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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 167 146
Rank change year-on-year -19 -21 -8
Contract jobs citing Node.js 295 187 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.46% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.70% 7.93% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 146 219
10th Percentile £400 £372 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £555 £572 £625
90th Percentile £608 £650 £825
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 18
10th Percentile £59.75 £54.75 £54.25
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -11.86%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £87.40 - £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 3,830 2,358 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.43% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,573 1,630 2,123
10th Percentile £350 £348 £325
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £650 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 85 211
10th Percentile £40.00 £33.91 £21.73
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -38 131 £500 - 71
North West -28 77 £525 +0.96% 35
Midlands -12 56 £434 +3.27% 39
Yorkshire -20 45 £500 -4.76% 21
South West -7 39 £525 -4.55% 32
West Midlands -36 35 £425 -5.56% 15
East of England -4 34 £550 +11.39% 16
South East -51 27 £513 -0.49% 62
East Midlands -19 20 £443 +35.74% 24
Scotland -11 18 £425 -12.73% 5
North East -20 14 £425 -11.46% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
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 (3.05%) CMS
1 9 (3.05%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (0.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (58.31%) AWS
2 80 (27.12%) Azure
3 60 (20.34%) Serverless
4 53 (17.97%) GitHub
5 41 (13.90%) GitHub Actions
6 39 (13.22%) GCP
7 37 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (11.53%) Amazon S3
9 31 (10.51%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (4.07%) AWS KMS
14 12 (4.07%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.39%) Route 53
17 9 (3.05%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (3.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.76%) Ethernet
1 17 (5.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.02%) Firewall
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.86%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.80%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.12%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.42%) Redis
6 11 (3.73%) Aerospike
6 11 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.39%) MySQL
8 9 (3.05%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.69%) Metadata
10 3 (1.02%) Big Data
10 3 (1.02%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.02%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.68%) Power BI
11 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 54 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 53 (17.97%) Git
3 44 (14.92%) GitLab
4 26 (8.81%) JUnit
5 25 (8.47%) SonarQube
6 17 (5.76%) Eclipse
6 17 (5.76%) Maven
6 17 (5.76%) Visual Studio
7 12 (4.07%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.39%) Mocha
8 10 (3.39%) Mockito
9 7 (2.37%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.37%) DbUnit
9 7 (2.37%) jMock
10 6 (2.03%) JIRA
11 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.69%) Selenium
12 3 (1.02%) Jasmine
General
1 77 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 72 (24.41%) Public Sector
3 29 (9.83%) Finance
4 19 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.10%) Military
6 15 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.37%) Retail
8 6 (2.03%) Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Games
9 3 (1.02%) Publishing
10 2 (0.68%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (53.90%) Developer
2 55 (18.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (12.54%) Software Engineer
4 34 (11.53%) Lead
5 31 (10.51%) Java Developer
6 29 (9.83%) Senior
7 28 (9.49%) Node.js Developer
8 21 (7.12%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.44%) Architect
10 18 (6.10%) AWS Developer
11 17 (5.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 17 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.42%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.08%) Lead Developer
14 14 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (4.41%) JavaScript Developer
16 12 (4.07%) C# Software Engineer
16 12 (4.07%) Technical Architect
17 10 (3.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (37.29%) React
2 60 (20.34%) REST
3 53 (17.97%) Spring
4 48 (16.27%) AngularJS
5 44 (14.92%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.51%) RESTful
7 30 (10.17%) Jest
7 30 (10.17%) Web Services
8 28 (9.49%) Express.js
9 21 (7.12%) CSS
9 21 (7.12%) YAML
10 19 (6.44%) GraphQL
10 19 (6.44%) Kafka
11 18 (6.10%) .NET
11 18 (6.10%) HTML
11 18 (6.10%) OAuth
12 17 (5.76%) Flask
13 16 (5.42%) Django
13 16 (5.42%) Playwright
13 16 (5.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.85%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.37%) NHS
6 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) IVR
8 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Replication
8 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.85%) Linux
2 20 (6.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (60.34%) CI/CD
2 134 (45.42%) Agile
3 116 (39.32%) DevOps
4 101 (34.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 101 (34.24%) Microservices
5 62 (21.02%) Software Engineering
6 56 (18.98%) Containerisation
7 55 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (16.27%) TDD
9 43 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (14.58%) Test Automation
10 41 (13.90%) Front End Development
11 34 (11.53%) Code Quality
11 34 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (10.85%) Event-Driven
13 29 (9.83%) Unit Testing
14 28 (9.49%) Scrum
15 27 (9.15%) Observability
16 26 (8.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.03%) JavaScript
2 106 (35.93%) TypeScript
3 103 (34.92%) Java
4 76 (25.76%) Python
5 36 (12.20%) C#
6 35 (11.86%) SQL
7 19 (6.44%) C++
8 12 (4.07%) Bash
8 12 (4.07%) Go
9 9 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.03%) Groovy
11 5 (1.69%) Scala
12 4 (1.36%) Bicep
12 4 (1.36%) Ruby
13 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Rust
14 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 76 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.73%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.36%) Degree
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.17%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.10%) QA
2 18 (6.10%) WCAG
3 7 (2.37%) GDPR
4 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (28.47%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) Postfix
3 3 (1.02%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 64 (21.69%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.63%) Terraform
3 29 (9.83%) Grafana
4 10 (3.39%) Ansible
5 8 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.03%) Argo
6 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.02%) Podman
8 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.68%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) Rancher
9 1 (0.34%) Icinga
Vendors
1 28 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.41%) Databricks
2 13 (4.41%) Google
3 10 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (3.39%) Red Hat
3 10 (3.39%) Sitecore
4 7 (2.37%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.37%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.37%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.37%) SAP
5 5 (1.69%) Sonatype
6 4 (1.36%) Okta
6 4 (1.36%) Oracle
6 4 (1.36%) Splunk
6 4 (1.36%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.02%) Adobe
7 3 (1.02%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.02%) NEC