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 16 (5.95%) Node.js Developer
12 14 (5.20%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.35%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (3.35%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.35%) Technical Leader
16 8 (2.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (44.98%) React
2 79 (29.37%) REST
3 51 (18.96%) Terraform
4 50 (18.59%) Spring Boot
5 49 (18.22%) Spring
6 42 (15.61%) HTML
7 40 (14.87%) CSS
8 32 (11.90%) RESTful
9 29 (10.78%) AngularJS
10 27 (10.04%) Express.js
11 24 (8.92%) Web Services
12 22 (8.18%) OAuth
12 22 (8.18%) Playwright
13 20 (7.43%) Jest
14 19 (7.06%) Next.js
15 18 (6.69%) OpenID
16 17 (6.32%) OAuth2
17 16 (5.95%) HTML5
17 16 (5.95%) Kafka
18 15 (5.58%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.41%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.72%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.12%) 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%) Onboarding
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 21 (7.81%) Linux
2 12 (4.46%) Windows
3 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Tizen
4 1 (0.37%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (59.85%) CI/CD
2 127 (47.21%) Agile
3 99 (36.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (31.23%) Microservices
5 82 (30.48%) DevOps
5 82 (30.48%) Software Engineering
6 71 (26.39%) Test Automation
7 58 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 44 (16.36%) Mentoring
9 44 (16.36%) TDD
10 42 (15.61%) Containerisation
10 42 (15.61%) Front End Development
11 41 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (14.50%) Observability
13 37 (13.75%) Event-Driven
14 36 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
16 31 (11.52%) AI
17 30 (11.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 141 (52.42%) JavaScript
2 111 (41.26%) TypeScript
3 95 (35.32%) Java
4 62 (23.05%) Python
5 29 (10.78%) SQL
6 15 (5.58%) Bash
6 15 (5.58%) C#
7 13 (4.83%) C++
8 12 (4.46%) Go
9 10 (3.72%) Groovy
10 8 (2.97%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.60%) Ruby
11 7 (2.60%) Rust
12 6 (2.23%) PHP
13 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.74%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) Bicep
15 1 (0.37%) Dart
15 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 70 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.97%) Degree
5 7 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.12%) CISSP
8 3 (1.12%) 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 48 (17.84%) Accessibility
2 28 (10.41%) QA
3 16 (5.95%) WCAG
4 4 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.49%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.49%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (20.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 59 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.69%) Grafana
3 13 (4.83%) Ansible
4 10 (3.72%) Argo
4 10 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.12%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.12%) Podman
6 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.92%) Google
3 15 (5.58%) Oracle
4 14 (5.20%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.72%) SAP
5 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.35%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.60%) Sonatype
9 5 (1.86%) Confluent
9 5 (1.86%) Okta
10 4 (1.49%) IBM
10 4 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.49%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.12%) Adobe
11 3 (1.12%) HP
12 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
13 1 (0.37%) OpenAI