Digital Healthcare Contract Job Trends in England

Digital Healthcare
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 495 533
Rank change year-on-year -29 +38 +182
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 17 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.054% 0.018% 0.033%
As % of the General category 0.088% 0.029% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £405 £180 £313
25th Percentile £413 £209 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £261 £375
Median % change year-on-year +67.46% -30.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £553 £317 £416
90th Percentile £643 £348 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £481 £350
% change year-on-year -11.69% +37.50% -17.65%

All General Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 19,413 17,486 21,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.32% 61.79% 59.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 10,584 14,509
10th Percentile £284 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £661
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,232 598 1,007
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.42 £16.75
Median hourly rate £23.54 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -9.09% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.90 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.42 £74.05 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.39 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.91% -17.02% +32.00%

Digital Healthcare
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Digital Healthcare job vacancy trend in England

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Healthcare.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Healthcare

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Healthcare in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Healthcare in England

Digital Healthcare
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 Healthcare within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 -2 10 £538 +235.94% 2
North of England - 3 £500 - 10
Midlands -33 2 £425 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £535 - 7
West Midlands -30 1 £425 -
East of England - 1 £339 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £425 - 3
South East - 1 £425 - 3
Digital Healthcare
UK

Digital Healthcare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (29.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Amazon EventBridge
1 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (29.41%) Serverless
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 6 (35.29%) Digital Health
3 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Health Technology
4 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (11.76%) Wearables
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Designer
2 2 (11.76%) User Researcher
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Digital UX Designer
3 1 (5.88%) EPR Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Data Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Healthcare Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Service Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) HTML
1 5 (29.41%) JSON
1 5 (29.41%) OAuth
1 5 (29.41%) OAuth2
1 5 (29.41%) REST
1 5 (29.41%) RESTful
1 5 (29.41%) SOAP
1 5 (29.41%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) FHIR
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) NHS
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.88%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
5 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Data Mapping
3 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (29.41%) High Availability
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Network Load Balancing
3 5 (29.41%) User Stories
4 4 (23.53%) API Development
4 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (17.65%) QMS
5 3 (17.65%) Service Design
5 3 (17.65%) User Research
5 3 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) HL7
2 2 (11.76%) IEC 62304
2 2 (11.76%) ISO 13485
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Pega
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft