NHS Contract Job Trends in Bath

National Health Service (NHS)
Somerset > Bath

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Bath. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing NHS 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 5.88% - 3.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.67% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £568 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 - -
75th Percentile £682 - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
Somerset median daily rate £614 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £12.00
Somerset median hourly rate - - £12.00

All Generic Skills
Bath

NHS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30 32 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 35.29% 47.76% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 12
10th Percentile £380 £200 £332
25th Percentile £489 £338 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £633 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +33.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £550
90th Percentile £677 - £685
Somerset median daily rate £525 £620 £500
% change year-on-year -15.32% +24.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.00
75th Percentile £15.24 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £14.00 £21.01 £40.00
% change year-on-year -33.37% -47.48% +55.34%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NHS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

NHS job vacancy trend in Bath

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing NHS

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing NHS

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Military
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) EPR Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) NHS Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) LIMS
2 1 (20.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Practice Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) HL7
2 2 (40.00%) DICOM
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) InterSystems
2 1 (20.00%) Cerner
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle