npm Contract Job Trends in London

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England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring npm skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 359 400
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 -5
Contract jobs citing npm 13 18 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.097% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.27% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 46
10th Percentile £409 £403 £548
25th Percentile £748 £563 £703
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £788 £763 £825
90th Percentile £792 £855 £950
England median daily rate £550 £600 £725
% change year-on-year -8.33% -17.24% +11.54%

All Cloud 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 5,831 6,730 8,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.30% 41.28% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,970 4,699 6,436
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 45 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%
75th Percentile £51.00 £53.75 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.15 £89.31
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for npm 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 19 September 2025.

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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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Yarn
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) CouchDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PouchDB
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) webpack
2 10 (76.92%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Babel
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 8 (61.54%) Banking
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
1 8 (61.54%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (69.23%) UI Developer
3 7 (53.85%) Senior
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Developer
3 7 (53.85%) Senior UI Developer
4 3 (23.08%) React Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Angular Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) CSS
1 11 (84.62%) React
2 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) Redux
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) D3.js
4 1 (7.69%) Ember.js
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) Sass
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Derivative
2 7 (53.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Electronic Trading
2 8 (61.54%) Customer Requirements
2 8 (61.54%) Event-Driven
2 8 (61.54%) Event-Driven Programming
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Web Development
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Loose Coupling
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
6 1 (7.69%) CRUD
6 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Rapid Prototyping
6 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Use Case
6 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (76.92%) TypeScript
3 8 (61.54%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Atlassian