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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 170 187
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -54
Contract jobs citing Node.js 280 190 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.46% 1.39% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.05% 7.47% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 119 194
10th Percentile £358 £339 £341
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £619 £605 £668
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile £62.00 £62.38 £43.10
25th Percentile - £64.06 £55.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.52% +0.76%
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile £66.00 - £74.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +4.84% -5.34%

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 3,479 2,544 3,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.17% 18.55% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,317 1,587 2,270
10th Percentile £350 £347 £325
25th Percentile £408 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £597
90th Percentile £675 £679 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 59 153
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.02 £22.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.25 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.33 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +4 139 £475 - 99
North West +2 70 £450 - 50
Yorkshire -1 62 £476 -9.33% 39
South West +9 41 £550 +15.79% 62
Midlands -33 31 £481 +6.94% 45
Scotland -9 26 £400 -9.60% 10
East of England -18 25 £563 +40.63% 55
South East -35 24 £488 -13.33% 135
West Midlands -23 20 £586 +30.11% 20
North East -6 15 £450 +28.57% 10
East Midlands - 11 £401 - 25
Wales -6 3 £375 -25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 7
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 11 (3.93%) CMS
2 7 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.07%) Apache
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.71%) Drupal
4 2 (0.71%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.50%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 167 (59.64%) AWS
2 79 (28.21%) Serverless
3 64 (22.86%) Azure
4 60 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (16.07%) GitHub
6 35 (12.50%) GCP
7 32 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (10.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (8.21%) Amazon S3
11 20 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (5.71%) OpenShift
15 15 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (5.00%) npm
16 14 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (4.29%) Apigee
18 10 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.64%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.93%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
5 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.29%) NoSQL
2 26 (9.29%) Redis
3 25 (8.93%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 19 (6.79%) Relational Database
6 17 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (4.64%) MySQL
8 10 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.86%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.86%) DocumentDB
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.07%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.07%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.71%) Metadata
12 2 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 77 (27.50%) Git
2 57 (20.36%) GitLab
3 54 (19.29%) Jenkins
4 25 (8.93%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.43%) JIRA
6 16 (5.71%) Mocha
7 14 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.64%) Eclipse
8 13 (4.64%) SonarQube
8 13 (4.64%) Visual Studio
9 12 (4.29%) JUnit
10 11 (3.93%) Bitbucket
11 10 (3.57%) Selenium
12 9 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.50%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.79%) Maven
15 4 (1.43%) Mockito
15 4 (1.43%) Storybook
16 3 (1.07%) Grunt
16 3 (1.07%) webpack
General
1 68 (24.29%) Public Sector
2 67 (23.93%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.21%) Finance
4 25 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.71%) Military
6 14 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.29%) Banking
8 4 (1.43%) Law
8 4 (1.43%) Retail
9 3 (1.07%) Games
10 2 (0.71%) Back Office
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.36%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (50.00%) Developer
2 44 (15.71%) Senior
3 40 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 39 (13.93%) Software Engineer
5 37 (13.21%) Node.js Developer
6 36 (12.86%) Lead
7 23 (8.21%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.79%) AWS Developer
9 16 (5.71%) Architect
9 16 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 16 (5.71%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
11 14 (5.00%) Test Engineer
12 13 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.64%) Technical Leader
13 12 (4.29%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.93%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (3.93%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.93%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (40.00%) React
2 47 (16.79%) REST
3 43 (15.36%) Jest
4 38 (13.57%) AngularJS
5 36 (12.86%) RESTful
6 33 (11.79%) CSS
7 31 (11.07%) HTML
8 28 (10.00%) Express.js
8 28 (10.00%) Spring
9 22 (7.86%) Playwright
10 21 (7.50%) Spring Boot
11 19 (6.79%) Next.js
11 19 (6.79%) Web Services
12 15 (5.36%) .NET
12 15 (5.36%) Redux
13 14 (5.00%) Kafka
14 13 (4.64%) GraphQL
14 13 (4.64%) OAuth
14 13 (4.64%) Vue
15 12 (4.29%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.14%) IVR
5 6 (2.14%) NHS
6 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.36%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.50%) Linux
2 21 (7.50%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Android
3 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) CentOS
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (50.71%) CI/CD
2 117 (41.79%) Agile
3 105 (37.50%) Microservices
4 100 (35.71%) DevOps
5 72 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (19.64%) Software Engineering
8 51 (18.21%) Containerisation
8 51 (18.21%) Test Automation
9 47 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (11.79%) Code Quality
11 30 (10.71%) TDD
12 28 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 28 (10.00%) Front End Development
13 26 (9.29%) Unit Testing
14 25 (8.93%) Analytics
15 24 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (8.57%) User Experience
16 23 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (8.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 105 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 101 (36.07%) TypeScript
3 91 (32.50%) Python
4 89 (31.79%) Java
5 32 (11.43%) SQL
6 26 (9.29%) C#
7 18 (6.43%) Ruby
8 16 (5.71%) C++
9 15 (5.36%) Bash
9 15 (5.36%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.93%) Go
10 11 (3.93%) Perl
11 7 (2.50%) PHP
12 6 (2.14%) VBA
13 4 (1.43%) Bicep
14 3 (1.07%) C
14 3 (1.07%) Groovy
14 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.71%) Scala
15 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.21%) Degree
6 8 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.79%) Accessibility
2 24 (8.57%) WCAG
3 13 (4.64%) QA
4 9 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.86%) GDPR
6 7 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.79%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.07%) PMO
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.36%) NCSC
10 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (26.07%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.07%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (22.14%) Terraform
2 53 (18.93%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.50%) Grafana
4 15 (5.36%) Ansible
5 5 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.07%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.71%) Istio
7 2 (0.71%) Kibana
7 2 (0.71%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) Icinga
8 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.07%) Google
3 16 (5.71%) Oracle
4 10 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.21%) Databricks
6 8 (2.86%) Sitecore
6 8 (2.86%) Splunk
7 7 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.14%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.79%) Adobe
9 5 (1.79%) Avaya
9 5 (1.79%) Cisco
9 5 (1.79%) Genesys
9 5 (1.79%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.43%) Okta
10 4 (1.43%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.07%) Perforce