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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 348 523
Rank change year-on-year -37 +175 +49
Permanent jobs citing npm 4 49 40
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.024% 0.38% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.062% 0.81% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 43 34
10th Percentile £62,750 - £30,375
25th Percentile £63,125 £31,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -5.45%
75th Percentile £73,125 £88,764 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,250 £140,677 £111,250
UK median annual salary £67,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -7.14%

All Cloud Computing 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 6,483 6,024 13,843
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.85% 46.95% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 4,689 11,989
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,715
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 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (25.00%) git-flow
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Mocha
3 1 (25.00%) Protractor
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Storybook
3 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) D3.js
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat