Node.js Contract Job Trends

Node
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 139 146
Rank change year-on-year -45 +7 -58
Contract jobs citing Node.js 732 606 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 2.05% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.48% 9.02% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 471 490
10th Percentile £400 £378 £350
25th Percentile £432 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £655
90th Percentile £800 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +3.73% -3.60% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 21
10th Percentile £59.25 £55.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £63.50 £57.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £76.00 - £71.50
90th Percentile £91.20 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Node.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 9,792 6,720 9,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.57% 22.77% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,434 4,601 6,355
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 120 265
10th Percentile £30.40 £29.23 £22.20
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +17.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.47 £81.35 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in the UK

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Node.js
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 15 Contract Job 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 13 June 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 -56 588 £525 - 250
London -53 295 £550 -4.35% 102
UK excluding London -33 289 £500 +3.73% 180
Work from Home -54 273 £525 -2.23% 170
North of England -34 132 £515 +5.64% 56
North West -36 67 £525 +11.70% 40
Midlands -17 56 £425 +8.01% 20
Yorkshire -17 55 £515 -1.90% 8
South West -3 39 £525 -4.55% 23
West Midlands -25 36 £425 -26.09% 11
East of England -11 29 £550 +12.82% 13
Scotland -12 23 £425 -12.73% 8
East Midlands -8 19 £425 +42.62% 9
South East -69 18 £550 +7.00% 55
North East -38 12 £400 -16.67% 8

Node.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 15 (2.05%) Confluence
2 12 (1.64%) CMS
3 10 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.68%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.55%) Apache
6 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Moodle
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Solana
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) SAP CRM
1 5 (0.68%) Shopify
2 4 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.55%) Quorum
2 4 (0.55%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.55%) Ripple
3 3 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Endur
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 408 (55.74%) AWS
2 213 (29.10%) Azure
3 119 (16.26%) Serverless
4 113 (15.44%) GCP
5 97 (13.25%) GitHub
6 65 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (7.38%) Amazon S3
9 46 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
9 46 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 22 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.73%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 19 (2.60%) OpenShift
18 17 (2.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.78%) Ethernet
1 13 (1.78%) TCP/IP
2 7 (0.96%) SSH
3 6 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) HTTP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.14%) CTI
6 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (17.76%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.65%) MongoDB
4 50 (6.83%) DynamoDB
5 34 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (3.42%) Redis
8 19 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 17 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.19%) MySQL
10 16 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.64%) Metadata
12 9 (1.23%) DocumentDB
13 8 (1.09%) Big Data
13 8 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.09%) Power BI
14 7 (0.96%) Aerospike
15 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.68%) GIS
16 5 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (15.98%) Git
2 101 (13.80%) Jenkins
3 58 (7.92%) GitLab
4 32 (4.37%) JIRA
5 28 (3.83%) JUnit
6 27 (3.69%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.28%) Maven
8 17 (2.32%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.78%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.78%) Visual Studio
11 12 (1.64%) Mockito
12 11 (1.50%) Mocha
12 11 (1.50%) Vite
13 9 (1.23%) Claude Code
13 9 (1.23%) Selenium
13 9 (1.23%) webpack
14 8 (1.09%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.09%) DbUnit
14 8 (1.09%) jMock
General
1 142 (19.40%) Public Sector
2 128 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 102 (13.93%) Finance
4 55 (7.51%) Front Office
5 35 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.83%) Banking
7 21 (2.87%) Military
8 19 (2.60%) Retail
9 11 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.96%) Publishing
11 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.82%) Marketing
12 5 (0.68%) iGaming
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.41%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 411 (56.15%) Developer
2 132 (18.03%) Full-Stack Developer
3 119 (16.26%) Senior
4 112 (15.30%) Software Engineer
5 108 (14.75%) Lead
6 82 (11.20%) Java Developer
7 69 (9.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 67 (9.15%) Lead Developer
9 58 (7.92%) Node.js Developer
10 52 (7.10%) Senior Developer
11 49 (6.69%) React Developer
12 44 (6.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 43 (5.87%) Lead Software Developer
14 37 (5.05%) Software Developer
15 36 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
16 34 (4.64%) Architect
17 28 (3.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 26 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
19 24 (3.28%) Python Developer
20 23 (3.14%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (43.72%) React
2 149 (20.36%) REST
3 126 (17.21%) Spring
4 109 (14.89%) Spring Boot
5 98 (13.39%) AngularJS
6 97 (13.25%) GraphQL
7 95 (12.98%) Kafka
8 92 (12.57%) RESTful
9 77 (10.52%) Redux
10 56 (7.65%) .NET
11 54 (7.38%) Express.js
11 54 (7.38%) Jest
12 53 (7.24%) CSS
13 52 (7.10%) HTML
14 44 (6.01%) Vue
15 39 (5.33%) Playwright
16 38 (5.19%) OAuth
17 35 (4.78%) Web Services
18 33 (4.51%) Nunjucks
19 29 (3.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 149 (20.36%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (7.10%) Fixed Income
4 44 (6.01%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.46%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.32%) Equities
7 16 (2.19%) Derivative
7 16 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.09%) NHS
9 7 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 6 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.68%) Blockchain
11 5 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.55%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.41%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.15%) Linux
2 17 (2.32%) Windows
3 3 (0.41%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Tizen
5 1 (0.14%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (50.82%) CI/CD
2 326 (44.54%) Agile
3 273 (37.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 241 (32.92%) DevOps
5 220 (30.05%) Microservices
6 194 (26.50%) Software Engineering
7 136 (18.58%) Containerisation
8 123 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 118 (16.12%) Test Automation
10 93 (12.70%) TDD
11 90 (12.30%) Mentoring
11 90 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (12.16%) AI
13 88 (12.02%) Event-Driven
14 87 (11.89%) Front End Development
15 65 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (8.88%) Scrum
16 64 (8.74%) Observability
17 62 (8.47%) API Development
18 58 (7.92%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 328 (44.81%) JavaScript
2 319 (43.58%) TypeScript
3 277 (37.84%) Java
4 218 (29.78%) Python
5 79 (10.79%) SQL
6 58 (7.92%) Go
7 56 (7.65%) C#
8 15 (2.05%) C++
8 15 (2.05%) Scala
9 13 (1.78%) Ruby
10 12 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.50%) Bash
12 9 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.09%) Groovy
14 6 (0.82%) Bicep
14 6 (0.82%) PHP
14 6 (0.82%) Rust
15 5 (0.68%) Solidity
16 2 (0.27%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 177 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 149 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.19%) Degree
6 12 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.79%) Accessibility
2 47 (6.42%) QA
3 35 (4.78%) WCAG
4 11 (1.50%) GDPR
5 6 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.27%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) DICOM
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 182 (24.86%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 130 (17.76%) Terraform
3 42 (5.74%) Grafana
4 18 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.32%) Ansible
5 17 (2.32%) Argo
6 13 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.37%) Istio
8 4 (0.55%) Rancher
9 3 (0.41%) Podman
10 2 (0.27%) Puppet
11 1 (0.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 55 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.78%) Google
3 18 (2.46%) Databricks
3 18 (2.46%) OpenAI
4 13 (1.78%) Red Hat
5 12 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (1.64%) Oracle
5 12 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.50%) SAP
6 11 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.37%) Sitecore
8 9 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 7 (0.96%) Sonatype
10 6 (0.82%) Foundry
10 6 (0.82%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.68%) Adobe
11 5 (0.68%) Okta
12 4 (0.55%) Netlify