Node.js Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Node
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 94 110 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 -44 -8
Contract jobs citing Node.js 265 302 883
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.68% 1.97% 3.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.34% 8.24% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 228 622
10th Percentile £400 £375 £408
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £625
90th Percentile £838 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £56.00 £41.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £50.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +61.11%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +53.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Node.js
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Node.js trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Node.js.

Node.js daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Node.js over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Node.js daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Node.js.

Node.js hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.57%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.66%) Apache
3 9 (3.40%) CMS
4 5 (1.89%) Confluence
5 3 (1.13%) WordPress
6 2 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Solana
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 180 (67.92%) AWS
2 75 (28.30%) Serverless
3 71 (26.79%) GCP
4 55 (20.75%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (15.47%) Azure
6 31 (11.70%) Amazon SQS
7 29 (10.94%) dbt
8 28 (10.57%) GitHub
9 26 (9.81%) Amazon S3
10 22 (8.30%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.40%) SaaS
14 8 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.26%) Amazon Cognito
15 6 (2.26%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.26%) Route 53
16 5 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
16 5 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.53%) HTTP
2 5 (1.89%) SSL
2 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.51%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.13%) IPsec
4 3 (1.13%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.75%) Firewall
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) SNMP
6 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (34.34%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.32%) DynamoDB
3 29 (10.94%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (10.19%) Apache Arrow
4 27 (10.19%) Apache Iceberg
4 27 (10.19%) Dremio
5 20 (7.55%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.55%) MySQL
6 18 (6.79%) NoSQL
7 16 (6.04%) Redis
8 14 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.15%) Apache Ignite
9 11 (4.15%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.26%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (13.96%) Git
2 26 (9.81%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.55%) Cypress.io
4 18 (6.79%) GitLab
5 10 (3.77%) JIRA
6 9 (3.40%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.40%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.02%) Maven
8 6 (2.26%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.26%) Mocha
9 5 (1.89%) git-flow
10 4 (1.51%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.51%) gulp
10 4 (1.51%) Postman
10 4 (1.51%) Selenium
10 4 (1.51%) Subversion
10 4 (1.51%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.13%) JUnit
11 3 (1.13%) REST Assured
General
1 73 (27.55%) Finance
2 58 (21.89%) Front Office
3 35 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 32 (12.08%) Banking
5 28 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.26%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Military
9 4 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Back Office
10 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 174 (65.66%) Developer
2 89 (33.58%) Software Engineer
3 57 (21.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 49 (18.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 46 (17.36%) React Developer
6 42 (15.85%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (15.09%) Senior
8 39 (14.72%) AWS Developer
9 33 (12.45%) AWS Software Engineer
10 30 (11.32%) Python Developer
11 27 (10.19%) Node.js Developer
12 21 (7.92%) Python Engineer
12 21 (7.92%) Python Software Engineer
13 20 (7.55%) Java Developer
14 17 (6.42%) Senior Developer
15 16 (6.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 16 (6.04%) Lead
16 15 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 14 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
18 13 (4.91%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (67.92%) React
2 57 (21.51%) Redux
3 54 (20.38%) AngularJS
4 45 (16.98%) CSS
5 43 (16.23%) HTML
6 35 (13.21%) Vue
7 28 (10.57%) GraphQL
7 28 (10.57%) Next.js
8 27 (10.19%) NumPy
8 27 (10.19%) Pandas
8 27 (10.19%) SciPy
9 26 (9.81%) RESTful
10 24 (9.06%) REST
11 22 (8.30%) Express.js
12 21 (7.92%) Jest
13 18 (6.79%) Spring Boot
14 16 (6.04%) Web Services
15 15 (5.66%) AWS CDK
16 14 (5.28%) HTML5
16 14 (5.28%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.51%) Fixed Income
2 17 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (5.28%) Equities
3 14 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.28%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.51%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.51%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.51%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (0.75%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Linux
2 6 (2.26%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (44.91%) Agile
2 106 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 79 (29.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 75 (28.30%) CI/CD
5 66 (24.91%) Fintech
6 58 (21.89%) Asset Management
7 57 (21.51%) Investment Management
8 56 (21.13%) Microservices
9 54 (20.38%) User Experience
10 39 (14.72%) DevOps
11 33 (12.45%) Test Automation
12 27 (10.19%) Performance Attribution
12 27 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (10.19%) TDD
13 26 (9.81%) Front End Development
14 23 (8.68%) Mentoring
15 22 (8.30%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (7.92%) API Development
17 20 (7.55%) Containerisation
18 18 (6.79%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 188 (70.94%) JavaScript
2 159 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 90 (33.96%) Python
4 51 (19.25%) Java
5 48 (18.11%) SQL
6 16 (6.04%) C#
7 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.89%) Bash
8 5 (1.89%) C++
8 5 (1.89%) PHP
9 4 (1.51%) Go
9 4 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.13%) Ruby
10 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.75%) ABAP
11 2 (0.75%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.91%) Degree
4 11 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.53%) QA
2 10 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.51%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (15.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) RACF
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.19%) Terraform
3 8 (3.02%) Grafana
4 7 (2.64%) Ansible
5 5 (1.89%) Packer
6 4 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.75%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) Nagios
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (5.28%) Google
2 9 (3.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.40%) Oracle
3 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.51%) SAP
4 4 (1.51%) Virgin Media
5 3 (1.13%) Splunk
6 2 (0.75%) Adobe
6 2 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.75%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.75%) New Relic
6 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.38%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.38%) Veracode
7 1 (0.38%) VMware
7 1 (0.38%) Zuora