Node
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Node.js skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Node.js over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 86 74
Rank change year-on-year -47 -12 -17
Contract jobs citing Node.js 761 1,623 2,907
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 2.71% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.57% 11.65% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 1,170 2,192
10th Percentile £350 £413 £425
25th Percentile £432 £458 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 22
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +53.85% -27.20%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.53
90th Percentile £77.00 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £46.25
% change year-on-year -8.77% +54.05% -25.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Node.js is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -42 660 £540 -1.82% 488
London -47 362 £550 -4.35% 193
UK excluding London -8 300 £500 - 316
Work from Home -43 299 £525 - 377
North of England -5 137 £600 +14.29% 99
North West +20 111 £625 +30.24% 58
South East +18 63 £475 -5.00% 54
South West +9 37 £475 +5.56% 52
Scotland +5 30 £458 -1.88% 24
Yorkshire -22 24 £525 - 35
Midlands +11 22 £380 -24.00% 47
West Midlands +22 11 £450 -21.74% 27
East Midlands +10 11 £225 -55.00% 20
East of England +2 8 £575 -11.54% 32
Wales +9 5 £419 -33.00% 10
North East -7 2 £478 -20.42% 7

Node.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 17 (2.23%) Confluence
2 14 (1.84%) Apache
2 14 (1.84%) OpenStack
3 13 (1.71%) CMS
4 10 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.05%) WordPress
6 6 (0.79%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.79%) Tornado
7 2 (0.26%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) InVision
1 2 (0.26%) Sketch
2 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.53%) Shopify
3 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 337 (44.28%) AWS
2 152 (19.97%) Azure
3 114 (14.98%) Serverless
4 79 (10.38%) GCP
5 73 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (7.88%) GitHub
7 55 (7.23%) Amazon S3
8 34 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (4.07%) SaaS
10 27 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.89%) Azure Functions
15 19 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.50%) OpenShift
16 18 (2.37%) Azure AKS
17 17 (2.23%) Azure Key Vault
18 16 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.62%) Firewall
2 44 (5.78%) VPN
3 13 (1.71%) HTTP
4 6 (0.79%) DNS
4 6 (0.79%) Ethernet
4 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.66%) DHCP
6 4 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.39%) SSL
8 2 (0.26%) 5G
8 2 (0.26%) FTP
8 2 (0.26%) Internet
8 2 (0.26%) Intranet
8 2 (0.26%) MQTT
8 2 (0.26%) SMS
9 1 (0.13%) Network Security
9 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.09%) MongoDB
3 71 (9.33%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.47%) DynamoDB
5 31 (4.07%) MySQL
5 31 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.89%) Redis
7 20 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.45%) InterSystems Cache
10 11 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.31%) Apache Ignite
12 9 (1.18%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.18%) Power BI
13 8 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.92%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 112 (14.72%) Git
2 86 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 60 (7.88%) Cypress.io
4 50 (6.57%) GitLab
5 39 (5.12%) JIRA
6 30 (3.94%) webpack
7 27 (3.55%) Maven
8 25 (3.29%) Postman
9 19 (2.50%) Selenium
10 15 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.97%) JMeter
10 15 (1.97%) SoapUI
11 9 (1.18%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.18%) JUnit
12 8 (1.05%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.05%) Mocha
12 8 (1.05%) Protractor
12 8 (1.05%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.05%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 122 (16.03%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.19%) Finance
3 77 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 47 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.73%) Banking
6 29 (3.81%) Marketing
7 22 (2.89%) Front Office
8 17 (2.23%) Advertising
9 14 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.71%) Retail
11 11 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.18%) Legal
13 8 (1.05%) Law
13 8 (1.05%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.92%) Billing
14 7 (0.92%) German Language
14 7 (0.92%) Military
15 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 409 (53.75%) Developer
2 113 (14.85%) Full Stack Developer
3 107 (14.06%) Senior
4 83 (10.91%) Lead
5 82 (10.78%) Software Engineer
6 74 (9.72%) Node.js Developer
7 73 (9.59%) Architect
8 51 (6.70%) React Developer
9 48 (6.31%) Technical Architect
10 47 (6.18%) Senior Developer
11 43 (5.65%) Technical Leader
12 40 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
13 39 (5.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 39 (5.12%) Java Developer
14 35 (4.60%) JavaScript Developer
14 35 (4.60%) Lead Architect
15 26 (3.42%) JavaScript Engineer
16 21 (2.76%) AWS Developer
16 21 (2.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 20 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (41.52%) React
2 187 (24.57%) CSS
3 183 (24.05%) HTML
4 93 (12.22%) RESTful
5 91 (11.96%) AngularJS
5 91 (11.96%) REST
6 78 (10.25%) GraphQL
7 77 (10.12%) Express.js
8 70 (9.20%) Redux
9 55 (7.23%) Jest
9 55 (7.23%) Spring
10 48 (6.31%) HTML5
11 47 (6.18%) Web Services
12 45 (5.91%) Spring Boot
13 41 (5.39%) Next.js
14 40 (5.26%) Vue
15 37 (4.86%) React Native
16 33 (4.34%) OAuth
17 32 (4.20%) .NET
17 32 (4.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 42 (5.52%) Public Cloud
2 33 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
3 32 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.94%) Fixed Income
5 27 (3.55%) Mobile App
6 24 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.45%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.18%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.05%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.92%) Machine to Machine
14 7 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.92%) Web3
15 6 (0.79%) Client/Server
15 6 (0.79%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.67%) Android
2 63 (8.28%) Apple iOS
3 57 (7.49%) Windows
4 48 (6.31%) Windows Server
5 36 (4.73%) Linux
6 9 (1.18%) Unix
7 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (37.32%) Agile
2 274 (36.01%) CI/CD
3 210 (27.60%) Full Stack Development
4 191 (25.10%) DevOps
5 157 (20.63%) Software Engineering
6 138 (18.13%) Microservices
7 86 (11.30%) Front End Development
7 86 (11.30%) Test Automation
8 84 (11.04%) TDD
9 76 (9.99%) Design Patterns
10 64 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (8.41%) User Experience
11 63 (8.28%) Web Development
12 59 (7.75%) Containerisation
13 57 (7.49%) Continuous Integration
14 49 (6.44%) Unit Testing
15 46 (6.04%) Risk Management
15 46 (6.04%) Zero Trust
16 45 (5.91%) E-Commerce
17 44 (5.78%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 395 (51.91%) JavaScript
2 289 (37.98%) TypeScript
3 168 (22.08%) Java
4 143 (18.79%) Python
5 94 (12.35%) SQL
6 49 (6.44%) C#
7 28 (3.68%) Kotlin
8 24 (3.15%) Bash
9 23 (3.02%) PHP
10 22 (2.89%) Go
11 17 (2.23%) C++
12 15 (1.97%) Ruby
13 14 (1.84%) C
14 13 (1.71%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.05%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.66%) Perl
17 3 (0.39%) ABAP
17 3 (0.39%) Scala
18 2 (0.26%) Solidity
19 1 (0.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 116 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 90 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.42%) Degree
4 18 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.39%) CAPM
8 3 (0.39%) CISSP
8 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.91%) QA
2 32 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.79%) GDPR
4 5 (0.66%) SLA
5 4 (0.53%) MiFID
6 3 (0.39%) WCAG
7 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 120 (15.77%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.39%) vCloud
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.26%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 137 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 89 (11.70%) Terraform
3 38 (4.99%) Ansible
4 10 (1.31%) Argo
5 9 (1.18%) Kibana
6 7 (0.92%) Grafana
6 7 (0.92%) Puppet
7 6 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.39%) Autotask
8 3 (0.39%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.26%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Anchore
10 1 (0.13%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (5.26%) Google
2 37 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.89%) Oracle
4 21 (2.76%) SAP
5 13 (1.71%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.45%) VMware
7 10 (1.31%) Adobe
8 7 (0.92%) Tealium
8 7 (0.92%) WSO2
9 6 (0.79%) Databricks
9 6 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.79%) Optimizely
10 5 (0.66%) Apple
10 5 (0.66%) Confluent
10 5 (0.66%) Ensighten
10 5 (0.66%) Monetate
10 5 (0.66%) Omniture
11 4 (0.53%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.39%) Dynatrace