npm Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for npm skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited npm over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 408 460
Rank change year-on-year +39 +52 -47
Contract jobs citing npm 19 39 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.49% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 34
10th Percentile - £391 £416
25th Percentile £456 £429 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £445 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% -17.59% +28.57%
75th Percentile £509 £570 £588
90th Percentile £602 £634 £629
UK median daily rate £723 £675 £626
% change year-on-year +7.04% +7.78% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £76.00
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +98.02%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

npm is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,346 7,945 9,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.90% 33.26% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,794 5,883 7,318
10th Percentile £213 £250 £206
25th Percentile £369 £410 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 231 286
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for npm in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing npm in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for npm in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for npm in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing npm in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for npm in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
North West +15 8 £463 +3.93% 2
North of England +3 8 £463 -4.59% 5
Scotland - 6 £498 - 2
South West - 3 £545 - 2
South East +20 2 £550 +37.50% 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) Serverless
2 4 (21.05%) Yarn
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) CloudFront
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) Figma
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Redis
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) Big Data
4 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) webpack
2 4 (21.05%) Jasmine
2 4 (21.05%) Karma Test Runner
2 4 (21.05%) Mocha
3 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) Babel
4 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.26%) ESLint
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) git-flow
4 1 (5.26%) Gradle
4 1 (5.26%) gulp
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (5.26%) rollup.js
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.26%) Travis CI
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) AngularJS
1 12 (63.16%) React
2 8 (42.11%) RESTful
3 6 (31.58%) CSS
3 6 (31.58%) Node.js
4 5 (26.32%) HTML
5 4 (21.05%) Kafka
5 4 (21.05%) REST
6 3 (15.79%) .NET
6 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
6 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
6 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
6 3 (15.79%) Jest
6 3 (15.79%) OAuth
6 3 (15.79%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) Express.js
7 2 (10.53%) Spring
8 1 (5.26%) Enzyme
8 1 (5.26%) Parceljs
8 1 (5.26%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Scrum
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
4 6 (31.58%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
5 5 (26.32%) OO
5 5 (26.32%) OOP
5 5 (26.32%) SOLID
6 4 (21.05%) Asynchronous Programming
6 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
6 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
6 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
7 3 (15.79%) User Experience
8 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) DevOps
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
8 2 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
1 11 (57.89%) TypeScript
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) C#
4 5 (26.32%) Python
5 4 (21.05%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Groovy
6 1 (5.26%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe
1 1 (5.26%) Google