NHS Contracts in the North West

National Health Service (NHS)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 96 115
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 -63
Contract jobs citing NHS 11 39 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 1.42% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 5.62% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 23
10th Percentile £191 £246 £144
25th Percentile £204 £297 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% -9.09% +46.67%
75th Percentile £338 £655 £583
90th Percentile £362 £713 £770
England median daily rate £425 £315 £306
% change year-on-year +34.92% +2.94% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 8
10th Percentile - £11.25 £16.60
25th Percentile - £13.06 -
Median hourly rate - £16.17 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -22.64%
75th Percentile - £44.74 £21.50
90th Percentile - - £26.00
England median hourly rate £17.16 £14.49 £21.00
% change year-on-year +18.43% -31.02% -2.33%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 554 694 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.31% 25.35% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 444 649
10th Percentile £208 £290 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.18% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 76 43
10th Percentile £22.72 £13.00 £16.67
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -27.86% +79.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.06 £65.88
90th Percentile £76.50 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.49
% change year-on-year -4.88% +58.55% -15.15%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the North West

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the North West

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the North West

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the North West

NHS
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 NHS within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +18 6 £215 -69.29% 102
Lancashire -9 2 - - 50
Cheshire -4 1 - - 57
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Information Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Procurement Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Procurement Officer
3 1 (9.09%) Requirements Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Information Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Contract Negotiation
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
3 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (9.09%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (9.09%) Supplier Management
3 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) VMware