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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing Node.js 10 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.36% 2.11% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.71% 8.67% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £413 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% -4.15%
75th Percentile £438 £517 £463
90th Percentile £474 £525 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £494 £458
% change year-on-year -13.97% +7.98% -0.54%

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 149 150 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.27% 24.31% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 117 115
10th Percentile £355 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £483
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +0.93% +0.68%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £625
90th Percentile £643 £600 £715
Scotland median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £32.63
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile £64.50 - £49.63
90th Percentile £64.80 - £54.35
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.03%

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) git-flow
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) React Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Express.js
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (20.00%) MERN Stack
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) NestJS
4 1 (10.00%) Redux
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock