Health Technology Contracts

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 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 499 534 631
Rank change year-on-year +35 +97 +155
Contract jobs citing Health Technology 21 48 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 80
10th Percentile £342 £331 £413
25th Percentile £381 £379 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -8.10% +7.14%
75th Percentile £519 £545 £641
90th Percentile £591 £619 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +7.89%

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 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%

Health Technology
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
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 Health Technology 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 +29 15 £475 -4.04% 403
Work from Home +27 12 £450 -9.09% 198
London +24 8 £425 -16.67% 206
UK excluding London +48 5 £475 - 254
North of England +10 3 £475 -7.32% 65
Yorkshire +1 3 £475 -7.32% 15
Midlands +22 1 £400 -15.79% 23
East of England - 1 - - 29

Health Technology
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 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) LAN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.76%) Looker
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Publishing
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) Developer
1 3 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Angular Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Data Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Head of IT
3 1 (4.76%) Head of Operations
3 1 (4.76%) Integration Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Integration Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) IT Director
3 1 (4.76%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Operations Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) HTML
2 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) FHIR
3 2 (9.52%) Playwright
3 2 (9.52%) React Native
3 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Angular 2
4 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) LIMS
2 1 (4.76%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Android
1 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
3 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 3 (14.29%) ETL
3 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (9.52%) Data Extraction
4 2 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Brio
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) VMware