npm Contract Job Trends in the North West

npm
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring npm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 113 139
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 +36
Contract jobs citing npm 10 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.43% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 0.83% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £357 £371 -
25th Percentile £401 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £490 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% -3.92% -2.86%
75th Percentile £435 £498 £515
90th Percentile £461 - -
England median daily rate £538 £600 £775
% change year-on-year -10.42% -22.58% +22.82%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 722 1,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.57% 30.82% 36.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 444 778
10th Percentile £305 £311 £265
25th Percentile £369 £389 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £485 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £526 £538
% change year-on-year -4.99% -2.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 57
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.90
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.31 £36.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +9.09% -50.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £69.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.70 £56.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.20
% change year-on-year -30.14% +32.35% +20.89%

npm
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing npm relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

npm job vacancy trend in the North West

npm
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing npm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing npm

npm
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Cheshire -13 6 £421 +35.89% 3
Manchester -5 4 £411 -16.55% 3
npm
England

npm
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Cypress.io
1 8 (80.00%) Git
2 6 (60.00%) Grunt
2 6 (60.00%) gulp
2 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (40.00%) GitLab
4 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) UI Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Jest
1 8 (80.00%) Node.js
1 8 (80.00%) REST
2 6 (60.00%) Ajax
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) CSS3
2 6 (60.00%) Enzyme
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) HTML5
2 6 (60.00%) JSON
2 6 (60.00%) LESS
2 6 (60.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 6 (60.00%) React
2 6 (60.00%) Redux
2 6 (60.00%) Sass
3 3 (30.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) XHR
4 2 (20.00%) Express.js
4 2 (20.00%) Nunjucks
4 2 (20.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) API Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Istio
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Perforce
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft