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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 73 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing NHS 40 32 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.59% 2.13% 3.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.72% 7.48% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 51
10th Percentile £153 £158 £163
25th Percentile £438 £238 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £548 £584
90th Percentile £575 £573 £600
England median daily rate £450 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +28.57% +7.78% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile - £15.95 £15.79
Median hourly rate £21.30 £16.72 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year +27.39% -15.64% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £17.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - £17.96 -
England median hourly rate £28.80 £18.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +57.65% -8.65% +13.90%

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 595 428 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.54% 28.46% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 262 355
10th Percentile £295 £201 £306
25th Percentile £384 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £553 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £698 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 16
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £14.91
25th Percentile £15.28 £13.87 £18.18
Median hourly rate £15.55 £15.17 £21.41
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -29.13% +12.66%
75th Percentile £18.51 £40.31 £23.38
90th Percentile £19.63 £48.00 £46.49
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for NHS 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -1 35 £500 - 19
North Yorkshire - 5 £155 - 7
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) GitHub
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.50%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.00%) Big Data
3 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.00%) MySQL
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Riak
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Power Query
4 1 (2.50%) QlikView
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) CircleCI
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Postman
General
1 25 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Health Technology
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Architect
1 7 (17.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Python Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) .NET
1 4 (10.00%) FHIR
1 4 (10.00%) Node.js
1 4 (10.00%) React
2 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) Next.js
3 1 (2.50%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.00%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) Agile
4 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.50%) Clean Code
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
6 3 (7.50%) Data Analysis
6 3 (7.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
6 3 (7.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (7.50%) Migration
6 3 (7.50%) Observability
6 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.50%) Service Design
6 3 (7.50%) Service Management
6 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) Bicep
5 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) HL7
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
3 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Brio
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Google
2 1 (2.50%) Splunk