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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 364 370
Rank change year-on-year -84 +6 +28
Contract jobs citing npm 10 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.082% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.19% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 16
10th Percentile £500 £378 £438
25th Percentile - £664 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £673
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +15.24% -11.80%
75th Percentile - £788 £756
90th Percentile £600 £801 £850
England median daily rate £548 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.46% -9.17% -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 8,337 5,855 6,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.96% 43.44% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,747 3,968 4,569
10th Percentile £360 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 95 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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

npm
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm in London over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for npm in London

npm
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

npm
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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) Yarn
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (10.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (10.00%) NuGet
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (50.00%) GitLab
3 4 (40.00%) Git
3 4 (40.00%) Mocha
3 4 (40.00%) webpack
4 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (30.00%) MSBuild
4 3 (30.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (20.00%) Maven
5 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (10.00%) Jasmine
6 1 (10.00%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Local Government
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Jest
1 5 (50.00%) JWT
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (40.00%) Chai
2 4 (40.00%) Express.js
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
2 4 (40.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (30.00%) Dapper ORM
3 3 (30.00%) Entity Framework
3 3 (30.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (30.00%) Swagger
4 2 (20.00%) Kafka
4 2 (20.00%) Nunjucks
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 2 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (30.00%) Build Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (30.00%) Runbook
6 3 (30.00%) User Experience
7 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (20.00%) Observability
7 2 (20.00%) Operational Stability
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (30.00%) WCAG
3 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype