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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 91 98
Rank change year-on-year -38 +7 -46
Contract jobs citing NHS 50 80 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.26% 1.92% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.81% 6.94% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 50 81
10th Percentile £156 £187 £143
25th Percentile £359 £297 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £478 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +8.52% +39.68%
75th Percentile £541 £542 £525
90th Percentile £576 £650 £600
England median daily rate £450 £350 £316
% change year-on-year +28.57% +10.76% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 10
10th Percentile - £11.25 £16.79
25th Percentile - £15.55 -
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - +8.43% -22.64%
75th Percentile - £25.83 £22.00
90th Percentile - - £26.30
England median hourly rate £19.20 £17.00 £16.85
% change year-on-year +12.96% +0.89% -21.63%

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 1,314 1,153 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.21% 27.66% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 687 1,002
10th Percentile £276 £297 £263
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £606
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 91 54
10th Percentile £17.42 £12.15 £16.36
25th Percentile £22.69 £13.13 £19.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.17 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +116.45% -49.86% +65.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £34.48 £46.11
90th Percentile £78.63 £58.00 £65.93
England median hourly rate £31.00 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -31.11% +10.86% +56.12%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -7 38 £500 - 62
North West -25 11 £215 -38.57% 72
North East -11 1 £650 +100.00% 22
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 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) AWS
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.00%) Serverless
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (6.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.00%) Big Data
3 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Riak
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.00%) Power Query
4 1 (2.00%) QlikView
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 21 (42.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Local Government
5 4 (8.00%) Finance
5 4 (8.00%) Health Technology
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Analyst
1 9 (18.00%) Architect
1 9 (18.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Service Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) Technical Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (8.00%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Software Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) .NET
1 4 (8.00%) FHIR
1 4 (8.00%) Node.js
1 4 (8.00%) React
2 2 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.00%) Next.js
3 1 (2.00%) Playwright
3 1 (2.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) Smartcard
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) LIMS
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) PACS
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
1 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.00%) Android
2 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.00%) Migration
2 8 (16.00%) Agile
2 8 (16.00%) DevOps
2 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (10.00%) Workflow
5 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (8.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (8.00%) Project Management
5 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.00%) Clean Code
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (6.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.00%) Service Management
6 3 (6.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) Python
2 6 (12.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) C#
3 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) Bicep
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.00%) HL7
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) DICOM
2 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
3 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Brio
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Splunk