Electronic Patient Records Contract Job Trends in the North West

Electronic Patient/Health/Medical Records (EPR, EHR, EMR)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Electronic Patient Records skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing Electronic Patient Records 3 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% - 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.81% - 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £414 - £200
25th Percentile £416 - £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.36%
75th Percentile £466 - £388
90th Percentile £471 - -
England median daily rate £400 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -1.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

Electronic Patient Records falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 369 288 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.75% 13.41% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 182 307
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £363 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £509 £575 £622
90th Percentile £600 £649 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £57.95 £22.72 £41.74
25th Percentile £60.40 £23.87 £46.18
Median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £49.34
Median % change year-on-year +172.83% -48.46% -24.09%
75th Percentile £82.38 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.43 £64.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -12.04%

Electronic Patient Records
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Electronic Patient Records relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Electronic Patient Records job vacancy trend in the North West

Electronic Patient Records
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Electronic Patient Records.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Electronic Patient Records

Electronic Patient Records
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Electronic Patient Records.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Electronic Patient Records

Electronic Patient Records
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Patient Records within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Manchester - 2 £438 - 5
Electronic Patient Records
England

Electronic Patient Records
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform