Digital Healthcare Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Healthcare
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 347 396
Rank change year-on-year -49 +49 +95
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 8 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.007% 0.052%
As % of the General category 0.077% 0.012% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £383 - £175
25th Percentile £413 - £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.47%
75th Percentile £469 - £388
90th Percentile £528 - £460
UK median daily rate £425 £481 £350
% change year-on-year -11.69% +37.50% -17.65%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Healthcare 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,428 8,428 10,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.45% 60.31% 55.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,426 4,765 6,631
10th Percentile £204 £210 £210
25th Percentile £361 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,124 502 929
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.13 £15.42
Median hourly rate £21.48 £26.12 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% -12.93% +33.33%
75th Percentile £44.95 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.03 £27.37 £32.32
% change year-on-year -15.85% -15.32% +29.28%

Digital Healthcare
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Digital Healthcare job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Healthcare in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Healthcare in the UK excluding London

Digital Healthcare
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 Healthcare within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
North of England - 3 £500 - 6
Midlands -38 2 £425 -
Yorkshire - 2 £535 - 5
West Midlands -34 1 £425 -
Scotland - 1 £425 -
North West - 1 £425 - 1
South East - 1 £425 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £339 -
Digital Healthcare
UK

Digital Healthcare
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) EDMS
2 1 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Health
3 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Procurement Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) SOAP
1 4 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) FHIR
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (37.50%) NHS
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) API Development
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
1 4 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 4 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Design Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) HL7
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Pega
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft