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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 77 71
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -14
Contract jobs citing NHS 84 39 33
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.91% 2.50% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.37% 6.57% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 31 27
10th Percentile £283 £153 £159
25th Percentile £413 £425 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £520 £550 £550
90th Percentile £595 £575 £577
England median daily rate £463 £450 £350
% change year-on-year +2.78% +28.57% +8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £16.77 - £15.48
25th Percentile £19.23 - £15.95
Median hourly rate £23.66 £21.30 £16.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% +27.39% -15.64%
75th Percentile £26.72 - £17.50
90th Percentile - - £17.96
England median hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £18.27
% change year-on-year -27.27% +50.52% -8.65%

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 1,139 594 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.47% 38.15% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 362 263
10th Percentile £356 £297 £208
25th Percentile £413 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% -5.61% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £555 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 7 27
10th Percentile £13.55 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.28 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.20 £15.55 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% +2.50% -29.13%
75th Percentile £43.96 £18.51 £40.31
90th Percentile - £19.63 £48.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.83 £57.35
% change year-on-year +14.22% -42.76% +25.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 80 £494 -3.66% 73
South Yorkshire - 3 £280 - 18
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%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (1.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) AWS
2 14 (16.67%) Serverless
3 12 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (13.10%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.33%) GitHub
6 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.14%) Azure
6 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.76%) Apigee
8 4 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.38%) Figma
9 2 (2.38%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.38%) Miro
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) LAN
1 3 (3.57%) WAN
2 2 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.14%) Power BI
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (3.57%) OLAP
8 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.19%) Redis
9 1 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Git
1 2 (2.38%) GitLab
1 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Local Government
6 2 (2.38%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.38%) Finance
6 2 (2.38%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
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 15 (17.86%) Developer
2 12 (14.29%) Designer
3 11 (13.10%) Analyst
3 11 (13.10%) Senior
4 8 (9.52%) Service Designer
5 7 (8.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Lead
8 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) DBA
8 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Designer
8 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Configuration Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) Terraform
2 7 (8.33%) FHIR
3 6 (7.14%) React
4 4 (4.76%) REST
5 3 (3.57%) CSS
5 3 (3.57%) Flask
5 3 (3.57%) HTML
5 3 (3.57%) PySpark
5 3 (3.57%) RESTful
5 3 (3.57%) Vue
6 2 (2.38%) OAuth
6 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.38%) OpenID
7 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.19%) CSS3
7 1 (1.19%) HTML5
7 1 (1.19%) Kafka
7 1 (1.19%) Node.js
7 1 (1.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) CMDB
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) CentOS
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.48%) Agile
2 23 (27.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
4 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (17.86%) DevOps
5 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.10%) Analytics
7 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.90%) User Research
9 9 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 9 (10.71%) Service Design
9 9 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (9.52%) Sprint Retrospective
11 7 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (8.33%) Data Architecture
11 7 (8.33%) ETL
11 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.62%) Python
2 17 (20.24%) SQL
3 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.95%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (1.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) HL7
2 6 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.57%) WCAG
5 2 (2.38%) GDPR
6 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.19%) QA
6 1 (1.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Ansible
1 1 (1.19%) Grafana
1 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Cerner
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Splunk
5 2 (2.38%) Adobe
5 2 (2.38%) BMC
5 2 (2.38%) Brio
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco
5 2 (2.38%) Foundry
5 2 (2.38%) Google
5 2 (2.38%) Meraki
5 2 (2.38%) Palantir
5 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Civica
6 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) Tenable