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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 396 527
Rank change year-on-year -23 +131 +17
Permanent jobs citing npm 3 32 49
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.015% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.039% 0.54% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 28 42
10th Percentile - £41,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +32.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £73,750
90th Percentile - £140,677 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.03% +15.60% -13.79%

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 7,761 5,947 14,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.09% 38.02% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,508 4,349 11,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Apigee
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
1 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Route 53
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Bower
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) git-flow
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) LESS
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Sass
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
1 2 (66.67%) Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat