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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Node.js 6 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.92% 2.65% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 12.21% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 15
10th Percentile £404 - £415
25th Percentile £409 £406 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -1.39% -
75th Percentile £483 £502 £462
90th Percentile £508 £525 £463
Scotland median daily rate £358 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -19.55% -1.11% -

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 133 131 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.40% 21.72% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 101 121
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -0.89%
75th Percentile £581 £525 £575
90th Percentile £657 £553 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +0.27% -2.89% -0.84%
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 £61.36 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - +15.98%

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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) git-flow
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Express.js
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) NestJS
4 1 (16.67%) Redux
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock