Digital Health Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Health
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Health in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Health over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 385 425
Rank change year-on-year +50 +40 +73
Contract jobs citing Digital Health 8 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.025% 0.061%
As % of the General category 0.100% 0.045% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile £345 £165 £151
25th Percentile £446 £230 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £230
Median % change year-on-year +40.53% +46.96% -60.00%
75th Percentile £550 - £588
90th Percentile £561 - £648
UK median daily rate £486 £338 £269
% change year-on-year +43.79% +25.65% -40.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £12.06 -
25th Percentile £21.20 £12.53 -
Median hourly rate £21.40 £13.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% - -
75th Percentile £21.60 £15.41 -
90th Percentile - £16.14 -
UK median hourly rate £21.40 £13.75 -
% change year-on-year +55.64% - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Health falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,040 11,023 13,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.47% 54.40% 56.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,933 6,299 8,906
10th Percentile £210 £206 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £652 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,642 748
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £15.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £24.50 £28.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.59% +52.63%
75th Percentile £53.94 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.97 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £30.00 £33.60
% change year-on-year -8.58% -10.72% +49.68%

Digital Health
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Digital Health as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Health in the UK excluding London

Digital Health
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Health in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Health in the UK excluding London

Digital Health
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Health in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Health in the UK excluding London

Digital Health
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Health in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Health in the UK excluding London

Digital Health
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 Digital Health within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
East of England +22 2 £280 -17.16% 6
North of England - 2 £556 - 10
Yorkshire - 2 £556 - 3
Wales - 2 £461 - 7
Scotland - 2 - - 5
Digital Health
UK

Digital Health
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Principal Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Agent
3 1 (12.50%) Information Governance Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Information Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CITP
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HL7
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google