Node.js Contracts in Scotland

Node
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Node.js skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Node.js over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 99 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Node.js 26 30 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.60% 1.35% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.74% 6.42% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 47
10th Percentile £378 £415 £412
25th Percentile £406 £435 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £458 £468
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -2.14% -1.58%
75th Percentile £519 £506 £550
90th Percentile £525 £540 £593
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in Scotland

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in Scotland

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in Scotland

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +6 13 £465 +3.33% 12
Glasgow +4 10 £511 +2.61% 5
Stirling - 1 £513 -
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.85%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (23.08%) Serverless
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (11.54%) CloudFront
5 3 (11.54%) Route 53
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (7.69%) Yarn
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.85%) Figma
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
2 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (15.38%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
6 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) webpack
3 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (7.69%) Ant
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
General
1 20 (76.92%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Back Office
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Service Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Service Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UX Service Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) React
2 11 (42.31%) CSS
2 11 (42.31%) HTML
3 10 (38.46%) REST
4 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
4 8 (30.77%) RESTful
4 8 (30.77%) Spring Boot
5 5 (19.23%) Spring
6 4 (15.38%) CSS3
6 4 (15.38%) Express.js
6 4 (15.38%) HTML5
7 3 (11.54%) AWS CDK
7 3 (11.54%) JSON
7 3 (11.54%) JSON Schema
7 3 (11.54%) Next.js
7 3 (11.54%) OAuth
7 3 (11.54%) Redux
8 2 (7.69%) TypeORM
8 2 (7.69%) Vue
9 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (26.92%) Design Patterns
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (26.92%) Microservices
3 7 (26.92%) TDD
4 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
4 6 (23.08%) User Experience
5 5 (19.23%) API Development
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (19.23%) Service Design
5 5 (19.23%) UX Design
5 5 (19.23%) Wireframes
6 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Data Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Information Governance
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 15 (57.69%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) Java
4 5 (19.23%) SQL
5 4 (15.38%) Python
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Accessibility
2 6 (23.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (11.54%) WCAG
4 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft