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

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 548 596
Rank change year-on-year +46 +48 +181
Contract jobs citing Health Technology 28 46 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the General category 0.15% 0.19% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 84
10th Percentile £356 £363 £433
25th Percentile £386 £405 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £498 £556 £669
90th Percentile £525 £669 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.00
25th Percentile £22.75 - £11.66
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £13.03
75th Percentile £26.25 - £14.14
90th Percentile - - £14.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - £13.03

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 18,898 24,848 32,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.55% 57.00% 58.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,894 15,562 22,466
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £768 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.77% -2.50% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 2,007 1,001
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.67 £15.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £27.76 £31.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +1.51% +30.57%
75th Percentile £53.95 £52.78 £60.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £71.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £29.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.26% +33.77%

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 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Health Technology.

Hourly rate trend for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
Top 10 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 17 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 +51 22 £450 -10.00% 1,895
UK excluding London +25 12 £475 -3.06% 1,484
Work from Home +26 11 £450 -10.00% 1,238
London +27 8 £450 -12.20% 597
North of England +2 8 £481 -3.75% 322
Yorkshire +3 6 £488 -2.50% 155
North West +15 2 £388 - 149
Midlands +11 2 £425 -10.53% 223
East of England - 2 - - 219
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 119

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 (3.57%) CMS
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.14%) dbt
3 2 (7.14%) SaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.57%) Figma
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (7.14%) Big Data
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.57%) Looker
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Riak
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Postman
3 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Product Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Angular Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Operations Director
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Playwright
2 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.14%) FHIR
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) React
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Angular 2
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.57%) Flask
3 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Life Science
2 1 (3.57%) LIMS
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.29%) Agile
2 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
3 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
3 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
3 3 (10.71%) ETL
3 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (10.71%) Machine Learning
3 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
3 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
4 2 (7.14%) Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) Clean Code
4 2 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (7.14%) Design Patterns
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (7.14%) User Experience
4 2 (7.14%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.57%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Brio
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) VMware