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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 72 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing NHS 82 41 37
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.86% 2.66% 2.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.34% 6.94% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 36 28
10th Percentile £309 £153 £160
25th Percentile £425 £394 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £595 £575 £564
England median daily rate £470 £450 £350
% change year-on-year +4.50% +28.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £21.82 - £16.41
25th Percentile £23.66 - £18.27
Median hourly rate £26.72 - £24.87
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.47 £30.50 £21.59
% change year-on-year +3.16% +41.27% +7.95%

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 1,117 591 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.96% 38.28% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 363 256
10th Percentile £341 £281 £234
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.54% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £606
90th Percentile £688 £613 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 43
10th Percentile £14.71 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.28 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £15.55 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +54.34% +6.32% -31.37%
75th Percentile £43.96 £18.51 £25.83
90th Percentile £53.88 £50.53 £41.88
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.37% -37.70% +14.50%

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 30 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 30 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 +15 78 £500 - 54
South Yorkshire -27 3 £280 -10.30% 16
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 (2.44%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 26 (31.71%) AWS
2 13 (15.85%) Serverless
3 11 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.98%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.54%) GitHub
6 6 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.10%) Azure
7 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.88%) Apigee
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.44%) Figma
10 2 (2.44%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.44%) Miro
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) LAN
1 3 (3.66%) WAN
2 2 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.54%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.10%) Power BI
4 4 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (4.88%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.66%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.66%) OLAP
6 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.22%) Redis
7 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Git
1 2 (2.44%) GitLab
1 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (57.32%) Public Sector
2 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Local Government
6 2 (2.44%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.44%) Law
7 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (17.07%) Developer
2 13 (15.85%) Designer
3 11 (13.41%) Analyst
3 11 (13.41%) Senior
4 8 (9.76%) Service Designer
5 7 (8.54%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Content Designer
8 4 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Designer
9 3 (3.66%) Configuration Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.66%) DBA
9 3 (3.66%) Functional Tester
9 3 (3.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) Terraform
2 7 (8.54%) FHIR
3 6 (7.32%) React
4 4 (4.88%) REST
5 3 (3.66%) CSS
5 3 (3.66%) Flask
5 3 (3.66%) HTML
5 3 (3.66%) PySpark
5 3 (3.66%) RESTful
5 3 (3.66%) Vue
6 2 (2.44%) OAuth
6 2 (2.44%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.44%) OpenID
7 1 (1.22%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.22%) CSS3
7 1 (1.22%) HTML5
7 1 (1.22%) Jest
7 1 (1.22%) Kafka
7 1 (1.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.10%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) CMDB
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) IoT
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) CentOS
1 1 (1.22%) Linux
1 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) Agile
2 20 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (20.73%) CI/CD
4 16 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (17.07%) DevOps
5 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (13.41%) Analytics
6 11 (13.41%) User Research
7 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (10.98%) Service Design
8 9 (10.98%) Workshop Facilitation
9 8 (9.76%) Sprint Retrospective
10 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (8.54%) Scrum
11 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (7.32%) ETL
11 6 (7.32%) Migration
11 6 (7.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.95%) Python
2 16 (19.51%) SQL
3 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.66%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (1.22%) C#
6 1 (1.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.66%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) HL7
2 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.88%) WCAG
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Ansible
1 1 (1.22%) Grafana
1 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) Cerner
2 4 (4.88%) Databricks
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle
3 3 (3.66%) Splunk
4 2 (2.44%) Adobe
4 2 (2.44%) BMC
4 2 (2.44%) Brio
4 2 (2.44%) Cisco
4 2 (2.44%) Foundry
4 2 (2.44%) Google
4 2 (2.44%) Meraki
4 2 (2.44%) Palantir
4 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.22%) Civica
5 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.22%) Tenable