NHS Contract Job Trends in Southend-on-Sea

National Health Service (NHS)
Essex > Southend-on-Sea

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Southend-on-Sea. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Southend-on-Sea 33.33% - 25.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 50.00% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - +141.43%
Essex median daily rate £200 - £275
% change year-on-year - - +71.88%

All Generic Skills
Southend-on-Sea

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 Southend-on-Sea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southend-on-Sea 66.67% 16.67% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £178 - £137
25th Percentile £181 - £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 - £140
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.76%
75th Percentile £194 - £239
90th Percentile £198 - £298
Essex median daily rate £336 £350 £315
% change year-on-year -3.93% +11.11% -8.70%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Southend-on-Sea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NHS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southend-on-Sea.

NHS job vacancy trend in Southend-on-Sea

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Southend-on-Sea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southend-on-Sea citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southend-on-Sea citing NHS

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Southend-on-Sea

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southend-on-Sea citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southend-on-Sea citing NHS

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southend-on-Sea 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%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
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