Cerner Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cerner
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Cerner products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cerner over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Cerner Corporation.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - +109
Contract jobs citing Cerner 1 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - 0.052%
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £205
25th Percentile £575 - £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £220
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.42%
75th Percentile £625 - £363
90th Percentile - - £445
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £318
% change year-on-year -2.78% +41.73% -25.29%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Cerner falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,833 7,607 9,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.26% 44.64% 46.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,908 4,386 6,323
10th Percentile £221 £223 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 462 524
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.99 £15.62 £17.74
Median hourly rate £21.48 £30.00 £42.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% -28.83% +97.05%
75th Percentile £35.51 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £74.99
UK median hourly rate £24.62 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.25% -25.86% +79.15%

Cerner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cerner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cerner job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cerner
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cerner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cerner

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cerner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cerner

Cerner
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cerner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South West - 1 £600 - 1
Cerner
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Postgraduate