NHS Contracts in the North of England

National Health Service (NHS)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 100 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -60 -14
Contract jobs citing NHS 82 126 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.75% 2.21% 5.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.57% 7.16% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 94 287
10th Percentile £206 £157 £143
25th Percentile £297 £295 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £300
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +54.17% +3.81%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £430
90th Percentile £656 £593 £565
England median daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 22
10th Percentile £11.25 £16.77 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.85 £11.65
Median hourly rate £16.17 £18.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% -7.88% +9.53%
75th Percentile £25.83 £25.00 £26.05
90th Percentile £44.74 £26.00 £33.88
England median hourly rate £14.83 £22.00 £19.35
% change year-on-year -32.60% +13.68% +12.19%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,248 1,760 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.59% 30.83% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 1,189 1,828
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 82 103
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.13
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -9.89% +5.65%
75th Percentile £26.62 £47.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.62 £43.98
England median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NHS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Yorkshire 0 38 £500 -2.44% 105
North West +12 36 £350 -12.50% 114
North East +14 8 £325 +54.76% 31
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.22%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.63%) Azure
2 7 (8.54%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.22%) GCP
6 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Firewall
1 4 (4.88%) LAN
1 4 (4.88%) WAN
1 4 (4.88%) WLAN
2 3 (3.66%) DHCP
2 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (1.22%) Intranet
4 1 (1.22%) Network Security
4 1 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.88%) Power BI
3 4 (4.88%) Tableau
4 3 (3.66%) Big Data
5 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.22%) QlikView
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.22%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 26 (31.71%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Health Technology
4 7 (8.54%) Finance
5 6 (7.32%) Local Government
6 3 (3.66%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Military
8 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Architect
1 13 (15.85%) Senior
2 9 (10.98%) Analyst
3 6 (7.32%) Programme Manager
3 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Lead
5 4 (4.88%) Data Architect
5 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Developer
5 4 (4.88%) IT Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Network Technician
5 4 (4.88%) Senior Manager
5 4 (4.88%) Senior Network Technician
5 4 (4.88%) Senior Technician
5 4 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.66%) IT Administrator
6 3 (3.66%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.66%) Senior Programme Manager
6 3 (3.66%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.44%) OAuth
2 1 (1.22%) HTML
2 1 (1.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.88%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.22%) LIMS
4 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.22%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.22%) Social Media
4 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.22%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (9.76%) Agile
4 7 (8.54%) Data Modelling
4 7 (8.54%) Project Management
5 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (7.32%) PRINCE2
6 5 (6.10%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (6.10%) Project Delivery
7 4 (4.88%) Analytics
7 4 (4.88%) Change Management
7 4 (4.88%) Decision-Making
7 4 (4.88%) Process Improvement
7 4 (4.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (3.66%) Data Management
8 3 (3.66%) Document Management
8 3 (3.66%) ERP
8 3 (3.66%) Roadmaps
8 3 (3.66%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.54%) SQL
2 5 (6.10%) Python
3 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) CCNA
1 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (4.88%) Degree
1 4 (4.88%) Network+ Certification
1 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.66%) PMI Certification
2 3 (3.66%) PMP
2 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) APMG
4 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.22%) CISA
4 1 (1.22%) CISM
4 1 (1.22%) CISSP
4 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.22%) MCP
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.88%) HL7
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.44%) SCCM
1 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Brio
3 2 (2.44%) Adobe
3 2 (2.44%) Citrix
3 2 (2.44%) VMware
4 1 (1.22%) Apple
4 1 (1.22%) Databricks
4 1 (1.22%) Intel
4 1 (1.22%) Splunk