Health Technology Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Health Technology (HealthTech)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Health Technology in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Health Technology over the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 +8
Contract jobs citing Health Technology 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.040% 0.062% 0.072%
As % of the General category 0.075% 0.10% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £413 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £438 - £694
90th Percentile - - £743
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +4.35%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

Health Technology 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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,327 995 1,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 53.36% 61.80% 60.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 548 936
10th Percentile £255 £243 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £504 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +6.05% -1.53%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £588
90th Percentile £648 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 41 138
10th Percentile £16.88 £17.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £20.81 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £51.89 £48.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +6.67% +73.08%
75th Percentile £83.81 £62.24 £61.60
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.00 £69.27
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £34.63 £31.50
% change year-on-year -27.38% +9.94% -30.00%

Health Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Health Technology relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Health Technology job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Health Technology
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Health Technology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Health Technology

Health Technology
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Health Technology within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Buckinghamshire -12 1 £425 -15.00% 5
Health Technology
South East

Health Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Application Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Web Application Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# Application Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript