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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 70 89
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 0
Contract jobs citing NHS 5 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.48% 1.21% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 3.84% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile £404 - £204
25th Percentile £418 - £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £249
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% +40.85% -18.19%
75th Percentile £550 £375 £316
90th Percentile £595 £390 £353
North West median daily rate £450 £375 £280
% change year-on-year +20.00% +33.93% -8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - +92.88% -25.11%
North West median hourly rate - £32.50 £22.93
% change year-on-year - +41.77% +30.55%

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 361 365 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.95% 31.66% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 189 342
10th Percentile £305 £294 £226
25th Percentile £381 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £582
90th Percentile £673 £684 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -7.98% -2.20% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 14
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.93 £16.19
25th Percentile £19.75 £23.88 £20.14
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -13.13% +62.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £95.10 £77.25
North West median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £41.75
% change year-on-year -3.51% -22.16% +91.69%

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 19 October 2025.

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
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 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Power Apps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) SFIA
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Brio
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft