NHS Contract Job Trends in Wales

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	22	22	19
Rank change year-on-year	0	-3	+9
Contract jobs citing NHS	39	28	30
As % of all contract jobs in Wales	5.84%	6.22%	6.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	18.31%	19.72%	20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	35	26	21
10^th Percentile	£259	£189	£120
25^th Percentile	£306	£217	£139
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£325	£293	£198
Median % change year-on-year	+10.92%	+48.35%	-4.59%
75^th Percentile	-	£311	£343
90^th Percentile	-	£415	£425
UK median daily rate	£450	£425	£350
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	+21.43%	+16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	8
10^th Percentile	-	-	£20.49
25^th Percentile	-	-	£23.75
Median hourly rate	-	-	£25.60
75^th Percentile	-	-	£25.83
90^th Percentile	-	-	£26.80
UK median hourly rate	£20.00	£16.00	£24.18
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-33.83%	+19.41%

All Generic Skills
Wales

NHS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing generic IT skills in Wales.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	213	142	149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales	31.89%	31.56%	32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	127	83	92
10^th Percentile	£225	£170	£134
25^th Percentile	£306	£220	£177
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£413	£308	£330
Median % change year-on-year	+34.15%	-6.82%	-2.94%
75^th Percentile	£550	£435	£550
90^th Percentile	£713	£529	£682
UK median daily rate	£525	£513	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-2.38%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	31	25	16
10^th Percentile	£14.10	£13.08	£20.07
25^th Percentile	£16.15	£17.30	£22.25
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£20.50	£25.60
Median % change year-on-year	+114.44%	-19.92%	-36.00%
75^th Percentile	£72.50	£21.50	£27.50
90^th Percentile	£84.75	£32.25	£45.52
UK median hourly rate	£35.82	£27.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+32.67%	-28.00%	-14.46%

NHS Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NHS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

NHS Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing NHS.

NHS Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Wales over the 6 months to 11 November 2026.

NHS Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing NHS.

NHS Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South Wales	+1	37	£319	+8.79%	17
Dyfed	-	1	£475	-
NHS UK

NHS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 11 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing NHS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region citing NHS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	64.1%	25
2	Azure	51.3%	20
3	Power Platform	46.2%	18
4	CI/CD	35.9%	14
4	DevOps	35.9%	14
6	Analytics	20.5%	8
6	Business Intelligence	20.5%	8
6	Platform Engineering	20.5%	8
6	PowerApps	20.5%	8
6	Terraform	20.5%	8
11	Power BI	17.9%	7
11	Requirements Gathering	17.9%	7
13	.NET	15.4%	6
13	Agile	15.4%	6
13	GitHub	15.4%	6
13	Incident Response	15.4%	6
13	Microsoft 365	15.4%	6
13	Validation	15.4%	6
19	Azure Monitor	12.8%	5
19	Containerisation	12.8%	5
19	Continuous Delivery	12.8%	5
19	CRM	12.8%	5
19	Data Validation	12.8%	5
19	Deployment Automation	12.8%	5
19	Docker	12.8%	5
19	Dynamics CRM	12.8%	5
19	ETL	12.8%	5
19	Kubernetes	12.8%	5
19	SQL	12.8%	5
19	Stakeholder Management	12.8%	5

NHS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Structures	7.7%	3
2	Onboarding	2.6%	1