NHS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

National Health Service (NHS)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 69 86
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing NHS 14 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.82% 1.45% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.63% 4.94% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 6
10th Percentile £273 £183 £298
25th Percentile £400 £196 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £208 £525
Median % change year-on-year +104.82% -60.48% +19.32%
75th Percentile £500 £266 £713
90th Percentile £538 £396 -
North West median daily rate £400 £215 £350
% change year-on-year +86.05% -38.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.63
25th Percentile - £31.25 £14.49
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £16.17
Median % change year-on-year - +100.99% -4.04%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £16.42
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £32.50 £16.17
% change year-on-year - +100.99% -4.04%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 533 263 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.39% 29.35% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 186 270
10th Percentile £313 £203 £297
25th Percentile £375 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -4.53%
75th Percentile £572 £610 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £738
North West median daily rate £459 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 33
10th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £28.50 £29.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.78% +61.39% -27.86%
75th Percentile £87.50 £66.88 £57.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.13 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £52.78 £30.88 £25.25
% change year-on-year +70.90% +22.30% -27.86%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NHS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

NHS job vacancy trend in Manchester

NHS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NHS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NHS

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NHS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NHS

NHS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Altrincham - 1 £260 -
NHS
North West

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Serverless
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DocumentDB
2 3 (21.43%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Project Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (7.14%) Security Testing
5 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) HL7
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI