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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 732 617 713
Rank change year-on-year -115 +96 -64
Permanent jobs citing npm 16 27 38
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.016% 0.062% 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.065% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 15
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 -
25th Percentile £42,813 £47,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +107.14% -53.33%
75th Percentile £68,188 £118,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £69,825 - £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year - +71.43% -53.33%

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 24,540 14,096 22,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.14% 32.62% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 17,022 9,863 14,254
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for npm in England

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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 18 September 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
North of England -58 12 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West -5 10 £60,000 +9.09% 1
East Midlands - 2 £67,500 - 3
Midlands - 2 £67,500 - 3
North East - 2 £40,000 -
London -74 1 £70,000 -15.15% 16
South West - 1 £42,500 -
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 8 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) NuGet
4 2 (12.50%) SonarCloud
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Apigee
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
5 1 (6.25%) Datadog
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Route 53
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (12.50%) GIS
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Maven
2 8 (50.00%) Git
2 8 (50.00%) Storybook
3 1 (6.25%) git-flow
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (50.00%) Publishing
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 3 (18.75%) Angular Developer
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior UI Developer
4 3 (18.75%) UI Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (6.25%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Node.js
2 8 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 8 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 8 (50.00%) MDX
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 6 (37.50%) CSS
3 6 (37.50%) HTML
4 5 (31.25%) React
5 4 (25.00%) amCharts
6 3 (18.75%) REST
6 3 (18.75%) Terraform
7 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (12.50%) CSS3
7 2 (12.50%) Laravel
7 2 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (12.50%) LESS
7 2 (12.50%) OpenLayers
7 2 (12.50%) Sass
7 2 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 11 (68.75%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (50.00%) Monorepo
5 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (37.50%) AI
6 6 (37.50%) Clean Code
6 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (37.50%) Microservices
6 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) BDD
7 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (25.00%) Information Security
7 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 4 (25.00%) User Experience
7 4 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
3 8 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 8 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat