NHS Contracts in Kent

National Health Service (NHS)
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing NHS 7 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 6.67% 13.86% 15.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.56% 40.58% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 31
10th Percentile £203 £163 £150
25th Percentile - - £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £205 £205
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.94%
75th Percentile £306 - -
90th Percentile £390 - £223
South East median daily rate £275 £205 £205
% change year-on-year +34.15% - -30.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £35.50 -
South East median hourly rate £14.08 £26.55 £37.49
% change year-on-year -46.99% -29.18% +118.46%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 45 69 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 42.86% 34.16% 48.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 86
10th Percentile £167 - £200
25th Percentile £201 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £333 £350
Median % change year-on-year -29.32% -5.00% -2.10%
75th Percentile £412 £378 £418
90th Percentile £571 £439 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £11.45 £47.26
25th Percentile - £17.40 £51.20
Median hourly rate - £35.50 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year - -38.54% +102.67%
75th Percentile - £44.09 £62.25
90th Percentile - £66.65 £64.94
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Kent

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in Kent.

Daily rate trend for NHS in Kent

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Kent over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Kent

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in Kent.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Kent

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 1 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
Maidstone -7 1 £200 - 1
West Malling - 1 £300 -
NHS
South East

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Electronics
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Information Officer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Information Governance Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) PMO Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Security Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS3
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information Act
1 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Sharing
3 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Speech Recognition
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle