NHS Contracts in the Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 79 77
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing NHS 30 89 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 2.60% 3.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.53% 8.14% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 51 95
10th Percentile £251 £125 £137
25th Percentile £262 £170 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year +91.11% -30.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £547 £389 £411
90th Percentile £650 £475 £484
England median daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 23
10th Percentile - £15.76 £13.63
25th Percentile - £17.72 £14.82
Median hourly rate £10.42 £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.90% +33.33% +2.04%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £19.88
90th Percentile £11.09 £30.65 £22.75
England median hourly rate £15.46 £22.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -29.73% +17.33% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 850 1,094 1,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.95% 31.99% 29.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 734 1,072
10th Percentile £220 £252 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £748 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 44 56
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.98 £12.19
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.22 £14.77
Median hourly rate £19.50 £24.83 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% +50.48% +6.45%
75th Percentile £28.88 £52.81 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £23.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
West Midlands -6 16 £575 +137.11% 98
East Midlands 0 14 £368 +93.42% 82
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Legal
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Change Coordinator
4 2 (6.67%) Coordinator
4 2 (6.67%) Programme Director
4 2 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Administrator
5 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Strategy Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) EPR Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Healthcare Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Healthcare Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) e-Health
2 1 (3.33%) IoT
2 1 (3.33%) LIMS
2 1 (3.33%) PACS
2 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (16.67%) Project Management
3 4 (13.33%) Change Management
3 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (10.00%) Business Case
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (6.67%) Performance Management
5 2 (6.67%) PRINCE2
5 2 (6.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (6.67%) Supplier Management
5 2 (6.67%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (6.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) HL7
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft