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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 67 55
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 -9
Contract jobs citing NHS 37 40 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.46% 2.64% 2.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.57% 9.17% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 45
10th Percentile £213 £163 £182
25th Percentile £450 £331 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £542 £575
90th Percentile £575 £555 £600
England median daily rate £450 £350 £322
% change year-on-year +28.57% +8.62% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £16.72 £15.82
25th Percentile - £19.68 £19.79
Median hourly rate - £24.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.05% -1.30%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.20 £18.64 £16.85
% change year-on-year +3.05% +10.59% -21.63%

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 563 436 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.46% 28.82% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 250 362
10th Percentile £303 £261 £287
25th Percentile £375 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -2.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £623
90th Percentile £612 £689 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 47 13
10th Percentile £15.00 - £15.30
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% -31.98% +3.46%
75th Percentile £20.38 £22.87 £22.25
90th Percentile £59.78 £41.88 £47.98
England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -36.84% +15.80% +57.77%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -4 32 £500 - 26
North Yorkshire +7 2 £140 -56.92% 3
South Yorkshire - 2 £313 - 3
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 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Serverless
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.11%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Electronic Patient Records
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.41%) Big Data
2 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Riak
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.70%) Power Query
3 1 (2.70%) QlikView
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (51.35%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Local Government
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Health Technology
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Python Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Architect
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
1 4 (10.81%) Node.js
1 4 (10.81%) React
2 3 (8.11%) FHIR
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.41%) PySpark
4 1 (2.70%) Next.js
4 1 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.11%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Smartcard
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (21.62%) DevOps
3 7 (18.92%) Agile
4 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.81%) Data Analysis
5 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
5 4 (10.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (10.81%) Migration
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.81%) Workflow
6 3 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (8.11%) Clean Code
6 3 (8.11%) Design Patterns
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
6 3 (8.11%) Service Management
6 3 (8.11%) TOGAF
7 2 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) HL7
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Brio
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk