npm Contracts in the North of England

npm
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring npm skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited npm over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 162 197
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 +40
Contract jobs citing npm 12 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.61% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £355 - £447
25th Percentile £358 £463 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £426 £495 -
90th Percentile £462 £524 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £704
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.74% +4.26%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

npm falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,319 1,307 1,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.32% 31.58% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 893 1,397
10th Percentile £286 £276 £270
25th Percentile £383 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 47 59
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +26.51%
75th Percentile £47.12 £30.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.45 £57.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.90
% change year-on-year +11.78% -33.62% +57.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for npm in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing npm in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for npm in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. 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 +2 7 £410 -13.74% 5
Yorkshire -4 5 £358 -33.40% 3
npm
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 4 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Calico
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) GitLab
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
3 5 (41.67%) webpack
4 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 4 (33.33%) Maven
5 3 (25.00%) Babel
5 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (25.00%) Grunt
5 3 (25.00%) gulp
6 2 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 7 (58.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) UI Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) REST
2 7 (58.33%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 6 (50.00%) React
3 6 (50.00%) Redux
4 5 (41.67%) CSS3
4 5 (41.67%) HTML5
4 5 (41.67%) Jest
5 3 (25.00%) Ajax
5 3 (25.00%) Enzyme
5 3 (25.00%) JSON
5 3 (25.00%) LESS
5 3 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
5 3 (25.00%) Node.js
5 3 (25.00%) Sass
6 2 (16.67%) DOM
6 2 (16.67%) jQuery
6 2 (16.67%) RESTful
6 2 (16.67%) Web Services
6 2 (16.67%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Android
2 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) Atomic Design
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (25.00%) Story Points
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Istio
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Perforce
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft