NHS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

National Health Service (NHS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 51 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing NHS 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 0.94% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 3.14% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £345 £272 £200
25th Percentile £375 £343 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +112.77%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £650
90th Percentile £555 £528 £730
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £224 £400
% change year-on-year +89.73% -44.00% +64.95%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 298 159 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.57% 30.00% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 116 166
10th Percentile £263 £191 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £517 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +14.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £620 £575
90th Percentile £625 £678 £681
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.38% +5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £17.09 £16.00 £19.65
25th Percentile £17.15 £22.00 £23.12
Median hourly rate £18.40 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.67% -9.09% +59.38%
75th Percentile £22.52 £30.68 £52.63
90th Percentile £25.00 - £64.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.58 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +34.61% -15.56% +0.40%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

NHS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NHS

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Birmingham

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NHS

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) NHS Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Procurement Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Psychology
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) SLA