NHS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

National Health Service (NHS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 60 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing NHS 87 29 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.27% 2.67% 2.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.62% 7.53% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 22 25
10th Percentile £315 £378 £167
25th Percentile £450 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -1.96%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £550
90th Percentile £591 £586 £598
England median daily rate £450 £425 £315
% change year-on-year +5.88% +34.92% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £12.25
Median hourly rate £20.60 £32.81 £16.72
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +96.23% -24.00%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £17.16 £14.49
% change year-on-year +31.16% +18.43% -31.02%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 385 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.88% 35.45% 27.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 230 257
10th Percentile £318 £272 £263
25th Percentile £413 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -3.95% -5.21%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £681 £626 £640
England median daily rate £520 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.09% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 71
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £19.13 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.25 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +65.81% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.81 £32.80 £18.51
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.35 £25.83
England median hourly rate £42.50 £34.50 £35.65
% change year-on-year +23.19% -3.23% +59.08%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

NHS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing NHS

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing NHS

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +14 83 £500 - 38
South Yorkshire -54 2 £161 -48.60% 3
North Yorkshire - 1 £325 -
NHS
England

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Serverless
3 7 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (8.05%) Azure
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.60%) GitHub
6 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.30%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.30%) Apigee
8 2 (2.30%) Figma
8 2 (2.30%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.30%) Miro
8 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.60%) Power BI
2 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.45%) OLAP
4 2 (2.30%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) QlikView
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Git
General
1 51 (58.62%) Public Sector
2 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.45%) Digital Health
7 2 (2.30%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.30%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.15%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 16 (18.39%) Analyst
2 12 (13.79%) Designer
3 11 (12.64%) Senior
4 10 (11.49%) Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.20%) Service Designer
7 6 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 6 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.75%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Content Designer
9 4 (4.60%) Lead
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Designer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Service Designer
9 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Senior NHS Analyst
10 3 (3.45%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) FHIR
2 6 (6.90%) React
3 5 (5.75%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) PySpark
4 2 (2.30%) RESTful
4 2 (2.30%) Vue
5 1 (1.15%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (1.15%) Django
5 1 (1.15%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.15%) Flask
5 1 (1.15%) Jest
5 1 (1.15%) JSON
5 1 (1.15%) Kafka
5 1 (1.15%) Next.js
5 1 (1.15%) Node.js
5 1 (1.15%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.15%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.45%) Life Science
1 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) CentOS
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) Agile
2 14 (16.09%) Analytics
2 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
3 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (13.79%) User Research
5 11 (12.64%) DevOps
5 11 (12.64%) Service Design
6 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (10.34%) Data Governance
8 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.20%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (6.90%) Customer Service
9 6 (6.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (6.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 5 (5.75%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (5.75%) Roadmaps
10 5 (5.75%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) SQL
2 12 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
3 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) C#
5 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.90%) Degree
3 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) HL7
2 6 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.60%) WCAG
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.30%) NCSC
4 2 (2.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.30%) Nessus
5 1 (1.15%) Ansible
5 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.60%) Databricks
3 3 (3.45%) Brio
3 3 (3.45%) Splunk
3 3 (3.45%) Tenable
4 2 (2.30%) Adobe
4 2 (2.30%) Google
4 2 (2.30%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.15%) Civica
5 1 (1.15%) Foundry
5 1 (1.15%) Infor
5 1 (1.15%) Palantir