NHS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 205 176
Rank change year-on-year -31 -29 -22
Contract jobs citing NHS 68 143 373
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 0.93% 1.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 3.24% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 104 288
10th Percentile £208 £175 £200
25th Percentile £305 £223 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £311 £400
Median % change year-on-year +44.05% -22.25% -
75th Percentile £488 £398 £518
90th Percentile £570 £543 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £311 £300
% change year-on-year +28.62% +3.67% -13.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 14
10th Percentile - £14.93 £14.25
25th Percentile - £15.17 £19.38
Median hourly rate £26.32 £21.50 £37.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -42.65% +87.44%
75th Percentile - £44.74 £61.53
90th Percentile - £50.15 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £21.67 £13.95 £21.72
% change year-on-year +55.31% -35.76% +23.13%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

NHS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NHS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NHS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NHS.

NHS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NHS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

NHS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NHS.

NHS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.47%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) GCP
4 3 (4.41%) IaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.94%) MPLS
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.41%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Selenium
1 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Digital Health
6 3 (4.41%) Welsh Language
7 2 (2.94%) Law
7 2 (2.94%) Local Government
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Electronics
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.47%) Marketing
8 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Architect
2 8 (11.76%) Lead
3 6 (8.82%) Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Project Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Architect
5 4 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 4 (5.88%) Senior
6 3 (4.41%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Programme Director
6 3 (4.41%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Service Designer
6 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Data Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) React
2 4 (5.88%) .NET
3 3 (4.41%) CSS
3 3 (4.41%) HTML
3 3 (4.41%) pydantic
3 3 (4.41%) XML
4 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.47%) CSS3
5 1 (1.47%) GWT
5 1 (1.47%) HTML5
5 1 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.47%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.47%) OAuth
5 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.47%) ODBC
5 1 (1.47%) REST
5 1 (1.47%) WCF
5 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) LIMS
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) PACS
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.59%) Agile
2 8 (11.76%) Migration
3 7 (10.29%) Analytics
4 6 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (7.35%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (7.35%) Data Science
5 5 (7.35%) ETL
5 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
5 5 (7.35%) Software Engineering
5 5 (7.35%) Visualisation
6 4 (5.88%) Coaching
6 4 (5.88%) Computer Science
6 4 (5.88%) Data Management
6 4 (5.88%) Machine Learning
6 4 (5.88%) Mentoring
6 4 (5.88%) Open Source
6 4 (5.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 5 (7.35%) C#
3 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.94%) Go
4 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) Bicep
5 1 (1.47%) R
5 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.47%) VB
5 1 (1.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Degree
2 8 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) CITP
6 2 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) CCAB
7 1 (1.47%) CEH
7 1 (1.47%) CISSP
7 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) NCSC
4 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Google
3 2 (2.94%) MEDITECH
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Cerner
4 1 (1.47%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.47%) Databricks
4 1 (1.47%) InterSystems
4 1 (1.47%) NEC
4 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) VMware