npm Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 197 209
Rank change year-on-year +34 +12 +47
Contract jobs citing npm 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.087% 0.019% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.081% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +50.00% -22.89%
75th Percentile £663 £625 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,029 1,240 1,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.91% 23.71% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 866 1,201
10th Percentile £250 £313 £233
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £719
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 40 49
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.10
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.33 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £26.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -0.93% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.31 £53.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £48.60 £61.11 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £34.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -36.96% +59.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing npm as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for npm in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for npm in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for npm in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Berkshire - 2 £625 -
Thames Valley - 2 £625 -
Hampshire +23 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) GoogleTest
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 2 (66.67%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Material-UI
2 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SysML
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Google