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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 65 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing NHS 11 20 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.94% 1.90% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.70% 5.67% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 8
10th Percentile £395 £193 £195
25th Percentile £413 £238 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £367 £253
Median % change year-on-year +22.78% +45.15% -19.20%
75th Percentile £513 £398 £315
90th Percentile £625 £400 £317
North West median daily rate £450 £383 £295
% change year-on-year +17.49% +29.84% -9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - +92.88% -35.19%
North West median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.42
% change year-on-year - +86.57% -0.80%

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 407 353 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.70% 33.62% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 196 313
10th Percentile £300 £240 £227
25th Percentile £358 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £694 £642
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 9
10th Percentile £18.83 £20.65 £27.37
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £34.75
Median hourly rate £30.08 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -23.53% -29.17%
75th Percentile £56.56 £33.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.38 £43.30 £79.50
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £25.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.77% -32.19% +40.61%

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 9 January 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
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 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Metadata
3 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Data Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Power Apps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) FHIR
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Architecture
1 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
2 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Metadata Management
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) SFIA
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Data Mapping
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
4 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Brio
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft