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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 463 470
Rank change year-on-year +65 +7 +45
Permanent jobs citing npm 18 34 46
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.36% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 41
10th Percentile £54,750 - £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £49,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £32,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +103.08% -53.57% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,313 £40,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £95,436
UK median annual salary £60,000 £35,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% -53.33% +20.00%

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 5,729 9,436 12,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.40% 40.70% 48.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 6,603 10,485
10th Percentile £31,735 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,522 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

npm trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing npm

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing npm over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

npm salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) CMS
1 3 (16.67%) nginx
2 2 (11.11%) Drupal
2 2 (11.11%) EPiServer
2 2 (11.11%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) GitHub
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (16.67%) Datadog
3 3 (16.67%) Figma
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Broadband
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 5 (27.78%) Metadata
3 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Git
2 9 (50.00%) webpack
3 6 (33.33%) JIRA
4 5 (27.78%) gulp
5 3 (16.67%) Babel
5 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 3 (16.67%) Mocha
6 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
6 2 (11.11%) Grunt
7 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (5.56%) Protractor
General
1 3 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (11.11%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (16.67%) React Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Web Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) React
2 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 8 (44.44%) HTML
4 7 (38.89%) Node.js
5 6 (33.33%) Sass
6 5 (27.78%) Svelte
6 5 (27.78%) Vue
7 4 (22.22%) Redux
7 4 (22.22%) REST
7 4 (22.22%) RESTful
8 3 (16.67%) OAuth
8 3 (16.67%) Web Services
9 2 (11.11%) CSS3
9 2 (11.11%) D3.js
9 2 (11.11%) HTML5
9 2 (11.11%) Jest
9 2 (11.11%) Laravel
10 1 (5.56%) Playwright
10 1 (5.56%) Puppeteer
10 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (16.67%) Smart City
2 2 (11.11%) Graphic Design
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Social Media
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Front End Development
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) User Experience
4 5 (27.78%) Web Development
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Coaching
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Data Science
6 3 (16.67%) Data Sharing
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (16.67%) Intelligent Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Observability
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) PHP
3 5 (27.78%) R
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 3 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google