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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 129 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 -40 -15
Contract jobs citing Node.js 542 768 1,621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 1.76% 2.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.16% 8.58% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 540 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 £644 £638
90th Percentile £753 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
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 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
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 £74.89 £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 1 May 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 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 -27 447 £525 -3.00% 958
London -18 276 £575 +4.55% 398
Work from Home +16 265 £537 +2.29% 547
UK excluding London -24 183 £488 -2.50% 698
North of England -11 92 £500 -16.67% 190
North West -11 68 £520 -16.80% 119
Scotland +9 26 £487 +6.45% 30
South East +6 23 £507 +6.74% 215
North East +14 16 £480 +0.52% 22
South West +24 14 £550 +15.79% 76
Midlands +13 13 £420 +10.53% 97
East of England +31 10 £494 -14.13% 91
Wales +5 9 £400 -4.48% 18
Yorkshire -8 9 £525 - 49
West Midlands +10 7 £450 - 55
East Midlands +5 6 £326 +44.89% 34

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 28 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.95%) Apache
3 15 (2.77%) CMS
4 9 (1.66%) 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 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Solana
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Sketch
2 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 302 (55.72%) AWS
2 127 (23.43%) Serverless
3 99 (18.27%) Azure
4 90 (16.61%) AWS Lambda
5 88 (16.24%) GCP
6 56 (10.33%) GitHub
7 49 (9.04%) Amazon S3
8 44 (8.12%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (5.54%) dbt
11 28 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.95%) SaaS
15 13 (2.40%) Amazon Cognito
16 12 (2.21%) CloudFront
17 11 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (1.85%) AWS KMS
18 10 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.95%) HTTP
2 9 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.11%) DNS
4 5 (0.92%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.92%) SSL
4 5 (0.92%) VPN
5 4 (0.74%) DHCP
6 3 (0.55%) Firewall
6 3 (0.55%) IPsec
6 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.55%) SNMP
6 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (9.41%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.93%) DynamoDB
3 43 (7.93%) MongoDB
4 36 (6.64%) MySQL
5 35 (6.46%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (4.98%) Apache Arrow
6 27 (4.98%) Apache Iceberg
6 27 (4.98%) Dremio
7 26 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (4.24%) Redis
8 23 (4.24%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.32%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.03%) Apache Ignite
11 7 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.11%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.92%) GIS
Development Applications
1 95 (17.53%) Git
2 46 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.54%) Cypress.io
4 28 (5.17%) GitLab
5 21 (3.87%) JIRA
6 20 (3.69%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.51%) SonarQube
8 18 (3.32%) Maven
9 15 (2.77%) Mocha
10 13 (2.40%) gulp
10 13 (2.40%) TeamCity
11 12 (2.21%) CircleCI
12 11 (2.03%) webpack
13 9 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.66%) Subversion
14 8 (1.48%) Grunt
14 8 (1.48%) Jasmine
14 8 (1.48%) JUnit
14 8 (1.48%) REST Assured
14 8 (1.48%) Selenium
General
1 103 (19.00%) Finance
2 86 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 78 (14.39%) Social Skills
4 68 (12.55%) Front Office
5 49 (9.04%) Banking
6 25 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.21%) Military
7 12 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.85%) Retail
9 9 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.48%) Back Office
11 7 (1.29%) Marketing
11 7 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.92%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.55%) Publishing
14 2 (0.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 335 (61.81%) Developer
2 127 (23.43%) Software Engineer
3 102 (18.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 100 (18.45%) Senior
5 65 (11.99%) React Developer
6 57 (10.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 53 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (9.78%) Node.js Developer
8 52 (9.59%) AWS Developer
9 51 (9.41%) Senior Developer
10 42 (7.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 41 (7.56%) Lead
12 39 (7.20%) AWS Software Engineer
13 38 (7.01%) Python Developer
14 30 (5.54%) Java Developer
15 29 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.61%) Software Developer
17 24 (4.43%) Architect
18 23 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 21 (3.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (55.90%) React
2 124 (22.88%) CSS
3 119 (21.96%) HTML
4 94 (17.34%) AngularJS
5 66 (12.18%) Redux
5 66 (12.18%) RESTful
6 57 (10.52%) GraphQL
7 53 (9.78%) Express.js
8 49 (9.04%) HTML5
8 49 (9.04%) Vue
9 47 (8.67%) REST
10 45 (8.30%) Jest
11 44 (8.12%) Next.js
12 43 (7.93%) Sass
13 42 (7.75%) .NET
14 39 (7.20%) Spring Boot
15 32 (5.90%) Spring
16 29 (5.35%) Web Services
17 28 (5.17%) Kafka
18 27 (4.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.52%) Fixed Income
2 24 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (3.32%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.58%) Equities
6 12 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.29%) N-Tier
9 7 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) Educational Technology
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.74%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.55%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.80%) Linux
2 15 (2.77%) Windows
3 9 (1.66%) Unix
4 4 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.74%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Rocky
5 1 (0.18%) SUSE
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (38.75%) Agile
2 165 (30.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 159 (29.34%) CI/CD
3 159 (29.34%) Software Engineering
4 112 (20.66%) Microservices
5 95 (17.53%) DevOps
6 84 (15.50%) User Experience
7 78 (14.39%) Front End Development
8 72 (13.28%) TDD
9 69 (12.73%) Fintech
9 69 (12.73%) Test Automation
10 59 (10.89%) Asset Management
11 58 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (10.52%) Investment Management
13 51 (9.41%) Mentoring
14 50 (9.23%) Containerisation
15 44 (8.12%) API Development
16 40 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (7.20%) Event-Driven
18 37 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 346 (63.84%) JavaScript
2 260 (47.97%) TypeScript
3 163 (30.07%) Python
4 124 (22.88%) Java
5 90 (16.61%) SQL
6 42 (7.75%) C#
7 14 (2.58%) Go
8 12 (2.21%) C++
9 11 (2.03%) Bash
9 11 (2.03%) PHP
9 11 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.48%) Ruby
10 8 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.29%) Perl
11 7 (1.29%) Scala
12 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.74%) ABAP
14 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 90 (16.61%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.24%) Degree
4 15 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.29%) 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 (0.18%) CEH
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.75%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.24%) QA
3 19 (3.51%) WCAG
4 6 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.92%) GDPR
6 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (16.05%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) RACF
4 2 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 75 (13.84%) Terraform
3 17 (3.14%) Ansible
4 13 (2.40%) Grafana
5 7 (1.29%) Packer
5 7 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.92%) Puppet
8 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) Nagios
9 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.37%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (6.09%) Google
2 22 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.69%) Oracle
4 15 (2.77%) SAP
5 12 (2.21%) Adobe
6 10 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.66%) Virgin Media
8 8 (1.48%) Splunk
9 4 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.37%) Mapbox
11 2 (0.37%) New Relic
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