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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 319 398
Rank change year-on-year +31 +79 +34
Contract jobs citing npm 17 22 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.41% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 40
10th Percentile £477 £370 £561
25th Percentile £513 £456 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £725
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -31.38% +11.54%
75th Percentile £663 £850 £775
90th Percentile £788 - £960
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +3.85%
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 - - -7.89%

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 3,981 5,400 9,408
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.79% 36.56% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,885 7,001
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 88 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £17.43 £21.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -48.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.06 £69.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

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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 18 June 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 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Yarn
5 1 (5.88%) Akamai
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) SNMP
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) IPsec
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) SMTP
3 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) CouchDB
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PouchDB
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) JIRA
1 11 (64.71%) webpack
2 10 (58.82%) Git
3 4 (23.53%) GitLab
4 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) GoogleTest
5 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Angular Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Python Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (17.65%) React Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 3 (17.65%) UI Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior UI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) AngularJS
1 10 (58.82%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) REST
3 8 (47.06%) HTML
4 6 (35.29%) React
5 5 (29.41%) Node.js
5 5 (29.41%) RESTful
6 4 (23.53%) Flask
6 4 (23.53%) pytest
6 4 (23.53%) Web Services
7 3 (17.65%) Redux
8 2 (11.76%) Material-UI
8 2 (11.76%) Next.js
8 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
8 2 (11.76%) RxJS
8 2 (11.76%) Swagger
9 1 (5.88%) D3.js
9 1 (5.88%) Ember.js
9 1 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Derivative
1 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) SDLC
2 9 (52.94%) Loose Coupling
3 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 6 (35.29%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
6 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Programming
7 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
7 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
2 10 (58.82%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 4 (23.53%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto