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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 175 186
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 -52
Contract jobs citing Node.js 285 194 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.30% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.56% 7.27% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 109 202
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £363 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £544 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 2
10th Percentile - £64.50 £51.20
25th Percentile - - £53.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% -14.50%
75th Percentile £65.19 - £59.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £65.50 £60.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

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 3,330 2,667 3,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.31% 17.86% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,186 1,666 2,399
10th Percentile £333 £340 £325
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £685 £676
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 68 137
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £39.02
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +30 127 £450 - 61
North West +12 65 £420 -6.67% 32
Yorkshire -1 56 £476 -12.46% 22
East of England -7 47 £478 +23.23% 16
South West +3 37 £588 +17.50% 28
Scotland +1 31 £410 -6.29% 9
Midlands -23 25 £500 +17.65% 35
South East -33 23 £475 -17.39% 54
West Midlands -22 18 £600 +17.07% 18
North East -2 12 £450 -10.00% 7
East Midlands -13 7 £412 +26.62% 17
Wales +2 3 £375 -23.08% 8
Northern Ireland -9 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 17 (5.96%) WebLogic
2 15 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.40%) CMS
4 3 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) Drupal
5 2 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.81%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 157 (55.09%) AWS
2 79 (27.72%) Serverless
3 66 (23.16%) Azure
4 61 (21.40%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (13.68%) GitHub
6 36 (12.63%) GCP
7 31 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (9.82%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (8.42%) Amazon S3
11 23 (8.07%) npm
12 20 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (4.21%) Apigee
16 12 (4.21%) OpenShift
17 11 (3.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 18 (6.32%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.86%) Firewall
4 2 (0.70%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) LAN
4 2 (0.70%) VoIP
4 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.14%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.12%) Redis
3 23 (8.07%) DynamoDB
3 23 (8.07%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.72%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 16 (5.61%) MySQL
8 9 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.81%) DocumentDB
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.40%) Aerospike
13 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.05%) Power BI
14 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.70%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 74 (25.96%) Git
2 60 (21.05%) GitLab
3 55 (19.30%) Jenkins
4 30 (10.53%) JIRA
5 27 (9.47%) Visual Studio
6 22 (7.72%) Cypress.io
7 18 (6.32%) Eclipse
8 16 (5.61%) Cucumber
9 15 (5.26%) SonarQube
10 13 (4.56%) Bitbucket
11 12 (4.21%) Mocha
12 11 (3.86%) Selenium
12 11 (3.86%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (3.16%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.46%) JUnit
14 7 (2.46%) webpack
15 6 (2.11%) Mockito
16 5 (1.75%) CircleCI
16 5 (1.75%) Maven
17 4 (1.40%) Storybook
General
1 68 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.46%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.33%) Finance
4 22 (7.72%) Military
5 20 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.91%) Banking
8 5 (1.75%) Law
8 5 (1.75%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (0.70%) Back Office
10 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (43.51%) Developer
2 53 (18.60%) Software Engineer
3 42 (14.74%) Senior
4 39 (13.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (11.58%) Lead
6 31 (10.88%) Node.js Developer
7 21 (7.37%) Senior Developer
8 17 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (5.61%) AWS Developer
9 16 (5.61%) C# Software Engineer
9 16 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (5.26%) Consultant
10 15 (5.26%) Technical Leader
11 14 (4.91%) Architect
11 14 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.91%) Test Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) C++ Software Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) JavaScript Developer
13 11 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.86%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (41.05%) React
2 57 (20.00%) HTML
3 44 (15.44%) AngularJS
4 42 (14.74%) CSS
5 41 (14.39%) REST
6 40 (14.04%) RESTful
7 37 (12.98%) Jest
8 32 (11.23%) .NET
9 31 (10.88%) Express.js
10 23 (8.07%) Web Services
11 20 (7.02%) Next.js
11 20 (7.02%) Spring
12 18 (6.32%) CSS3
12 18 (6.32%) HTML5
12 18 (6.32%) Playwright
12 18 (6.32%) Redux
12 18 (6.32%) Vue
13 17 (5.96%) Middleware
13 17 (5.96%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.46%) NHS
7 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.11%) IVR
7 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
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 46 (16.14%) Linux
2 26 (9.12%) Windows
3 2 (0.70%) Android
3 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (51.23%) CI/CD
2 120 (42.11%) Agile
3 109 (38.25%) Microservices
4 95 (33.33%) DevOps
5 71 (24.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 66 (23.16%) Software Engineering
7 56 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (19.30%) Containerisation
9 49 (17.19%) TDD
10 41 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (13.68%) Test Automation
12 34 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (10.53%) Clean Code
13 30 (10.53%) Code Quality
14 29 (10.18%) Unit Testing
15 26 (9.12%) Continuous Delivery
15 26 (9.12%) Mentoring
15 26 (9.12%) User Experience
16 23 (8.07%) Analytics
16 23 (8.07%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 116 (40.70%) JavaScript
2 113 (39.65%) TypeScript
3 87 (30.53%) Java
4 82 (28.77%) Python
5 43 (15.09%) C++
6 35 (12.28%) SQL
7 34 (11.93%) C#
8 23 (8.07%) PHP
9 18 (6.32%) C
10 16 (5.61%) Ruby
11 15 (5.26%) Bash
11 15 (5.26%) PowerShell
12 12 (4.21%) Perl
13 8 (2.81%) Go
14 6 (2.11%) VBA
15 4 (1.40%) Bicep
15 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.70%) Scala
16 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.61%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.81%) Degree
5 8 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.70%) 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 27 (9.47%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.07%) QA
3 20 (7.02%) WCAG
4 8 (2.81%) GDPR
5 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.05%) PMO
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (27.72%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.05%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (21.05%) Kubernetes
1 60 (21.05%) Terraform
2 23 (8.07%) Grafana
3 14 (4.91%) Ansible
4 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.05%) Argo
5 3 (1.05%) Packer
6 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.35%) Icinga
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.32%) Dynatrace
2 18 (6.32%) Oracle
3 16 (5.61%) Google
4 10 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.16%) Splunk
6 6 (2.11%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.11%) Cisco
7 5 (1.75%) Adobe
7 5 (1.75%) Avaya
7 5 (1.75%) Databricks
7 5 (1.75%) Genesys
8 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.40%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.05%) Pega
9 3 (1.05%) Perforce
9 3 (1.05%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.70%) Veracode