Express.js Contracts

Express.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Express.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Express.js over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 486 608
Rank change year-on-year +25 +122 +16
Contract jobs citing Express.js 59 96 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 1.07% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 74 76
10th Percentile £410 £325 £404
25th Percentile £458 £375 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% -2.37%
75th Percentile £563 £597 £591
90th Percentile £625 £688 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +16.59% -19.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Express.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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Express.js
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Express.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Express.js in the UK

Express.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Express.js.

Daily rate trend for Express.js in the UK

Express.js
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Express.js over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Express.js in the UK

Express.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Express.js.

Hourly rate trend for Express.js in the UK

Express.js
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Express.js within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +14 42 £508 +12.78% 69
Work from Home +36 25 £525 +16.67% 58
UK excluding London +47 22 £496 +16.59% 41
London +17 22 £531 +6.25% 41
North of England +9 11 £480 -4.00% 16
North West +9 7 £550 -16.98% 13
North East +3 4 £465 -7.00% 1
Scotland - 4 £513 -
East of England - 3 £525 - 3
Midlands +14 2 £420 +20.00% 5
South East +46 1 £454 -24.33% 15
East Midlands +10 1 £420 +5.00% 2
West Midlands +6 1 £420 +20.00% 3
Wales -1 1 £575 +91.67% 3

Express.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) nginx
2 2 (3.39%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (62.71%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) Amazon S3
3 12 (20.34%) GitHub
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (13.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 8 (13.56%) CloudFront
6 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.86%) Kong
6 7 (11.86%) Serverless
7 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.17%) GCP
8 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (6.78%) Google Analytics
9 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 4 (6.78%) Sentry
10 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.39%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (44.07%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (23.73%) NoSQL
3 10 (16.95%) MongoDB
4 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (13.56%) Redis
5 7 (11.86%) MySQL
6 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.95%) SonarQube
4 9 (15.25%) GitLab
5 8 (13.56%) Cypress.io
6 7 (11.86%) Artifactory
6 7 (11.86%) gulp
6 7 (11.86%) Maven
6 7 (11.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (6.78%) CircleCI
7 4 (6.78%) Mocha
8 3 (5.08%) ESLint
8 3 (5.08%) JIRA
9 2 (3.39%) Vite
General
1 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Back Office
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Automotive
7 1 (1.69%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (81.36%) Developer
2 24 (40.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (15.25%) Node.js Developer
4 8 (13.56%) React Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior
6 5 (8.47%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) GCP Developer
9 2 (3.39%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (89.83%) Node.js
2 37 (62.71%) React
3 20 (33.90%) REST
4 14 (23.73%) CSS
4 14 (23.73%) HTML
5 13 (22.03%) AngularJS
6 12 (20.34%) Sass
7 11 (18.64%) Jest
7 11 (18.64%) Sequelize
8 10 (16.95%) MERN Stack
8 10 (16.95%) Nunjucks
9 9 (15.25%) Spring
9 9 (15.25%) Spring Boot
10 8 (13.56%) hapi
10 8 (13.56%) MEAN Stack
10 8 (13.56%) Svelte
11 7 (11.86%) Apache CXF
11 7 (11.86%) Dropwizard
11 7 (11.86%) GraphQL
11 7 (11.86%) Mongoose
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
1 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (33.90%) Microservices
3 18 (30.51%) Agile
3 18 (30.51%) CI/CD
4 13 (22.03%) Event-Driven
4 13 (22.03%) Front End Development
5 12 (20.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
7 10 (16.95%) DevOps
8 9 (15.25%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.25%) Design Patterns
8 9 (15.25%) Open Source
9 8 (13.56%) Progressive Enhancement
9 8 (13.56%) SOLID
10 7 (11.86%) Operational Stability
11 6 (10.17%) Clean Code
11 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (8.47%) Event-Driven Programming
12 5 (8.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (67.80%) JavaScript
2 20 (33.90%) TypeScript
3 16 (27.12%) SQL
4 15 (25.42%) Java
5 10 (16.95%) Python
6 2 (3.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
1 15 (25.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Terraform
2 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Adobe
1 4 (6.78%) Google
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle
1 4 (6.78%) Virgin Media
2 2 (3.39%) Workday