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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 339 358
Rank change year-on-year -48 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing npm 8 14 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.051% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.25% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 36
10th Percentile £608 £404 £750
25th Percentile £750 £585 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £850
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +25.93%
75th Percentile £888 £788 -
90th Percentile - - £875
England median daily rate £550 £580 £850
% change year-on-year -5.17% -31.76% +30.77%

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 6,859 5,616 6,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 41.57% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,702 3,784 5,081
10th Percentile £350 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 80
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.56
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.63
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.49% -13.72%

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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 21 February 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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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 21 February 2026. 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 -8 1 £525 -17.16% 1
npm
England

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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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Yarn
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) webpack
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) gulp
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) MSBuild
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Front Office
2 5 (62.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) GUI Developer
2 4 (50.00%) React Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior React Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java GUI Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior GUI Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) React
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
4 5 (62.50%) Redux
4 5 (62.50%) RxJS
5 2 (25.00%) Electron
6 1 (12.50%) .NET
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (12.50%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (12.50%) Jest
6 1 (12.50%) JWT
6 1 (12.50%) Kafka
6 1 (12.50%) NancyFx
6 1 (12.50%) Playwright
6 1 (12.50%) RxJava
6 1 (12.50%) Sass
6 1 (12.50%) SPFx
6 1 (12.50%) Spring
6 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (37.50%) Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
4 5 (62.50%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 1 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Functional Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Runbook
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft