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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 60 67
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing NHS 59 23 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.07% 2.27% 2.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.29% 6.55% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 20 30
10th Percentile £210 £123 £153
25th Percentile £450 £209 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £355
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +26.76% -32.38%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £556
90th Percentile £550 £550 £600
England median daily rate £425 £350 £275
% change year-on-year +21.43% +27.27% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £12.55
25th Percentile - - £13.71
Median hourly rate £21.30 - £17.35
75th Percentile - - £21.99
90th Percentile - - £22.08
England median hourly rate £16.00 £30.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year -46.83% +50.45% -

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 712 351 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.08% 34.65% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 219 289
10th Percentile £316 £178 £275
25th Percentile £413 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 24
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.49 £10.98
25th Percentile £14.90 £20.48 £13.05
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +121.43% +78.57%
75th Percentile £56.63 £42.25 £23.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £37.95
% change year-on-year -22.80% -2.51% +51.81%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 55 £500 +11.11% 24
North Yorkshire +4 3 £155 -71.82% 2
South Yorkshire -54 1 £525 +141.73% 5
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 (3.39%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) Serverless
4 10 (16.95%) GitHub
5 9 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (8.47%) GCP
9 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) DHCP
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Power Query
3 1 (1.69%) QlikView
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) CircleCI
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) MSI
4 1 (1.69%) Postman
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 41 (69.49%) Public Sector
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Health Technology
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Digital Health
6 2 (3.39%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (3.39%) Local Government
6 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Finance
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (18.64%) Senior
2 8 (13.56%) Developer
2 8 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (11.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Lead
3 7 (11.86%) Python Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Developer
6 4 (6.78%) NHS Business Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior NHS Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Python Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) FHIR
2 8 (13.56%) .NET
3 7 (11.86%) React
4 5 (8.47%) .NET Core
5 4 (6.78%) RESTful
6 3 (5.08%) Django
6 3 (5.08%) FastAPI
6 3 (5.08%) Flask
6 3 (5.08%) Vue
7 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.69%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Agile
2 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
2 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (27.12%) DevOps
4 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (15.25%) Data Governance
5 9 (15.25%) Observability
5 9 (15.25%) Service Design
6 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
6 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.17%) Data Security
8 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
9 5 (8.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) Python
2 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
3 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.47%) Bash
4 5 (8.47%) C#
4 5 (8.47%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Bicep
5 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) HL7
2 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (44.07%) Terraform
2 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.56%) Grafana
4 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) SCCM
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Brio
3 4 (6.78%) Splunk
4 3 (5.08%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) Infor
6 1 (1.69%) Palantir