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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 84 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 -20
Contract jobs citing NHS 81 42 31
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.84% 2.59% 2.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.25% 6.74% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 33 27
10th Percentile £225 £153 £152
25th Percentile £406 £450 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +8.70% -6.84%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £500
90th Percentile £563 £575 £550
England median daily rate £457 £455 £350
% change year-on-year +0.38% +30.00% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £16.77 - -
25th Percentile £19.23 - -
Median hourly rate £23.66 £21.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% - -
75th Percentile £26.72 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.20 £21.30 £22.10
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.62% +10.50%

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 1,118 623 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.17% 38.43% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 388 262
10th Percentile £353 £302 £185
25th Percentile £413 £392 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -0.70% -
75th Percentile £600 £573 £588
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 8 19
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.41 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.20 £17.03 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.36% -31.88% +17.32%
75th Percentile £43.96 £19.21 £41.88
90th Percentile - £29.84 £57.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +24.59%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +15 76 £500 - 84
South Yorkshire -28 3 £280 -46.61% 22
East Yorkshire - 1 £413 - 5
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 2 (2.47%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (1.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) AWS
2 11 (13.58%) Serverless
3 10 (12.35%) Amazon S3
4 9 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (6.17%) GitHub
6 5 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.94%) Azure
7 4 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.70%) Apigee
8 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.47%) Figma
9 2 (2.47%) Miro
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.23%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.23%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) LAN
1 3 (3.70%) WAN
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.94%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.70%) Power BI
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.47%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.47%) OLAP
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
7 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 49 (60.49%) Public Sector
2 34 (41.98%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Finance
5 4 (4.94%) Digital Health
5 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Local Government
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Aviation
7 1 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.23%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (17.28%) Designer
2 11 (13.58%) Developer
3 10 (12.35%) Senior
4 9 (11.11%) Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Service Designer
5 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Lead
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) DBA
7 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Designer
8 3 (3.70%) Configuration Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Functional Tester
8 3 (3.70%) SQL DBA
8 3 (3.70%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) Terraform
2 7 (8.64%) FHIR
3 3 (3.70%) CSS
3 3 (3.70%) Flask
3 3 (3.70%) HTML
3 3 (3.70%) React
3 3 (3.70%) REST
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.47%) OpenID
4 2 (2.47%) PySpark
4 2 (2.47%) RESTful
4 2 (2.47%) Vue
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.23%) CSS3
5 1 (1.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) CMDB
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) CentOS
1 1 (1.23%) Linux
1 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) Agile
2 27 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (19.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 16 (19.75%) User Research
4 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (16.05%) CI/CD
6 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.58%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (12.35%) DevOps
8 10 (12.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 10 (12.35%) Service Design
9 8 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (9.88%) Scrum
10 7 (8.64%) Data Architecture
10 7 (8.64%) Kanban
10 7 (8.64%) Sprint Retrospective
10 7 (8.64%) User Stories
10 7 (8.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 6 (7.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.52%) Python
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.47%) Bash
5 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.47%) Degree
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) HL7
2 6 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.70%) WCAG
5 2 (2.47%) GDPR
6 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.23%) QA
6 1 (1.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Ansible
1 1 (1.23%) Grafana
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Cerner
2 5 (6.17%) Oracle
3 3 (3.70%) Brio
4 2 (2.47%) BMC
4 2 (2.47%) Cisco
4 2 (2.47%) Databricks
4 2 (2.47%) Foundry
4 2 (2.47%) Meraki
4 2 (2.47%) Palantir
4 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.23%) Tenable