NHS Contracts in the North of England

National Health Service (NHS)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 103 101
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -64
Contract jobs citing NHS 47 84 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.43% 1.76% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.66% 6.45% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 100
10th Percentile £200 £205 £142
25th Percentile £263 £297 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +58.33%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £575
90th Percentile £563 £656 £578
England median daily rate £410 £296 £300
% change year-on-year +38.75% -1.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 12
10th Percentile - £11.25 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £12.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.17 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.99% -19.15% -
75th Percentile £33.75 £25.83 £23.00
90th Percentile £33.95 £44.74 £26.00
England median hourly rate £18.13 £15.46 £22.00
% change year-on-year +17.27% -29.73% +15.80%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the North of England

NHS
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 NHS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -3 27 £488 -0.51% 64
North West +1 19 £215 -38.57% 55
North East -10 1 £650 +57.58% 13
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.51%) Azure
4 2 (4.26%) AWS
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.13%) IaaS
5 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.26%) Power Query
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (2.13%) QlikView
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) Selenium
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
3 9 (19.15%) Local Government
4 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.38%) Finance
7 3 (6.38%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.13%) Digital Health
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Law
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Project Manager
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
2 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Facilities Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Facilities Project Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) .NET
1 2 (4.26%) FHIR
1 2 (4.26%) Playwright
2 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.13%) CSS
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
2 1 (2.13%) HTML5
2 1 (2.13%) jQuery
2 1 (2.13%) Node.js
2 1 (2.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.13%) LIMS
2 1 (2.13%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.13%) Android
3 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Agile
1 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (23.40%) Project Management
3 8 (17.02%) Risk Management
4 7 (14.89%) Contract Negotiation
5 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.77%) DevOps
6 5 (10.64%) Facilities Management
6 5 (10.64%) Resource Management
6 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (8.51%) Programme Management
8 3 (6.38%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (6.38%) Customer Service
8 3 (6.38%) Data Analysis
8 3 (6.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (6.38%) Resource Allocation
8 3 (6.38%) Test Automation
9 2 (4.26%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) Python
1 3 (6.38%) SQL
2 2 (4.26%) C#
2 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) HNC
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) PMO
2 2 (4.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) HL7
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) DICOM
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Brio
3 2 (4.26%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) VMware