NHS Contracts in the West Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 88 93
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing NHS 18 40 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.95% 1.79% 2.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.98% 5.38% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 66
10th Percentile £369 £125 £158
25th Percentile £528 £200 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £250 £373
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% -32.89% +30.70%
75th Percentile £725 £391 £447
90th Percentile £800 £538 £531
England median daily rate £311 £300 £320
% change year-on-year +3.67% -6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile - £14.29 £12.60
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate £10.42 £17.72 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.20% +18.13% -11.76%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £15.84
90th Percentile £11.09 £38.10 £16.34
England median hourly rate £14.83 £21.01 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% +5.03% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 605 743 1,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.03% 33.17% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 491 733
10th Percentile £276 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% +2.56% +11.75%
75th Percentile £627 £631 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 22
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.72 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £16.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +69.96% -3.80%
75th Percentile £40.50 £49.94 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £55.63 £24.00
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NHS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Birmingham +8 10 £650 +150.00% 47
Shropshire - 6 - - 7
Worcestershire +6 1 - - 6
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) HR Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Strategy Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) NHS Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Strategy Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) IoT
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Budget Management
5 1 (5.56%) Business Case
5 1 (5.56%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (5.56%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (5.56%) Data Governance
5 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Enablement
5 1 (5.56%) Information Management
5 1 (5.56%) Inventory Management
5 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft