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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 328 356
Rank change year-on-year -69 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing npm 7 19 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.039% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.092% 0.36% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 31
10th Percentile £753 £495 £519
25th Percentile £756 £713 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £775 £850
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% +25.93%
75th Percentile £888 £788 -
90th Percentile - - £875
England median daily rate £588 £725 £723
% change year-on-year -18.97% +0.35% +7.04%

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 7,603 5,245 6,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.12% 42.46% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 3,615 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.70%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 54 70
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.71 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £67.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Yarn
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) webpack
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) MSBuild
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) GUI Developer
2 3 (42.86%) React Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Java GUI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior GUI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
3 4 (57.14%) HTML
3 4 (57.14%) Redux
3 4 (57.14%) RxJS
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (28.57%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
4 2 (28.57%) JWT
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Swagger
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Electron
5 1 (14.29%) Kafka
5 1 (14.29%) NancyFx
5 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (14.29%) RxJava
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
3 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
4 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) Runbook
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) Functional Programming
6 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (14.29%) SDLC
6 1 (14.29%) User Experience
6 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker