Node.js Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Node
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 66 68
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing Node.js 4 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.65% 1.07% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% 4.10% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 18
10th Percentile - £403 £377
25th Percentile - £431 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £444 £449
Median % change year-on-year - -1.06% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £459 £484
90th Percentile - £478 £502
Scotland median daily rate £463 £438 £470
% change year-on-year +5.71% -6.91% +2.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 127 195 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.55% 26.00% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 116 194
10th Percentile £415 £380 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -3.44% -
75th Percentile £539 £535 £550
90th Percentile £600 £663 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.10% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Node.js job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Node.js

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Express.js
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) VMware