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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 165 158
Rank change year-on-year -52 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Node.js 297 235 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.55% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 8.47% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 151 170
10th Percentile £363 £353 £322
25th Percentile £404 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.21% +8.08%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £671
90th Percentile £650 £638 £850
UK median daily rate £521 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.10% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 29
10th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £62.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £67.00 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.86%

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 4,232 2,775 3,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.53% 18.32% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,758 1,867 2,022
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £611
90th Percentile £679 £625 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 122 214
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.25 £25.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £58.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -4.01% +1.04%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £79.87 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -33 139 £515 +9.81% 74
North West -48 63 £560 +24.44% 43
Yorkshire -9 54 £519 +3.80% 22
Midlands -14 54 £425 +22.66% 29
South West -24 38 £525 -4.55% 26
West Midlands -32 37 £413 -41.07% 19
Scotland -5 34 £377 -18.49% 18
North East -34 22 £400 -16.67% 9
East of England -38 20 £505 -1.46% 15
East Midlands -8 16 £445 +64.72% 10
South East -75 15 £438 -15.05% 57
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 7 (2.36%) CMS
2 6 (2.02%) WordPress
3 5 (1.68%) Confluence
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.01%) Apache
5 3 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (59.60%) AWS
2 75 (25.25%) Azure
3 55 (18.52%) GCP
4 45 (15.15%) Serverless
5 40 (13.47%) GitHub
6 33 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 32 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
8 26 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (5.39%) AWS KMS
13 14 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (4.04%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.04%) Route 53
15 10 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
17 8 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.01%) HTTP
3 2 (0.67%) CTI
3 2 (0.67%) Firewall
3 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (10.10%) DynamoDB
3 26 (8.75%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.72%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (5.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (4.38%) MySQL
8 10 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.36%) Metadata
9 7 (2.36%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.68%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.35%) Redis
12 3 (1.01%) Aerospike
12 3 (1.01%) Big Data
12 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.67%) Power BI
13 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 61 (20.54%) Git
2 55 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 32 (10.77%) Maven
4 27 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 26 (8.75%) JUnit
6 22 (7.41%) JIRA
7 20 (6.73%) GitLab
8 14 (4.71%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.38%) Eclipse
9 13 (4.38%) Gradle
9 13 (4.38%) Visual Studio
10 12 (4.04%) Mockito
11 11 (3.70%) Selenium
12 9 (3.03%) GoCD
13 8 (2.69%) Cypress.io
13 8 (2.69%) DbUnit
13 8 (2.69%) jMock
13 8 (2.69%) REST Assured
14 7 (2.36%) Claude Code
14 7 (2.36%) JProfiler
General
1 67 (22.56%) Public Sector
2 65 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.45%) Finance
4 23 (7.74%) Military
5 21 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.06%) Retail
7 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.03%) Publishing
9 8 (2.69%) Banking
9 8 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.01%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (51.18%) Developer
2 51 (17.17%) Full-Stack Developer
3 48 (16.16%) Senior
4 39 (13.13%) Lead
5 38 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 37 (12.46%) Java Developer
7 34 (11.45%) Senior Developer
8 28 (9.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 22 (7.41%) Lead Developer
10 19 (6.40%) Architect
11 16 (5.39%) Node.js Developer
12 15 (5.05%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (4.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 10 (3.37%) C# Software Engineer
15 10 (3.37%) Lead Java Developer
15 10 (3.37%) Technical Architect
16 9 (3.03%) Python Developer
16 9 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (42.42%) React
2 85 (28.62%) REST
3 57 (19.19%) Spring
4 56 (18.86%) Spring Boot
5 41 (13.80%) AngularJS
6 33 (11.11%) Web Services
7 32 (10.77%) RESTful
8 29 (9.76%) HTML
9 27 (9.09%) CSS
10 26 (8.75%) Express.js
11 19 (6.40%) Jest
11 19 (6.40%) Kafka
12 18 (6.06%) Playwright
12 18 (6.06%) YAML
13 17 (5.72%) JPA
13 17 (5.72%) Redux
14 16 (5.39%) AWS CDK
14 16 (5.39%) Flask
15 15 (5.05%) Next.js
15 15 (5.05%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 67 (22.56%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.44%) Product Ownership
3 30 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.35%) NHS
8 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.67%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.67%) IoT
9 2 (0.67%) IVR
9 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.67%) PKI
9 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.43%) Linux
2 14 (4.71%) Windows
3 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Tizen
4 1 (0.34%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (62.63%) CI/CD
2 139 (46.80%) Agile
3 112 (37.71%) DevOps
4 110 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 99 (33.33%) Microservices
6 79 (26.60%) Software Engineering
7 57 (19.19%) TDD
8 55 (18.52%) Test Automation
9 54 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (17.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (15.82%) Containerisation
12 45 (15.15%) Mentoring
13 43 (14.48%) Event-Driven
13 43 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (13.47%) Front End Development
14 40 (13.47%) Observability
14 40 (13.47%) Scrum
15 35 (11.78%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (11.45%) AI
17 33 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 142 (47.81%) JavaScript
2 108 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 105 (35.35%) Java
4 77 (25.93%) Python
5 42 (14.14%) SQL
6 21 (7.07%) C#
7 14 (4.71%) Bash
8 13 (4.38%) C++
9 12 (4.04%) Go
10 8 (2.69%) Groovy
10 8 (2.69%) PHP
11 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.36%) Ruby
11 7 (2.36%) Rust
12 4 (1.35%) Scala
13 3 (1.01%) Bicep
14 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 58 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.37%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.01%) Degree
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.13%) Accessibility
2 31 (10.44%) QA
3 13 (4.38%) WCAG
4 6 (2.02%) GDPR
5 4 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (26.60%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 72 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 53 (17.85%) Terraform
3 27 (9.09%) Grafana
4 14 (4.71%) Ansible
5 10 (3.37%) Argo
6 9 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.01%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.01%) Podman
9 2 (0.67%) Istio
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) Rancher
10 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.73%) Google
3 13 (4.38%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.04%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (4.04%) Oracle
5 10 (3.37%) SAP
6 9 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.69%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.36%) Sonatype
9 6 (2.02%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.02%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.68%) Databricks
11 4 (1.35%) Confluent
11 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.01%) Checkmarx
12 3 (1.01%) HP
12 3 (1.01%) NEC
13 2 (0.67%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.67%) Workday