Digital Healthcare Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Digital Healthcare
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 - 183
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.063% - 0.15%
As % of the General category 0.11% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £430 - £338
25th Percentile £456 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.47%
75th Percentile £535 - £388
90th Percentile £556 - £569
England median daily rate £438 £261 £375
% change year-on-year +67.46% -30.33% -11.76%

All General Skills
North of England

Digital Healthcare falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,857 2,001 2,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.90% 57.68% 54.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 1,085 1,633
10th Percentile £213 £255 £251
25th Percentile £360 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 125 150
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.00 £12.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £17.25 £16.20
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.50 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +22.07% +0.35%
75th Percentile £45.46 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £52.08
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +29.31%

Digital Healthcare
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Healthcare relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Digital Healthcare job vacancy trend in the North of England

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Digital Healthcare.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Digital Healthcare

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Healthcare in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Healthcare in the North of England

Digital Healthcare
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Healthcare within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 2 £535 - 7
North West - 1 £425 - 3
Digital Healthcare
England

Digital Healthcare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Service Design
1 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Research
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
1 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Pega