npm Contract Job Trends in London

npm
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring npm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 364 374
Rank change year-on-year -71 +10 +25
Contract jobs citing npm 8 20 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.040% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.096% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 19
10th Percentile - £362 £445
25th Percentile - £685 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £625
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +24.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £838
90th Percentile £620 - £875
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -14.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,372 5,887 6,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 42.90% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,725 4,039 4,837
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 86 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -47.14%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.31 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

npm job vacancy trend in London

npm
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing npm

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing npm.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing npm

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Yarn
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
5 1 (12.50%) NuGet
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) Route 53
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) webpack
2 3 (37.50%) Mocha
2 3 (37.50%) MSBuild
2 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JWT
1 4 (50.00%) React
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) Chai
2 3 (37.50%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (37.50%) Entity Framework
2 3 (37.50%) Express.js
2 3 (37.50%) Jest
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) Swagger
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (12.50%) NancyFx
4 1 (12.50%) Nunjucks
4 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (37.50%) Runbook
6 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) R
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (37.50%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) systemd
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype