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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing NHS 67 26 46
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.41% 2.72% 2.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.14% 7.67% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 19 30
10th Percentile £155 £123 £135
25th Percentile £450 £209 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £355
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +26.76% -32.38%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £556
90th Percentile £566 £550 £600
England median daily rate £425 £350 £275
% change year-on-year +21.43% +27.27% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.81 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +103.66% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £34.15 £21.97
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £16.00 £31.30 £17.68
% change year-on-year -48.87% +77.01% -15.85%

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 733 339 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.26% 35.46% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 212 286
10th Percentile £317 £171 £265
25th Percentile £423 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £445
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +7.52% -15.23%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £575
90th Percentile £650 £699 £606
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 32
10th Percentile £14.25 £21.61 £11.29
25th Percentile £15.44 £32.67 £12.68
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £16.58
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +133.68% +56.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.25 £22.19
90th Percentile £57.85 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.86% +5.63% +57.88%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 63 £500 +8.11% 27
North Yorkshire 0 3 £155 -71.82% 3
South Yorkshire -54 1 £525 +141.73%
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 (2.99%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
1 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) AWS
2 17 (25.37%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) Serverless
4 11 (16.42%) GitHub
5 10 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.45%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (7.46%) GCP
10 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
11 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) DHCP
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) QlikView
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.46%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) MSI
4 1 (1.49%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) Postman
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (67.16%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Health Technology
4 5 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Digital Health
7 2 (2.99%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.49%) Finance
8 1 (1.49%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Senior
3 10 (14.93%) Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (11.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Developer
5 8 (11.94%) Lead
6 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
6 7 (10.45%) Python Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) NHS Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Senior NHS Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Agile Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) FHIR
2 8 (11.94%) .NET
3 7 (10.45%) React
4 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.97%) RESTful
5 3 (4.48%) Django
5 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
5 3 (4.48%) Flask
5 3 (4.48%) Vue
6 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.49%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.49%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.49%) Life Science
3 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Agile
2 20 (29.85%) CI/CD
2 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (23.88%) DevOps
4 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (16.42%) Data Governance
5 9 (13.43%) Observability
5 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.94%) Cloud Security
6 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.94%) Service Design
7 7 (10.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (8.96%) Analytics
8 6 (8.96%) Data Integration
8 6 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (8.96%) Data Security
8 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering
8 6 (8.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
3 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.46%) Bash
4 5 (7.46%) SQL
5 4 (5.97%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) HL7
2 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (38.81%) Terraform
2 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 8 (11.94%) Grafana
4 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.48%) SCCM
7 2 (2.99%) Nessus
7 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Brio
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) Splunk
4 2 (2.99%) Cribl.io
4 2 (2.99%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.99%) Tenable
5 1 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.49%) Infor
5 1 (1.49%) Palantir