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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 66 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing NHS 83 27 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.40% 2.64% 2.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.90% 7.76% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 20 24
10th Percentile £293 £359 £152
25th Percentile £425 £450 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.52% -4.58%
75th Percentile £525 £531 £550
90th Percentile £550 £565 £599
England median daily rate £450 £405 £298
% change year-on-year +11.11% +36.02% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.81 £16.72
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +96.23% -24.00%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £18.13 £15.46
% change year-on-year +24.10% +17.27% -29.73%

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 933 348 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.25% 34.08% 27.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 209 252
10th Percentile £318 £263 £277
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -1.04% -10.70%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £665 £650
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 70
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.63 -
25th Percentile £17.34 £27.56 £12.15
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.91 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% +152.34% +37.58%
75th Percentile £63.38 £82.86 £17.52
90th Percentile £68.75 £97.60 £25.83
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £31.50
% change year-on-year +38.60% +7.65% +40.09%

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 3 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 3 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 +16 81 £500 +2.56% 35
North Yorkshire -6 1 £325 -40.91% 1
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 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) AWS
2 15 (18.07%) Serverless
3 12 (14.46%) Azure
4 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.02%) GitHub
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.41%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DNS
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) DynamoDB
1 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.82%) Power BI
3 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.61%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.61%) OLAP
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.20%) QlikView
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 54 (65.06%) Public Sector
2 25 (30.12%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Health Technology
4 9 (10.84%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Digital Health
6 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.41%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.20%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Analyst
2 12 (14.46%) Developer
3 11 (13.25%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Python Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 6 (7.23%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Designer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Content Designer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior NHS Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) FHIR
2 8 (9.64%) .NET
2 8 (9.64%) React
3 5 (6.02%) RESTful
4 4 (4.82%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.82%) Vue
5 3 (3.61%) Django
5 3 (3.61%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.61%) Flask
6 2 (2.41%) PySpark
7 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.20%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.20%) Jest
7 1 (1.20%) JSON
7 1 (1.20%) Kafka
7 1 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.20%) Node.js
7 1 (1.20%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.20%) REST
7 1 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Life Science
3 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.37%) Agile
2 17 (20.48%) CI/CD
3 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (15.66%) Analytics
4 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (13.25%) Data Governance
6 11 (13.25%) DevOps
6 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.64%) Data Engineering
8 8 (9.64%) Service Design
8 8 (9.64%) User Research
9 7 (8.43%) Containerisation
9 7 (8.43%) Customer Service
9 7 (8.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (8.43%) ETL
9 7 (8.43%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) Python
2 14 (16.87%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.82%) C#
4 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) HL7
2 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.61%) WCAG
5 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.41%) NCSC
5 2 (2.41%) NIST
6 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.20%) GDPR
6 1 (1.20%) QA
6 1 (1.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Terraform
2 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.41%) Nessus
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Packer
5 1 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Brio
3 6 (7.23%) Databricks
4 4 (4.82%) Splunk
5 2 (2.41%) Adobe
5 2 (2.41%) Google
5 2 (2.41%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.41%) Tenable
6 1 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.20%) Civica
6 1 (1.20%) Infor