Node.js Contracts in Scotland

Node
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Node.js skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Node.js over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 119 123
Rank change year-on-year +23 +4 -41
Contract jobs citing Node.js 29 41 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.35% 1.52% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.61% 6.44% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 27
10th Percentile £415 £410 £370
25th Percentile £434 £416 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £492 £520 £634
90th Percentile £509 £575 £705
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.43% - +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Node.js is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024. 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 +22 12 £450 -4.15% 10
Glasgow +12 9 £498 +17.06% 2
West Lothian +2 4 £563 +12.50%
Lanarkshire +3 1 £425 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 16 (55.17%) Amazon S3
2 16 (55.17%) Serverless
3 13 (44.83%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (34.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (17.24%) OpenShift
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.34%) CloudFront
7 3 (10.34%) npm
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (41.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (31.03%) Oracle Database
4 5 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
6 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) webpack
3 4 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) IntelliJ
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Postman
4 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (48.28%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Software Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (89.66%) CSS
1 26 (89.66%) HTML
2 24 (82.76%) React
3 15 (51.72%) AWS CDK
4 8 (27.59%) GraphQL
4 8 (27.59%) REST
5 5 (17.24%) Spring
5 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
6 4 (13.79%) Jest
6 4 (13.79%) OAuth
6 4 (13.79%) Playwright
6 4 (13.79%) Redux
6 4 (13.79%) Spring MVC
6 4 (13.79%) Spring Web Flow
6 4 (13.79%) Thymeleaf
7 3 (10.34%) CSS3
7 3 (10.34%) HTML5
7 3 (10.34%) RESTful
8 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.45%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 14 (48.28%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Microservices
4 10 (34.48%) Unit Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Code Quality
5 9 (31.03%) TDD
6 8 (27.59%) Front End Development
6 8 (27.59%) Human-Centred Design
6 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (27.59%) Pair Programming
7 7 (24.14%) User Experience
8 6 (20.69%) Inclusive Design
8 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
9 5 (17.24%) Analytics
9 5 (17.24%) Community of Practice
9 5 (17.24%) DevOps
9 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
10 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
10 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 4 (13.79%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 26 (89.66%) JavaScript
2 20 (68.97%) TypeScript
3 12 (41.38%) Java
4 11 (37.93%) Bash
5 9 (31.03%) Shell Script
6 6 (20.69%) Python
7 5 (17.24%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (55.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kibana
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Oracle