Hybrid/Remote Digital Healthcare Contract Job Trends

Digital Healthcare
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Healthcare in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Healthcare over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 308 360
Rank change year-on-year +3 +52 +174
Contract jobs citing Digital Healthcare 11 6 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.052% 0.072%
As % of the General category 0.17% 0.085% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile - £405 £175
25th Percentile £413 £478 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +60.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £499 - £388
90th Percentile £605 - £525
UK median daily rate £425 £481 £375
% change year-on-year -11.69% +28.33% -11.76%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Digital Healthcare falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,378 7,028 9,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.12% 61.00% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,095 4,315 6,609
10th Percentile £331 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 152 248
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.50 £17.52
25th Percentile £21.08 £21.88 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.52 £45.63
Median % change year-on-year +26.79% -26.54% -14.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £62.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £27.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.92% -17.27% +32.00%

Digital Healthcare
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Healthcare and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Digital Healthcare job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Healthcare.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Healthcare

Digital Healthcare
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Healthcare over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Digital Healthcare daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Digital Healthcare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon EventBridge
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
1 5 (45.45%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) EDMS
2 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Health
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) User Researcher
3 1 (9.09%) Bid Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Digital UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Service Designer
3 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) HTML
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) OAuth
1 5 (45.45%) OAuth2
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
1 5 (45.45%) SOAP
1 5 (45.45%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
1 5 (45.45%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (45.45%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) API Development
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) Data Mapping
2 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
2 5 (45.45%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) High Availability
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 5 (45.45%) Network Load Balancing
2 5 (45.45%) User Stories
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (27.27%) Service Design
3 3 (27.27%) Usability Testing
3 3 (27.27%) User Research
3 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Pega
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft