NHS Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 61 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -12 -16
Contract jobs citing NHS 34 46 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.59% 2.68% 3.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.10% 9.48% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 58
10th Percentile £390 £164 £207
25th Percentile £459 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +2.86% +32.76%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £566
90th Percentile £588 £595 £575
England median daily rate £450 £325 £324
% change year-on-year +38.46% +0.17% -0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £12.25 -
25th Percentile £31.47 £12.36 -
Median hourly rate £32.81 £16.72 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.23% -24.00% -1.54%
75th Percentile £34.15 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.25 £13.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year +60.50% -36.95% -3.58%

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 479 485 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.43% 28.25% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 262 414
10th Percentile £305 £263 £258
25th Percentile £398 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 66 38
10th Percentile £15.00 - £9.80
25th Percentile £17.63 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £19.76 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +35.08% +37.58% -48.85%
75th Percentile £30.10 £17.52 £20.86
90th Percentile £53.47 £35.31 £28.95
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Yorkshire

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 6 July 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
West Yorkshire +4 30 £500 - 32
South Yorkshire -2 2 £313 - 9
North Yorkshire +11 1 £140 -56.92% 12
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (2.94%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
3 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Power Query
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (2.94%) QlikView
4 1 (2.94%) Riak
4 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Health Technology
5 2 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Local Government
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Technical Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Lead
3 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Node.js
1 4 (11.76%) React
2 3 (8.82%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) FHIR
3 2 (5.88%) Playwright
3 2 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.94%) Next.js
4 1 (2.94%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) PACS
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (23.53%) Agile
3 7 (20.59%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (14.71%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Data Migration
6 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.76%) Workflow
7 3 (8.82%) Clean Code
7 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis
7 3 (8.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
8 2 (5.88%) Architectural Design
8 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.88%) PMO
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) DICOM
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Brio
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle