NHS Contracts in Lancashire

National Health Service (NHS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 27 25 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing NHS 2 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.14% 3.59% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.88% 16.67% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +62.50% -11.11%
North West median daily rate £215 £350 £394
% change year-on-year -38.57% -11.11% +27.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £11.50 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.17 £20.00
% change year-on-year +100.99% -19.15% -25.93%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 41 42 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 23.43% 21.54% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 47
10th Percentile £350 £313 £140
25th Percentile £400 £494 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £700
90th Percentile £630 £900 £753
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £22.61 £11.25 £17.20
25th Percentile £25.29 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £15.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -33.33% -45.59%
75th Percentile £30.63 - £53.35
90th Percentile £44.98 £21.24 £61.35
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Lancashire

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in Lancashire

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Lancashire

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Lancashire 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
Blackpool +6 2 - - 1
NHS
North West

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL