npm Job Trends in England

npm
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring npm skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 628 670
Rank change year-on-year +26 +42 -10
Permanent jobs citing npm 20 46 59
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.036% 0.098% 0.096%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 54
10th Percentile £53,500 £53,750 £30,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,694 £82,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £119,575 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £32,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +107.69% -50.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

npm falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19,141 17,339 24,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.28% 36.86% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,658 10,279 20,456
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing npm relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

npm job vacancy trend in England

npm
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing npm.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing npm

npm
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing npm in England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for npm in England

npm
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the England region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +39 8 £73,750 - 3
Midlands +23 6 £67,250 -7.24% 2
East Midlands -3 6 £67,250 -3.93% 1
North of England +2 3 £65,000 +10.64% 3
South East +10 2 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
North West +17 1 £65,000 +10.64% 1
npm
UK

npm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) nginx
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) Drupal
3 1 (5.00%) EPiServer
3 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) NuGet
2 6 (30.00%) SonarCloud
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 5 (25.00%) Yarn
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Figma
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) AMQP
1 2 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Git
2 8 (40.00%) webpack
3 5 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (20.00%) Mocha
5 3 (15.00%) JIRA
6 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (10.00%) gulp
7 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (5.00%) Bower
7 1 (5.00%) GitLab
7 1 (5.00%) Grunt
7 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (5.00%) Protractor
7 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (5.00%) Storybook
7 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
7 1 (5.00%) Vite
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (10.00%) Lead
7 2 (10.00%) React Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Digital Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Technical Leader
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (90.00%) React
2 13 (65.00%) Node.js
3 10 (50.00%) HTML
4 9 (45.00%) CSS
5 8 (40.00%) .NET
6 6 (30.00%) Jest
6 6 (30.00%) RESTful
6 6 (30.00%) YAML
7 5 (25.00%) .NET Core
7 5 (25.00%) .NET Framework
7 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 5 (25.00%) CSS3
7 5 (25.00%) HTML5
7 5 (25.00%) Redux
8 3 (15.00%) Express.js
8 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
8 3 (15.00%) OAuth
9 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (10.00%) gRPC
9 2 (10.00%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Social Media
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 8 (40.00%) Microservices
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (35.00%) User Experience
5 6 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) SDLC
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (15.00%) UX Design
9 2 (10.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (45.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (30.00%) Bash
3 6 (30.00%) C#
3 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (15.00%) Java
6 2 (10.00%) R
6 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) WCAG
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.00%) Pega
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Sitecore