Cerner Contracts

Cerner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 566 685
Rank change year-on-year +50 +119 +108
Contract jobs citing Cerner 4 16 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.037% 0.055%
As % of the Vendors category 0.029% 0.087% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 24
10th Percentile £443 £241 £218
25th Percentile £488 £344 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £388 £380
Median % change year-on-year +48.39% +1.97% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £492 £475
90th Percentile - £500 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 £393
% change year-on-year - -4.46% +30.83%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cerner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cerner in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cerner.

Daily rate trend for Cerner in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cerner over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cerner in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cerner.

Hourly rate trend for Cerner in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +45 4 £575 +48.39% 15
Work from Home +40 3 £575 +15.00% 11
London +36 2 £575 +43.75% 7

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cerner Millennium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Management Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Workforce Management Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) EPR Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) WFM
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Kronos
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle