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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 94 113
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Node.js 21 25 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.22% 1.21% 1.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.30% 5.95% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 41
10th Percentile - £414 £384
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £519 £483 £488
90th Percentile £538 £504 £530
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 396 420 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.04% 20.31% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 284 481
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -5.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £669 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £17.46
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £23.92
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £38.87
Median % change year-on-year - +41.52% -17.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £50.56
90th Percentile - - £55.64
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +3 9 £431 -4.17% 23
Glasgow -19 8 £575 +16.93% 19
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
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 (4.76%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.76%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (19.05%) Serverless
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.76%) CloudFront
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) Figma
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 4 (19.05%) Git
3 3 (14.29%) Newman
4 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.52%) webpack
General
1 15 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.52%) Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Service Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior UX Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Service Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) UX Designer
5 2 (9.52%) UX Service Designer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Digital Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) React
2 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 7 (33.33%) Spring
4 6 (28.57%) HTML
5 5 (23.81%) REST
6 4 (19.05%) CSS
6 4 (19.05%) RESTful
7 3 (14.29%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
7 3 (14.29%) AWS CDK
7 3 (14.29%) Express.js
7 3 (14.29%) Jest
7 3 (14.29%) Next.js
7 3 (14.29%) Nunjucks
7 3 (14.29%) Prisma
8 2 (9.52%) CSS3
8 2 (9.52%) hapi
8 2 (9.52%) HTML5
8 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (9.52%) Redux
8 2 (9.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Design Patterns
3 8 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (38.10%) Microservices
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (23.81%) Analytics
6 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
6 5 (23.81%) User Experience
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (19.05%) Service Design
7 4 (19.05%) UX Design
7 4 (19.05%) Wireframes
8 3 (14.29%) Design Thinking
8 3 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
8 3 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 11 (52.38%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) TypeScript
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (19.05%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (14.29%) WCAG
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) VMware