npm Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

npm
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring npm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing npm 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.31% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £511 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
75th Percentile £536 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
North East median daily rate £523 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 242 101 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 37.06% 43.91% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 67 14
10th Percentile £313 £358 £152
25th Percentile £363 £425 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.59% -15.51%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £544
90th Percentile £594 £660 £620
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £67.00 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +438.46% - -
75th Percentile - £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £13.00 £28.81
% change year-on-year +438.46% -54.88% -11.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing npm relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

npm job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing npm.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing npm

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing npm within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £523 - 1
npm
North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Chai
1 2 (100.00%) Express.js
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes