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 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 60 66
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing NHS 79 30 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.14% 2.87% 2.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.26% 8.20% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 23 23
10th Percentile £290 £380 £146
25th Percentile £428 £450 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £550
90th Percentile £550 £585 £599
England median daily rate £450 £425 £307
% change year-on-year +5.88% +38.66% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £12.25
Median hourly rate - £32.81 £16.72
Median % change year-on-year - +96.23% -24.00%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £18.13 £14.83
% change year-on-year +24.10% +22.27% -32.60%

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 956 366 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.95% 35.02% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 216 245
10th Percentile £318 £263 £283
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% -4.70% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 72
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £16.13 £19.13 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.25 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +65.81% +37.58%
75th Percentile £60.69 £32.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.35 £25.83
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.96 £34.00
% change year-on-year +32.53% -0.13% +51.21%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +17 77 £500 - 44
North Yorkshire -4 1 £325 -40.91%
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 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.53%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.05%) AWS
2 11 (13.92%) Serverless
3 9 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (11.39%) Azure
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.33%) GitHub
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.53%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.53%) Apigee
7 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.53%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.80%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.80%) OLAP
5 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.27%) QlikView
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) GitLab
1 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (63.29%) Public Sector
2 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Health Technology
5 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Digital Health
7 2 (2.53%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.53%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.27%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) Analyst
2 11 (13.92%) Developer
2 11 (13.92%) Senior
3 9 (11.39%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) Designer
5 6 (7.59%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.59%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.59%) Python Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Service Designer
6 5 (6.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Designer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Service Designer
8 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) FHIR
2 7 (8.86%) React
3 6 (7.59%) .NET
4 3 (3.80%) RESTful
4 3 (3.80%) Vue
5 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.53%) Django
5 2 (2.53%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.53%) Flask
5 2 (2.53%) PySpark
6 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.27%) Jest
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (1.27%) Next.js
6 1 (1.27%) Node.js
6 1 (1.27%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.27%) Playwright
6 1 (1.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.80%) Life Science
2 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.97%) Agile
2 13 (16.46%) CI/CD
3 12 (15.19%) Analytics
3 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (13.92%) DevOps
4 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.39%) Service Design
6 8 (10.13%) Data Governance
6 8 (10.13%) User Research
7 7 (8.86%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (7.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (6.33%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (6.33%) Data Engineering
9 5 (6.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (6.33%) Front End Development
9 5 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) Python
1 13 (16.46%) SQL
2 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
3 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.53%) C#
5 1 (1.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Degree
1 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) HL7
2 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.80%) WCAG
5 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.53%) NCSC
5 2 (2.53%) NIST
6 1 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Terraform
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.53%) Nessus
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.06%) Databricks
3 3 (3.80%) Brio
3 3 (3.80%) Splunk
4 2 (2.53%) Adobe
4 2 (2.53%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.53%) Tenable
5 1 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.27%) Civica
5 1 (1.27%) Infor