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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 78 69
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing NHS 18 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.91% 0.50% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 1.46% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £263 £404 £384
25th Percentile £313 £418 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +103.49%
75th Percentile £394 £550 £622
90th Percentile £428 £595 £676
North West median daily rate £350 £395 £242
% change year-on-year -11.39% +63.43% -18.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.92
Median hourly rate - - £24.34
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £45.00 - £24.34
% change year-on-year - - +44.42%

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 724 342 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.71% 34.44% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 237 185
10th Percentile £369 £312 £294
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £466 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -5.00% +3.16%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £669 £708
North West median daily rate £500 £452 £490
% change year-on-year +10.74% -7.86% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 16 19
10th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.59 £21.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £41.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.42% +27.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.94 £60.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £69.38 £94.40
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +25.60% +10.24% -22.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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
Heywood - 3 £375 -
Salford - 2 - - 4
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 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Category Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Category Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) PMO Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) AI
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 3 (16.67%) CAD
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (11.11%) Coaching
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAI