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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 60 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +23
Contract jobs citing Node.js 12 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.52% 1.60% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.69% 6.99% 6.99%
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% -
75th Percentile £438 £517 £463
90th Percentile £474 £525 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £487 £450
% change year-on-year -12.73% +8.22% -

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 156 143 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.70% 22.88% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 106 125
10th Percentile £358 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +2.95% -2.06%
75th Percentile £575 £527 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £733
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £454
% change year-on-year -5.26% +4.68% -7.16%
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 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% - +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 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (16.67%) Apigee
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) git-flow
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
1 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) React Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) React
2 4 (33.33%) Express.js
2 4 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (16.67%) MERN Stack
3 2 (16.67%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) NestJS
4 1 (8.33%) Redux
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) API Development
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) LLM
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 8 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) ForgeRock