Node.js Developer Contracts

Node.js Developer
UK

The median Node.js Developer daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 504 541
Rank change year-on-year +37 +37 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 53 78 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 70 139
10th Percentile £400 £313 £414
25th Percentile £413 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -1.14% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £625
90th Percentile £694 £675 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Node.js Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Node.js Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js Developer 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 +34 44 £550 -4.35% 24
Work from Home +38 27 £538 +2.48% 13
London +22 21 £426 -31.25% 12
UK excluding London +56 20 £575 +9.52% 15
North of England +19 16 £575 - 7
North West +24 15 £575 - 6
South East +45 3 £454 +6.82% 4
Yorkshire +1 1 £675 +18.68% 1
East of England - 1 £500 - 2

Node.js Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Node.js Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Node.js Developer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Node.js
2 33 (62.26%) AWS
3 26 (49.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (47.17%) React
5 22 (41.51%) Serverless
6 20 (37.74%) Azure
6 20 (37.74%) TypeScript
7 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (35.85%) JavaScript
8 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
9 13 (24.53%) GitHub
9 13 (24.53%) SQL
9 13 (24.53%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (22.64%) RESTful
10 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
11 10 (18.87%) Docker
11 10 (18.87%) Microservices
11 10 (18.87%) DynamoDB
11 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
12 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
12 9 (16.98%) Express.js
12 9 (16.98%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
12 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
12 9 (16.98%) CSS
12 9 (16.98%) HTML
13 8 (15.09%) Java
13 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
13 8 (15.09%) Agile
13 8 (15.09%) Banking

Node.js Developer Skill Set
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 4 (7.55%) Camunda
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 33 (62.26%) AWS
2 22 (41.51%) Serverless
3 20 (37.74%) Azure
4 13 (24.53%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (24.53%) GitHub
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (13.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.66%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
9 2 (3.77%) Figma
9 2 (3.77%) GCP
9 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (18.87%) DynamoDB
3 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) git-flow
3 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.77%) Mocha
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.89%) GitLab
5 1 (1.89%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.89%) Postman
5 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.89%) Vite
General
1 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
2 8 (15.09%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Retail
4 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (100.00%) Node.js
2 25 (47.17%) React
3 12 (22.64%) RESTful
4 9 (16.98%) CSS
4 9 (16.98%) Express.js
4 9 (16.98%) HTML
5 8 (15.09%) AWS CDK
5 8 (15.09%) Jest
6 7 (13.21%) Redux
6 7 (13.21%) Sass
7 6 (11.32%) WebSockets
8 5 (9.43%) Apache Cordova
8 5 (9.43%) GraphQL
8 5 (9.43%) JSON
8 5 (9.43%) LESS
8 5 (9.43%) Web Services
9 4 (7.55%) Nunjucks
9 4 (7.55%) Vue
10 3 (5.66%) hapi
10 3 (5.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (49.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
3 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
3 10 (18.87%) Microservices
4 8 (15.09%) Agile
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
5 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
5 7 (13.21%) Event-Driven
6 6 (11.32%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (11.32%) Clean Code
6 6 (11.32%) Fintech
6 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (9.43%) Event-Driven Programming
8 4 (7.55%) Front End Development
8 4 (7.55%) User Experience
8 4 (7.55%) UX Design
9 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (5.66%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) TypeScript
2 19 (35.85%) JavaScript
3 13 (24.53%) SQL
4 8 (15.09%) Java
5 6 (11.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Google
1 6 (11.32%) Virgin Media
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Spotify
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