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 in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 300 286
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 +73
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NHS 67 89 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.55% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 1.63% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 69 146
10th Percentile £243 £156 £170
25th Percentile £341 £286 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £536 £488 £442
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
England median daily rate £450 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +28.57% +7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £27.28 £23.45 £9.10
25th Percentile £28.71 £25.92 £12.25
Median hourly rate £31.11 £30.09 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +54.31% -27.72%
75th Percentile £33.50 £38.31 £36.00
90th Percentile £34.93 £43.21 £36.30
England median hourly rate £28.41 £21.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year +30.95% +8.48% +13.90%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,087 5,462 8,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.01% 33.60% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,331 3,749 5,934
10th Percentile £333 £334 £355
25th Percentile £438 £456 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £748 £733
90th Percentile £825 £863 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 78 79
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.29
25th Percentile £23.45 £22.00 £22.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -10.54% +12.90%
75th Percentile £46.75 £53.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £76.50
England median hourly rate £32.72 £50.00 £45.41
% change year-on-year -34.56% +10.11% +74.65%

NHS
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

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NHS

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in London over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in London

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NHS

NHS
DemandTrendContract 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 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +1 5 £506 +6.58% 9
East London +9 2 £525 +75.00% 2
West London - 1 - - 3
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 7 (10.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Trello
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.99%) Sketch
3 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (1.49%) Academy Housing
2 1 (1.49%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.42%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.45%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) AWS
5 4 (5.97%) Miro
6 3 (4.48%) Figma
7 2 (2.99%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.49%) SaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) H.323
1 2 (2.99%) MGCP
1 2 (2.99%) Network Security
1 2 (2.99%) Unified Communications
1 2 (2.99%) WebEx
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Electronic Patient Records
2 8 (11.94%) Power BI
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Selenium
2 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.49%) tSQLt
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (31.34%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.94%) Digital Health
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Finance
5 5 (7.46%) Local Government
5 5 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Health Technology
7 3 (4.48%) Legal
8 2 (2.99%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (2.99%) Electronics
8 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.99%) Marketing
8 2 (2.99%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Analyst
2 9 (13.43%) Architect
3 8 (11.94%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 5 (7.46%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Designer
7 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) GCP Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Healthcare Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Service Designer
8 2 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) FHIR
2 4 (5.97%) Kafka
3 3 (4.48%) .NET
3 3 (4.48%) Middleware
4 2 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.99%) CSS
4 2 (2.99%) HTML
4 2 (2.99%) React Native
4 2 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) XML
5 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.49%) CSS3
5 1 (1.49%) ebXML
5 1 (1.49%) SOAP
5 1 (1.49%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (1.49%) Web Services
5 1 (1.49%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Digital Signage
2 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.99%) PACS
2 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.49%) Clustering
3 1 (1.49%) CSOC
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Genomics
3 1 (1.49%) Life Science
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
1 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) Agile
2 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.45%) Data Governance
4 7 (10.45%) Data Modelling
4 7 (10.45%) Risk Management
5 6 (8.96%) Coaching
5 6 (8.96%) Decision-Making
5 6 (8.96%) DevOps
5 6 (8.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (8.96%) Identity Management
5 6 (8.96%) Migration
5 6 (8.96%) Roadmaps
5 6 (8.96%) Scrum
5 6 (8.96%) Service Design
5 6 (8.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (7.46%) Analytics
6 5 (7.46%) IT Strategy
6 5 (7.46%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) SQL
2 7 (10.45%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) C#
4 2 (2.99%) Go
4 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.49%) Bicep
5 1 (1.49%) C++
5 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.49%) R
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) CCNA
1 2 (2.99%) CCNP
1 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.49%) CISSP
2 1 (1.49%) CITP
2 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (1.49%) Degree
2 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.49%) SSCP
2 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) HL7
2 7 (10.45%) GDPR
2 7 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.97%) NCSC
4 3 (4.48%) NIST
5 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.99%) Section 508
5 2 (2.99%) WCAG
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.49%) DICOM
6 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.49%) PMO
6 1 (1.49%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Firmware
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Ansible
2 2 (2.99%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Google
3 4 (5.97%) Cerner
3 4 (5.97%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.48%) OneLogin
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco
5 2 (2.99%) NEC
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Foundry
6 1 (1.49%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (1.49%) MEDITECH
6 1 (1.49%) Palantir
6 1 (1.49%) Qualys
6 1 (1.49%) RedGate