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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing NHS 88 28 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.71% 2.80% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.71% 8.12% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 21 25
10th Percentile £299 £213 £135
25th Percentile £450 £450 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £544
90th Percentile £550 £563 £598
England median daily rate £450 £400 £280
% change year-on-year +12.50% +42.86% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.81 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +79.58% -16.95%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.30 £18.13 £15.99
% change year-on-year +17.48% +13.42% -27.34%

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 906 345 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.16% 34.47% 27.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 216 247
10th Percentile £317 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £556 £582 £575
90th Percentile £650 £669 £625
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 69
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.63 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £27.56 £12.15
Median hourly rate £41.00 £36.91 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +11.10% +152.34% +37.58%
75th Percentile £66.06 £82.86 £15.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £97.60 £23.75
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.38
% change year-on-year +24.62% +28.56% +26.20%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +18 86 £500 +5.26% 29
North Yorkshire -6 1 £325 -40.91% 2
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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.68%) AWS
2 15 (17.05%) Serverless
3 14 (15.91%) Azure
4 11 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (9.09%) GitHub
6 7 (7.95%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.41%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) DynamoDB
1 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.55%) Power BI
3 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.41%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.41%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.41%) OLAP
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.14%) QlikView
6 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) GitLab
2 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.27%) MSI
3 1 (1.14%) Git
General
1 55 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Health Technology
4 9 (10.23%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Digital Health
6 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.14%) Finance
8 1 (1.14%) Local Government
8 1 (1.14%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.14%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Analyst
2 12 (13.64%) Business Analyst
2 12 (13.64%) Developer
3 8 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (9.09%) Senior
4 7 (7.95%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (7.95%) Python Developer
4 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Senior Business Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Lead
7 4 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.55%) NHS Business Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Senior NHS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.91%) FHIR
2 10 (11.36%) React
3 8 (9.09%) .NET
4 5 (5.68%) RESTful
5 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.55%) Vue
6 3 (3.41%) Django
6 3 (3.41%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.41%) Flask
7 2 (2.27%) PySpark
8 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Amplify
8 1 (1.14%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.14%) Jest
8 1 (1.14%) JSON
8 1 (1.14%) Kafka
8 1 (1.14%) Next.js
8 1 (1.14%) Node.js
8 1 (1.14%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.41%) Life Science
3 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Agile
2 19 (21.59%) CI/CD
3 17 (19.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (17.05%) DevOps
5 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (14.77%) Analytics
7 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.64%) Data Governance
8 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (10.23%) Software Engineering
10 8 (9.09%) Customer Service
10 8 (9.09%) Data Engineering
10 8 (9.09%) Service Design
10 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.95%) Containerisation
11 7 (7.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (7.95%) ETL
11 7 (7.95%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.73%) Python
2 14 (15.91%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.55%) C#
6 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Java
7 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.82%) Degree
3 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) HL7
2 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) NCSC
4 2 (2.27%) NIST
5 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.14%) GDPR
5 1 (1.14%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (22.73%) Terraform
2 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.27%) Nessus
4 2 (2.27%) SCCM
4 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Brio
3 6 (6.82%) Databricks
3 6 (6.82%) Splunk
4 2 (2.27%) Adobe
4 2 (2.27%) Cribl.io
4 2 (2.27%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.27%) Tenable
5 1 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.14%) Civica
5 1 (1.14%) Infor