NHS Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

National Health Service (NHS)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing NHS 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.30% 0.62% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% 1.69% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £211 £260 £170
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +52.94% -24.18%
75th Percentile £393 - £173
90th Percentile £502 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £211 £260 £170
% change year-on-year -19.03% +52.94% -22.73%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 100 59 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 46.08% 36.42% 41.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 42 60
10th Percentile £211 £313 £233
25th Percentile £387 £415 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +4.71% +0.53%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £543
90th Percentile £679 £695 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -11.91% -6.35% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £23.00 £16.60 £25.00
25th Percentile £25.06 £19.00 £41.88
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.74% -63.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.56 £44.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.60 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.22% -58.18% +4.76%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

NHS job vacancy trend in Cambridge

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing NHS

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Cambridge over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Cambridge

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing NHS

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) QlikView
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (40.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco