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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 349 377
Rank change year-on-year -92 +28 +24
Contract jobs citing npm 7 17 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.084% 0.29% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 16
10th Percentile - £455 £422
25th Percentile - £713 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £613
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +26.53% -15.52%
75th Percentile - £788 £788
90th Percentile £610 - £875
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -17.24%

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 8,356 5,783 6,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.62% 43.14% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,711 3,956 4,766
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £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 99 90 48
10th Percentile £19.20 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -47.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £78.59 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%

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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Yarn
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 1 (14.29%) NuGet
5 1 (14.29%) Route 53
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
1 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket
2 4 (57.14%) Mocha
3 3 (42.86%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 2 (28.57%) MSBuild
4 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (28.57%) webpack
5 1 (14.29%) Maven
5 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Local Government
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Chai
1 4 (57.14%) Express.js
1 4 (57.14%) Jest
1 4 (57.14%) JWT
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (28.57%) Dapper ORM
2 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Nunjucks
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (28.57%) API Design
6 2 (28.57%) Asynchronous Programming
6 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
6 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) Observability
6 2 (28.57%) Operational Stability
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) Runbook
6 2 (28.57%) TDD
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (28.57%) User Experience
6 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype