NHS Contracts in South Wales

National Health Service (NHS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing NHS 21 28 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 8.68% 9.03% 8.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 22.11% 23.33% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 32
10th Percentile £200 £211 £160
25th Percentile £250 £413 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £438 £220
Median % change year-on-year -30.18% +98.86% -47.62%
75th Percentile £388 £523 £478
90th Percentile £475 £531 £490
Wales median daily rate £305 £438 £205
% change year-on-year -30.18% +113.41% -51.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £12.54
25th Percentile - - £12.59
Median hourly rate - - £15.13
75th Percentile - - £16.90
90th Percentile - - £17.61
Wales median hourly rate - - £15.13
% change year-on-year - - +22.92%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 95 120 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 39.26% 38.71% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 82 148
10th Percentile £160 £160 £180
25th Percentile £254 £408 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £468 £548 £550
90th Percentile £586 £570 £613
Wales median daily rate £375 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 8
10th Percentile £24.70 £19.65 £12.59
25th Percentile £33.75 £31.50 £14.78
Median hourly rate £37.50 £52.50 £18.10
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +190.06% +27.64%
75th Percentile £45.00 £69.88 £21.24
90th Percentile £47.50 £79.55 £32.93
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £16.25 £17.03
% change year-on-year +130.77% -4.58% +13.53%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in South Wales

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in South Wales

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in South Wales over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in South Wales

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in South Wales

NHS
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Cardiff 0 21 £305 -30.18% 11
NHS
Wales

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
1 6 (28.57%) GCP
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) BGP
1 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (9.52%) DHCP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) IPv4
1 2 (9.52%) OSPF
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
1 2 (9.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
1 3 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (14.29%) Welsh Language
5 2 (9.52%) Digital Health
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Designer
3 3 (14.29%) GCP Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Lead Designer
3 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Interaction Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Service Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) CSS
1 3 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) Blazor
2 2 (9.52%) GWT
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) Coaching
2 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Open Source
5 3 (14.29%) Product Management
5 3 (14.29%) Product Requirements
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
6 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
6 2 (9.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Degree
2 11 (52.38%) Master's Degree
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) CCIE
5 2 (9.52%) CCNP
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CITP
6 1 (4.76%) CCAB
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Google
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Ekahau
2 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Datix