NHS Contracts in Berkshire

National Health Service (NHS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 116 104
Rank change year-on-year +22 -12 +16
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.085% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 1.01% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £295 £185
25th Percentile - £463 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £250
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +90.00% -44.75%
75th Percentile - £519 £356
90th Percentile - £523 £423
South East median daily rate £275 £205 £205
% change year-on-year +34.15% - -30.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.60 -
South East median hourly rate £14.08 £26.55 £37.49
% change year-on-year -46.99% -29.18% +118.46%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 413 596 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.12% 30.09% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 334 391
10th Percentile £309 £205 £313
25th Percentile £423 £295 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £614
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.90 £47.19 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.52% -5.63% +132.56%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Berkshire

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in Berkshire

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Berkshire

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Reading +34 1 £350 -26.32% 5
NHS
South East

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI