Next.js Contract Job Trends

Next.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Next.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 387 442
Rank change year-on-year -134 +55 +59
Contract jobs citing Next.js 174 168 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 1.95% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 125 107
10th Percentile £393 £400 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £581
90th Percentile £675 £675 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £472
% change year-on-year +2.00% +5.93% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Next.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 11,832 8,601 9,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,764 5,716 6,059
10th Percentile £380 £357 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 188 181
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +10.11%

Next.js
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Next.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Next.js job vacancy trend in the UK

Next.js
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Next.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Next.js

Next.js
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Next.js over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Next.js in the UK

Next.js
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Next.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Next.js

Next.js
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Next.js within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 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
England -106 145 £575 +15.00% 356
London -74 96 £573 +14.50% 229
Work from Home -74 64 £500 - 206
UK excluding London -91 58 £510 +2.00% 147
North of England -76 19 £588 +20.51% 43
North West -45 15 £650 +36.84% 29
South West -24 11 £600 - 17
Scotland -23 10 £450 +0.67% 22
South East -60 9 £425 -18.07% 19
Yorkshire -34 4 £388 -22.50% 11
Midlands -46 4 £550 +34.15% 18
West Midlands -47 4 £550 - 15
Wales -13 3 £425 -18.27% 6
East of England -27 2 £738 +58.71% 15

Next.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (5.75%) CMS
2 7 (4.02%) Confluence
3 6 (3.45%) Headless CMS
4 4 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.15%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Blender
2 1 (0.57%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.66%) AWS
2 51 (29.31%) Azure
3 29 (16.67%) GitHub
4 21 (12.07%) Serverless
5 20 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.20%) Anthropic Claude
6 16 (9.20%) GitHub Copilot
7 14 (8.05%) GCP
8 13 (7.47%) Amazon S3
8 13 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (6.32%) CloudFront
10 8 (4.60%) Google Gemini
10 8 (4.60%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.02%) Cloudflare
12 6 (3.45%) Akamai
12 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.45%) Kong
12 6 (3.45%) Supabase
13 5 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.87%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.60%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.45%) Redis
7 5 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.15%) MySQL
9 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.57%) GIS
10 1 (0.57%) Metadata
10 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.57%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (21.26%) Git
2 19 (10.92%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.75%) Claude Code
5 7 (4.02%) JIRA
5 7 (4.02%) Vite
6 6 (3.45%) Storybook
7 5 (2.87%) JSUnit
8 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.72%) GitLab
9 3 (1.72%) MLflow
9 3 (1.72%) webpack
10 2 (1.15%) Ant
10 2 (1.15%) JMeter
10 2 (1.15%) rollup.js
10 2 (1.15%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.57%) Bundler
11 1 (0.57%) Mocha
11 1 (0.57%) Moq
11 1 (0.57%) RSpec
General
1 25 (14.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.64%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.92%) Retail
4 15 (8.62%) Finance
5 10 (5.75%) Banking
6 9 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.17%) Marketing
7 6 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.72%) Front Office
9 3 (1.72%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (35.63%) Developer
2 38 (21.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 38 (21.84%) Senior
3 24 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 23 (13.22%) Lead
5 19 (10.92%) React Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (8.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 14 (8.05%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.32%) Technical Leader
9 10 (5.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (5.75%) JavaScript Engineer
10 9 (5.17%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Architect
13 6 (3.45%) Python Developer
14 5 (2.87%) JavaScript Developer
14 5 (2.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (75.86%) React
2 48 (27.59%) Node.js
3 43 (24.71%) REST
4 36 (20.69%) CSS
5 32 (18.39%) HTML
6 31 (17.82%) GraphQL
7 28 (16.09%) Terraform
8 24 (13.79%) .NET
9 18 (10.34%) Playwright
10 17 (9.77%) RESTful
10 17 (9.77%) Spring
10 17 (9.77%) Spring Boot
11 14 (8.05%) FastAPI
12 12 (6.90%) Jest
12 12 (6.90%) OpenAPI
12 12 (6.90%) Redux
12 12 (6.90%) Swagger
13 10 (5.75%) JSON
13 10 (5.75%) OAuth
13 10 (5.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.05%) AI Agents
3 10 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.30%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.72%) Culture of Ownership
9 3 (1.72%) Derivative
9 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.15%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.15%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.15%) AIX
1 2 (1.15%) Android
2 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (57.47%) CI/CD
2 84 (48.28%) Agile
3 83 (47.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (36.21%) Software Engineering
5 55 (31.61%) Test Automation
6 44 (25.29%) DevOps
7 42 (24.14%) Microservices
8 38 (21.84%) AI
9 34 (19.54%) Front End Development
10 32 (18.39%) User Experience
11 27 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (14.94%) E-Commerce
13 25 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (13.79%) Observability
15 23 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (13.22%) Event-Driven
15 23 (13.22%) Mentoring
15 23 (13.22%) TDD
16 21 (12.07%) Customer Experience
17 20 (11.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 116 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 81 (46.55%) JavaScript
3 39 (22.41%) Python
4 36 (20.69%) SQL
5 27 (15.52%) Java
6 18 (10.34%) C#
7 7 (4.02%) Go
8 4 (2.30%) Ruby
9 3 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.15%) PHP
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) GLSL
11 1 (0.57%) Haskell
11 1 (0.57%) JSX
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) Degree
4 10 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.79%) Accessibility
2 19 (10.92%) QA
3 12 (6.90%) WCAG
4 2 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (23.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (20.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.87%) Grafana
3 3 (1.72%) Kibana
4 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 16 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) Sitecore
3 5 (2.87%) Google
4 4 (2.30%) Databricks
4 4 (2.30%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.72%) New Relic
6 2 (1.15%) Adyen
6 2 (1.15%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.15%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle
6 2 (1.15%) SGI
6 2 (1.15%) Splunk
6 2 (1.15%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) Braze
7 1 (0.57%) Brio
7 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.57%) F5
7 1 (0.57%) Optimizely