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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 95 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 -54 -11
Contract jobs citing NHS 90 114 359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.86% 2.09% 5.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.25% 6.96% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 83 286
10th Percentile £206 £143 £152
25th Percentile £297 £333 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £309
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +53.85% -5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £438
90th Percentile £656 £610 £575
England median daily rate £315 £299 £325
% change year-on-year +5.27% -7.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 22
10th Percentile £11.25 £16.68 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.25 - £13.11
Median hourly rate £16.17 £16.85 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -22.64% +24.46%
75th Percentile £25.83 £22.00 £23.06
90th Percentile £44.74 £26.00 £28.58
England median hourly rate £14.49 £21.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -31.02% -2.33% +22.86%

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 1,242 1,637 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.63% 30.08% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 1,088 1,868
10th Percentile £263 £275 £205
25th Percentile £400 £410 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +6.77% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £575
90th Percentile £674 £688 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 81 94
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -11.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £28.23 £33.75 £26.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £44.03
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 16 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NHS in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 June 2024. 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 -9 42 £500 -1.96% 107
North West +13 39 £400 -4.76% 126
North East +10 9 £325 +76.87% 41
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 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.11%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.33%) Azure
2 8 (8.89%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.78%) AWS
4 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
1 4 (4.44%) LAN
1 4 (4.44%) WAN
1 4 (4.44%) WLAN
2 3 (3.33%) DHCP
2 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.22%) SAN
4 1 (1.11%) Intranet
4 1 (1.11%) Network Security
4 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.89%) Electronic Patient Records
1 8 (8.89%) Power BI
2 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.44%) Tableau
4 3 (3.33%) Big Data
4 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (2.22%) QlikView
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Selenium
1 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.11%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.22%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.00%) Health Technology
5 7 (7.78%) Finance
6 6 (6.67%) Local Government
7 3 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Military
9 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Social Science
9 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (17.78%) Senior
2 14 (15.56%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.67%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Information Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Lead
7 4 (4.44%) Network Technician
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Information Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Network Technician
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Technician
7 4 (4.44%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Support Officer
8 3 (3.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.22%) OAuth
2 1 (1.11%) HTML
2 1 (1.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.11%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.11%) LIMS
5 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.11%) Social Media
5 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (7.78%) Agile
4 7 (7.78%) Project Delivery
4 7 (7.78%) Project Management
5 6 (6.67%) Information Management
5 6 (6.67%) PRINCE2
6 5 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (5.56%) Analytics
6 5 (5.56%) Change Management
6 5 (5.56%) Data Analysis
6 5 (5.56%) Decision-Making
6 5 (5.56%) Process Improvement
6 5 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (5.56%) Statistics
6 5 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (4.44%) Risk Register
7 4 (4.44%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.22%) SQL
2 6 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.11%) C#
4 1 (1.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.44%) CCNA
2 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.33%) PMP
3 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) APMG
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CIPD
5 1 (1.11%) CISA
5 1 (1.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.11%) MCP
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.44%) HL7
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.22%) SCCM
1 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) Brio
3 2 (2.22%) Adobe
3 2 (2.22%) Citrix
3 2 (2.22%) VMware
4 1 (1.11%) Apple
4 1 (1.11%) Databricks
4 1 (1.11%) Intel
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk