NHS Contracts in London

National Health Service (NHS)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 278 264
Rank change year-on-year +22 -14 -35
Contract jobs citing NHS 140 229 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.79% 0.85% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 2.36% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 193 329
10th Percentile £163 £171 £195
25th Percentile £213 £225 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £313 £392
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -20.18% +4.40%
75th Percentile £388 £450 £495
90th Percentile £534 £588 £588
England median daily rate £291 £300 £325
% change year-on-year -2.92% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 20
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.73 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.95 £33.82 £16.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% +2.62% +51.66%
75th Percentile £33.21 £43.63 £41.82
90th Percentile £39.73 £57.95 £44.13
England median hourly rate £15.75 £22.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -28.41% +14.32% +13.21%

All Generic Skills
London

NHS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NHS in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NHS in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +17 7 £400 -13.51% 5
South London +11 6 £165 -38.89% 3
North London +4 4 £274 +82.67%
West London +7 1 - - 4
East London -10 1 £363 +71.60% 7
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) HealthRoster
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (7.14%) Azure
3 4 (2.86%) AWS
3 4 (2.86%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.43%) GCP
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.43%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.71%) SaaS
5 1 (0.71%) Serverless
5 1 (0.71%) ShareGate
5 1 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) WAN
2 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 4 (2.86%) LAN
3 4 (2.86%) VPN
3 4 (2.86%) Wireless
4 3 (2.14%) DHCP
4 3 (2.14%) DNS
4 3 (2.14%) Intranet
4 3 (2.14%) VoIP
5 2 (1.43%) Network Security
5 2 (1.43%) SAN
5 2 (1.43%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.71%) GSM
6 1 (0.71%) Internet
6 1 (0.71%) PSTN
6 1 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
2 10 (7.14%) Power BI
3 4 (2.86%) KNIME
3 4 (2.86%) QlikView
3 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Git
1 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (0.71%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 24 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.57%) Marketing
5 4 (2.86%) Finance
5 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.43%) Billing
7 2 (1.43%) Local Government
7 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.71%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (11.43%) Analyst
2 13 (9.29%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.57%) Senior
4 10 (7.14%) Administrator
4 10 (7.14%) Developer
5 7 (5.00%) Consultant
6 6 (4.29%) Analytics Manager
6 6 (4.29%) Contracts Manager
6 6 (4.29%) Data Analyst
6 6 (4.29%) Data Analytics Manager
6 6 (4.29%) Data Manager
6 6 (4.29%) Information Manager
6 6 (4.29%) Technical Manager
6 6 (4.29%) Technical Project Manager
7 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Field Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Network Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Service Analyst
8 4 (2.86%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) .NET
2 6 (4.29%) ASP.NET
3 4 (2.86%) CSS
3 4 (2.86%) HTML
3 4 (2.86%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.43%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.43%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (0.71%) Django
5 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.71%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.57%) PACS
2 5 (3.57%) Smartphone
3 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.43%) AS400
5 2 (1.43%) IoT
5 2 (1.43%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.71%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.71%) Life Science
6 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.43%) Android
3 2 (1.43%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (10.00%) Migration
2 11 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (7.14%) Project Management
4 8 (5.71%) Analytics
5 7 (5.00%) Data Analysis
5 7 (5.00%) Data Protection
5 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (5.00%) ITIL
5 7 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (4.29%) Data Analytics
6 6 (4.29%) Service Management
7 5 (3.57%) Digital Strategy
7 5 (3.57%) Informatics
7 5 (3.57%) PRINCE2
7 5 (3.57%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (3.57%) Risk Management
7 5 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (2.86%) Business Case
8 4 (2.86%) Intelligent Automation
8 4 (2.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.57%) SQL
2 6 (4.29%) C#
2 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.86%) PHP
3 4 (2.86%) Python
4 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.43%) VBA
5 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (5.00%) Degree
2 3 (2.14%) A+ Certification
2 3 (2.14%) ISEB
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.43%) MCITP
4 1 (0.71%) CCIE
4 1 (0.71%) CCNP
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.71%) ECDL
4 1 (0.71%) MCSE
4 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.14%) GRC
3 3 (2.14%) HL7
3 3 (2.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (2.14%) NCSC
3 3 (2.14%) PMO
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.86%) SCCM
2 4 (2.86%) WSUS
3 3 (2.14%) TrustSec
4 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Datix
3 5 (3.57%) Cisco
3 5 (3.57%) VMware
4 4 (2.86%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.86%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (2.86%) Blue Prism
4 4 (2.86%) Cerner
4 4 (2.86%) UiPath
5 2 (1.43%) CA
5 2 (1.43%) Datto
5 2 (1.43%) Dell
5 2 (1.43%) Google
5 2 (1.43%) SonicWALL
5 2 (1.43%) Veeam
6 1 (0.71%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.71%) Databricks
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) Progress
6 1 (0.71%) Sophos