Health Technology Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Health Technology (HealthTech)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Health Technology in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Health Technology over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 158 181
Rank change year-on-year -46 +23 +24
Contract jobs citing Health Technology 8 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the General category 0.28% 0.30% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile - £491 £423
25th Percentile - - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +9.29% -10.51%
75th Percentile - £538 £491
90th Percentile - £550 £500
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All General Skills
North of England

Health Technology 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 2,841 2,026 2,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.71% 57.52% 54.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 1,102 1,622
10th Percentile £213 £254 £255
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £597
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 128 145
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.48 £17.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% +17.96% +3.85%
75th Percentile £45.46 £35.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.78 £61.50 £52.47
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -9.09% +28.35%

Health Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Health Technology job vacancy trend in the North of England

Health Technology
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Health Technology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Health Technology

Health Technology
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 Health Technology within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Yorkshire -43 8 £500 - 61
Health Technology
England

Health Technology
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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Health
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) FHIR
2 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) React
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (50.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) HL7
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (12.50%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Brio
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Databricks