NHS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

National Health Service (NHS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.12% - 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £205
South East median daily rate £450 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +131.71%

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 239 90 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.99% 27.95% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 61 83
10th Percentile £393 £185 £250
25th Percentile £464 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £666
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 £18.13
25th Percentile - £14.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £12.84 £15.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% -44.55% +23.60%
75th Percentile £17.50 £17.66 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £24.50 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +47.56% -40.92% +9.24%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

NHS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing NHS

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing NHS

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £575 - 9
NHS
South East

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft