Node
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Node.js skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Node.js over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 88 73
Rank change year-on-year -46 -15 -15
Contract jobs citing Node.js 770 1,621 2,916
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.77% 2.72% 3.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.59% 11.67% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 1,165 2,201
10th Percentile £349 £413 £425
25th Percentile £431 £458 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £639 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 22
10th Percentile £43.00 £41.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +53.85% -28.91%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £65.53
90th Percentile £76.50 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £46.25
% change year-on-year -8.77% +54.05% -29.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Node.js is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,961 13,886 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.56% 23.27% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 10,139 17,680
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £661
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

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 29 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 April 2024. 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 -44 669 £539 -2.05% 524
London -52 367 £550 -4.35% 220
UK excluding London -7 303 £500 - 322
Work from Home -50 302 £525 - 402
North of England -5 138 £600 +12.94% 106
North West +25 111 £625 +25.00% 64
South East +9 63 £475 -9.52% 52
South West 0 38 £475 +5.56% 49
Scotland +7 30 £458 -2.14% 23
Yorkshire -20 25 £525 -4.55% 35
Midlands +15 22 £380 -24.00% 52
West Midlands +20 11 £450 -21.74% 27
East Midlands +13 11 £225 -55.00% 24
East of England -1 9 £575 -11.54% 32
Wales +7 5 £419 -33.00% 9
North East -7 2 £478 -20.42% 8

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 17 (2.21%) Confluence
2 14 (1.82%) Apache
2 14 (1.82%) OpenStack
3 13 (1.69%) CMS
4 10 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.04%) WordPress
6 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.78%) Tornado
7 2 (0.26%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.26%) JBoss
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) InVision
1 2 (0.26%) Sketch
2 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.52%) Shopify
3 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 340 (44.16%) AWS
2 152 (19.74%) Azure
3 116 (15.06%) Serverless
4 81 (10.52%) GCP
5 74 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (7.79%) GitHub
7 55 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 34 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (4.03%) SaaS
10 27 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.86%) Azure Functions
15 19 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.47%) OpenShift
16 18 (2.34%) Azure AKS
17 17 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
18 16 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.53%) Firewall
2 44 (5.71%) VPN
3 13 (1.69%) HTTP
4 8 (1.04%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.78%) DNS
6 5 (0.65%) DHCP
7 4 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.39%) Internet
8 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.39%) SSL
9 2 (0.26%) 5G
9 2 (0.26%) FTP
9 2 (0.26%) Intranet
9 2 (0.26%) MQTT
9 2 (0.26%) SMS
10 1 (0.13%) AMQP
10 1 (0.13%) Network Security
10 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.08%) MongoDB
1 93 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (9.22%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.42%) DynamoDB
4 31 (4.03%) MySQL
4 31 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.86%) Redis
5 22 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.43%) InterSystems Cache
9 11 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.30%) Apache Ignite
11 9 (1.17%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.17%) Power BI
12 8 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.91%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 113 (14.68%) Git
2 87 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.05%) Cypress.io
4 51 (6.62%) GitLab
5 39 (5.06%) JIRA
6 30 (3.90%) webpack
7 27 (3.51%) Maven
8 25 (3.25%) Postman
9 19 (2.47%) Selenium
10 16 (2.08%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.95%) JMeter
11 15 (1.95%) SoapUI
12 10 (1.30%) JUnit
13 9 (1.17%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.17%) Mocha
13 9 (1.17%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.04%) CircleCI
14 8 (1.04%) Protractor
14 8 (1.04%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 110 (14.29%) Finance
3 77 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.94%) Banking
6 29 (3.77%) Marketing
7 22 (2.86%) Front Office
8 17 (2.21%) Advertising
9 16 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.69%) Retail
11 11 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.17%) Legal
12 9 (1.17%) Military
13 8 (1.04%) Law
13 8 (1.04%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.91%) Billing
14 7 (0.91%) German Language
15 6 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 413 (53.64%) Developer
2 115 (14.94%) Full Stack Developer
3 109 (14.16%) Senior
4 85 (11.04%) Software Engineer
5 83 (10.78%) Lead
6 74 (9.61%) Node.js Developer
7 73 (9.48%) Architect
8 52 (6.75%) React Developer
9 48 (6.23%) Senior Developer
9 48 (6.23%) Technical Architect
10 43 (5.58%) Technical Leader
11 40 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 40 (5.19%) Full Stack Engineer
12 39 (5.06%) Java Developer
13 36 (4.68%) JavaScript Developer
14 35 (4.55%) Lead Architect
15 26 (3.38%) JavaScript Engineer
16 21 (2.73%) AWS Developer
16 21 (2.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 20 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (41.56%) React
2 188 (24.42%) CSS
3 184 (23.90%) HTML
4 93 (12.08%) AngularJS
4 93 (12.08%) RESTful
5 91 (11.82%) REST
6 81 (10.52%) GraphQL
7 78 (10.13%) Express.js
8 71 (9.22%) Redux
9 56 (7.27%) Jest
10 55 (7.14%) Spring
11 49 (6.36%) Web Services
12 48 (6.23%) HTML5
13 45 (5.84%) Spring Boot
14 43 (5.58%) Next.js
15 42 (5.45%) Vue
16 37 (4.81%) React Native
17 35 (4.55%) .NET
18 34 (4.42%) OAuth
19 33 (4.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.58%) Public Cloud
2 34 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.90%) Fixed Income
4 28 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.56%) Blockchain
10 9 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.91%) Machine to Machine
12 7 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (0.91%) Web3
13 6 (0.78%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.57%) Android
2 63 (8.18%) Apple iOS
3 59 (7.66%) Windows
4 48 (6.23%) Windows Server
5 39 (5.06%) Linux
6 10 (1.30%) Unix
7 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (37.66%) Agile
2 280 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 212 (27.53%) Full Stack Development
4 192 (24.94%) DevOps
5 161 (20.91%) Software Engineering
6 140 (18.18%) Microservices
7 88 (11.43%) Front End Development
7 88 (11.43%) TDD
8 87 (11.30%) Test Automation
9 76 (9.87%) Design Patterns
10 65 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (8.44%) User Experience
11 64 (8.31%) Web Development
12 59 (7.66%) Containerisation
12 59 (7.66%) Continuous Integration
13 52 (6.75%) Unit Testing
14 48 (6.23%) E-Commerce
15 46 (5.97%) Risk Management
15 46 (5.97%) Zero Trust
16 44 (5.71%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 400 (51.95%) JavaScript
2 293 (38.05%) TypeScript
3 170 (22.08%) Java
4 144 (18.70%) Python
5 95 (12.34%) SQL
6 51 (6.62%) C#
7 29 (3.77%) Kotlin
8 24 (3.12%) Bash
8 24 (3.12%) PHP
9 23 (2.99%) Go
10 20 (2.60%) C++
11 15 (1.95%) Ruby
12 14 (1.82%) C
13 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.04%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.65%) Perl
16 3 (0.39%) ABAP
16 3 (0.39%) Scala
17 2 (0.26%) Rust
17 2 (0.26%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 116 (15.06%) Security Cleared
2 90 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.64%) Degree
4 19 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.39%) CAPM
8 3 (0.39%) CISSP
8 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.84%) QA
2 33 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.78%) GDPR
4 5 (0.65%) SLA
5 4 (0.52%) MiFID
6 3 (0.39%) WCAG
7 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (15.84%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.39%) vCloud
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.26%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 140 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 89 (11.56%) Terraform
3 38 (4.94%) Ansible
4 10 (1.30%) Argo
5 9 (1.17%) Kibana
6 8 (1.04%) Grafana
7 7 (0.91%) Puppet
7 7 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.39%) Autotask
9 3 (0.39%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.26%) Istio
10 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.13%) Anchore
11 1 (0.13%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 41 (5.32%) Google
2 39 (5.06%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.86%) Oracle
3 22 (2.86%) SAP
4 13 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.43%) VMware
6 10 (1.30%) Adobe
7 7 (0.91%) Tealium
7 7 (0.91%) WSO2
8 6 (0.78%) Databricks
8 6 (0.78%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.78%) Optimizely
9 5 (0.65%) Apple
9 5 (0.65%) Confluent
9 5 (0.65%) Ensighten
9 5 (0.65%) Monetate
9 5 (0.65%) Omniture
10 4 (0.52%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.39%) Dynatrace