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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 552 718
Rank change year-on-year -71 +166 -48
Permanent jobs citing npm 23 46 75
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.034% 0.12% 0.098%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.33% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 20 36 59
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,875 £31,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.92% -5.45%
75th Percentile £69,313 £93,778 £78,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £140,677 £111,250
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -3.70%

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 22,329 13,904 28,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.76% 37.77% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,083 10,087 23,709
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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
Midlands -30 9 £67,500 -3.57%
East Midlands -34 9 £67,500 -3.57%
London -11 8 £73,750 -10.61% 2
South West -49 4 £45,000 -58.60%
North West -31 1 £65,000 +10.64%
North of England -58 1 £65,000 +13.04%
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 9 (39.13%) IIS
2 2 (8.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (39.13%) NuGet
2 9 (39.13%) SonarCloud
3 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Yarn
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) AMQP
2 1 (4.35%) Broadband
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) NoSQL
2 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Git
2 8 (34.78%) webpack
3 5 (21.74%) Cypress.io
4 3 (13.04%) Mocha
4 3 (13.04%) Vite
5 2 (8.70%) Bower
5 2 (8.70%) gulp
6 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (4.35%) JIRA
6 1 (4.35%) Protractor
6 1 (4.35%) Storybook
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) Senior
3 9 (39.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (34.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (30.43%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (30.43%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (30.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (4.35%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (95.65%) React
2 16 (69.57%) Node.js
3 12 (52.17%) .NET
4 9 (39.13%) YAML
5 8 (34.78%) .NET Core
5 8 (34.78%) .NET Framework
6 7 (30.43%) HTML
7 6 (26.09%) CSS
8 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
8 5 (21.74%) Jest
9 4 (17.39%) REST
9 4 (17.39%) RESTful
10 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
10 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (13.04%) CSS3
10 3 (13.04%) HTML5
10 3 (13.04%) OAuth
10 3 (13.04%) Vue
11 2 (8.70%) gRPC
11 2 (8.70%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
1 11 (47.83%) Front End Development
1 11 (47.83%) Microservices
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (39.13%) DevSecOps
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Migration
6 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (21.74%) User Experience
7 5 (21.74%) UX Design
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) SDLC
8 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) TDD
8 3 (13.04%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
1 11 (47.83%) TypeScript
2 9 (39.13%) Bash
2 9 (39.13%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.70%) Guidewire
2 2 (8.70%) Pega
2 2 (8.70%) Sitecore
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) Google