npm
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for npm skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited npm over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 556 542
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -28
Contract jobs citing npm 55 164 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.27% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.74% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 127 258
10th Percentile £456 £417 £425
25th Percentile £486 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £626
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.78% +8.91%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £763
90th Percentile £855 £856 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £465 £540
% change year-on-year +4.60% -13.91% +27.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +95.41%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

npm is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for npm in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing npm.

Daily rate trend for npm in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for npm in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing npm.

Hourly rate trend for npm in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +25 48 £800 +18.52% 23
London +25 33 £850 +25.93% 8
Work from Home +83 23 £498 -31.38% 11
UK excluding London +45 19 £486 +4.60% 17
North of England +8 8 £463 -4.61% 10
North West +4 8 £463 +3.93% 5
Scotland - 6 £498 - 2
South West - 3 £545 - 3
South East +26 2 £550 +37.50%

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Yarn
2 11 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (14.55%) Serverless
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.27%) CloudFront
5 3 (5.45%) Azure
5 3 (5.45%) GCP
5 3 (5.45%) Google App Engine
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.82%) Figma
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.09%) Redis
3 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.64%) Big Data
5 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.82%) KDB
6 1 (1.82%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (72.73%) webpack
2 22 (40.00%) JIRA
3 6 (10.91%) Babel
4 5 (9.09%) Git
4 5 (9.09%) Mocha
5 4 (7.27%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.27%) Jasmine
5 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.27%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (5.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.64%) Ant
7 2 (3.64%) ESLint
7 2 (3.64%) Maven
8 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.82%) git-flow
8 1 (1.82%) gulp
8 1 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.82%) rollup.js
8 1 (1.82%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.82%) Vite
General
1 22 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 22 (40.00%) Front Office
1 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (78.18%) Developer
2 25 (45.45%) Angular Developer
3 19 (34.55%) UI Developer
4 17 (30.91%) Applications Developer
4 17 (30.91%) Real Time Developer
4 17 (30.91%) Web Applications Developer
5 13 (23.64%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (14.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (12.73%) C# Developer
7 7 (12.73%) Lead
7 7 (12.73%) Software Engineer
8 6 (10.91%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (10.91%) C# Web Application Developer
8 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 6 (10.91%) Web UI Developer
9 5 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 4 (7.27%) .NET Developer
10 4 (7.27%) Lead Developer
11 3 (5.45%) Java Developer
11 3 (5.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (76.36%) React
2 38 (69.09%) AngularJS
3 29 (52.73%) REST
4 27 (49.09%) RxJS
5 23 (41.82%) WebSockets
6 16 (29.09%) CSS
7 13 (23.64%) RESTful
8 12 (21.82%) HTML
8 12 (21.82%) Node.js
9 6 (10.91%) .NET
9 6 (10.91%) HTML5
10 5 (9.09%) CSS3
10 5 (9.09%) Express.js
10 5 (9.09%) Web Services
11 4 (7.27%) GraphQL
11 4 (7.27%) Jest
11 4 (7.27%) Kafka
11 4 (7.27%) Material-UI
12 3 (5.45%) .NET Core
12 3 (5.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Fixed Income
2 6 (10.91%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Derivative
3 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (9.09%) Wiki
4 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.64%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.82%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (63.64%) Agile
1 35 (63.64%) Software Engineering
2 30 (54.55%) Design Patterns
3 25 (45.45%) Electronic Trading
4 23 (41.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (41.82%) Web Application Development
5 20 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
6 19 (34.55%) Front End Development
7 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
8 11 (20.00%) Economics
9 8 (14.55%) DevOps
9 8 (14.55%) Scrum
9 8 (14.55%) User Experience
10 7 (12.73%) OO
11 6 (10.91%) Asynchronous Programming
11 6 (10.91%) Decision-Making
11 6 (10.91%) Web Development
12 5 (9.09%) Epics
12 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (81.82%) TypeScript
2 44 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 20 (36.36%) C#
4 12 (21.82%) SQL
5 10 (18.18%) Java
6 6 (10.91%) Python
7 2 (3.64%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
8 1 (1.82%) JSX
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Degree
2 9 (16.36%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.64%) MiFID
2 2 (3.64%) WCAG
3 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.82%) Ansible
2 1 (1.82%) Grafana
2 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.45%) Atlassian
1 3 (5.45%) Google
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle