npm Job Trends

npm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring npm skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 635 643
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +49
Permanent jobs citing npm 19 76 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.092% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 43 63
10th Percentile £50,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £32,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +109.23% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £77,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,000 £32,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +103.08% -27.78% -28.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,588 19,411 22,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 36.22% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,279 11,427 18,304
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,713 £45,000
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 £83,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend

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

npm job vacancy trend in the UK

npm
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing npm.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing npm

npm
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing npm over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for npm in the UK

npm
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +36 19 £68,000 +13.33% 12
London +61 9 £75,000 - 2
UK excluding London -17 9 £66,000 +103.08% 11
Work from Home +22 6 £65,000 +100.00% 11
North of England +12 4 £65,000 +10.64% 3
Midlands +21 3 £67,500 -6.90% 2
East Midlands -10 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South East +13 2 £50,000 -13.04% 1
North West +19 1 £65,000 +10.64% 1

npm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (15.79%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) Drupal
2 2 (10.53%) EPiServer
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
2 2 (10.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Yarn
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) NuGet
4 3 (15.79%) SonarCloud
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Figma
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) AMQP
1 2 (10.53%) Broadband
2 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Git
2 10 (52.63%) webpack
3 5 (26.32%) Cypress.io
4 4 (21.05%) JIRA
4 4 (21.05%) Mocha
5 3 (15.79%) gulp
6 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
6 2 (10.53%) CircleCI
6 2 (10.53%) Grunt
6 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
6 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
7 1 (5.26%) Bower
7 1 (5.26%) GitLab
7 1 (5.26%) Protractor
7 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 1 (5.26%) Storybook
7 1 (5.26%) Vite
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Digital Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) React Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (84.21%) React
2 12 (63.16%) HTML
2 12 (63.16%) Node.js
3 11 (57.89%) CSS
4 7 (36.84%) RESTful
5 6 (31.58%) CSS3
5 6 (31.58%) HTML5
5 6 (31.58%) Jest
5 6 (31.58%) Redux
6 5 (26.32%) .NET
6 5 (26.32%) AngularJS
7 4 (21.05%) .NET Core
8 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
8 3 (15.79%) Express.js
8 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
8 3 (15.79%) OAuth
8 3 (15.79%) Sass
8 3 (15.79%) YAML
9 2 (10.53%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Graphic Design
1 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (10.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Front End Development
2 9 (47.37%) User Experience
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) SDLC
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) TDD
6 4 (21.05%) UX Design
7 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
8 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
8 2 (10.53%) LLM
8 2 (10.53%) Natural Language Understanding
8 2 (10.53%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 10 (52.63%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) Bash
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) R
6 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) WCAG
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.26%) Pega
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Sitecore