NHS Contracts with Work from Home Options

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 185 154
Rank change year-on-year -26 -31 -8
Contract jobs citing NHS 133 320 782
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 1.29% 1.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 4.09% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 242 646
10th Percentile £175 £200 £187
25th Percentile £216 £228 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £438 £510 £487
90th Percentile £573 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £315 £300 £335
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.45% +3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 23
10th Percentile £14.90 £12.61 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.17 £18.27 £14.85
Median hourly rate £18.74 £21.01 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -6.23% +21.08%
75th Percentile £44.74 £39.37 £27.70
90th Percentile £50.82 £85.00 £32.68
UK median hourly rate £13.24 £20.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -35.41% +16.21% +3.76%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,256 7,822 14,026
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.91% 31.57% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 5,532 10,049
10th Percentile £325 £372 £361
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £650
90th Percentile £825 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 152 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +30.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £84.42 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%

NHS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NHS trend for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NHS.

NHS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NHS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

NHS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NHS.

NHS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NHS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

NHS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.80%) Azure
2 14 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 13 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.02%) AWS
5 5 (3.76%) SaaS
6 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.50%) GCP
6 2 (1.50%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.75%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) Wireless
2 5 (3.76%) WAN
3 4 (3.01%) LAN
3 4 (3.01%) VPN
4 3 (2.26%) Firewall
4 3 (2.26%) Intranet
4 3 (2.26%) Network Security
5 2 (1.50%) DHCP
5 2 (1.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.75%) 4G
6 1 (0.75%) 5G
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.75%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.75%) SAN
6 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) Electronic Patient Records
2 11 (8.27%) Power BI
2 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.01%) Big Data
6 4 (3.01%) Tableau
7 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.75%) MySQL
8 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.75%) QlikView
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.75%) tSQLt
General
1 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.04%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.53%) Finance
4 12 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Health Technology
5 7 (5.26%) Marketing
6 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.01%) Electronics
7 4 (3.01%) Local Government
7 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.50%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.75%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 19 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 17 (12.78%) Senior
3 15 (11.28%) Analyst
4 12 (9.02%) Developer
4 12 (9.02%) Infrastructure Technician
5 10 (7.52%) Lead
6 9 (6.77%) Administrator
7 8 (6.02%) Consultant
7 8 (6.02%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.51%) Architect
8 6 (4.51%) DBA
9 5 (3.76%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) NHS Project Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Software Developer
9 5 (3.76%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.76%) Technical Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) .NET
2 3 (2.26%) OAuth
3 2 (1.50%) FHIR
3 2 (1.50%) HTML
3 2 (1.50%) XML
4 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.75%) CSS
4 1 (0.75%) Django
4 1 (0.75%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.75%) OpenID
4 1 (0.75%) PySpark
4 1 (0.75%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (0.75%) React
4 1 (0.75%) SAML
4 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.50%) Life Science
2 2 (1.50%) LIMS
2 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.50%) Smartphone
2 2 (1.50%) Social Media
3 1 (0.75%) Clustering
3 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.75%) e-Health
3 1 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (0.75%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.75%) PACS
3 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Windows
2 17 (12.78%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (9.77%) Project Management
4 12 (9.02%) Network Management
5 10 (7.52%) Decision-Making
5 10 (7.52%) Migration
5 10 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (6.77%) Analytics
6 9 (6.77%) Data Modelling
7 8 (6.02%) Data Analysis
7 8 (6.02%) DevOps
8 7 (5.26%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (5.26%) Agile
8 7 (5.26%) PRINCE2
8 7 (5.26%) Project Delivery
8 7 (5.26%) Visualisation
9 6 (4.51%) Programme Management
10 5 (3.76%) Data Migration
10 5 (3.76%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.78%) SQL
2 9 (6.77%) Python
3 5 (3.76%) Ruby
4 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.50%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.50%) VBA
7 1 (0.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (4.51%) Degree
2 2 (1.50%) CCNP
2 2 (1.50%) CIPD
2 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.75%) CCIE
3 1 (0.75%) CCNA
3 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.75%) PMP
3 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) HL7
2 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.51%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.26%) GRC
4 3 (2.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.26%) NCSC
5 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) PMO
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.26%) TrustSec
3 2 (1.50%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.28%) VMware
3 12 (9.02%) Veeam
4 5 (3.76%) Brio
4 5 (3.76%) Cisco
5 4 (3.01%) Datix
5 4 (3.01%) SAP
6 2 (1.50%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.75%) Cerner
7 1 (0.75%) Citrix
7 1 (0.75%) Databricks
7 1 (0.75%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) Intel
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.75%) RedGate