NHS Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 62 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -26
Contract jobs citing NHS 27 38 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.65% 2.25% 3.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.80% 8.14% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 63
10th Percentile £359 £146 £213
25th Percentile £450 £319 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -6.67% +61.54%
75th Percentile £531 £547 £575
90th Percentile £565 £599 -
England median daily rate £410 £296 £300
% change year-on-year +38.75% -1.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.47 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.81 £16.72 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.23% -24.00% +24.72%
75th Percentile £34.15 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £15.46 £22.00
% change year-on-year +17.27% -29.73% +15.80%

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 346 467 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.02% 27.65% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 254 458
10th Percentile £263 £265 £279
25th Percentile £375 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £618
90th Percentile £668 £645 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 69 41
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £27.56 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%
75th Percentile £82.86 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £97.60 £24.17 £22.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Yorkshire

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in Yorkshire

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 1 May 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 +8 23 £488 -2.50% 32
South Yorkshire +8 2 £313 - 6
North Yorkshire +10 1 £550 +69.23% 12
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Power BI
2 3 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.41%) Power Query
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (3.70%) QlikView
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
1 2 (7.41%) Selenium
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Health Technology
4 3 (11.11%) Local Government
4 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.41%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) iOS Developer
5 1 (3.70%) PMO Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
5 1 (3.70%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) FHIR
1 2 (7.41%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (29.63%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
7 3 (11.11%) Project Management
7 3 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.41%) Decision-Making
8 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (7.41%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 2 (7.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) HL7
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) DICOM
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Brio
2 2 (7.41%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle