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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 351 368
Rank change year-on-year -83 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing npm 5 20 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.060% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 20
10th Percentile - £362 £460
25th Percentile - £685 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £673
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +15.24% -7.24%
75th Percentile - £788 £850
90th Percentile - - £875
England median daily rate £523 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -11.06% -2.08% -12.73%

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 8,308 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,679 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Yarn
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) webpack
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) MSBuild
2 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (60.00%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (60.00%) Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) JWT
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Swagger
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (20.00%) Chai
4 1 (20.00%) Express.js
4 1 (20.00%) Jest
4 1 (20.00%) NancyFx
4 1 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (20.00%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (60.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes