Node.js Job Trends in Scotland

Node
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 88 115
Rank change year-on-year -58 +27 -53
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 7 55 120
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.23% 2.31% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 9.73% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.05% -8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - £77,707 £117,236
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -3.57%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 364 565 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.20% 23.68% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 140 335 602
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £36,352
25th Percentile £31,625 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -6.14% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Node.js job vacancy trend in Scotland

Node.js
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in Scotland

Node.js
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -45 5 £77,415 +40.75% 3
Glasgow +6 2 £35,000 - 3
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Django
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
4 1 (14.29%) LangChain
4 1 (14.29%) NestJS
4 1 (14.29%) Next.js
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI