NHS Contracts in the Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 81 76
Rank change year-on-year -32 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing NHS 28 81 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.95% 2.52% 3.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.19% 7.74% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 44 111
10th Percentile £318 £142 £143
25th Percentile £395 £202 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £263 £300
Median % change year-on-year +87.74% -12.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £395 £431
90th Percentile £760 £523 £490
England median daily rate £315 £299 £325
% change year-on-year +5.27% -7.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 19
10th Percentile - £14.82 £13.10
25th Percentile - £17.21 £14.72
Median hourly rate £10.42 £22.26 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -53.19% +26.77% +8.90%
75th Percentile £10.84 £25.22 £22.75
90th Percentile £14.01 £34.86 £23.82
England median hourly rate £14.49 £21.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -31.02% -2.33% +22.86%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,047 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.82% 32.53% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 690 1,054
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 47
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.41 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.91 £20.22 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +56.61% +9.75%
75th Percentile £28.88 £54.69 £22.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £26.37
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NHS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
West Midlands -2 20 £650 +147.15% 105
East Midlands -13 8 £430 +68.63% 101
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) HR Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Change Coordinator
5 2 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Design Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.57%) IoT
1 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.57%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
2 3 (10.71%) Change Management
2 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
2 3 (10.71%) Project Management
3 2 (7.14%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2
3 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (3.57%) Budget Management
4 1 (3.57%) Business Case
4 1 (3.57%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (3.57%) Decision-Making
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Enablement
4 1 (3.57%) Inventory Management
4 1 (3.57%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft