NHS Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

National Health Service (NHS)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.46% 1.04% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 5.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £473 £333
% change year-on-year -20.63% +42.11% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £21.59 £31.04
% change year-on-year - -30.44% +75.17%

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 41 17 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 18.98% 17.71% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 12
10th Percentile £213 £136 -
25th Percentile £273 £155 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £274 £500
Median % change year-on-year +64.23% -45.20% -
75th Percentile £500 £300 £573
90th Percentile £539 £318 £586
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £503
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year +24.07% -12.07% +44.74%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NHS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

NHS job vacancy trend in Shropshire

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing NHS

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing NHS

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Shrewsbury - 1 £400 - 1
NHS
West Midlands

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware