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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 182 180
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -39
Contract jobs citing Node.js 284 203 276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.61% 1.24% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.60% 7.10% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 112 223
10th Percentile £346 £325 £363
25th Percentile £385 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £630 £670 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £558 £500
% change year-on-year -10.31% +11.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 3
10th Percentile £63.05 £62.50 £52.40
25th Percentile - - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -4.98%
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.50 £68.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

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 3,304 2,860 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.78% 17.48% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 1,728 2,523
10th Percentile £325 £340 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £686 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 91 147
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £42.83
25th Percentile £44.63 £44.34 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%

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 25 November 2025.

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
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 25 November 2025. 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 +20 118 £425 -5.56% 33
North West +8 60 £400 -11.11% 22
Yorkshire +10 51 £494 -10.23% 6
East of England -1 51 £553 +47.33% 23
South West -3 37 £588 -6.00% 40
Scotland +2 31 £420 -4.00% 17
Midlands -20 25 £500 -9.09% 47
South East -19 23 £508 -13.62% 102
West Midlands -16 17 £600 +4.35% 28
North East 0 11 £500 +29.03% 5
East Midlands -6 8 £402 +23.69% 19
Wales +1 3 £375 -31.82% 12
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 6
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 17 (5.99%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.28%) WebSphere
3 9 (3.17%) Confluence
4 4 (1.41%) CMS
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.70%) Drupal
6 2 (0.70%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 146 (51.41%) AWS
2 72 (25.35%) Serverless
3 67 (23.59%) Azure
4 59 (20.77%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (11.27%) GCP
6 30 (10.56%) GitHub
7 27 (9.51%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (9.15%) Amazon S3
8 26 (9.15%) npm
9 18 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (5.63%) OpenShift
12 15 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (5.28%) SaaS
13 12 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.87%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.10%) TCP/IP
2 22 (7.75%) Ethernet
3 9 (3.17%) Firewall
4 2 (0.70%) VoIP
5 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.25%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 23 (8.10%) MongoDB
4 22 (7.75%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.39%) MySQL
5 21 (7.39%) Redis
6 20 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (7.04%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.87%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.11%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.06%) Aerospike
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.06%) Power BI
11 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (23.59%) Git
2 51 (17.96%) GitLab
3 48 (16.90%) Jenkins
4 36 (12.68%) JIRA
5 31 (10.92%) Visual Studio
6 22 (7.75%) Eclipse
7 21 (7.39%) Cypress.io
8 19 (6.69%) SonarQube
9 18 (6.34%) Cucumber
10 15 (5.28%) Bitbucket
11 14 (4.93%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (4.58%) Selenium
13 10 (3.52%) Mocha
14 9 (3.17%) Artifactory
14 9 (3.17%) Mockito
15 7 (2.46%) JUnit
15 7 (2.46%) Maven
15 7 (2.46%) webpack
16 6 (2.11%) Grunt
16 6 (2.11%) gulp
General
1 64 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 37 (13.03%) Finance
4 26 (9.15%) Military
5 23 (8.10%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.58%) Banking
8 6 (2.11%) Law
9 5 (1.76%) Retail
10 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (41.55%) Developer
2 53 (18.66%) Software Engineer
3 40 (14.08%) Senior
4 38 (13.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (13.03%) Lead
6 26 (9.15%) Node.js Developer
7 21 (7.39%) Senior Developer
8 20 (7.04%) C# Software Engineer
9 15 (5.28%) Architect
9 15 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.93%) C++ Software Engineer
10 14 (4.93%) Consultant
10 14 (4.93%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.93%) Test Engineer
11 13 (4.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 13 (4.58%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.87%) AWS Developer
12 11 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (3.87%) JavaScript Developer
12 11 (3.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (43.31%) React
2 65 (22.89%) HTML
3 49 (17.25%) AngularJS
4 48 (16.90%) CSS
5 40 (14.08%) Jest
5 40 (14.08%) REST
5 40 (14.08%) RESTful
6 33 (11.62%) .NET
7 29 (10.21%) Web Services
8 28 (9.86%) Express.js
9 25 (8.80%) Redux
10 22 (7.75%) HTML5
10 22 (7.75%) Next.js
11 21 (7.39%) CSS3
12 20 (7.04%) Vue
13 17 (5.99%) Middleware
13 17 (5.99%) Spring Boot
14 16 (5.63%) Spring
15 15 (5.28%) GraphQL
16 13 (4.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.52%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.52%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.46%) NHS
4 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.11%) IVR
5 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.35%) Tandem
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (18.31%) Linux
2 34 (11.97%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) Android
3 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (52.82%) CI/CD
2 123 (43.31%) Agile
3 101 (35.56%) Microservices
4 92 (32.39%) DevOps
5 71 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 66 (23.24%) Software Engineering
7 58 (20.42%) TDD
8 54 (19.01%) Containerisation
9 49 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
11 38 (13.38%) Test Automation
12 37 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (12.32%) Unit Testing
14 31 (10.92%) Clean Code
14 31 (10.92%) Mentoring
15 29 (10.21%) Code Quality
16 28 (9.86%) Continuous Delivery
17 25 (8.80%) ETL
17 25 (8.80%) Validation
18 24 (8.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.20%) JavaScript
2 99 (34.86%) TypeScript
3 87 (30.63%) Python
4 85 (29.93%) Java
5 45 (15.85%) C++
6 39 (13.73%) SQL
7 38 (13.38%) C#
8 28 (9.86%) PHP
9 18 (6.34%) C
10 17 (5.99%) Ruby
11 16 (5.63%) Bash
12 13 (4.58%) PowerShell
13 11 (3.87%) Perl
14 7 (2.46%) Go
15 6 (2.11%) VBA
16 4 (1.41%) Bicep
16 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.70%) Groovy
17 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.28%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.46%) Degree
7 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) CCNA
8 1 (0.35%) CCNP
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.21%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.04%) QA
3 19 (6.69%) WCAG
4 8 (2.82%) GDPR
5 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.06%) PMO
8 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.70%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 84 (29.58%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 69 (24.30%) Kubernetes
2 56 (19.72%) Terraform
3 25 (8.80%) Grafana
4 14 (4.93%) Ansible
5 4 (1.41%) Packer
5 4 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Argo
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.10%) Oracle
3 18 (6.34%) Dynatrace
3 18 (6.34%) Google
4 11 (3.87%) AppDynamics
5 8 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.46%) Splunk
7 6 (2.11%) Cisco
7 6 (2.11%) Perforce
8 5 (1.76%) Avaya
8 5 (1.76%) Genesys
8 5 (1.76%) Veracode
9 4 (1.41%) Databricks
9 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.06%) Adobe
10 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.06%) Pega
10 3 (1.06%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian