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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 88 77
Rank change year-on-year -58 -11 -19
Contract jobs citing Node.js 706 1,491 2,816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.62% 2.68% 3.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.66% 11.71% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 1,068 2,129
10th Percentile £350 £413 £419
25th Percentile £433 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £655 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 18
10th Percentile £35.00 £51.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +64.71% -35.13%
75th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £56.56
90th Percentile £75.00 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% +52.63% -27.53%

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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 12 June 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 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 17 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 12 June 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 -64 610 £550 - 505
London -67 332 £575 - 209
Work from Home -43 292 £550 +2.33% 358
UK excluding London -23 274 £500 -0.99% 313
North of England -10 116 £600 +9.09% 103
North West +25 97 £663 +26.19% 59
South East -1 58 £500 -9.09% 61
South West +1 38 £475 +5.56% 41
Scotland +29 24 £450 - 18
Midlands +1 21 £380 -10.59% 40
Yorkshire -33 17 £500 -9.09% 27
East of England -7 12 £600 -7.69% 39
East Midlands -1 11 £225 -55.22% 19
West Midlands +5 10 £450 +5.88% 21
Wales +12 5 £425 -32.00% 10
North East -9 2 £478 -42.05% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 9

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 (3.82%) Apache
2 20 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.12%) Confluence
4 13 (1.84%) CMS
5 11 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.13%) WordPress
7 7 (0.99%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.42%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) InVision
1 2 (0.28%) Sketch
2 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 298 (42.21%) AWS
2 127 (17.99%) Azure
3 124 (17.56%) Serverless
4 86 (12.18%) GCP
5 70 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (7.93%) GitHub
7 47 (6.66%) Amazon S3
8 34 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (3.68%) OpenShift
10 26 (3.68%) SaaS
11 25 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (3.12%) Azure Functions
14 21 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (2.12%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.22%) Firewall
2 44 (6.23%) VPN
3 11 (1.56%) Ethernet
3 11 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.13%) HTTP
5 6 (0.85%) DNS
6 5 (0.71%) DHCP
7 4 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.42%) AMQP
8 3 (0.42%) Internet
8 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.42%) SSL
9 2 (0.28%) FTP
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) MQTT
9 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.14%) Network Security
10 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (10.76%) NoSQL
3 75 (10.62%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.96%) MySQL
5 28 (3.97%) DynamoDB
6 22 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.83%) Apache Ignite
8 19 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.27%) Redis
10 13 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (1.56%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.42%) Apache Arrow
12 10 (1.42%) Dremio
12 10 (1.42%) InterSystems Cache
12 10 (1.42%) SQL Server
13 9 (1.27%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.13%) Power BI
15 7 (0.99%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 90 (12.75%) Git
2 67 (9.49%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.79%) Cypress.io
4 35 (4.96%) GitLab
5 30 (4.25%) webpack
6 25 (3.54%) JIRA
7 22 (3.12%) Selenium
8 15 (2.12%) JMeter
9 13 (1.84%) Visual Studio
10 12 (1.70%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.70%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.70%) Postman
10 12 (1.70%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.56%) Eclipse
12 9 (1.27%) Mocha
12 9 (1.27%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.13%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.13%) Maven
14 7 (0.99%) JUnit
15 6 (0.85%) Gradle
General
1 108 (15.30%) Finance
2 104 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 69 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.52%) Banking
5 30 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.82%) Front Office
7 20 (2.83%) Marketing
8 15 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.12%) Retail
9 14 (1.98%) Advertising
10 12 (1.70%) Military
11 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.27%) Legal
11 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.13%) Tech for Good
13 7 (0.99%) Billing
13 7 (0.99%) Law
14 5 (0.71%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.57%) Automotive
15 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 367 (51.98%) Developer
2 108 (15.30%) Full Stack Developer
3 106 (15.01%) Senior
4 89 (12.61%) Software Engineer
5 79 (11.19%) Lead
6 73 (10.34%) Architect
7 56 (7.93%) Senior Developer
8 49 (6.94%) Node.js Developer
9 48 (6.80%) Technical Architect
10 45 (6.37%) React Developer
11 43 (6.09%) Technical Leader
12 39 (5.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 39 (5.52%) Full Stack Engineer
13 36 (5.10%) Lead Architect
14 35 (4.96%) JavaScript Developer
15 29 (4.11%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 23 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.26%) JavaScript Engineer
18 22 (3.12%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (42.92%) React
2 173 (24.50%) CSS
3 169 (23.94%) HTML
4 88 (12.46%) AngularJS
5 81 (11.47%) REST
5 81 (11.47%) RESTful
6 73 (10.34%) Express.js
7 71 (10.06%) Redux
8 65 (9.21%) GraphQL
9 52 (7.37%) Spring
10 49 (6.94%) Spring Boot
11 47 (6.66%) Vue
12 45 (6.37%) Web Services
13 43 (6.09%) Next.js
14 42 (5.95%) Jest
15 40 (5.67%) React Native
16 38 (5.38%) HTML5
17 34 (4.82%) .NET
18 30 (4.25%) Kafka
19 28 (3.97%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.09%) Public Cloud
2 35 (4.96%) Fixed Income
3 34 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.67%) Mobile App
5 31 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.70%) Blockchain
10 11 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.13%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.99%) Machine to Machine
13 7 (0.99%) Web3
14 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.85%) Derivative
14 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.71%) IoT
15 5 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.49%) Android
2 65 (9.21%) Apple iOS
3 62 (8.78%) Windows
4 48 (6.80%) Windows Server
5 47 (6.66%) Linux
6 10 (1.42%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (35.69%) Agile
2 249 (35.27%) CI/CD
3 209 (29.60%) Full Stack Development
4 177 (25.07%) DevOps
5 165 (23.37%) Software Engineering
6 118 (16.71%) Microservices
7 88 (12.46%) Test Automation
8 81 (11.47%) TDD
9 74 (10.48%) Front End Development
10 63 (8.92%) User Experience
11 61 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
12 59 (8.36%) Design Patterns
13 57 (8.07%) E-Commerce
14 56 (7.93%) Web Development
15 51 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (7.22%) Unit Testing
16 46 (6.52%) Risk Management
16 46 (6.52%) Zero Trust
17 44 (6.23%) Containerisation
17 44 (6.23%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 381 (53.97%) JavaScript
2 282 (39.94%) TypeScript
3 144 (20.40%) Java
4 143 (20.25%) Python
5 89 (12.61%) SQL
6 53 (7.51%) C#
7 32 (4.53%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.97%) Bash
9 25 (3.54%) Go
10 22 (3.12%) C++
11 18 (2.55%) Ruby
12 15 (2.12%) PHP
13 13 (1.84%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.70%) C
15 8 (1.13%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.71%) Perl
17 3 (0.42%) Groovy
17 3 (0.42%) Scala
17 3 (0.42%) Swift
18 2 (0.28%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 109 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.39%) Degree
4 23 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.42%) CISSP
9 2 (0.28%) OCP
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CAPM
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.23%) QA
2 31 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.85%) GDPR
4 5 (0.71%) SLA
5 4 (0.57%) MiFID
6 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.42%) WCAG
7 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 123 (17.42%) Docker
2 7 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.42%) vCloud
4 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.42%) vSphere
5 2 (0.28%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 144 (20.40%) Kubernetes
2 76 (10.76%) Terraform
3 37 (5.24%) Ansible
4 10 (1.42%) Argo
4 10 (1.42%) Grafana
5 8 (1.13%) Kibana
6 7 (0.99%) Puppet
7 6 (0.85%) logstash
7 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.57%) Rancher
9 3 (0.42%) Autotask
9 3 (0.42%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Anchore
11 1 (0.14%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (6.94%) Google
2 37 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.97%) Oracle
4 17 (2.41%) SAP
5 16 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.56%) Adobe
6 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.56%) VMware
7 8 (1.13%) WSO2
8 7 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 7 (0.99%) Tealium
9 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.85%) Checkmarx
10 5 (0.71%) Apple
10 5 (0.71%) Ensighten
10 5 (0.71%) Monetate
10 5 (0.71%) Omniture
10 5 (0.71%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.57%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace