Hybrid/Remote npm Job Trends

npm
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring npm skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 409 460
Rank change year-on-year +17 +51 +104
Permanent jobs citing npm 13 49 34
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.082% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.56% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 35 29
10th Percentile £53,750 £30,000 £39,800
25th Percentile - £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -48.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 £40,000 £85,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £95,436
UK median annual salary £55,000 £32,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +69.23% -56.67% +15.38%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,546 8,737 10,525
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.98% 44.01% 48.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,122 5,651 8,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,365
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

npm
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing npm and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

npm job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing npm.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing npm

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (23.08%) CMS
2 2 (15.38%) Drupal
2 2 (15.38%) EPiServer
2 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Figma
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
5 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
5 1 (7.69%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Broadband
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) JIRA
3 6 (46.15%) webpack
4 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
5 4 (30.77%) Mocha
6 3 (23.08%) CircleCI
6 3 (23.08%) gulp
7 2 (15.38%) Grunt
7 2 (15.38%) Protractor
8 1 (7.69%) Babel
8 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (23.08%) Multimedia
2 2 (15.38%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (23.08%) React Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Web Applications Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) React
2 7 (53.85%) HTML
3 6 (46.15%) CSS
3 6 (46.15%) Node.js
4 5 (38.46%) Redux
5 4 (30.77%) Sass
6 3 (23.08%) D3.js
6 3 (23.08%) Jest
6 3 (23.08%) Svelte
6 3 (23.08%) Vue
7 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (15.38%) CSS3
7 2 (15.38%) HTML5
7 2 (15.38%) Laravel
7 2 (15.38%) REST
7 2 (15.38%) RESTful
8 1 (7.69%) Playwright
8 1 (7.69%) Puppeteer
8 1 (7.69%) SvelteKit
8 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Social Media
2 2 (15.38%) Graphic Design
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Front End Development
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) User Experience
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Storytelling
4 3 (23.08%) Web Development
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 2 (15.38%) Micro Frontends
5 2 (15.38%) SEO
5 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
3 5 (38.46%) PHP
4 4 (30.77%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google