Node.js Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 87 73
Rank change year-on-year -57 -14 -14
Contract jobs citing Node.js 708 1,516 2,870
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.70% 3.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.82% 11.78% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 1,085 2,170
10th Percentile £337 £413 £419
25th Percentile £431 £460 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 19
10th Percentile £35.00 £49.88 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +58.33% -31.30%
75th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £61.52
90th Percentile £75.00 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £73.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.86% +55.26% -27.50%

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -60 610 £550 - 500
London -64 331 £575 - 243
Work from Home -45 294 £550 +2.33% 339
UK excluding London -13 276 £500 -3.85% 278
North of England -9 119 £600 +9.09% 99
North West +25 98 £663 +26.19% 58
South East -7 56 £475 -13.64% 45
South West +4 37 £475 +5.56% 38
Scotland +26 26 £450 - 19
Midlands +9 21 £380 -10.59% 32
Yorkshire -26 19 £525 -4.55% 31
East of England -7 12 £600 -7.69% 27
East Midlands +4 11 £225 -55.22% 19
West Midlands +3 10 £450 +5.88% 13
Wales +11 5 £425 -32.00% 12
North East -6 2 £478 -42.05% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 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 25 (3.53%) Apache
2 18 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.12%) Confluence
4 13 (1.84%) CMS
5 11 (1.55%) 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
9 2 (0.28%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
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 4 (0.56%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 303 (42.80%) AWS
2 127 (17.94%) Azure
3 125 (17.66%) Serverless
4 83 (11.72%) GCP
5 71 (10.03%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (8.05%) GitHub
7 50 (7.06%) Amazon S3
8 34 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (3.81%) SaaS
11 26 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (3.53%) OpenShift
13 22 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (3.11%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (2.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.19%) Firewall
2 44 (6.21%) VPN
3 11 (1.55%) Ethernet
3 11 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.13%) HTTP
5 6 (0.85%) DNS
6 5 (0.71%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.56%) 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 79 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (10.73%) MongoDB
3 74 (10.45%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.80%) MySQL
5 28 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 22 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (2.54%) Apache Ignite
9 18 (2.54%) Redis
10 13 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (1.55%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.41%) InterSystems Cache
12 10 (1.41%) SQL Server
13 9 (1.27%) Apache Arrow
13 9 (1.27%) Dremio
13 9 (1.27%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.27%) Power BI
14 7 (0.99%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 90 (12.71%) Git
2 71 (10.03%) Jenkins
3 56 (7.91%) Cypress.io
4 36 (5.08%) GitLab
5 31 (4.38%) webpack
6 25 (3.53%) JIRA
7 23 (3.25%) Selenium
8 16 (2.26%) JMeter
9 13 (1.84%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.84%) Postman
9 13 (1.84%) Visual Studio
10 12 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.55%) Eclipse
12 10 (1.41%) Maven
12 10 (1.41%) Mocha
13 9 (1.27%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.13%) CircleCI
14 8 (1.13%) JUnit
15 7 (0.99%) Gradle
General
1 111 (15.68%) Finance
2 106 (14.97%) Social Skills
3 68 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 41 (5.79%) Banking
5 32 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.67%) Front Office
7 21 (2.97%) Marketing
8 16 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.98%) Advertising
9 14 (1.98%) Retail
10 12 (1.69%) 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 (0.56%) Automotive
15 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 369 (52.12%) Developer
2 109 (15.40%) Senior
3 108 (15.25%) Full Stack Developer
4 88 (12.43%) Software Engineer
5 80 (11.30%) Lead
6 73 (10.31%) Architect
7 56 (7.91%) Senior Developer
8 49 (6.92%) Node.js Developer
9 48 (6.78%) Technical Architect
10 47 (6.64%) React Developer
11 43 (6.07%) Technical Leader
12 38 (5.37%) Full Stack Engineer
13 37 (5.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 36 (5.08%) Lead Architect
15 34 (4.80%) JavaScript Developer
16 30 (4.24%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 22 (3.11%) AWS Developer
18 22 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
18 22 (3.11%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (43.36%) React
2 175 (24.72%) CSS
3 171 (24.15%) HTML
4 90 (12.71%) AngularJS
5 83 (11.72%) REST
6 81 (11.44%) RESTful
7 73 (10.31%) Express.js
8 72 (10.17%) Redux
9 69 (9.75%) GraphQL
10 55 (7.77%) Spring
11 51 (7.20%) Spring Boot
12 46 (6.50%) Vue
12 46 (6.50%) Web Services
13 44 (6.21%) Jest
14 43 (6.07%) Next.js
15 40 (5.65%) HTML5
15 40 (5.65%) React Native
16 34 (4.80%) .NET
17 30 (4.24%) Kafka
18 28 (3.95%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.07%) Public Cloud
2 36 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.80%) Fixed Income
4 33 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (4.66%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.55%) Blockchain
9 11 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.13%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.99%) Machine to Machine
13 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.85%) Derivative
13 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.85%) Web3
14 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.71%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.46%) Android
2 65 (9.18%) Apple iOS
3 62 (8.76%) Windows
4 48 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 47 (6.64%) Linux
6 11 (1.55%) 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
1 256 (36.16%) Agile
2 253 (35.73%) CI/CD
3 206 (29.10%) Full Stack Development
4 175 (24.72%) DevOps
5 162 (22.88%) Software Engineering
6 120 (16.95%) Microservices
7 87 (12.29%) Test Automation
8 86 (12.15%) TDD
9 74 (10.45%) Front End Development
10 64 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
10 64 (9.04%) User Experience
11 58 (8.19%) Design Patterns
11 58 (8.19%) E-Commerce
12 55 (7.77%) Web Development
13 51 (7.20%) Unit Testing
14 50 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (6.50%) Risk Management
15 46 (6.50%) Zero Trust
16 45 (6.36%) Containerisation
17 44 (6.21%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 384 (54.24%) JavaScript
2 284 (40.11%) TypeScript
3 150 (21.19%) Java
4 142 (20.06%) Python
5 86 (12.15%) SQL
6 53 (7.49%) C#
7 32 (4.52%) Kotlin
8 27 (3.81%) Bash
9 25 (3.53%) Go
10 23 (3.25%) C++
11 16 (2.26%) Ruby
12 14 (1.98%) C
12 14 (1.98%) PHP
13 13 (1.84%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.13%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.71%) Perl
16 3 (0.42%) Groovy
16 3 (0.42%) Scala
16 3 (0.42%) Swift
17 2 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 109 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.24%) Degree
4 22 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.42%) CISSP
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.28%) OCP
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CAPM
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.21%) QA
2 32 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.85%) GDPR
4 5 (0.71%) SLA
5 4 (0.56%) 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 (17.37%) 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
1 142 (20.06%) Kubernetes
2 76 (10.73%) Terraform
3 37 (5.23%) Ansible
4 11 (1.55%) Grafana
5 10 (1.41%) Argo
6 9 (1.27%) Kibana
7 7 (0.99%) Puppet
8 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.71%) logstash
10 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.42%) Autotask
11 3 (0.42%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.42%) Rancher
12 2 (0.28%) Istio
13 1 (0.14%) Anchore
13 1 (0.14%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (6.78%) Google
2 38 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.25%) Oracle
4 20 (2.82%) SAP
5 17 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.55%) Adobe
7 11 (1.55%) VMware
8 8 (1.13%) WSO2
9 7 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 7 (0.99%) Tealium
10 6 (0.85%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.71%) Apple
11 5 (0.71%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.71%) Ensighten
11 5 (0.71%) Monetate
11 5 (0.71%) Omniture
11 5 (0.71%) Optimizely
12 4 (0.56%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace