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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 156 169
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 -25
Contract jobs citing Node.js 294 200 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.57% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.54% 8.47% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 155 195
10th Percentile £400 £381 £309
25th Percentile £413 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -4.33%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £631
90th Percentile £605 £650 £840
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 18
10th Percentile £58.75 £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 £76.00 £65.00 £72.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - £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 3,900 2,362 3,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.55% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 1,639 2,134
10th Percentile £350 £325 £320
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £650 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 81 214
10th Percentile £36.45 £33.91 £21.96
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.35 £74.48
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -34 140 £514 +2.80% 67
North West -36 75 £525 +0.96% 41
Yorkshire -11 56 £500 -2.44% 16
Midlands -25 56 £443 +5.36% 27
South West -4 41 £525 -4.55% 30
West Midlands -26 37 £425 -5.56% 11
East of England -9 29 £550 +11.39% 32
South East -58 22 £533 +3.60% 80
East Midlands -12 18 £445 +36.43% 16
Scotland -18 17 £425 -14.49% 5
North East -30 14 £425 -11.46% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
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 (3.06%) CMS
1 9 (3.06%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
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
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) 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
1 164 (55.78%) AWS
2 76 (25.85%) Azure
3 55 (18.71%) Serverless
4 46 (15.65%) GitHub
5 41 (13.95%) GCP
6 34 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (11.22%) Amazon S3
8 32 (10.88%) Amazon SQS
9 29 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.76%) AWS KMS
14 13 (4.42%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.08%) Route 53
16 11 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
18 8 (2.72%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.08%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.36%) HTTP
2 4 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.56%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.82%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.44%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.08%) Redis
7 11 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.72%) Aerospike
8 8 (2.72%) DocumentDB
8 8 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.38%) MySQL
10 5 (1.70%) Metadata
11 3 (1.02%) Big Data
12 2 (0.68%) Power BI
12 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.34%) GIS
13 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.34%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (18.03%) Git
2 48 (16.33%) Jenkins
3 38 (12.93%) GitLab
4 27 (9.18%) JUnit
4 27 (9.18%) SonarQube
5 19 (6.46%) Maven
6 12 (4.08%) Eclipse
6 12 (4.08%) Mockito
6 12 (4.08%) Visual Studio
7 11 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.74%) JIRA
8 8 (2.72%) DbUnit
8 8 (2.72%) jMock
8 8 (2.72%) Mocha
9 7 (2.38%) CircleCI
10 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.70%) Selenium
12 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.02%) Jasmine
General
1 74 (25.17%) Public Sector
2 69 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.88%) Finance
4 18 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.42%) Military
6 11 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.06%) Retail
8 7 (2.38%) Banking
9 4 (1.36%) Marketing
10 3 (1.02%) Publishing
11 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (53.74%) Developer
2 50 (17.01%) Full-Stack Developer
3 36 (12.24%) Software Engineer
4 35 (11.90%) Lead
4 35 (11.90%) Senior
5 30 (10.20%) Java Developer
6 25 (8.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 25 (8.50%) Senior Developer
7 24 (8.16%) Node.js Developer
8 20 (6.80%) Architect
9 19 (6.46%) Software Developer
10 16 (5.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 15 (5.10%) AWS Developer
11 15 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.10%) Lead Developer
12 14 (4.76%) Technical Architect
13 13 (4.42%) JavaScript Developer
14 12 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.74%) Technical Leader
16 9 (3.06%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (38.44%) React
2 63 (21.43%) REST
3 55 (18.71%) Spring
4 50 (17.01%) AngularJS
5 47 (15.99%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.54%) RESTful
7 29 (9.86%) Express.js
8 28 (9.52%) Web Services
9 27 (9.18%) Jest
10 24 (8.16%) CSS
11 21 (7.14%) HTML
11 21 (7.14%) YAML
12 18 (6.12%) .NET
13 17 (5.78%) Flask
14 16 (5.44%) Django
14 16 (5.44%) Playwright
14 16 (5.44%) Vue
15 15 (5.10%) GraphQL
15 15 (5.10%) Kafka
16 14 (4.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.54%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.04%) NHS
7 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Replication
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.52%) Linux
2 15 (5.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (58.50%) CI/CD
2 133 (45.24%) Agile
3 117 (39.80%) DevOps
4 108 (36.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 100 (34.01%) Microservices
6 63 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 58 (19.73%) Containerisation
8 49 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (16.67%) TDD
9 44 (14.97%) Front End Development
10 39 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (12.59%) Test Automation
12 35 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (10.88%) Event-Driven
14 31 (10.54%) Observability
14 31 (10.54%) Workflow
15 30 (10.20%) Code Quality
15 30 (10.20%) Scrum
16 29 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (9.18%) AI
Programming Languages
1 126 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 107 (36.39%) Java
3 106 (36.05%) TypeScript
4 76 (25.85%) Python
5 38 (12.93%) SQL
6 29 (9.86%) C#
7 14 (4.76%) C++
7 14 (4.76%) Go
8 11 (3.74%) Bash
9 6 (2.04%) Groovy
9 6 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.04%) Ruby
10 5 (1.70%) Scala
11 4 (1.36%) Rust
12 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.02%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
13 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.09%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.70%) Degree
7 4 (1.36%) Computer Science 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 32 (10.88%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.12%) WCAG
3 17 (5.78%) QA
4 6 (2.04%) GDPR
5 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (26.87%) Docker
2 7 (2.38%) Postfix
3 3 (1.02%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 62 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.01%) Terraform
3 31 (10.54%) Grafana
4 9 (3.06%) Ansible
4 9 (3.06%) Argo
4 9 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) Podman
7 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) Rancher
8 1 (0.34%) Icinga
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.10%) Google
3 12 (4.08%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (4.08%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.40%) Databricks
4 10 (3.40%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.72%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.72%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.72%) SAP
5 8 (2.72%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.70%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.36%) Adobe
8 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.36%) Okta
9 3 (1.02%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.02%) NEC
9 3 (1.02%) Oracle
9 3 (1.02%) Splunk
9 3 (1.02%) Virgin Media