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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 406 466
Rank change year-on-year +35 +60 -43
Contract jobs citing npm 21 29 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.39% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 34
10th Percentile £399 £376 £433
25th Percentile £456 £430 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -0.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £509 £574 £619
90th Percentile £602 £665 £631
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £631
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 5,404 7,420 10,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.62% 32.67% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 5,466 7,428
10th Percentile £220 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 215 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.75 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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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 9 June 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 9 June 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 of England +13 8 £463 -18.86% 6
North West +12 8 £463 -7.50% 2
Scotland +45 7 £498 -13.48% 1
South West - 5 £473 - 1
South East +13 1 £600 +50.00% 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 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (19.05%) Yarn
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) CloudFront
5 1 (4.76%) Azure
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
1 4 (19.05%) Redis
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) webpack
2 5 (23.81%) Cypress.io
3 4 (19.05%) Jasmine
3 4 (19.05%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (19.05%) Mocha
4 1 (4.76%) Babel
4 1 (4.76%) ESLint
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) git-flow
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Angular Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leader
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) UI Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (76.19%) AngularJS
2 13 (61.90%) React
3 8 (38.10%) RESTful
4 6 (28.57%) Node.js
5 5 (23.81%) CSS
5 5 (23.81%) GraphQL
5 5 (23.81%) HTML
6 4 (19.05%) Kafka
6 4 (19.05%) REST
6 4 (19.05%) Spring
7 3 (14.29%) .NET
7 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
7 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 3 (14.29%) OAuth
7 3 (14.29%) RxJS
7 3 (14.29%) Web Services
8 2 (9.52%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (9.52%) Express.js
8 2 (9.52%) Jest
8 2 (9.52%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Full Stack Development
3 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
4 8 (38.10%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) OOP
6 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (19.05%) Asynchronous Programming
6 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (19.05%) Front End Development
6 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (19.05%) Memory Management
6 4 (19.05%) Multithreading
6 4 (19.05%) OO
6 4 (19.05%) Operational Stability
6 4 (19.05%) SDLC
6 4 (19.05%) SOLID
7 2 (9.52%) User Experience
8 1 (4.76%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (23.81%) C#
4 5 (23.81%) Java
5 4 (19.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google