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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 165 189
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -57
Contract jobs citing Node.js 284 190 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.49% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.50% 7.82% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 141 193
10th Percentile £364 £350 £313
25th Percentile £402 £409 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £494 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -0.70% -0.50%
75th Percentile £540 £588 £613
90th Percentile £600 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £520
% change year-on-year -6.93% +3.32% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 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 £68.69 - £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 3,785 2,429 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.69% 19.06% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 1,625 2,226
10th Percentile £350 £350 £318
25th Percentile £412 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £599
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 68 179
10th Percentile £40.90 £26.43 £20.81
25th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £69.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.58 £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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -22 131 £500 -4.76% 83
North West -25 71 £500 -8.00% 46
Midlands -19 53 £425 -5.56% 49
Yorkshire -20 52 £494 -5.95% 27
West Midlands -33 37 £450 -25.00% 32
South West -3 29 £525 -4.55% 26
East of England -7 28 £550 +12.82% 20
Scotland -9 27 £358 -19.55% 8
South East -51 26 £501 -4.52% 82
East Midlands -20 15 £402 +16.02% 17
North East -8 14 £450 -2.17% 10
Wales -13 2 £375 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
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 (3.17%) CMS
1 9 (3.17%) Sitecore CMS
2 7 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.76%) Apache
4 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.06%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) Drupal
5 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (61.27%) AWS
2 79 (27.82%) Azure
3 73 (25.70%) Serverless
4 56 (19.72%) AWS Lambda
5 50 (17.61%) GitHub
6 38 (13.38%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (12.68%) GCP
8 32 (11.27%) Amazon SQS
9 30 (10.56%) Amazon S3
10 27 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (3.87%) Amazon EventBridge
17 10 (3.52%) AWS KMS
17 10 (3.52%) OpenShift
18 9 (3.17%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.58%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.58%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.52%) Firewall
3 2 (0.70%) HTTP
3 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.70%) VoIP
4 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.35%) LAN
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.61%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (13.03%) DynamoDB
3 31 (10.92%) NoSQL
4 24 (8.45%) MongoDB
4 24 (8.45%) Redis
5 21 (7.39%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (5.99%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (4.58%) MySQL
9 11 (3.87%) Aerospike
10 9 (3.17%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.06%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.06%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.70%) Big Data
13 2 (0.70%) Metadata
13 2 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (28.17%) Git
2 61 (21.48%) Jenkins
3 56 (19.72%) GitLab
4 21 (7.39%) JUnit
5 18 (6.34%) Cypress.io
6 17 (5.99%) Mocha
6 17 (5.99%) SonarQube
7 16 (5.63%) JIRA
8 13 (4.58%) Eclipse
8 13 (4.58%) Visual Studio
9 12 (4.23%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.23%) Maven
10 11 (3.87%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.87%) Mockito
11 10 (3.52%) Selenium
12 9 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.46%) CircleCI
14 6 (2.11%) DbUnit
14 6 (2.11%) jMock
15 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 77 (27.11%) Public Sector
2 74 (26.06%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.03%) Finance
4 29 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.63%) Military
6 15 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.87%) Banking
8 3 (1.06%) Games
9 2 (0.70%) Back Office
9 2 (0.70%) Law
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 144 (50.70%) Developer
2 46 (16.20%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (13.73%) Senior
4 34 (11.97%) Node.js Developer
5 31 (10.92%) Software Engineer
6 28 (9.86%) Lead
7 26 (9.15%) Java Developer
8 21 (7.39%) Senior Developer
9 18 (6.34%) AWS Developer
9 18 (6.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 16 (5.63%) Architect
10 16 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (4.93%) React Developer
13 13 (4.58%) Software Developer
13 13 (4.58%) Test Engineer
14 9 (3.17%) C# Software Engineer
14 9 (3.17%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (35.92%) React
2 60 (21.13%) REST
3 47 (16.55%) AngularJS
4 40 (14.08%) Spring
5 39 (13.73%) Jest
6 34 (11.97%) RESTful
7 33 (11.62%) Spring Boot
8 29 (10.21%) CSS
9 28 (9.86%) Web Services
10 26 (9.15%) HTML
11 22 (7.75%) Express.js
12 21 (7.39%) YAML
13 18 (6.34%) .NET
13 18 (6.34%) Playwright
14 17 (5.99%) Flask
14 17 (5.99%) Kafka
14 17 (5.99%) Vue
15 16 (5.63%) Django
16 15 (5.28%) GraphQL
17 14 (4.93%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.82%) NHS
6 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.11%) IVR
7 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.03%) Linux
2 18 (6.34%) Windows
3 2 (0.70%) Android
3 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (58.10%) CI/CD
2 131 (46.13%) Agile
3 126 (44.37%) DevOps
4 121 (42.61%) Microservices
5 81 (28.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (19.37%) Containerisation
8 51 (17.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (17.61%) Test Automation
10 46 (16.20%) Software Engineering
11 41 (14.44%) TDD
12 38 (13.38%) Front End Development
13 32 (11.27%) Scrum
14 31 (10.92%) Code Quality
15 29 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (9.51%) Event-Driven
17 26 (9.15%) Clean Code
17 26 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
18 25 (8.80%) Secure Coding
18 25 (8.80%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (36.62%) JavaScript
2 97 (34.15%) Java
3 96 (33.80%) TypeScript
4 94 (33.10%) Python
5 46 (16.20%) SQL
6 32 (11.27%) C#
7 16 (5.63%) Ruby
8 15 (5.28%) C++
9 14 (4.93%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.52%) Bash
10 10 (3.52%) Perl
11 9 (3.17%) Go
12 5 (1.76%) PHP
13 4 (1.41%) Bicep
13 4 (1.41%) VBA
14 3 (1.06%) Groovy
14 3 (1.06%) Scala
15 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (5.28%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.82%) Degree
7 6 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.27%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.10%) WCAG
3 15 (5.28%) QA
4 10 (3.52%) GDPR
5 9 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.76%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.06%) PMO
8 3 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.35%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (30.28%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.76%) Postfix
4 3 (1.06%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 61 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 57 (20.07%) Terraform
3 23 (8.10%) Grafana
4 11 (3.87%) Ansible
5 5 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Argo
7 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Rancher
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (6.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.93%) Google
3 11 (3.87%) Databricks
3 11 (3.87%) Oracle
4 10 (3.52%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.82%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.46%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.46%) Splunk
7 6 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.11%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.76%) Adobe
8 5 (1.76%) Avaya
8 5 (1.76%) Cisco
8 5 (1.76%) Genesys
8 5 (1.76%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.41%) Okta
9 4 (1.41%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace