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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 76 88
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing NHS 5 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 0.85% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 2.87% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 17
10th Percentile £404 £451 £204
25th Percentile £418 £603 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £700 £258
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +171.32% -16.77%
75th Percentile £550 £713 £320
90th Percentile £595 - £436
North West median daily rate £395 £500 £295
% change year-on-year -21.00% +69.49% -2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Median hourly rate - £16.17 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -25.11%
North West median hourly rate - £13.84 £16.85
% change year-on-year - -17.89% -8.45%

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 341 348 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.53% 29.54% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 200 332
10th Percentile £315 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £653 £750 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £16.31
25th Percentile £34.50 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% +4.11% +87.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £95.10 £71.88
North West median hourly rate £41.31 £23.50 £40.80
% change year-on-year +75.79% -42.39% +102.66%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for NHS 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

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