NHS Contracts in the UK excluding London

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 118 72
Rank change year-on-year -40 -46 +2
Contract jobs citing NHS 273 498 978
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 2.16% 3.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.64% 6.68% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 366 727
10th Percentile £175 £151 £150
25th Percentile £203 £200 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £250 £300
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £438
90th Percentile £595 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £315 £300 £344
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.79% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 35 88
10th Percentile £11.23 £13.66 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.85 £14.12
Median hourly rate £12.86 £20.00 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +14.09% +6.24%
75th Percentile £18.83 £24.25 £24.79
90th Percentile £37.70 £34.87 £31.72
UK median hourly rate £13.24 £21.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year -36.95% +19.05% +3.76%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

NHS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NHS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North of England -3 85 £490 +3.16% 259
South East -15 68 £205 - 182
North West +14 38 £350 -12.50% 131
Yorkshire -10 38 £500 -2.44% 96
East of England -16 32 £227 +0.69% 131
Wales 0 31 £438 +113.41% 45
Midlands -25 30 £488 +115.71% 214
South West -17 21 £185 -58.93% 137
West Midlands +4 18 £650 +168.04% 114
East Midlands -7 12 £385 +92.50% 100
North East +10 9 £325 +54.76% 34
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 2
Scotland +14 3 £407 +16.29% 13
NHS
UK

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.83%) Apache
1 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) CMS
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.09%) Azure
2 24 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.56%) AWS
5 6 (2.20%) Azure AKS
5 6 (2.20%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.37%) GCP
7 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.30%) LAN
1 9 (3.30%) WAN
2 8 (2.93%) Firewall
3 7 (2.56%) Wireless
4 4 (1.47%) DHCP
4 4 (1.47%) WLAN
5 3 (1.10%) DNS
5 3 (1.10%) Network Security
5 3 (1.10%) VPN
6 2 (0.73%) SAN
6 2 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.37%) 4G
7 1 (0.37%) 5G
7 1 (0.37%) Intranet
7 1 (0.37%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 10 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.30%) Power BI
4 7 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.47%) Tableau
6 3 (1.10%) Big Data
7 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.73%) QlikView
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.37%) EDMS
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.73%) Selenium
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.37%) tSQLt
3 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (25.64%) Public Sector
2 68 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 53 (19.41%) Finance
4 37 (13.55%) Marketing
4 37 (13.55%) Telecoms
5 36 (13.19%) Electronics
5 36 (13.19%) Manufacturing
6 16 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.30%) Health Technology
8 9 (3.30%) Local Government
9 8 (2.93%) Legal
10 7 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.83%) Digital Health
11 5 (1.83%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Military
14 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (12.82%) Analyst
2 31 (11.36%) Project Manager
3 24 (8.79%) Senior
4 22 (8.06%) Support Engineer
5 15 (5.49%) Architect
5 15 (5.49%) Service Analyst
5 15 (5.49%) Service Desk Analyst
6 14 (5.13%) Desktop Engineer
6 14 (5.13%) Desktop Support
6 14 (5.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 14 (5.13%) Developer
6 14 (5.13%) Lead
7 12 (4.40%) Infrastructure Technician
8 10 (3.66%) Administrator
8 10 (3.66%) Trainer
9 9 (3.30%) IT Engineer
9 9 (3.30%) Senior Manager
10 8 (2.93%) IT Support
10 8 (2.93%) LIMS Manager
10 8 (2.93%) LIMS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.56%) FHIR
1 7 (2.56%) OAuth
2 6 (2.20%) Keycloak
3 5 (1.83%) .NET
3 5 (1.83%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.83%) SAML
4 4 (1.47%) HTML
4 4 (1.47%) Web Services
5 3 (1.10%) CSS
5 3 (1.10%) React
6 2 (0.73%) XML
7 1 (0.37%) OpenID
7 1 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.03%) LIMS
2 11 (4.03%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
3 6 (2.20%) Smartphone
4 5 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.10%) Life Science
7 2 (0.73%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.37%) Clustering
8 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.37%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.37%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.37%) IoT
8 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.37%) Replication
8 1 (0.37%) Social Media
8 1 (0.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.92%) Windows
2 19 (6.96%) Windows 10
3 16 (5.86%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (18.32%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (15.75%) Programme Management
3 36 (13.19%) Digital Marketing
4 23 (8.42%) Project Management
5 22 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (6.23%) Agile
7 16 (5.86%) Project Delivery
8 14 (5.13%) Customer Service
8 14 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (4.40%) Decision-Making
9 12 (4.40%) Migration
9 12 (4.40%) Network Management
9 12 (4.40%) Risk Management
9 12 (4.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (4.40%) Test Scripting
10 11 (4.03%) Document Management
10 11 (4.03%) PRINCE2
11 10 (3.66%) Change Management
11 10 (3.66%) Validation
12 9 (3.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.13%) SQL
2 8 (2.93%) Python
3 3 (1.10%) C#
3 3 (1.10%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (4.76%) Degree
2 6 (2.20%) HNC
2 6 (2.20%) NVQ Level 3
3 5 (1.83%) CCNA
3 5 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
4 4 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.47%) PMP
4 4 (1.47%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.10%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) APMG
6 2 (0.73%) CIPD
6 2 (0.73%) CISM
6 2 (0.73%) CISSP
6 2 (0.73%) ECDL
6 2 (0.73%) MCP
6 2 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.06%) HL7
2 17 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.30%) QA
4 5 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.10%) PMO
5 3 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (4.76%) Docker
2 8 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.73%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.19%) SAP
3 15 (5.49%) VMware
4 12 (4.40%) Veeam
5 10 (3.66%) Brio
6 6 (2.20%) Cerner
6 6 (2.20%) WSO2
7 3 (1.10%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.73%) Adobe
8 2 (0.73%) Citrix
8 2 (0.73%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.37%) Apple
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco
9 1 (0.37%) Databricks
9 1 (0.37%) Datix
9 1 (0.37%) Intel
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle
9 1 (0.37%) RedGate
9 1 (0.37%) Splunk