Digital Healthcare Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Digital Healthcare
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare over the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.72% - -
As % of the General category 1.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £399 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £458 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
South West median daily rate £435 - -

All General Skills
Somerset

Digital Healthcare falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 107 76 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 38.35% 63.33% 56.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 52 60
10th Percentile £225 £201 £242
25th Percentile £263 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £652 £588
90th Percentile £599 £770 £625
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 28
10th Percentile £33.60 - £12.50
25th Percentile - - £23.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile - - £40.00
90th Percentile £52.90 - £41.50
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £62.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.20% +38.89% -26.83%

Digital Healthcare
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Healthcare within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Bath - 2 £435 -
Digital Healthcare
South West

Digital Healthcare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Healthcare Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Healthcare Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) MoSCoW
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
2 1 (50.00%) Informatics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CBAP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) HL7
2 1 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft