Next.js Contracts

Next.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Next.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Next.js over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 462 505
Rank change year-on-year +49 +43 +156
Contract jobs citing Next.js 118 139 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.78% 1.56% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 110 168
10th Percentile £364 £325 £393
25th Percentile £400 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -2.55%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £603
90th Percentile £608 £601 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +12.35% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £43.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% -50.65%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 6,620 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.77% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

Next.js
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Next.js in the UK

Next.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Next.js in the UK

Next.js
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Next.js over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Next.js in the UK

Next.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Next.js in the UK

Next.js
Top 15 Contract 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 5 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 +56 96 £450 -5.26% 314
London +64 70 £421 -11.37% 210
Work from Home +27 55 £421 -6.44% 195
UK excluding London +27 28 £478 +12.35% 168
North of England +17 8 £475 - 58
South East +43 7 £532 +6.40% 78
Midlands +20 7 £420 +20.00% 14
Scotland +14 5 £480 +20.00% 6
North West +11 5 £475 - 41
West Midlands +19 4 £460 +29.58% 7
East Midlands +14 3 £410 +17.14% 6
Yorkshire +15 2 £500 +42.86% 14
East of England +31 1 £465 -15.45% 8
South West +22 1 £450 +16.13% 10
North East -5 1 £200 - 4

Next.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 23 (19.49%) CMS
2 21 (17.80%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.69%) Confluence
3 2 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.69%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.69%) WordPress
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.44%) AWS
2 16 (13.56%) Azure
3 15 (12.71%) Serverless
4 13 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (9.32%) GitHub
6 7 (5.93%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.93%) GCP
6 7 (5.93%) Google Analytics
7 6 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.54%) Figma
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.69%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.69%) Contentful
9 2 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.69%) npm
9 2 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) DNS
1 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (18.64%) Git
2 19 (16.10%) Cypress.io
3 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.39%) JIRA
4 4 (3.39%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.69%) webpack
6 1 (0.85%) Babel
6 1 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 23 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.08%) Finance
2 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
2 6 (5.08%) Telecoms
3 5 (4.24%) Marketing
4 3 (2.54%) Banking
5 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Automotive
6 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Games
6 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Retail
6 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 77 (65.25%) Developer
2 26 (22.03%) React Developer
3 25 (21.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 22 (18.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Senior
6 9 (7.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 9 (7.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Lead
7 8 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Angular Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Full-Stack Web Developer
11 3 (2.54%) JavaScript Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.54%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (76.27%) React
2 45 (38.14%) Node.js
3 28 (23.73%) CSS
4 22 (18.64%) GraphQL
5 17 (14.41%) Redux
6 16 (13.56%) AngularJS
6 16 (13.56%) HTML
7 15 (12.71%) Vue
8 14 (11.86%) Jest
9 12 (10.17%) REST
10 9 (7.63%) React Native
11 7 (5.93%) Material-UI
11 7 (5.93%) RESTful
11 7 (5.93%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (5.08%) Express.js
12 6 (5.08%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (4.24%) DOM
13 5 (4.24%) OAuth
13 5 (4.24%) Playwright
13 5 (4.24%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.39%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.85%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (27.97%) Front End Development
3 32 (27.12%) CI/CD
4 29 (24.58%) Agile
5 16 (13.56%) DevOps
5 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.71%) Software Engineering
6 15 (12.71%) TDD
6 15 (12.71%) Web Development
7 13 (11.02%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (11.02%) Decision-Making
7 13 (11.02%) Microservices
8 11 (9.32%) API Development
8 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (9.32%) User Experience
9 10 (8.47%) Analytics
10 9 (7.63%) Mentoring
11 8 (6.78%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (6.78%) Pair Programming
11 8 (6.78%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (61.02%) TypeScript
2 40 (33.90%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.47%) Python
4 9 (7.63%) SQL
5 7 (5.93%) Java
6 4 (3.39%) PHP
7 2 (1.69%) C#
7 2 (1.69%) JSX
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) Go
8 1 (0.85%) Rust
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.54%) QA
3 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (11.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Terraform
3 3 (2.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (9.32%) Google
2 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.08%) Adobe
4 3 (2.54%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.69%) Ahrefs
5 2 (1.69%) Amplitude
5 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.69%) Screaming Frog
5 2 (1.69%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) SendGrid