NHS Contracts in the East Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 55 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 +5
Contract jobs citing NHS 15 32 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.93% 3.07% 4.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.77% 11.11% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 38
10th Percentile £262 £131 £131
25th Percentile £278 £158 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £188 £225
Median % change year-on-year +96.00% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £465 £456 £347
90th Percentile £497 £480 £458
England median daily rate £288 £300 £325
% change year-on-year -3.92% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 18
10th Percentile - £17.69 £14.24
25th Percentile - £19.18 £14.82
Median hourly rate - £21.13 £14.91
Median % change year-on-year - +41.72% +2.05%
75th Percentile - £23.31 £22.06
90th Percentile - £25.19 £22.90
England median hourly rate £15.75 £22.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -28.41% +14.32% +9.97%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 193 288 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.84% 27.64% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 200 346
10th Percentile £161 £212 £186
25th Percentile £213 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% -4.61% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £524
90th Percentile £625 £689 £613
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.80 £13.45
25th Percentile £12.28 £18.34 £14.82
Median hourly rate £14.00 £21.97 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% +28.41% +16.36%
75th Percentile £18.32 £62.50 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.59 £65.00 £23.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NHS in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Lincolnshire +10 3 - - 3
Northamptonshire +6 2 £436 +174.37% 5
Leicestershire +8 1 - - 4
Derbyshire +2 1 £262 +66.03% 7
Nottinghamshire +1 1 £475 +281.28% 5
NHS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (13.33%) Legal
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Change Coordinator
4 2 (13.33%) Coordinator
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Director
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) EPR Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Healthcare Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Healthcare Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.67%) NHS Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) e-Health
2 2 (13.33%) LIMS
2 2 (13.33%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Business Case
3 2 (13.33%) Change Control
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (13.33%) ePrescribing
3 2 (13.33%) Health Informatics
3 2 (13.33%) Informatics
3 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (13.33%) Risk Register
3 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) HL7
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On