Health Technology Contract Job Trends

Health Technology (HealthTech)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Health Technology in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Health Technology over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 530 535
Rank change year-on-year -108 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Health Technology 36 28 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.085% 0.088%
As % of the General category 0.12% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 28
10th Percentile £396 £355 £450
25th Percentile £486 £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £628 £494 £556
90th Percentile £638 £525 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +17.33% -6.25% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.50 -

All General Skills
UK

Health Technology falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,205 20,961 22,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.56% 63.68% 57.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,737 12,993 13,480
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £497
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.45% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,464 1,199 1,134
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.69
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -32.74% +35.96%
75th Percentile £53.87 £49.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +40.55% -43.08% +44.23%

Health Technology
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Health Technology relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Health Technology job vacancy trend in the UK

Health Technology
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Technology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Technology

Health Technology
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Health Technology over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Technology.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Technology

Health Technology
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Health Technology within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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 -97 31 £538 +11.69% 155
Work from Home -57 23 £550 +15.79% 148
London -85 15 £550 +12.82% 94
UK excluding London -88 15 £550 +17.33% 64
South East - 7 £625 - 20
North of England -68 6 £525 +7.69% 12
North West -53 5 £525 +35.48% 9
Scotland - 2 £625 - 4
Yorkshire -41 1 £500 +1.27% 3

Health Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.56%) Azure API Management
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) dbt
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) Firebase
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) MailChimp
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (13.89%) Finance
1 5 (13.89%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Digital Health
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Legal
3 1 (2.78%) Marketing
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
3 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) User Experience Researcher
7 1 (2.78%) Compliance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) Terraform
2 7 (19.44%) React
3 3 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (5.56%) .NET
4 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.56%) Django
4 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.56%) gRPC
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) Flask
5 1 (2.78%) Flutter
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) Laravel
5 1 (2.78%) Next.js
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) PySpark
5 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) NHS
3 2 (5.56%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (5.56%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.00%) Observability
4 8 (22.22%) AI
4 8 (22.22%) DevOps
5 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (16.67%) Agile
6 6 (16.67%) Validation
7 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
7 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (8.33%) Data Science
9 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
9 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Dart
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.56%) PMP
3 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.78%) CISA
4 1 (2.78%) CISM
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) CRISC
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.78%) PhD
4 1 (2.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) GxP
3 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Apple
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.56%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.78%) Brio
3 1 (2.78%) Interwoven