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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 64 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing NHS 42 32 67
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.51% 2.26% 3.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.35% 7.96% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 52
10th Percentile £153 £151 £220
25th Percentile £438 £197 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £588
90th Percentile £575 £550 £600
England median daily rate £450 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +28.57% +7.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £14.68
25th Percentile - - £16.52
Median hourly rate £21.30 - £19.82
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £23.60 £19.75
% change year-on-year -32.20% +19.49% +12.47%

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 661 402 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.58% 28.37% 27.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 245 349
10th Percentile £313 £180 £285
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £671 £650
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 16
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £14.91
25th Percentile £15.41 £25.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £17.03 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -57.43% +87.71% +12.16%
75th Percentile £19.21 £42.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £29.84 £62.25 £24.52
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +16.67% +73.08%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 36 £513 +10.81% 16
North Yorkshire - 5 £155 - 3
South Yorkshire -32 1 £525 +141.73% 6
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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) GitHub
4 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.38%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.76%) Big Data
3 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.76%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Riak
4 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) Power Query
4 1 (2.38%) QlikView
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) CircleCI
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Postman
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Local Government
5 2 (4.76%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Architect
1 7 (16.67%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Lead
2 6 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 5 (11.90%) AWS Developer
3 5 (11.90%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (11.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Python Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) .NET
1 4 (9.52%) FHIR
2 3 (7.14%) Node.js
2 3 (7.14%) React
3 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.76%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.38%) Next.js
4 1 (2.38%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.76%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (23.81%) DevOps
3 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 6 (14.29%) Agile
5 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
5 5 (11.90%) Observability
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.14%) Clean Code
7 3 (7.14%) Data Analysis
7 3 (7.14%) Data Migration
7 3 (7.14%) Data Security
7 3 (7.14%) Design Patterns
7 3 (7.14%) Migration
7 3 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.14%) Service Design
7 3 (7.14%) Service Management
7 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Bash
2 5 (11.90%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) HL7
2 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Terraform
2 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.90%) Grafana
3 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Brio
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Databricks
2 1 (2.38%) Google
2 1 (2.38%) Palantir
2 1 (2.38%) Splunk