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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 62
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Node.js 4 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.65% 2.11% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 8.23% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 18
10th Percentile £463 £426 £415
25th Percentile £473 £431 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% - -
75th Percentile £511 £525 £463
90th Percentile £519 - £472
Scotland median daily rate £400 £443 £458
% change year-on-year -9.60% -3.44% -0.92%

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 144 158 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.53% 25.61% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 100 149
10th Percentile £400 £399 £400
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.11% - -
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £670 £676 £639
Scotland median daily rate £500 £465 £480
% change year-on-year +7.53% -3.13% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.55%

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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) git-flow
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Back Office
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%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Express.js
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) NestJS
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle