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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 355 365
Rank change year-on-year -90 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing npm 12 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.059% 0.074% 0.099%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 13
10th Percentile £510 £362 £380
25th Percentile - £584 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £775
90th Percentile £870 £805 £865
England median daily rate £550 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -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 8,261 5,881 6,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.77% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,715 3,981 4,565
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.83%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 99 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £27.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.90% -23.46%
75th Percentile £58.31 £47.13 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for npm in London

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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 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Yarn
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (8.33%) Datadog
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) NuGet
6 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) Route 53
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket
2 5 (41.67%) GitLab
2 5 (41.67%) webpack
3 4 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Mocha
4 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (25.00%) MSBuild
4 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (16.67%) Maven
5 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (8.33%) Jasmine
6 1 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) React Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
2 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
2 5 (41.67%) Jest
2 5 (41.67%) JWT
2 5 (41.67%) RESTful
3 4 (33.33%) Chai
3 4 (33.33%) Express.js
3 4 (33.33%) Node.js
4 3 (25.00%) .NET
4 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (25.00%) Dapper ORM
4 3 (25.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (25.00%) Kafka
4 3 (25.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (25.00%) Swagger
5 2 (16.67%) Nunjucks
5 2 (16.67%) OAuth
5 2 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 3 (25.00%) AI
6 3 (25.00%) Build Automation
6 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (25.00%) Runbook
6 3 (25.00%) User Experience
7 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (25.00%) WCAG
3 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk