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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 375 511
Rank change year-on-year -1 +136 +79
Permanent jobs citing npm 4 56 29
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.025% 0.35% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.068% 0.75% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 41 29
10th Percentile - - £29,950
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.10% -17.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £93,778 £66,250
90th Percentile - £140,677 £75,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -3.85%

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 5,915 7,433 12,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.94% 46.80% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,094 4,773 11,111
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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

npm
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

npm
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%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Mocha
2 2 (50.00%) webpack
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Protractor
3 1 (25.00%) Storybook
General
1 2 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (50.00%) 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 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
2 2 (50.00%) D3.js
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) JWT
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe