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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 157 173
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -29
Contract jobs citing Node.js 289 196 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 1.53% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.32% 8.22% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 151 198
10th Percentile £400 £378 £306
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.68% -5.43%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £625
90th Percentile £603 £650 £833
UK median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.53% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 19
10th Percentile £59.00 £55.13 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -11.86%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.00 £72.00
90th Percentile £93.10 - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -8.77%

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 3,948 2,384 3,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.60% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 1,662 2,175
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
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 £608
90th Percentile £666 £638 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 81 216
10th Percentile £36.95 £33.91 £22.63
25th Percentile £53.44 £51.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -35 134 £515 +3.00% 41
North West -27 72 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -14 58 £425 +1.19% 21
Yorkshire -17 54 £512 -2.48% 11
South West -8 41 £525 -4.55% 13
West Midlands -31 37 £425 -5.56% 10
East of England -10 29 £550 +11.39% 13
South East -55 21 £533 +3.60% 52
East Midlands -12 20 £434 +33.05% 11
Scotland -12 18 £425 -13.97% 2
North East -29 12 £413 -14.06% 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 9 (3.11%) CMS
1 9 (3.11%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.04%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Moodle
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (53.98%) AWS
2 75 (25.95%) Azure
3 51 (17.65%) Serverless
4 44 (15.22%) GitHub
5 41 (14.19%) GCP
6 32 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (10.73%) Amazon SQS
8 30 (10.38%) Amazon S3
9 26 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (5.19%) OpenShift
14 14 (4.84%) AWS KMS
15 12 (4.15%) Route 53
16 8 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (2.42%) Amazon EventBridge
17 7 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 7 (2.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.50%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.38%) HTTP
2 4 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.04%) Firewall
4 1 (0.35%) LAN
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (11.07%) DynamoDB
3 22 (7.61%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.11%) Redis
9 8 (2.77%) Aerospike
10 7 (2.42%) MySQL
10 7 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.08%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.73%) Metadata
13 3 (1.04%) Big Data
14 2 (0.69%) Power BI
14 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
15 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.35%) GIS
15 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (17.65%) Git
2 45 (15.57%) Jenkins
3 33 (11.42%) GitLab
4 26 (9.00%) JUnit
5 23 (7.96%) SonarQube
6 17 (5.88%) Maven
7 13 (4.50%) Eclipse
7 13 (4.50%) Visual Studio
8 12 (4.15%) Mockito
9 11 (3.81%) Cypress.io
9 11 (3.81%) JIRA
10 8 (2.77%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.77%) jMock
10 8 (2.77%) Mocha
11 7 (2.42%) CircleCI
12 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.73%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.73%) Selenium
14 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 66 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.73%) Finance
4 18 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.54%) Military
6 11 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.11%) Retail
8 7 (2.42%) Banking
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.04%) Publishing
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.35%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (51.90%) Developer
2 49 (16.96%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (11.76%) Lead
3 34 (11.76%) Senior
3 34 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 26 (9.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 26 (9.00%) Java Developer
5 23 (7.96%) Senior Developer
6 22 (7.61%) Architect
7 21 (7.27%) Node.js Developer
8 19 (6.57%) Software Developer
9 16 (5.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.19%) Lead Developer
11 14 (4.84%) Technical Architect
12 13 (4.50%) AWS Developer
12 13 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) JavaScript Developer
14 10 (3.46%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (39.10%) React
2 65 (22.49%) REST
3 50 (17.30%) Spring
4 45 (15.57%) AngularJS
5 44 (15.22%) Spring Boot
6 30 (10.38%) RESTful
7 29 (10.03%) Web Services
8 28 (9.69%) Express.js
9 25 (8.65%) Jest
10 24 (8.30%) CSS
11 21 (7.27%) HTML
11 21 (7.27%) YAML
12 18 (6.23%) .NET
13 16 (5.54%) Django
13 16 (5.54%) Flask
13 16 (5.54%) Kafka
14 15 (5.19%) GraphQL
14 15 (5.19%) Playwright
14 15 (5.19%) Vue
15 14 (4.84%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.08%) NHS
6 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) IoT
8 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.03%) Linux
2 16 (5.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (59.86%) CI/CD
2 135 (46.71%) Agile
3 115 (39.79%) DevOps
4 107 (37.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 99 (34.26%) Microservices
6 63 (21.80%) Software Engineering
7 57 (19.72%) Containerisation
8 50 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (16.96%) TDD
10 44 (15.22%) Front End Development
11 39 (13.49%) Test Automation
12 37 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (11.42%) Event-Driven
15 30 (10.38%) Code Quality
15 30 (10.38%) Observability
15 30 (10.38%) Scrum
15 30 (10.38%) Workflow
16 27 (9.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.91%) JavaScript
2 101 (34.95%) TypeScript
3 100 (34.60%) Java
4 74 (25.61%) Python
5 38 (13.15%) SQL
6 29 (10.03%) C#
7 15 (5.19%) C++
8 13 (4.50%) Go
9 10 (3.46%) Bash
10 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.08%) Ruby
11 5 (1.73%) Groovy
12 4 (1.38%) Rust
12 4 (1.38%) Scala
13 3 (1.04%) PHP
14 2 (0.69%) Bicep
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.77%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.38%) Degree
7 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.23%) WCAG
3 16 (5.54%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 77 (26.64%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Postfix
3 2 (0.69%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 62 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 51 (17.65%) Terraform
3 29 (10.03%) Grafana
4 9 (3.11%) Ansible
4 9 (3.11%) Argo
4 9 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.04%) Podman
7 2 (0.69%) Puppet
7 2 (0.69%) Rancher
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 34 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.88%) Google
3 12 (4.15%) Jaspersoft
3 12 (4.15%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.46%) Databricks
4 10 (3.46%) Sitecore
5 8 (2.77%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.77%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.77%) SAP
5 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.73%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.38%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.38%) Okta
9 3 (1.04%) Adobe
9 3 (1.04%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.04%) NEC
9 3 (1.04%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) Foundry
10 2 (0.69%) Splunk