Digital Health Contracts

Digital Health
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Health in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Health over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 573 698
Rank change year-on-year +70 +125 +123
Contract jobs citing Digital Health 17 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.021% 0.034%
As % of the General category 0.092% 0.035% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 16
10th Percentile £301 £208 £154
25th Percentile £395 - £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £338 £329
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% +2.74% -26.89%
75th Percentile £499 £538 £571
90th Percentile £526 £665 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £338 £230
% change year-on-year +36.24% +46.96% -59.11%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £21.40 £13.75 -
% change year-on-year +55.64% - -

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,479 25,363 34,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.12% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,802 16,004 24,197
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,943 1,063
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.78 £13.43
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.20 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
% change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%

Digital Health
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Health in the UK

Digital Health
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Health in the UK

Digital Health
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Health in the UK

Digital Health
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Health in the UK

Digital Health
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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 +63 15 £486 +43.79% 97
London +47 11 £486 -35.20% 49
Work from Home +45 6 £473 +287.45% 55
UK excluding London +62 5 £461 +36.24% 54
East of England +27 2 £280 -17.16% 9
Wales - 2 £461 - 5
North of England +19 1 £550 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 4

Digital Health
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) Figma
2 1 (5.88%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) Publishing
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Senior
1 4 (23.53%) Senior User Experience Researcher
1 4 (23.53%) User Experience Researcher
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Principal Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Content Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Product Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) User Researcher
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) EDI
2 1 (5.88%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) NHS
2 6 (35.29%) Life Science
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
5 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) User Experience
2 6 (35.29%) Ergonomics
2 6 (35.29%) Human Factors
2 6 (35.29%) Risk Management
2 6 (35.29%) User Research
2 6 (35.29%) UX Research
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) Anthropology
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Psychology
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Master's Degree
3 4 (23.53%) PhD
4 3 (17.65%) CITP
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (5.88%) PMP
6 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft