npm Contracts in England

npm
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring npm skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited npm over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 493 503
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing npm 27 49 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.41% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 119
10th Percentile £379 £456 £417
25th Percentile £531 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +18.52% +6.97%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £738
90th Percentile - £863 £863
UK median daily rate £718 £738 £675
% change year-on-year -2.71% +9.26% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for npm in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for npm in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for npm in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for npm in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +22 18 £775 -8.82% 17
North of England +16 5 £429 -7.24% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 2
South East +46 2 £625 +13.64% 7
North West +11 2 £358 -22.59% 2
East of England - 1 £575 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £367 -
Midlands - 1 £367 - 4
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
1 2 (7.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Yarn
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Akamai
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Apigee
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) HTTP
2 2 (7.41%) Calico
2 2 (7.41%) SNMP
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) DHCP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) EIGRP
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) IPsec
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) OSPF
3 1 (3.70%) SMTP
3 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (74.07%) Git
1 20 (74.07%) webpack
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) JIRA
3 5 (18.52%) Babel
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 3 (11.11%) Ant
5 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (7.41%) Maven
7 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.70%) GoogleTest
7 1 (3.70%) Grunt
7 1 (3.70%) gulp
7 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
7 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (62.96%) Banking
2 16 (59.26%) Finance
3 12 (44.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Developer
2 14 (51.85%) UI Developer
3 13 (48.15%) Senior
3 13 (48.15%) Senior Developer
4 12 (44.44%) Senior UI Developer
5 6 (22.22%) React Developer
6 5 (18.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (14.81%) Angular Developer
8 2 (7.41%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (7.41%) Senior React Developer
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
9 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Junior Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
9 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Software Test Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (81.48%) CSS
2 18 (66.67%) React
3 9 (33.33%) HTML
4 8 (29.63%) Redux
5 6 (22.22%) RESTful
5 6 (22.22%) RxJS
6 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
6 5 (18.52%) CSS3
6 5 (18.52%) REST
6 5 (18.52%) Web Services
7 4 (14.81%) HTML5
7 4 (14.81%) Material-UI
7 4 (14.81%) Node.js
8 3 (11.11%) .NET
8 3 (11.11%) Semantic UI
8 3 (11.11%) WPF
9 2 (7.41%) Flask
9 2 (7.41%) JSON
9 2 (7.41%) pytest
9 2 (7.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Derivative
2 11 (40.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
3 12 (44.44%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 12 (44.44%) Event-Driven Programming
3 12 (44.44%) Web Development
4 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
6 6 (22.22%) Microservices
6 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) User Experience
7 5 (18.52%) Wireframes
8 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.81%) UX Design
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (11.11%) DevOps
9 3 (11.11%) Loose Coupling
9 3 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) JavaScript
2 19 (70.37%) TypeScript
3 12 (44.44%) Java
4 7 (25.93%) Python
5 3 (11.11%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.41%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Perforce