NHS Contracts in Manchester

National Health Service (NHS)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Manchester. 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 65 86 92
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -48
Contract jobs citing NHS 14 10 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.51% 0.66% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.26% 2.39% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £183 £298 £205
25th Percentile £196 £324 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £525 £440
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +19.32% +40.80%
75th Percentile £266 £713 £549
90th Percentile £396 - £645
North West median daily rate £215 £350 £394
% change year-on-year -38.57% -11.11% +27.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 8
10th Percentile - £13.63 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.49 £16.85
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.17 £18.43
Median % change year-on-year +100.99% -12.24% -7.88%
75th Percentile £33.75 £16.42 £26.00
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.17 £20.00
% change year-on-year +100.99% -19.15% -25.93%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Manchester 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
Bolton - 4 £195 - 3
NHS
North West

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Local Government
1 5 (35.71%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Facilities Manager
2 5 (35.71%) Facilities Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Change Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Procurement Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Procurement Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Project Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 7 (50.00%) Project Management
2 5 (35.71%) Facilities Management
2 5 (35.71%) Resource Management
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) BCP
5 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Supplier Management
5 1 (7.14%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) HNC
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) VMware