NHS Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 89 89
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -35
Contract jobs citing NHS 11 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% 0.46% 1.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 2.03% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 17
10th Percentile £205 £242 £163
25th Percentile £213 £265 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £227 £308 £260
Median % change year-on-year -26.12% +18.33% +62.50%
75th Percentile £243 £338 £375
90th Percentile £251 - £620
England median daily rate £450 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +28.57% +7.78% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £26.63 - £14.14
25th Percentile £27.20 - £17.91
Median hourly rate £28.80 - £21.00
75th Percentile £29.81 - £22.00
90th Percentile £30.02 - -
England median hourly rate £28.80 £18.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +57.65% -8.65% +13.90%

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 427 345 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.92% 22.55% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 155 334
10th Percentile £190 £191 £197
25th Percentile £363 £272 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £588
90th Percentile £700 £648 £696
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 51 66
10th Percentile £17.39 £30.00 £21.13
25th Percentile £29.51 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NHS

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NHS

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 18 September 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
Norfolk -3 6 - - 9
Cambridgeshire 0 3 - - 5
Essex 0 1 £200 -40.83% 7
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 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Health
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Support Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Support
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Communications Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (45.45%) Security Patching
3 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Enablement
3 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
1 5 (45.45%) HNC
1 5 (45.45%) HND
1 5 (45.45%) MCP
1 5 (45.45%) MCSE
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Citrix
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Aruba
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) VMware