NHS Contracts in the North East

National Health Service (NHS)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.30% 2.90% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 10.11% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £139
25th Percentile £625 £313 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £325 £300
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +8.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £675 £338 £408
90th Percentile - - £465
England median daily rate £450 £325 £324
% change year-on-year +38.46% +0.17% -0.17%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 104 89 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 31.61% 28.71% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 48 63
10th Percentile £205 £187 £166
25th Percentile £360 £314 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £700
90th Percentile £638 £711 £836
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £16.12 £11.44 £31.33
25th Percentile £19.15 £13.08 £31.44
Median hourly rate £33.08 £33.25 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +3.10% +98.46%
75th Percentile £50.55 £48.75 £33.31
90th Percentile £54.80 - £33.58
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Durham -5 1 £650 - 9
NHS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management