NHS Contracts in the West Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 96 97
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing NHS 12 16 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 0.82% 1.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 2.47% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 35
10th Percentile - £188 £128
25th Percentile £110 £309 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £224 £575 £235
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +144.68% -36.49%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £388
90th Percentile £518 £750 £460
England median daily rate £410 £296 £300
% change year-on-year +38.75% -1.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £15.22 - £14.29
25th Percentile £15.58 - -
Median hourly rate £17.16 £10.42 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +64.64% -41.20% +11.73%
75th Percentile £18.01 - £24.00
90th Percentile £18.13 £11.09 £38.10
England median hourly rate £18.13 £15.46 £22.00
% change year-on-year +17.27% -29.73% +15.80%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 421 649 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.28% 33.26% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 411 522
10th Percentile £198 £308 £263
25th Percentile £408 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £617 £630 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.91 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +12.43% +34.13% -16.72%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Worcestershire +8 9 £110 - 2
Birmingham +6 3 £475 -17.39% 9
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) NHS Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
4 1 (8.33%) Business Case
4 1 (8.33%) CRM
4 1 (8.33%) Data Security
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (8.33%) MVC
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (50.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco
1 6 (50.00%) Citrix
1 6 (50.00%) Nexthink
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow