npm Contract Job Trends in Scotland

npm
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring npm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing npm 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% - 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £432
25th Percentile £475 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.38%
75th Percentile £525 - £509
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £545 £519 £800
% change year-on-year +5.06% -35.16% +28.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 577 591 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.35% 35.16% 31.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 368 492
10th Percentile £313 £267 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £575
90th Percentile £625 £602 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing npm relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

npm job vacancy trend in Scotland

npm
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing npm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing npm

npm
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Edinburgh - 2 £500 - 2
npm
UK

npm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Storybook
2 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe