NHS Contracts 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing NHS 18 34 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.54% 7.93% 8.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.52% 21.79% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 35
10th Percentile £226 £137 £158
25th Percentile £265 £298 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £425 £188
Median % change year-on-year -28.12% +126.06% -41.02%
75th Percentile £357 £508 £375
90th Percentile £479 £531 £488
UK median daily rate £425 £350 £307
% change year-on-year +21.43% +14.19% -10.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.53
25th Percentile - - £12.56
Median hourly rate - - £14.25
75th Percentile - - £16.98
90th Percentile - - £17.65
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £12.86 £20.00
% change year-on-year +84.95% -35.70% -6.98%

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 requiring generic IT skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 124 156 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 38.15% 36.36% 42.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 106 156
10th Percentile £168 £136 £164
25th Percentile £262 £339 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.09%
75th Percentile £448 £550 £556
90th Percentile £495 £583 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 12
10th Percentile £14.17 - £12.89
25th Percentile £20.25 £11.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.01 £19.00 £17.03
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +11.57% +3.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £38.71 £20.49
90th Percentile - £73.75 £24.70
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £36.27 £23.33
% change year-on-year -16.60% +55.51% -13.55%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Wales

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in Wales.

Daily rate trend for NHS in Wales

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Wales over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Wales

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Wales

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 4 July 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
South Wales -4 18 £305 -28.12% 33
NHS
UK

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) BGP
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) IPv4
1 1 (5.56%) OSPF
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
1 3 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Welsh Language
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Health
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Designer
1 5 (27.78%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Lead Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Interaction Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Service Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Service Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Qlik Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Qlik Sense Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) Blazor
2 2 (11.11%) GWT
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Coaching
2 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
3 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Business Case
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Open Source
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Product Management
5 3 (16.67%) Product Requirements
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 9 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) CITP
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) CIPD
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Datix
3 1 (5.56%) Ekahau
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) VMware