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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 565 669
Rank change year-on-year +66 +104 +140
Contract jobs citing Digital Health 20 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.016% 0.032%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.028% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 13
10th Percentile £258 £187 £152
25th Percentile £395 £284 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £338 £230
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% +46.96% -48.89%
75th Percentile £499 £441 £575
90th Percentile £526 £626 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £338 £230
% change year-on-year +36.24% +46.96% -60.43%
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 24,712 32,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.36% 57.60% 58.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,679 15,544 22,797
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £756 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 1,977 985
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -7.69% +44.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.45 £72.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £28.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.84% +2.73% +41.03%

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 31 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 9 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 31 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 +59 16 £486 +43.79% 84
London +59 12 £486 -35.20% 37
UK excluding London +56 7 £461 +36.24% 55
Work from Home +48 7 £446 +265.72% 45
East of England +21 2 £280 -17.16% 5
Scotland - 2 - - 4
Wales - 2 £461 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £563 - 3
North of England - 1 £563 - 12

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 (10.00%) CMS
1 2 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Miro
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (5.00%) tSQLt
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (10.00%) Publishing
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Principal Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
2 4 (20.00%) User Experience Researcher
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Content Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) User Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) CSS
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) EDI
2 1 (5.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) NHS
2 6 (30.00%) Life Science
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (5.00%) Clustering
5 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) User Experience
3 6 (30.00%) Ergonomics
3 6 (30.00%) Human Factors
3 6 (30.00%) User Research
3 6 (30.00%) UX Research
4 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Anthropology
5 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Psychology
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Bicep
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (20.00%) PhD
4 3 (15.00%) CITP
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) RedGate