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 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 62 97
Rank change year-on-year -34 +35 -3
Contract jobs citing NHS 12 18 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.77% 1.90% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.36% 6.29% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 2
10th Percentile £321 £184 £284
25th Percentile £409 £200 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £215 £298
Median % change year-on-year +103.49% -27.73% -17.93%
75th Percentile £509 £384 £306
90th Percentile £616 £400 £312
North West median daily rate £450 £215 £333
% change year-on-year +109.30% -35.34% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £13.06
Median % change year-on-year - +148.85% -43.22%
North West median hourly rate - £32.50 £31.08
% change year-on-year - +4.57% +55.40%

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 508 286 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.75% 30.23% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 201 294
10th Percentile £216 £204 £291
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £614 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £698
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 29
10th Percentile £19.72 £22.25 £12.90
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +25.00% -42.22%
75th Percentile £75.44 £33.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.50 £70.85
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year +58.12% +10.58% -25.71%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 - 1
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 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) DocumentDB
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Health
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) FHIR
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Supplier Management
4 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mapping
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) HL7
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform