npm Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 288 322 406
Rank change year-on-year +34 +84 +42
Contract jobs citing npm 16 23 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.41% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 52
10th Percentile £501 £385 £441
25th Percentile £513 £456 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £498 £725
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -31.38% +15.45%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £816
90th Percentile - £850 £1,061
UK median daily rate £718 £738 £675
% change year-on-year -2.71% +9.26% +8.00%
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 median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

npm falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

npm trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing npm.

npm daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing npm over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

npm daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing npm.

npm hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Yarn
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Akamai
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Datadog
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (6.25%) BGP
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) IPsec
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) OSPF
3 1 (6.25%) SMTP
3 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) webpack
2 10 (62.50%) Git
3 9 (56.25%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) ESLint
5 1 (6.25%) GoogleTest
5 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Senior Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Angular Developer
4 5 (31.25%) Python Developer
4 5 (31.25%) Senior UI Developer
4 5 (31.25%) UI Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) React Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) CSS
2 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
2 7 (43.75%) React
2 7 (43.75%) REST
3 6 (37.50%) Redux
4 5 (31.25%) HTML
4 5 (31.25%) RxJS
5 3 (18.75%) RESTful
6 2 (12.50%) Flask
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js
6 2 (12.50%) pytest
6 2 (12.50%) Web Services
7 1 (6.25%) CSS3
7 1 (6.25%) HTML5
7 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
7 1 (6.25%) Next.js
7 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
7 1 (6.25%) Sass
7 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Derivative
1 5 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Loose Coupling
2 7 (43.75%) SDLC
3 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (31.25%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (31.25%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
4 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Programming
4 5 (31.25%) Web Development
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Workflow
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.25%) ITIL
7 1 (6.25%) TDD
7 1 (6.25%) UML
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto