Digital Healthcare Contract Job Trends in London

Digital Healthcare
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 374 417
Rank change year-on-year -4 +43 +159
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 10 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.071% 0.013% 0.025%
As % of the General category 0.10% 0.020% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £246 - £283
25th Percentile £353 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £425
75th Percentile £528 - £469
90th Percentile £624 - £488
England median daily rate £425 £363 £375
% change year-on-year +17.24% -3.33% -14.29%

All General Skills
London

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,653 9,900 12,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.28% 62.96% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,312 6,356 9,318
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £695 £700
90th Percentile £783 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 112 170
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.55 £18.48
25th Percentile £20.18 £27.38 £21.31
Median hourly rate £26.40 £37.79 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -30.13% +6.62% +8.21%
75th Percentile £45.44 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.20 £76.13 £75.13
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £32.32
% change year-on-year -23.02% -1.08% +25.71%

Digital Healthcare
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Digital Healthcare job vacancy trend in London

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Healthcare in London over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Healthcare in London

Digital Healthcare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
General
1 6 (60.00%) Digital Health
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Wearables
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Manager
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Digital UX Designer
2 1 (10.00%) EPR Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Healthcare Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Healthcare Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) QMS
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (20.00%) Quality Management
4 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Service Design
4 2 (20.00%) Usability Testing
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) IEC 62304
2 2 (20.00%) ISO 13485
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Pega
1 1 (10.00%) RedGate