NHS Contracts in Reading

National Health Service (NHS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Reading. 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 59 87 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.27% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £209
25th Percentile - £463 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £288
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +65.22% -36.46%
75th Percentile - £506 £366
90th Percentile - £518 £435
Berkshire median daily rate £350 £475 £250
% change year-on-year -26.32% +90.00% -44.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £17.60 -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Reading

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for NHS in Reading

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Reading

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI