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 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 75 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing NHS 85 40 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.95% 2.61% 2.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.60% 6.94% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 34 28
10th Percentile £308 £171 £160
25th Percentile £425 £450 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £590 £575 £564
England median daily rate £475 £455 £350
% change year-on-year +4.40% +30.00% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £21.82 - £16.72
25th Percentile £23.66 - £19.68
Median hourly rate £26.72 - £24.87
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.47 £28.41 £21.80
% change year-on-year +10.75% +30.32% +9.00%

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 1,119 576 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.87% 37.65% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 351 249
10th Percentile £330 £295 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £688 £610 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 6 47
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -31.37%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.38 £22.87
90th Percentile £68.75 £59.78 £41.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £32.72 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.88% -34.56% +11.11%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +12 81 £500 - 32
South Yorkshire -26 2 £161 -48.60% 15
North Yorkshire -9 1 £325 +132.14% 14
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 (2.35%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) nginx
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) AWS
2 13 (15.29%) Serverless
3 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.24%) GitHub
6 6 (7.06%) Azure
6 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.71%) Apigee
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.35%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.35%) Figma
10 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.35%) Miro
11 1 (1.18%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) LAN
1 3 (3.53%) WAN
2 2 (2.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (8.24%) DynamoDB
1 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.88%) Power BI
3 4 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.53%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.53%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (3.53%) OLAP
5 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.18%) Redis
6 1 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Git
1 2 (2.35%) GitLab
1 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (56.47%) Public Sector
2 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Local Government
6 2 (2.35%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.35%) Law
7 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
7 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.18%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.29%) Designer
1 13 (15.29%) Developer
2 11 (12.94%) Analyst
2 11 (12.94%) Senior
3 8 (9.41%) Service Designer
4 7 (8.24%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (7.06%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 5 (5.88%) Lead
6 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Content Designer
7 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Senior Designer
8 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Database Developer
8 3 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.65%) Terraform
2 7 (8.24%) FHIR
3 6 (7.06%) React
4 4 (4.71%) REST
5 3 (3.53%) CSS
5 3 (3.53%) Flask
5 3 (3.53%) HTML
5 3 (3.53%) PySpark
5 3 (3.53%) RESTful
5 3 (3.53%) Vue
6 2 (2.35%) OAuth
6 2 (2.35%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.35%) OpenID
7 1 (1.18%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.18%) CSS3
7 1 (1.18%) HTML5
7 1 (1.18%) Kafka
7 1 (1.18%) Node.js
7 1 (1.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) CMDB
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) IoT
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) CentOS
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Agile
2 20 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.47%) DevOps
6 13 (15.29%) User Research
7 11 (12.94%) Analytics
7 11 (12.94%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.76%) Service Design
9 9 (10.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (9.41%) Sprint Retrospective
11 7 (8.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (8.24%) Scrum
12 6 (7.06%) Kanban
12 6 (7.06%) Migration
12 6 (7.06%) Software Engineering
12 6 (7.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.18%) Python
2 15 (17.65%) SQL
3 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.53%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) HL7
2 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.71%) WCAG
4 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) NCSC
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (1.18%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Ansible
1 1 (1.18%) Grafana
1 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Databricks
3 3 (3.53%) Splunk
4 2 (2.35%) Adobe
4 2 (2.35%) BMC
4 2 (2.35%) Brio
4 2 (2.35%) Cerner
4 2 (2.35%) Cisco
4 2 (2.35%) Foundry
4 2 (2.35%) Google
4 2 (2.35%) Meraki
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle
4 2 (2.35%) Palantir
4 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Civica
5 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.18%) Tenable