Node.js Contracts in the West Midlands

Node
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 90 100 120
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Node.js 7 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 4.26% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 14
10th Percentile £411 £313 £278
25th Percentile £413 £360 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £475 £700
90th Percentile - £510 -
England median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -0.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the West Midlands

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the West Midlands

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the West Midlands

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +13 4 £438 +8.02% 9
Worcestershire -1 2 £700 +55.56% 1
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Back Office
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Ajax
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) CSS3
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (28.57%) RequireJS
4 1 (14.29%) Express.js
4 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 1 (14.29%) Jest
4 1 (14.29%) Redux
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 2 (28.57%) Go
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Google