Node.js Contracts

Node
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Node.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Node.js over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 134 88
Rank change year-on-year -22 -46 -15
Contract jobs citing Node.js 540 770 1,621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 1.77% 2.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.15% 8.59% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 540 1,165
10th Percentile £385 £349 £413
25th Percentile £413 £431 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £639 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 17
10th Percentile £54.75 £43.00 £41.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £60.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +53.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £76.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -3.85% -8.77% +54.05%

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 30 April 2025.

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
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 30 April 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 -20 446 £525 -2.55% 584
London -9 274 £575 +4.55% 306
Work from Home +24 264 £537 +2.29% 424
UK excluding London -17 185 £484 -3.25% 304
North of England -9 92 £500 -16.67% 114
North West -16 68 £520 -16.80% 82
Scotland +6 27 £480 +4.92% 16
South East +3 23 £507 +6.74% 66
North East +14 16 £480 +0.52% 15
South West +21 14 £550 +15.79% 35
Midlands +15 13 £420 +10.53% 30
East of England +35 11 £494 -14.13% 31
Wales +9 9 £400 -4.48% 10
Yorkshire -1 9 £525 - 17
West Midlands +12 7 £450 - 20
East Midlands +5 6 £326 +44.89% 10

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 27 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.96%) Apache
3 15 (2.78%) CMS
4 9 (1.67%) Confluence
5 8 (1.48%) WordPress
6 6 (1.11%) Camunda
6 6 (1.11%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Solana
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.19%) Sketch
2 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 301 (55.74%) AWS
2 126 (23.33%) Serverless
3 99 (18.33%) Azure
4 88 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (15.74%) GCP
6 58 (10.74%) GitHub
7 47 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 44 (8.15%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (5.37%) dbt
10 29 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (2.96%) SaaS
14 13 (2.41%) Amazon Cognito
15 12 (2.22%) CloudFront
16 11 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.85%) AWS KMS
17 10 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.96%) HTTP
2 9 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.11%) DNS
4 5 (0.93%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.93%) SSL
4 5 (0.93%) VPN
5 4 (0.74%) DHCP
6 3 (0.56%) Firewall
6 3 (0.56%) IPsec
6 3 (0.56%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.56%) SNMP
6 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (22.04%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (9.07%) NoSQL
3 44 (8.15%) MongoDB
4 43 (7.96%) DynamoDB
5 34 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (6.30%) MySQL
6 26 (4.81%) Apache Arrow
6 26 (4.81%) Apache Iceberg
6 26 (4.81%) Dremio
7 24 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (4.44%) SQL Server
8 23 (4.26%) Redis
9 18 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.04%) Apache Ignite
11 7 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.30%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.11%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.93%) GIS
Development Applications
1 95 (17.59%) Git
2 48 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.74%) Cypress.io
4 28 (5.19%) GitLab
5 21 (3.89%) JIRA
6 20 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.52%) SonarQube
8 18 (3.33%) Maven
9 15 (2.78%) Mocha
10 13 (2.41%) gulp
10 13 (2.41%) TeamCity
11 12 (2.22%) CircleCI
11 12 (2.22%) webpack
12 9 (1.67%) Selenium
12 9 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (1.67%) Subversion
13 8 (1.48%) Grunt
13 8 (1.48%) Jasmine
13 8 (1.48%) JUnit
13 8 (1.48%) REST Assured
General
1 100 (18.52%) Finance
2 86 (15.93%) Public Sector
3 78 (14.44%) Social Skills
4 67 (12.41%) Front Office
5 47 (8.70%) Banking
6 25 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.22%) Military
7 12 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.04%) Retail
9 9 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.48%) Back Office
11 7 (1.30%) Marketing
11 7 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.93%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.56%) Publishing
14 2 (0.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 337 (62.41%) Developer
2 127 (23.52%) Software Engineer
3 103 (19.07%) Full-Stack Developer
4 98 (18.15%) Senior
5 66 (12.22%) React Developer
6 57 (10.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 54 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
8 53 (9.81%) AWS Developer
8 53 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
9 51 (9.44%) Senior Developer
10 43 (7.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 41 (7.59%) Lead
12 39 (7.22%) AWS Software Engineer
13 38 (7.04%) Python Developer
14 29 (5.37%) Java Developer
14 29 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (4.81%) Software Developer
16 22 (4.07%) Architect
17 21 (3.89%) Lead Developer
17 21 (3.89%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (55.74%) React
2 126 (23.33%) CSS
3 121 (22.41%) HTML
4 89 (16.48%) AngularJS
5 67 (12.41%) Redux
5 67 (12.41%) RESTful
6 54 (10.00%) Express.js
7 52 (9.63%) GraphQL
8 51 (9.44%) HTML5
9 48 (8.89%) Vue
10 46 (8.52%) Jest
10 46 (8.52%) REST
11 43 (7.96%) .NET
11 43 (7.96%) Next.js
11 43 (7.96%) Sass
12 37 (6.85%) Spring Boot
13 30 (5.56%) Spring
14 29 (5.37%) Kafka
14 29 (5.37%) Web Services
15 26 (4.81%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.37%) Fixed Income
2 24 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (3.52%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.41%) Equities
4 13 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.30%) N-Tier
7 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.56%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.81%) Linux
2 15 (2.78%) Windows
3 9 (1.67%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Android
5 4 (0.74%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Rocky
7 1 (0.19%) SUSE
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (38.15%) Agile
2 164 (30.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 160 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 156 (28.89%) Software Engineering
5 110 (20.37%) Microservices
6 92 (17.04%) DevOps
7 84 (15.56%) User Experience
8 78 (14.44%) Front End Development
9 72 (13.33%) TDD
10 68 (12.59%) Fintech
10 68 (12.59%) Test Automation
11 58 (10.74%) Asset Management
11 58 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (10.37%) Investment Management
13 52 (9.63%) Mentoring
14 50 (9.26%) Containerisation
15 44 (8.15%) API Development
16 40 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (7.22%) Continuous Integration
18 38 (7.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 347 (64.26%) JavaScript
2 258 (47.78%) TypeScript
3 162 (30.00%) Python
4 122 (22.59%) Java
5 88 (16.30%) SQL
6 40 (7.41%) C#
7 12 (2.22%) C++
7 12 (2.22%) Go
8 11 (2.04%) Bash
8 11 (2.04%) PHP
8 11 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.48%) Ruby
9 8 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.30%) Perl
11 5 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.93%) Scala
12 4 (0.74%) ABAP
13 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 90 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.26%) Degree
4 15 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) CEH
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.26%) QA
3 19 (3.52%) WCAG
4 7 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.93%) GDPR
6 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (15.74%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) RACF
4 2 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (17.04%) Kubernetes
2 76 (14.07%) Terraform
3 17 (3.15%) Ansible
4 13 (2.41%) Grafana
5 7 (1.30%) Packer
5 7 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.93%) Puppet
8 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) Nagios
9 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.37%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
10 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (6.11%) Google
2 22 (4.07%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.70%) Oracle
4 15 (2.78%) SAP
5 12 (2.22%) Adobe
6 10 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.67%) Virgin Media
8 8 (1.48%) Splunk
9 4 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.37%) Databricks
11 2 (0.37%) Mapbox
11 2 (0.37%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.37%) SendGrid
11 2 (0.37%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.37%) Veracode
11 2 (0.37%) VMware