npm Contracts

npm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 525 544
Rank change year-on-year +41 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing npm 38 54 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.39% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 48 116
10th Percentile £413 £439 £414
25th Percentile £513 £483 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.26% +6.97%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £738
90th Percentile - - £856
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £445
% change year-on-year +13.16% +6.74% -17.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,941 13,845 21,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 32.55% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,519 9,849 15,232
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £620 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 347 332
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +59.09%
75th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.95% -29.12% +29.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for npm in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing npm.

Daily rate trend for npm in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for npm in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing npm.

Hourly rate trend for npm in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 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
England +26 30 £725 +0.35% 67
Work from Home +37 19 £625 +25.63% 48
London +27 19 £775 -8.82% 27
UK excluding London +46 11 £538 +13.16% 55
North of England +19 6 £429 -7.24% 9
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 3
South East +43 3 £625 +13.64% 14
North West +3 2 £358 -22.59% 2
East of England - 1 £575 - 11
East Midlands - 1 £367 -
Midlands - 1 £367 - 3

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Yarn
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) AWS
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Akamai
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) Apigee
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Datadog
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) Calico
2 2 (5.26%) SNMP
3 1 (2.63%) BGP
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.63%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) IPsec
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) OSPF
3 1 (2.63%) SMTP
3 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (2.63%) SSL
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VLAN
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (78.95%) webpack
2 25 (65.79%) Git
3 14 (36.84%) JIRA
4 6 (15.79%) Babel
4 6 (15.79%) GitLab
4 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.89%) Ant
5 3 (7.89%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.26%) Maven
7 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.63%) ESLint
7 1 (2.63%) GoogleTest
7 1 (2.63%) Grunt
7 1 (2.63%) gulp
7 1 (2.63%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (44.74%) Banking
2 16 (42.11%) Finance
3 12 (31.58%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (84.21%) Developer
2 14 (36.84%) Senior
2 14 (36.84%) Senior Developer
2 14 (36.84%) UI Developer
3 12 (31.58%) Senior UI Developer
4 11 (28.95%) Angular Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (18.42%) Python Developer
5 7 (18.42%) React Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior React Developer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Grid Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (71.05%) CSS
2 21 (55.26%) React
3 14 (36.84%) HTML
4 13 (34.21%) AngularJS
4 13 (34.21%) REST
5 10 (26.32%) RESTful
6 9 (23.68%) Redux
7 7 (18.42%) CSS3
7 7 (18.42%) Web Services
8 6 (15.79%) HTML5
8 6 (15.79%) RxJS
9 5 (13.16%) Material-UI
9 5 (13.16%) Node.js
10 4 (10.53%) Flask
10 4 (10.53%) pytest
11 3 (7.89%) .NET
11 3 (7.89%) Next.js
11 3 (7.89%) Semantic UI
11 3 (7.89%) Swagger
11 3 (7.89%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Derivative
2 11 (28.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Android
2 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 14 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (31.58%) Customer Requirements
3 12 (31.58%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (31.58%) Event-Driven
3 12 (31.58%) Event-Driven Programming
3 12 (31.58%) Web Development
4 11 (28.95%) Loose Coupling
4 11 (28.95%) SDLC
5 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 9 (23.68%) Front End Development
6 9 (23.68%) Microservices
7 7 (18.42%) User Experience
8 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 5 (13.16%) Wireframes
10 4 (10.53%) DevOps
10 4 (10.53%) UX Design
10 4 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (84.21%) JavaScript
2 22 (57.89%) TypeScript
3 15 (39.47%) Python
4 12 (31.58%) Java
5 4 (10.53%) Bash
6 3 (7.89%) C#
6 3 (7.89%) SQL
7 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.63%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) Okta
3 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.63%) Perforce