NHS Contracts in Cardiff

National Health Service (NHS)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing NHS 22 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 13.75% 13.68% 9.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 37.29% 32.58% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 27
10th Percentile £204 £206 £160
25th Percentile £256 £413 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £309 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year -27.36% +30.77% -22.62%
75th Percentile £416 £516 £488
90th Percentile £475 £531 £494
South Wales median daily rate £309 £425 £220
% change year-on-year -27.36% +93.18% -47.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.03
Median hourly rate - - £18.06
75th Percentile - - £18.09
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate - - £15.13
% change year-on-year - - +22.92%

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 59 89 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 36.88% 41.98% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 75 99
10th Percentile £186 £344 £160
25th Percentile £290 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £503 £445
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% +12.92% +2.29%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £543
90th Percentile £587 £583 £615
South Wales median daily rate £395 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -21.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.73
25th Percentile - £11.75 £19.77
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.50 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year +37.11% -37.30% -
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.27
90th Percentile - - £24.31
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £18.10
% change year-on-year -23.08% +169.34% +27.64%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
1 6 (27.27%) GCP
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DHCP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) Wireless
2 2 (9.09%) BGP
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (9.09%) IPv4
2 2 (9.09%) OSPF
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VoIP
3 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (4.55%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (4.55%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
1 3 (13.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (13.64%) Welsh Language
5 2 (9.09%) Digital Health
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Lead
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Designer
3 3 (13.64%) GCP Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Designer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Interaction Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Service Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) CSS
1 3 (13.64%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) Blazor
2 2 (9.09%) GWT
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.55%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Coaching
2 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Service Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Open Source
5 3 (13.64%) Product Management
5 3 (13.64%) Product Requirements
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
5 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Degree
2 11 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Certification
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (13.64%) CCNP
5 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) CCIE
6 2 (9.09%) CITP
7 1 (4.55%) CCAB
7 1 (4.55%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Google
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco
2 3 (13.64%) Ekahau
3 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Aerohive Networks
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Datix