NHS Contracts in Dorset

National Health Service (NHS)
South West > Dorset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 28 15
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing NHS 11 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 6.63% 2.74% 9.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.92% 10.91% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile - - £184
25th Percentile £175 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £159 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.12% -67.35% +153.25%
75th Percentile £194 £159 £566
90th Percentile - £160 £746
South West median daily rate £185 £450 £285
% change year-on-year -58.93% +57.89% -18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
South West median hourly rate £15.99 £21.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -23.88% -44.96% +41.31%

All Generic Skills
Dorset

NHS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 65 55 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 39.16% 25.11% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 39
10th Percentile £172 £159 £178
25th Percentile £175 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -63.10% +5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £213 £625 £533
90th Percentile £734 £650 £640
South West median daily rate £545 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -0.91% +14.58% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.45 £41.75
25th Percentile £13.69 £17.13 £47.41
Median hourly rate £14.64 £17.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% -65.53% -12.74%
75th Percentile £24.83 £23.00 £55.82
90th Percentile £57.33 £63.16 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £9.80 £49.75
% change year-on-year +359.18% -80.30% +0.57%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Dorset

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in Dorset.

Daily rate trend for NHS in Dorset

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in Dorset.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Dorset

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Bournemouth +5 11 £185 +16.12% 1
NHS
South West

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) Network Management
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) Veeam
1 11 (100.00%) VMware