Digital Health Contracts in England

Digital Health
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Health in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Health over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 527 636
Rank change year-on-year +74 +109 +115
Contract jobs citing Digital Health 15 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.024% 0.036%
As % of the General category 0.096% 0.042% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £278 £208 £153
25th Percentile £395 - £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £338 £269
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% +25.65% -40.22%
75th Percentile £512 £538 £574
90th Percentile £526 £665 £643
UK median daily rate £486 £338 £308
% change year-on-year +43.79% +9.74% -31.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £12.06 -
25th Percentile £21.20 £12.53 -
Median hourly rate £21.40 £13.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% - -
75th Percentile £21.60 £15.41 -
90th Percentile - £16.14 -
UK median hourly rate £21.40 £13.75 -
% change year-on-year +55.64% - -

All General Skills
England

Digital Health falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,610 21,625 29,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.29% 59.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 13,933 20,876
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £687
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 1,792 973
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.79
25th Percentile £16.99 £15.49 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.14 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -9.72% +56.74%
75th Percentile £55.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.31
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.56% +57.28%

Digital Health
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Digital Health as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Health in England

Digital Health
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Health in England.

Daily rate trend for Digital Health in England

Digital Health
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Health in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Health in England

Digital Health
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Health in England.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Health in England

Digital Health
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Health within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London +54 11 £486 -35.20% 55
East of England +35 2 £280 -17.16% 10
North of England +11 1 £550 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 3
Digital Health
UK

Digital Health
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) CMS
1 2 (13.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Figma
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
1 4 (26.67%) Senior User Experience Researcher
1 4 (26.67%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Content Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
2 2 (13.33%) User Researcher
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) EDI
2 1 (6.67%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Life Science
2 5 (33.33%) NHS
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) User Experience
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Ergonomics
2 6 (40.00%) Human Factors
2 6 (40.00%) User Research
2 6 (40.00%) UX Research
3 4 (26.67%) Anthropology
3 4 (26.67%) Psychology
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (13.33%) Content Management
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Open Source
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) SEO
5 2 (13.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
2 4 (26.67%) PhD
3 1 (6.67%) CITP
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
3 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google