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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 422 474
Rank change year-on-year +29 +52 +64
Permanent jobs citing npm 15 44 36
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.092% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 31
10th Percentile £53,750 £30,000 £40,000
25th Percentile - £31,250 £45,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £40,000 £84,000
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 5,651 8,859 11,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.76% 43.68% 47.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 5,838 9,519
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £48,144 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,313 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £99,100
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 (20.00%) CMS
1 3 (20.00%) nginx
2 2 (13.33%) Drupal
2 2 (13.33%) EPiServer
2 2 (13.33%) Umbraco
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) Figma
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
5 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.67%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Broadband
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) MySQL
2 5 (33.33%) Metadata
3 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Git
2 8 (53.33%) webpack
3 7 (46.67%) JIRA
4 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (33.33%) gulp
5 4 (26.67%) Mocha
6 3 (20.00%) Babel
6 3 (20.00%) CircleCI
7 2 (13.33%) Grunt
7 2 (13.33%) Protractor
8 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (20.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 3 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (13.33%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) React Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Web Applications Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) React
2 9 (60.00%) HTML
3 8 (53.33%) CSS
3 8 (53.33%) Node.js
4 6 (40.00%) Sass
5 5 (33.33%) Redux
5 5 (33.33%) Svelte
5 5 (33.33%) Vue
6 4 (26.67%) REST
7 3 (20.00%) D3.js
7 3 (20.00%) Jest
7 3 (20.00%) OAuth
8 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 2 (13.33%) CSS3
8 2 (13.33%) HTML5
8 2 (13.33%) Laravel
8 2 (13.33%) RESTful
9 1 (6.67%) Symfony
9 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (20.00%) Smart City
1 3 (20.00%) Social Media
2 2 (13.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Front End Development
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience
2 5 (33.33%) Web Development
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Data Sharing
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Facilities Management
4 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (20.00%) Open Source
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (20.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) R
2 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (33.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google