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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 72 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing NHS 84 38 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.92% 2.56% 2.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.56% 6.83% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 32 29
10th Percentile £312 £229 £161
25th Percentile £425 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £533 £550 £538
90th Percentile £555 £575 £559
England median daily rate £475 £450 £350
% change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £21.82 - £16.72
25th Percentile £23.66 - £19.68
Median hourly rate £26.72 - £24.87
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £19.20 £17.00
% change year-on-year +39.15% +12.96% +0.89%

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 1,111 556 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.62% 37.39% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 339 253
10th Percentile £325 £303 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £611 £662
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 50
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.92 £16.76 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -32.76%
75th Percentile £43.96 £24.88 £20.43
90th Percentile £68.75 £56.67 £41.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year +38.35% -29.39% +10.31%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +9 80 £500 - 49
South Yorkshire -29 2 £161 -48.60% 14
North Yorkshire -9 1 £325 +132.14% 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 (2.38%) Confluence
1 2 (2.38%) Palantir Foundry
1 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.95%) AWS
2 11 (13.10%) Serverless
3 9 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.14%) Azure
5 6 (7.14%) GitHub
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.76%) Apigee
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.38%) Figma
9 2 (2.38%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.38%) Miro
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) LAN
1 3 (3.57%) WAN
2 2 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.95%) Power BI
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.57%) OLAP
6 2 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.19%) Redis
7 1 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) GitLab
1 2 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Digital Health
4 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Health Technology
4 3 (3.57%) Local Government
4 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing
6 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.19%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (13.10%) Designer
2 10 (11.90%) Analyst
2 10 (11.90%) Developer
3 8 (9.52%) Senior
4 7 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 7 (8.33%) Service Designer
5 6 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) Lead
5 6 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Content Designer
6 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Database Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Functional Tester
7 3 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) FHIR
2 6 (7.14%) React
3 3 (3.57%) CSS
3 3 (3.57%) Flask
3 3 (3.57%) HTML
3 3 (3.57%) PySpark
3 3 (3.57%) REST
3 3 (3.57%) RESTful
3 3 (3.57%) Vue
4 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) OAuth
4 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.38%) OpenID
5 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.19%) CSS3
5 1 (1.19%) HTML5
5 1 (1.19%) Jest
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.38%) Life Science
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) IoT
4 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) CentOS
2 1 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) Agile
2 20 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (15.48%) DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (13.10%) Analytics
6 11 (13.10%) User Research
7 9 (10.71%) Service Design
7 9 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.52%) Sprint Retrospective
9 7 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (8.33%) Scrum
10 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.14%) ETL
10 6 (7.14%) Kanban
10 6 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.24%) Python
2 13 (15.48%) SQL
3 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.19%) Bash
6 1 (1.19%) C#
6 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) HL7
2 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) Databricks
3 3 (3.57%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) Adobe
4 2 (2.38%) Brio
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco
4 2 (2.38%) Foundry
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) Meraki
4 2 (2.38%) Palantir
5 1 (1.19%) Civica
5 1 (1.19%) Tenable