npm Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

npm
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring npm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing npm 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% - 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £498
% change year-on-year - - +24.38%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

npm falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 244 270 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.50% 41.99% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 154 225
10th Percentile £373 £191 £300
25th Percentile £440 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -3.68% -
75th Percentile £555 £534 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 1
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.71 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £20.82 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +57.24% +32.62% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
% change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing npm relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

npm job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

npm
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing npm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing npm

npm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Storybook
2 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe