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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 564 672
Rank change year-on-year +60 +108 +156
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 10 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.035% 0.021%
As % of the General category 0.055% 0.061% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 9
10th Percentile £228 £338 £150
25th Percentile £363 £460 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £1,050
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -52.38% +147.06%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £1,100
90th Percentile £490 £610 £1,460
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 18,262 24,760 33,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.35% 57.46% 58.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,534 15,551 22,901
10th Percentile £280 £275 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £438
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 822 1,985 984
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.73 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.97 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -7.41% +44.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £28.42 £28.07
% change year-on-year -14.36% +1.25% +43.95%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +65 7 £425 -15.00% 44
UK excluding London +46 4 £438 -12.50% 20
Work from Home +40 4 £400 -20.00% 27
North of England +18 4 £438 - 4
Yorkshire - 4 £438 - 2
London +46 2 £213 -67.31% 23

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
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
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%) Power BI
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%) Digital Health
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
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%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) FHIR
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile
1 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (20.00%) Scrum
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%) DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (10.00%) User Experience
2 1 (10.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
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%) RedGate