NHS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

National Health Service (NHS)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 121 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +47
Contract jobs citing NHS 5 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.14% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.48% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £427 £383 £200
25th Percentile £457 £413 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -7.32% +26.15%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £663
90th Percentile £534 £568 £738
Central London median daily rate £513 £475 £401
% change year-on-year +7.89% +18.38% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.50
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
75th Percentile - - £36.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £36.00

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 631 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.02% 30.22% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 389 672
10th Percentile £355 £362 £325
25th Percentile £458 £484 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -0.75% -
75th Percentile £697 £719 £738
90th Percentile £804 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £22.39
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £30.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.00% -26.53%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £47.66
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £26.98 £25.79 £35.50
% change year-on-year +4.59% -27.35% -27.55%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NHS

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NHS

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) MEDITECH
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle