Digital Healthcare Contracts

Digital Healthcare
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare 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 510 566 705
Rank change year-on-year +56 +139 +136
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 10 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.037% 0.022%
As % of the General category 0.054% 0.063% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 10
10th Percentile £223 £338 £150
25th Percentile £363 £460 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £825
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -39.39% +94.12%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £1,094
90th Percentile £490 £610 £1,455
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £1,075
% change year-on-year -12.50% -53.49% +305.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 £44.74 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £44.74 -

All General Skills
UK

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 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 Healthcare
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Healthcare in the UK

Digital Healthcare
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Healthcare in the UK

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Healthcare in the UK

Digital Healthcare
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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 +48 7 £425 -15.00% 41
UK excluding London +57 4 £438 -12.50% 23
North of England +19 4 £438 - 8
Yorkshire - 4 £438 - 5
Work from Home +34 3 £463 -7.50% 26
London +34 2 £205 -68.46% 18

Digital Healthcare
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 1 (10.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Health
2 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Content Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) NHS DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Product Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) FHIR
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (10.00%) Coaching
2 1 (10.00%) Content Development
2 1 (10.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) High Availability
2 1 (10.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) SEO
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) User Experience
2 1 (10.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) RedGate