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 in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 107 105
Rank change year-on-year -26 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing NHS 9 24 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.91% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 3.05% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 31
10th Percentile £188 £266 £205
25th Percentile £224 £324 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £494 £275
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% +79.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £400 £650 £453
90th Percentile £460 £731 £638
England median daily rate £450 £350 £324
% change year-on-year +28.57% +7.87% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.70
25th Percentile £16.67 £15.50 £25.76
Median hourly rate £17.16 £17.00 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -38.23% +37.60%
75th Percentile £19.45 £18.50 £29.28
90th Percentile £20.53 - £30.34
England median hourly rate £19.20 £18.64 £16.85
% change year-on-year +3.05% +10.59% -21.63%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 864 787 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.50% 29.75% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 505 639
10th Percentile £250 £271 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £701
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 26 33
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.51 £19.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.37 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -22.31% +48.65%
75th Percentile £37.19 £47.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £88.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -36.84% +15.85% +57.69%

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

NHS
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

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the Midlands

NHS
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

NHS
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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -23 7 £287 -54.08% 21
East Midlands -12 2 £400 -15.79% 19
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
2 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) ISMS
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Security Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco