npm
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 538 539
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing npm 53 149 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.26% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.71% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 115 252
10th Percentile £456 £414 £425
25th Percentile £486 £514 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £631
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +6.97% +9.74%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £766
90th Percentile - £863 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £445 £540
% change year-on-year +9.27% -17.59% +29.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £75.20
25th Percentile - - £75.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £76.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +98.02%
75th Percentile - - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £76.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00
% change year-on-year - - +100.63%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,862 20,912 33,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 36.72% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 15,137 24,583
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 333 406
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.49% +34.38% -3.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for npm in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing npm.

Daily rate trend for npm in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing npm over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for npm in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing npm.

Hourly rate trend for npm in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +17 46 £725 +7.41% 20
London +34 31 £850 +25.93% 9
Work from Home +70 23 £498 -31.38% 14
UK excluding London +39 19 £486 +9.27% 13
North West +10 8 £463 +3.93% 1
North of England +9 8 £463 -4.59% 6
Scotland - 6 £498 - 1
South West - 3 £545 - 2
South East +32 2 £550 +37.50% 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.77%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) AWS
1 14 (26.42%) Yarn
2 10 (18.87%) Serverless
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (9.43%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.55%) CloudFront
6 3 (5.66%) Google App Engine
7 2 (3.77%) Azure
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.89%) Figma
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.89%) Route 53
8 1 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
1 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.55%) Redis
2 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.66%) Big Data
3 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.89%) KDB
Development Applications
1 36 (67.92%) webpack
2 18 (33.96%) JIRA
3 7 (13.21%) Cypress.io
3 7 (13.21%) Mocha
4 6 (11.32%) Babel
5 5 (9.43%) Git
6 4 (7.55%) Jasmine
6 4 (7.55%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
8 2 (3.77%) Ant
8 2 (3.77%) ESLint
8 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.89%) git-flow
9 1 (1.89%) Maven
9 1 (1.89%) rollup.js
9 1 (1.89%) Selenium
9 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.89%) Vite
General
1 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (33.96%) Front Office
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (75.47%) Developer
2 21 (39.62%) Angular Developer
3 15 (28.30%) UI Developer
4 14 (26.42%) Applications Developer
4 14 (26.42%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (26.42%) Real Time Developer
4 14 (26.42%) Web Applications Developer
5 7 (13.21%) C# Developer
5 7 (13.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (13.21%) Lead
5 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (11.32%) C# Web Application Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 5 (9.43%) Senior
8 4 (7.55%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (77.36%) React
2 37 (69.81%) AngularJS
3 25 (47.17%) REST
4 23 (43.40%) RxJS
5 19 (35.85%) WebSockets
6 16 (30.19%) CSS
7 14 (26.42%) Node.js
8 13 (24.53%) RESTful
9 12 (22.64%) HTML
10 8 (15.09%) .NET
11 7 (13.21%) Express.js
12 6 (11.32%) GraphQL
12 6 (11.32%) HTML5
12 6 (11.32%) Jest
12 6 (11.32%) Kafka
13 5 (9.43%) CSS3
13 5 (9.43%) OAuth
13 5 (9.43%) Web Services
14 4 (7.55%) Material-UI
15 3 (5.66%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Algorithms
1 6 (11.32%) Fixed Income
2 5 (9.43%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.43%) Derivative
2 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (9.43%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.55%) Wiki
4 2 (3.77%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) Agile
1 34 (64.15%) Software Engineering
2 25 (47.17%) Design Patterns
3 21 (39.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (39.62%) Electronic Trading
3 21 (39.62%) Full Stack Development
4 18 (33.96%) Web Application Development
5 15 (28.30%) Front End Development
6 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.09%) Scrum
7 8 (15.09%) User Experience
8 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
8 7 (13.21%) Economics
8 7 (13.21%) OO
9 6 (11.32%) Asynchronous Programming
9 6 (11.32%) DevOps
9 6 (11.32%) Web Development
10 5 (9.43%) Microservices
10 5 (9.43%) Multithreading
10 5 (9.43%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 42 (79.25%) TypeScript
2 41 (77.36%) JavaScript
3 19 (35.85%) C#
4 12 (22.64%) Java
4 12 (22.64%) SQL
5 5 (9.43%) Python
6 2 (3.77%) C++
6 2 (3.77%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.89%) JSX
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Degree
2 9 (16.98%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) MiFID
2 2 (3.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Grafana
2 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
1 3 (5.66%) Google
2 1 (1.89%) Adobe
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle