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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 188 155
Rank change year-on-year -39 -33 -10
Contract jobs citing NHS 122 318 763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.83% 1.31% 1.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 4.14% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 241 629
10th Percentile £175 £200 £188
25th Percentile £207 £231 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £484 £515 £488
90th Percentile £575 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £315 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +5.00% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 23
10th Percentile £14.90 £12.63 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.17 £18.52 £15.79
Median hourly rate £18.74 £21.01 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -6.62% +21.62%
75th Percentile £44.74 £38.24 £28.41
90th Percentile £50.82 £85.00 £33.88
UK median hourly rate £13.06 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -34.70% - +17.65%

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 4,234 7,672 13,998
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.91% 31.65% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 5,442 10,085
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £440 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 148 223
10th Percentile £15.73 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.53 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +28.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.82%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.82%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.67%) Azure
2 14 (11.48%) Power Platform
3 13 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.84%) AWS
5 5 (4.10%) SaaS
6 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.64%) GCP
6 2 (1.64%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.82%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.82%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) Intranet
1 3 (2.46%) Network Security
2 2 (1.64%) DHCP
2 2 (1.64%) DNS
2 2 (1.64%) Firewall
2 2 (1.64%) Wireless
3 1 (0.82%) 4G
3 1 (0.82%) 5G
3 1 (0.82%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.82%) SAN
3 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.82%) WAN
3 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) Electronic Patient Records
2 11 (9.02%) Power BI
3 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.28%) Big Data
5 4 (3.28%) Tableau
6 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.82%) MySQL
8 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.82%) QlikView
8 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.82%) Git
2 1 (0.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.30%) Finance
4 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.74%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.28%) Local Government
6 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (2.46%) Marketing
8 2 (1.64%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.64%) Electronics
8 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Law
9 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.82%) Police
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (14.75%) Project Manager
2 17 (13.93%) Senior
3 13 (10.66%) Analyst
4 12 (9.84%) Infrastructure Technician
5 10 (8.20%) Developer
5 10 (8.20%) Lead
6 9 (7.38%) Senior Manager
7 7 (5.74%) Consultant
8 6 (4.92%) Administrator
8 6 (4.92%) Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Coordinator
10 4 (3.28%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.28%) HR Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) NHS Project Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.46%) OAuth
2 2 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (0.82%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.82%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.82%) Django
3 1 (0.82%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.82%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.82%) FHIR
3 1 (0.82%) HTML
3 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.82%) OpenID
3 1 (0.82%) PySpark
3 1 (0.82%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (0.82%) React
3 1 (0.82%) SAML
3 1 (0.82%) Web Services
3 1 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.64%) Life Science
2 2 (1.64%) Smartphone
3 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.82%) e-Learning
3 1 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (0.82%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.82%) LIMS
3 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Windows
2 15 (12.30%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.82%) Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (9.84%) Network Management
3 12 (9.84%) Project Management
4 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (8.20%) Decision-Making
5 10 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (7.38%) Data Analysis
6 9 (7.38%) Data Modelling
7 8 (6.56%) Analytics
7 8 (6.56%) Project Delivery
8 7 (5.74%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (5.74%) DevOps
8 7 (5.74%) Migration
8 7 (5.74%) PRINCE2
8 7 (5.74%) Visualisation
9 6 (4.92%) Agile
10 5 (4.10%) Data Management
10 5 (4.10%) Risk Management
10 5 (4.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.84%) SQL
2 9 (7.38%) Python
3 5 (4.10%) Ruby
4 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.82%) C#
5 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.56%) Degree
2 4 (3.28%) CIPD
3 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.82%) CCNA
4 1 (0.82%) CCNP
4 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.82%) PMP
4 1 (0.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.92%) HL7
3 4 (3.28%) QA
4 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.46%) GRC
4 3 (2.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.46%) NCSC
5 2 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.82%) PMO
6 1 (0.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.82%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.46%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.64%) SCCM
3 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.30%) VMware
3 12 (9.84%) Veeam
4 5 (4.10%) Brio
5 3 (2.46%) Datix
6 2 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.82%) Adobe
7 1 (0.82%) Cerner
7 1 (0.82%) Cisco
7 1 (0.82%) Citrix
7 1 (0.82%) Databricks
7 1 (0.82%) Google
7 1 (0.82%) Intel
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle