npm Contracts

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 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 550 556 549
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -24
Contract jobs citing npm 52 139 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.69% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 108 252
10th Percentile £411 £388 £450
25th Percentile £469 £570 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £631
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.97% +9.74%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £800
90th Percentile - £891 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -11.21% -0.93% +8.00%
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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

npm
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 9 June 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 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
England +12 44 £600 -11.11% 16
London +15 28 £800 +16.36% 6
Work from Home +79 23 £498 -31.38% 12
UK excluding London +35 21 £475 -11.21% 13
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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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 3 (5.77%) nginx
2 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) Yarn
3 11 (21.15%) Serverless
4 7 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.54%) GCP
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.69%) CloudFront
7 3 (5.77%) Google App Engine
8 2 (3.85%) Azure
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.92%) Route 53
9 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) HTTP
2 3 (5.77%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.69%) Big Data
3 4 (7.69%) Redis
4 3 (5.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.92%) KDB
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (59.62%) webpack
2 13 (25.00%) JIRA
3 9 (17.31%) Cypress.io
4 8 (15.38%) Mocha
5 6 (11.54%) Babel
5 6 (11.54%) Git
6 4 (7.69%) Jasmine
6 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
6 4 (7.69%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (3.85%) Ant
7 2 (3.85%) ESLint
7 2 (3.85%) Maven
7 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.92%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.92%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.92%) JMeter
8 1 (1.92%) JUnit
8 1 (1.92%) Selenium
8 1 (1.92%) Subversion
8 1 (1.92%) Vite
General
1 15 (28.85%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Front Office
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (73.08%) Developer
2 18 (34.62%) Angular Developer
3 16 (30.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 10 (19.23%) Applications Developer
4 10 (19.23%) Real Time Developer
4 10 (19.23%) UI Developer
4 10 (19.23%) Web Applications Developer
5 7 (13.46%) C# Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Lead
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (11.54%) C# Web Application Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior
7 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 3 (5.77%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (73.08%) React
2 37 (71.15%) AngularJS
3 21 (40.38%) REST
4 20 (38.46%) RxJS
5 16 (30.77%) CSS
6 15 (28.85%) Node.js
7 14 (26.92%) WebSockets
8 13 (25.00%) HTML
8 13 (25.00%) RESTful
9 9 (17.31%) GraphQL
10 8 (15.38%) .NET
10 8 (15.38%) Express.js
10 8 (15.38%) Kafka
11 6 (11.54%) HTML5
11 6 (11.54%) Jest
11 6 (11.54%) OAuth
11 6 (11.54%) Web Services
12 5 (9.62%) CSS3
12 5 (9.62%) Spring
13 4 (7.69%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Algorithms
1 7 (13.46%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.62%) Derivative
3 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.62%) Fixed Income
3 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.77%) Wiki
6 2 (3.85%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.92%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) Agile
2 31 (59.62%) Software Engineering
3 24 (46.15%) Full Stack Development
4 21 (40.38%) Design Patterns
5 17 (32.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (30.77%) Electronic Trading
7 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 13 (25.00%) Web Application Development
8 11 (21.15%) Front End Development
9 8 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 8 (15.38%) Scrum
10 7 (13.46%) Microservices
10 7 (13.46%) SDLC
10 7 (13.46%) User Experience
10 7 (13.46%) Web Development
11 6 (11.54%) Asynchronous Programming
11 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
11 6 (11.54%) OO
12 5 (9.62%) Multithreading
12 5 (9.62%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) TypeScript
2 38 (73.08%) JavaScript
3 19 (36.54%) C#
4 14 (26.92%) Java
5 13 (25.00%) SQL
6 5 (9.62%) Python
7 3 (5.77%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.85%) C++
9 1 (1.92%) JSX
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) MiFID
2 2 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Grafana
2 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
1 3 (5.77%) Google
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle