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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 77 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing NHS 84 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.90% 2.48% 2.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.55% 6.61% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 32 30
10th Percentile £305 £229 £163
25th Percentile £425 £450 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £538 £550 £542
90th Percentile £600 £575 £555
England median daily rate £475 £468 £350
% change year-on-year +1.60% +33.57% +7.78%
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 £26.32 £18.64
% change year-on-year +19.55% +41.24% +10.59%

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 1,113 575 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.47% 37.48% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 351 251
10th Percentile £325 £303 £230
25th Percentile £413 £375 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £610 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 47
10th Percentile £16.34 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.71 £15.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £27.36 £18.51 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +47.81% +26.56% -31.98%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.38 £22.87
90th Percentile £68.75 £59.78 £41.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £31.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.51% -34.36% +10.47%

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 16 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 16 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 +8 80 £500 - 38
South Yorkshire -28 2 £161 -48.60% 12
North Yorkshire -8 1 £325 +132.14% 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 (2.38%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) nginx
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.95%) AWS
2 12 (14.29%) Serverless
3 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.33%) GitHub
6 6 (7.14%) Azure
6 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.76%) Apigee
8 4 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.38%) Figma
10 2 (2.38%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.38%) Miro
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) LAN
1 3 (3.57%) WAN
2 2 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.95%) Power BI
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.57%) OLAP
5 2 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.19%) Redis
6 1 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Git
1 2 (2.38%) GitLab
1 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 49 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 30 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Local Government
6 2 (2.38%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.38%) Law
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.48%) Designer
2 10 (11.90%) Analyst
2 10 (11.90%) Developer
3 9 (10.71%) Senior
4 8 (9.52%) Service Designer
5 7 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.95%) Lead
7 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Content Designer
8 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Designer
9 3 (3.57%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) FHIR
2 6 (7.14%) React
3 4 (4.76%) REST
4 3 (3.57%) CSS
4 3 (3.57%) Flask
4 3 (3.57%) HTML
4 3 (3.57%) PySpark
4 3 (3.57%) RESTful
4 3 (3.57%) Vue
5 2 (2.38%) OAuth
5 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.38%) OpenID
6 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.19%) CSS3
6 1 (1.19%) HTML5
6 1 (1.19%) JSON
6 1 (1.19%) Kafka
6 1 (1.19%) Node.js
6 1 (1.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) Life Science
5 1 (1.19%) CMDB
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) CentOS
2 1 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) Agile
2 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 14 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (15.48%) DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) User Research
6 11 (13.10%) Analytics
6 11 (13.10%) Workshop Facilitation
7 10 (11.90%) Service Design
8 9 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.52%) Sprint Retrospective
10 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (8.33%) Scrum
11 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (7.14%) Kanban
11 6 (7.14%) Software Engineering
11 6 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.24%) Python
2 13 (15.48%) SQL
3 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) HL7
2 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) Databricks
3 3 (3.57%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) Adobe
4 2 (2.38%) Brio
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco
4 2 (2.38%) Foundry
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) Meraki
4 2 (2.38%) Palantir
5 1 (1.19%) BMC
5 1 (1.19%) Civica
5 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) Tenable