NHS Contracts in the East Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 60 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 -5
Contract jobs citing NHS 2 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.26% 0.80% 2.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 2.78% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £382 £200
25th Percentile - £395 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -1.71% +78.23%
75th Percentile - £465 £638
90th Percentile - £479 -
England median daily rate £468 £350 £320
% change year-on-year +33.57% +9.38% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.25 - -
England median hourly rate £26.32 £18.64 £16.85
% change year-on-year +41.24% +10.59% -10.73%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 267 216 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.54% 28.80% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 136 176
10th Percentile £268 £306 £213
25th Percentile £358 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £464 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% -6.78% +4.74%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £629 £622 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 8
10th Percentile - £13.09 £19.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.10 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £16.63 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.47% -58.94% +130.64%
75th Percentile £21.39 £20.00 £72.19
90th Percentile £25.11 £41.00 £93.75
England median hourly rate £30.25 £47.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -36.32% +12.59% +62.27%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the East Midlands

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NHS in the East Midlands

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the East Midlands

NHS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -14 1 £400 +3.90% 1
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001