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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 179 178
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -36
Contract jobs citing Node.js 282 205 267
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.23% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.53% 7.10% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 114 217
10th Percentile £350 £324 £363
25th Percentile £385 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £588
90th Percentile £633 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 3
10th Percentile - £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 3,306 2,888 3,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.00% 17.32% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 1,773 2,601
10th Percentile £324 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 84 145
10th Percentile £30.65 £22.00 £45.11
25th Percentile £43.00 £39.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £73.93 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 15 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 15 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 +28 115 £445 -1.11% 91
North West +2 54 £400 -11.11% 70
Yorkshire +13 53 £500 -9.09% 14
East of England -4 51 £553 +47.33% 38
South West 0 37 £581 -7.00% 42
Scotland +2 33 £422 -3.57% 24
South East -15 24 £513 -10.87% 114
Midlands -18 23 £503 -8.64% 50
West Midlands -20 18 £600 +4.35% 34
North East -3 11 £500 +17.65% 7
East Midlands -8 5 £346 +6.31% 16
Wales +4 4 £375 -33.33% 15
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 (6.03%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.32%) WebSphere
3 10 (3.55%) Confluence
4 4 (1.42%) CMS
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) Drupal
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.19%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 144 (51.06%) AWS
2 70 (24.82%) Azure
3 69 (24.47%) Serverless
4 56 (19.86%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (10.99%) GCP
6 27 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (9.22%) GitHub
7 26 (9.22%) npm
8 23 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 18 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (5.32%) OpenShift
11 15 (5.32%) SaaS
12 14 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (3.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.16%) TCP/IP
2 22 (7.80%) Ethernet
3 9 (3.19%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) 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 54 (19.15%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.93%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.57%) MySQL
3 27 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 26 (9.22%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (6.74%) Redis
7 16 (5.67%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.90%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.77%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.06%) Power BI
14 2 (0.71%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 73 (25.89%) Git
2 48 (17.02%) GitLab
3 47 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 37 (13.12%) JIRA
5 31 (10.99%) Visual Studio
6 22 (7.80%) Eclipse
7 21 (7.45%) SonarQube
8 19 (6.74%) Cypress.io
9 17 (6.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (5.67%) Cucumber
11 15 (5.32%) Bitbucket
12 12 (4.26%) Artifactory
12 12 (4.26%) Selenium
13 9 (3.19%) Mocha
13 9 (3.19%) Mockito
13 9 (3.19%) webpack
14 7 (2.48%) Maven
15 6 (2.13%) Grunt
15 6 (2.13%) gulp
15 6 (2.13%) JUnit
General
1 61 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.50%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.70%) Finance
4 25 (8.87%) Military
5 24 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.61%) Banking
8 6 (2.13%) Law
9 5 (1.77%) Retail
10 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (43.62%) Developer
2 52 (18.44%) Software Engineer
3 40 (14.18%) Lead
3 40 (14.18%) Senior
4 37 (13.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (8.16%) Node.js Developer
6 22 (7.80%) Senior Developer
7 20 (7.09%) C# Software Engineer
8 15 (5.32%) C++ Software Engineer
8 15 (5.32%) Consultant
8 15 (5.32%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.96%) Architect
9 14 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (4.96%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.61%) Technical Leader
10 13 (4.61%) Test Engineer
11 12 (4.26%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.26%) JavaScript Developer
12 11 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (44.68%) React
2 66 (23.40%) HTML
3 49 (17.38%) CSS
4 47 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 44 (15.60%) RESTful
6 38 (13.48%) REST
7 37 (13.12%) Jest
8 33 (11.70%) .NET
9 31 (10.99%) Web Services
10 27 (9.57%) Express.js
10 27 (9.57%) Redux
11 23 (8.16%) HTML5
11 23 (8.16%) Next.js
12 22 (7.80%) CSS3
13 21 (7.45%) Vue
14 20 (7.09%) Spring Boot
15 17 (6.03%) Middleware
15 17 (6.03%) Spring
16 15 (5.32%) GraphQL
17 11 (3.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.55%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.55%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.13%) NHS
6 5 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.77%) IVR
6 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.35%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.35%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (18.44%) Linux
2 36 (12.77%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) Android
3 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (53.19%) CI/CD
2 121 (42.91%) Agile
3 105 (37.23%) Microservices
4 91 (32.27%) DevOps
5 71 (25.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (23.05%) Software Engineering
7 58 (20.57%) TDD
8 54 (19.15%) Containerisation
9 44 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
10 43 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 35 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (11.35%) Unit Testing
14 31 (10.99%) Mentoring
15 30 (10.64%) Clean Code
16 29 (10.28%) Continuous Delivery
17 27 (9.57%) Code Quality
18 25 (8.87%) Design Patterns
18 25 (8.87%) Front End Development
18 25 (8.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 126 (44.68%) JavaScript
2 96 (34.04%) TypeScript
3 90 (31.91%) Java
4 85 (30.14%) Python
5 46 (16.31%) C++
6 44 (15.60%) SQL
7 35 (12.41%) C#
8 28 (9.93%) PHP
9 19 (6.74%) C
10 17 (6.03%) Bash
10 17 (6.03%) Ruby
11 12 (4.26%) Perl
11 12 (4.26%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.84%) Go
13 6 (2.13%) VBA
14 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.06%) Bicep
16 1 (0.35%) ABAP
16 1 (0.35%) Groovy
16 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.48%) Degree
7 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) CCNA
9 1 (0.35%) CCNP
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.28%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.45%) QA
3 20 (7.09%) WCAG
4 7 (2.48%) GDPR
5 6 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.06%) PMO
8 2 (0.71%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 86 (30.50%) Docker
2 6 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 69 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 53 (18.79%) Terraform
3 25 (8.87%) Grafana
4 14 (4.96%) Ansible
5 4 (1.42%) Packer
5 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) Kibana
7 2 (0.71%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.16%) Oracle
3 18 (6.38%) Google
4 16 (5.67%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.90%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.13%) Perforce
8 5 (1.77%) Cisco
8 5 (1.77%) Splunk
8 5 (1.77%) Veracode
9 4 (1.42%) Avaya
9 4 (1.42%) Genesys
9 4 (1.42%) 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 (0.71%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.71%) SAP