npm Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for npm skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited npm over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 407 457
Rank change year-on-year +41 +50 -34
Contract jobs citing npm 19 39 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.51% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 33
10th Percentile - £391 £430
25th Percentile £456 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £445 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% -17.59% +29.73%
75th Percentile £509 £570 £588
90th Percentile £602 £634 £629
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £631
% change year-on-year -7.41% +6.97% +9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £76.00
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +98.02%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

npm is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,269 7,610 9,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.93% 33.12% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,741 5,614 7,256
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 220 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +35.26% -4.39%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.63 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.92
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for npm in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing npm in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for npm in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for npm in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing npm in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for npm in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +6 8 £463 +3.93% 1
North of England +3 8 £463 -4.59% 6
Scotland - 6 £498 - 1
South West - 3 £545 - 2
South East +15 2 £550 +37.50% 2
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) Yarn
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) CloudFront
5 2 (10.53%) Azure
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Figma
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Redis
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) webpack
2 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
2 4 (21.05%) Jasmine
2 4 (21.05%) Karma Test Runner
2 4 (21.05%) Mocha
3 1 (5.26%) Babel
3 1 (5.26%) ESLint
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) git-flow
3 1 (5.26%) rollup.js
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.26%) Vite
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) AngularJS
1 13 (68.42%) React
2 8 (42.11%) RESTful
3 6 (31.58%) CSS
3 6 (31.58%) Node.js
4 5 (26.32%) HTML
5 4 (21.05%) Kafka
5 4 (21.05%) REST
6 3 (15.79%) .NET
6 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
6 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
6 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
6 3 (15.79%) Jest
6 3 (15.79%) OAuth
6 3 (15.79%) Spring
6 3 (15.79%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) Express.js
8 1 (5.26%) MEAN Stack
8 1 (5.26%) Redux
8 1 (5.26%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Scrum
3 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
3 7 (36.84%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (26.32%) OO
4 5 (26.32%) OOP
4 5 (26.32%) SOLID
5 4 (21.05%) Asynchronous Programming
5 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
5 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
5 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
5 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
6 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.79%) Operational Stability
6 3 (15.79%) SDLC
6 3 (15.79%) User Experience
7 1 (5.26%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
1 10 (52.63%) TypeScript
2 5 (26.32%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe
1 1 (5.26%) Google