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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing NHS 74 32 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.36% 3.47% 2.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.74% 10.03% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 24 26
10th Percentile £369 £137 £135
25th Percentile £475 £212 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £350
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +30.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £500
90th Percentile £558 £550 £569
England median daily rate £438 £375 £275
% change year-on-year +16.67% +36.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.81 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +58.46% -5.89%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £24.18 £16.46
% change year-on-year -27.63% +46.90% -25.18%

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 847 319 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.45% 34.64% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 212 245
10th Percentile £318 £220 £213
25th Percentile £413 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.73% -15.23%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 57
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.63 £11.99
25th Percentile £16.05 £27.56 £12.15
Median hourly rate £51.75 £36.91 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +40.22% +152.34% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.81 £82.86 £18.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £97.60 £24.58
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +17.86% +17.70%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +11 72 £500 +6.95% 52
North Yorkshire -7 1 £325 -40.91% 4
South Yorkshire -58 1 £525 +137.46% 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 4 (5.41%) Confluence
1 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.38%) AWS
2 14 (18.92%) Azure
3 12 (16.22%) Serverless
4 8 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (10.81%) GitHub
5 7 (9.46%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.05%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.70%) GCP
10 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) DHCP
2 1 (1.35%) Firewall
2 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Power BI
3 1 (1.35%) QlikView
3 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) CircleCI
2 2 (2.70%) MSI
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (60.81%) Public Sector
2 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Health Technology
4 9 (12.16%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Digital Health
6 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.35%) Finance
8 1 (1.35%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (18.92%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 7 (9.46%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Lead
3 7 (9.46%) Senior
4 6 (8.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (8.11%) Senior Business Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.41%) NHS Business Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Senior NHS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) FHIR
2 8 (10.81%) .NET
3 7 (9.46%) React
4 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.41%) RESTful
5 3 (4.05%) Django
5 3 (4.05%) FastAPI
5 3 (4.05%) Flask
5 3 (4.05%) Vue
6 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.35%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Life Science
2 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.35%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
2 3 (4.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.89%) Agile
2 19 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 13 (17.57%) DevOps
5 12 (16.22%) Data Governance
6 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.81%) Customer Service
8 8 (10.81%) Service Design
9 7 (9.46%) Analytics
9 7 (9.46%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (9.46%) Software Engineering
10 6 (8.11%) Data Integration
10 6 (8.11%) Data Modelling
10 6 (8.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (8.11%) Observability
10 6 (8.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) Python
2 6 (8.11%) SQL
2 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
3 5 (6.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.41%) C#
5 2 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) Degree
3 1 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) HL7
2 5 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.70%) NCSC
4 2 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.35%) QA
5 1 (1.35%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Terraform
2 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (6.76%) Grafana
5 2 (2.70%) Nessus
5 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.70%) SCCM
5 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) Brio
3 3 (4.05%) Databricks
3 3 (4.05%) Splunk
4 2 (2.70%) Cribl.io
4 2 (2.70%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.70%) Tenable
5 1 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.35%) Infor
5 1 (1.35%) Palantir