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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 522 613
Rank change year-on-year +49 +91 +137
Contract jobs citing Digital Health 15 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.021% 0.038%
As % of the General category 0.095% 0.037% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile £250 £187 £153
25th Percentile £395 £284 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £338 £240
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% +40.83% -49.47%
75th Percentile £512 £441 £561
90th Percentile £526 £626 £643
UK median daily rate £486 £338 £250
% change year-on-year +43.79% +35.20% -47.37%
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 15,781 21,482 27,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.34% 57.33% 59.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,168 13,778 19,591
10th Percentile £281 £281 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £644 £650 £688
90th Percentile £766 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 739 1,831 907
10th Percentile £13.33 £12.88 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.14% +35.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.20 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £31.92
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.02% +40.31%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +56 12 £486 -35.20% 51
East of England +21 1 - - 9
North of England - 1 £563 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 £563 - 2
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 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Miro
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (6.67%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Healthcare
2 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior User Experience Researcher
2 4 (26.67%) User Experience Researcher
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Content Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
3 2 (13.33%) User Researcher
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Information Governance Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
4 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 4 (26.67%) NHS
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
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
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Content Development
5 2 (13.33%) Content Management
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Open Source
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) SEO
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
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%) 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
1 1 (6.67%) RedGate