npm Contract Job Trends in the South West

npm
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring npm skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 138 157
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing npm 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.22% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.84% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £331 -
25th Percentile £525 £359 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £473 £388
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +21.94% -38.59%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £394
90th Percentile - £681 -
England median daily rate £563 £600 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% -17.24% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 573 718 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.60% 26.48% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 492 771
10th Percentile £213 £238 £300
25th Percentile £350 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £669
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 46 59
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.63 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £30.75 £19.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +76.99% +97.75%
75th Percentile £34.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.40
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for npm in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Gloucestershire +21 2 £550 -13.39% 4
Bristol +5 1 - - 13
npm
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) AMQP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) InfluxDB
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Release Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce