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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 72 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing NHS 6 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.56% 1.01% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 3.25% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £410 £355 £205
25th Percentile £433 £363 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £375 £258
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% +45.35% -16.10%
75th Percentile £600 £388 £318
90th Percentile £625 £395 £356
North West median daily rate £456 £400 £285
% change year-on-year +14.06% +40.35% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year - +92.88% -20.71%
North West median hourly rate - £32.50 £22.93
% change year-on-year - +41.77% +19.09%

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 378 369 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.03% 30.90% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 193 337
10th Percentile £300 £294 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £482 £510
% change year-on-year -6.64% -5.49% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 12
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.05 £16.09
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.81 £26.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +29.72%
75th Percentile £36.25 £50.13 £59.69
90th Percentile £62.50 £96.50 £78.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +46.65% -27.06% +95.13%

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 7 November 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Power Apps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) SFIA
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Brio
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft