NHS Contracts in the East of England

National Health Service (NHS)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 83 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing NHS 3 28 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.26% 1.47% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 5.82% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 27
10th Percentile £205 £121 £157
25th Percentile £213 £156 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £227 £243 £225
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +7.96% +13.92%
75th Percentile £243 £317 £346
90th Percentile £251 £338 £439
England median daily rate £450 £320 £322
% change year-on-year +40.63% -0.69% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 2
10th Percentile - - £5.29
25th Percentile - - £7.74
Median hourly rate - £12.86 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year - +8.75% -56.17%
75th Percentile - £14.32 £15.91
90th Percentile - £23.36 £18.37
England median hourly rate £21.25 £13.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year +60.50% -36.95% -3.58%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 421 481 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 36.83% 25.25% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 228 359
10th Percentile £195 £177 £205
25th Percentile £363 £290 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £591
90th Percentile £668 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 121 39
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.86 £20.50
25th Percentile £20.95 £24.75 £21.13
Median hourly rate £61.50 £59.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% -0.83% +71.43%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £70.75
England median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
% change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the East of England

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the East of England

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the East of England

NHS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Essex +4 1 £200 -40.83% 19
Norfolk -13 1 - - 13
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) HNC
1 1 (33.33%) HND
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) VMware