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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 88 89
Rank change year-on-year -56 +1 -37
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 7 69 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.25% 2.13% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 10.00% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 35 59
10th Percentile £44,155 £47,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £61,636 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,415 £66,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% -7.93% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - - £117,236
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +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 379 690 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.66% 21.34% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 113 393 507
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £78,312 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -44 4 £80,000 +21.44% 4
Glasgow +2 3 £35,000 -50.00% 7
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 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
1 1 (14.29%) Jasmine
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Protractor
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
1 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 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%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Django
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
4 1 (14.29%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) JMS
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) NestJS
4 1 (14.29%) Next.js
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Community of Practice
3 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) 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%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI