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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 74 87
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -53
Contract jobs citing NHS 39 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.47% 0.64% 1.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.46% 1.83% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 16
10th Percentile - £263 £139
25th Percentile £313 £269 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £277 £275
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% +0.85% +30.62%
75th Percentile £413 £280 £356
90th Percentile £446 £281 £649
England median daily rate £438 £350 £275
% change year-on-year +25.00% +27.27% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile £6.00 - £12.90
25th Percentile £15.50 - £15.13
Median hourly rate £15.90 - £20.00
75th Percentile £16.50 - £22.00
90th Percentile £23.68 - £32.13
England median hourly rate £16.00 £30.09 £21.10
% change year-on-year -46.83% +42.59% +19.09%

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 523 383 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.08% 35.23% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 183 307
10th Percentile £213 £256 £195
25th Percentile £337 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 48 87
10th Percentile £12.97 £29.70 £16.90
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.25 £40.53
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +12.50% +4.80%
75th Percentile £73.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £40.46
% change year-on-year -21.62% -8.55% +61.83%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NHS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

NHS job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the East of England

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NHS in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 January 2026. 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 35 £325 +16.07% 25
Cambridgeshire -5 3 - - 7
Hertfordshire - 1 £600 - 4
NHS
England

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) SystmOne
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) LAN
1 11 (28.21%) TCP/IP
2 7 (17.95%) Wireless
3 6 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
3 6 (15.38%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) RS-232
4 1 (2.56%) VLAN
4 1 (2.56%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 21 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Digital Health
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Analyst
2 16 (41.03%) Support Analyst
3 14 (35.90%) Technical Analyst
3 14 (35.90%) Technical Support
3 14 (35.90%) Technical Support Analyst
4 8 (20.51%) IT Support
5 7 (17.95%) Trainer
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Technical Support
6 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Technical Support Analyst
6 6 (15.38%) Asset Management Analyst
7 5 (12.82%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (10.26%) Change Manager
8 4 (10.26%) NHS Trainer
8 4 (10.26%) SystmOne Specialist
8 4 (10.26%) SystmOne Trainer
9 3 (7.69%) IT Analyst
9 3 (7.69%) IT Change Manager
9 3 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) CMDB
1 6 (15.38%) Driving Licence
1 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Social Media
2 1 (2.56%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.08%) Customer Service
3 7 (17.95%) Asset Management
4 6 (15.38%) Network Management
4 6 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (12.82%) ITIL
5 5 (12.82%) Service Management
6 4 (10.26%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (10.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (10.26%) Information Governance
6 4 (10.26%) ITSM
6 4 (10.26%) Security Patching
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.69%) Contract Management
8 2 (5.13%) Business Continuity
8 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.13%) E-Procurement
8 2 (5.13%) Programme Management
8 2 (5.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) HNC
2 9 (23.08%) HND
2 9 (23.08%) MCP
2 9 (23.08%) MCSE
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (15.38%) ECDL
4 4 (10.26%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) PMO
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Citrix
4 2 (5.13%) Cerner
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.56%) Aruba
5 1 (2.56%) MEDITECH
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) VMware