npm Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring npm skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited npm over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 380 423
Rank change year-on-year +53 +43 +41
Contract jobs citing npm 9 19 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.091% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 24
10th Percentile £362 - £392
25th Percentile £367 £456 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +4.60% -13.91%
75th Percentile £613 £509 £570
90th Percentile £643 £602 £626
UK median daily rate £718 £738 £675
% change year-on-year -2.71% +9.26% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North of England +16 5 £429 -7.24% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 2
South East +46 2 £625 +13.64% 7
North West +11 2 £358 -22.59% 2
East of England - 1 £575 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £367 -
Midlands - 1 £367 - 4
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Apigee
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) HTTP
2 2 (22.22%) Calico
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) webpack
4 2 (22.22%) Maven
5 1 (11.11%) Babel
5 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 1 (11.11%) GoogleTest
5 1 (11.11%) Grunt
5 1 (11.11%) gulp
5 1 (11.11%) Robot Framework
5 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Angular Developer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) React Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
1 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
2 4 (44.44%) Node.js
2 4 (44.44%) REST
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) Flask
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) Next.js
4 2 (22.22%) pytest
4 2 (22.22%) React
4 2 (22.22%) Swagger
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) Ajax
5 1 (11.11%) JWT
5 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
5 1 (11.11%) NgRx
5 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 1 (11.11%) Playwright
5 1 (11.11%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Android
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Loose Coupling
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Perforce