National Health Service (NHS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in contract job vacancies. 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 239 202 153
Rank change year-on-year -37 -49 -4
Contract jobs citing NHS 419 752 1,620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.33% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.25% 3.99% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 568 1,236
10th Percentile £175 £159 £155
25th Percentile £205 £203 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £300 £334
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.20% +2.79%
75th Percentile £495 £479 £459
90th Percentile £578 £575 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £250 £300
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +3.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 37 111
10th Percentile £11.25 £12.58 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.85 £14.68
Median hourly rate £13.24 £21.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% +19.05% +3.76%
75th Percentile £22.19 £26.00 £26.99
90th Percentile £40.30 £43.29 £36.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.86 £20.00 £17.56
% change year-on-year -35.70% +13.90% +3.54%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,875 18,846 29,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.23% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,302 12,971 20,486
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 624 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -11.11%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the UK

NHS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NHS in the UK

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for NHS in the UK

NHS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NHS in the UK

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NHS over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NHS in the UK

NHS
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -41 364 £311 +3.67% 1,220
UK excluding London -44 268 £350 +40.00% 988
Work from Home -30 130 £325 -18.75% 258
London +36 129 £315 +5.00% 286
North of England 0 83 £490 +3.16% 271
South East -14 67 £205 - 195
North West +20 37 £400 - 140
Yorkshire -7 37 £500 -2.44% 102
East of England -10 32 £227 +0.69% 139
Wales +2 31 £438 +113.41% 45
Midlands -31 29 £494 +113.74% 204
South West -10 21 £185 -50.72% 130
West Midlands -7 18 £650 +160.00% 106
East Midlands -2 11 £430 +104.76% 98
North East +9 9 £325 +54.76% 31
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 2
Scotland +17 2 £675 +92.86% 8

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.19%) Apache
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) HealthRoster
Cloud Services
1 43 (10.26%) Azure
2 28 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (6.21%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.01%) AWS
5 6 (1.43%) Azure AKS
5 6 (1.43%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.43%) Power Automate
5 6 (1.43%) SaaS
6 5 (1.19%) GCP
7 4 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.72%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.48%) GitHub
9 2 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.48%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.48%) Serverless
10 1 (0.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.82%) WAN
2 14 (3.34%) Firewall
2 14 (3.34%) LAN
3 11 (2.63%) Wireless
4 8 (1.91%) VPN
5 6 (1.43%) DHCP
6 5 (1.19%) DNS
6 5 (1.19%) Network Security
6 5 (1.19%) WLAN
7 4 (0.95%) Intranet
7 4 (0.95%) SAN
8 3 (0.72%) VoIP
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.48%) IP Telephony
9 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.24%) 5G
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.24%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.98%) Electronic Patient Records
2 22 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (4.53%) Power BI
4 14 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.43%) QlikView
6 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.19%) Big Data
7 5 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.19%) Tableau
8 4 (0.95%) KNIME
9 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.48%) MySQL
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.24%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Visual Studio
2 5 (1.19%) Git
3 2 (0.48%) Selenium
4 1 (0.24%) JIRA
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.24%) tSQLt
4 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 94 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 83 (19.81%) Public Sector
3 58 (13.84%) Finance
4 44 (10.50%) Telecoms
5 40 (9.55%) Marketing
6 38 (9.07%) Electronics
6 38 (9.07%) Manufacturing
7 26 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.86%) Health Technology
9 10 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.39%) Local Government
9 10 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.91%) Legal
11 6 (1.43%) Digital Health
11 6 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Billing
14 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (10.98%) Project Manager
2 45 (10.74%) Analyst
3 39 (9.31%) Senior
4 23 (5.49%) Developer
5 21 (5.01%) Administrator
5 21 (5.01%) Support Engineer
6 19 (4.53%) Architect
7 17 (4.06%) Service Analyst
7 17 (4.06%) Service Desk Analyst
8 16 (3.82%) Lead
9 14 (3.34%) Senior Manager
9 14 (3.34%) Trainer
10 13 (3.10%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (3.10%) Desktop Support
10 13 (3.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 12 (2.86%) Consultant
11 12 (2.86%) Infrastructure Technician
12 11 (2.63%) Business Analyst
12 11 (2.63%) IT Trainer
13 10 (2.39%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.86%) .NET
2 8 (1.91%) HTML
3 7 (1.67%) CSS
3 7 (1.67%) FHIR
3 7 (1.67%) OAuth
4 6 (1.43%) Keycloak
5 5 (1.19%) ASP.NET
5 5 (1.19%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.19%) SAML
5 5 (1.19%) Web Services
6 3 (0.72%) React
7 2 (0.48%) Node.js
7 2 (0.48%) PySpark
7 2 (0.48%) XML
8 1 (0.24%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.24%) Django
8 1 (0.24%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.24%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.24%) OpenID
8 1 (0.24%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.77%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.63%) LIMS
2 11 (2.63%) Public Cloud
2 11 (2.63%) Smartphone
3 7 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
3 7 (1.67%) Life Science
3 7 (1.67%) PACS
4 5 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.72%) IoT
7 2 (0.48%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.48%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.48%) Genomics
7 2 (0.48%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.48%) Smartcard
7 2 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.69%) Windows
2 25 (5.97%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.06%) Windows 10
4 10 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.95%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.48%) Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (15.04%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (11.22%) Programme Management
3 39 (9.31%) Digital Marketing
4 37 (8.83%) Project Management
5 33 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (6.68%) Migration
7 25 (5.97%) Agile
8 21 (5.01%) Project Delivery
8 21 (5.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (4.30%) Customer Service
9 18 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (4.30%) PRINCE2
10 17 (4.06%) Analytics
10 17 (4.06%) Risk Management
11 16 (3.82%) Decision-Making
12 15 (3.58%) Data Analysis
13 14 (3.34%) Business Case
13 14 (3.34%) Informatics
14 13 (3.10%) Digital Strategy
14 13 (3.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.40%) SQL
2 16 (3.82%) Python
3 8 (1.91%) C#
3 8 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.67%) Ruby
5 5 (1.19%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.19%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.95%) PHP
7 2 (0.48%) Bash
7 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.48%) VBA
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.24%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (5.01%) Degree
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (1.43%) HNC
3 6 (1.43%) NVQ Level 3
3 6 (1.43%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.19%) CCNA
4 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
4 5 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 5 (1.19%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.95%) ISEB
5 4 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
5 4 (0.95%) PMP
6 3 (0.72%) A+ Certification
6 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.72%) ECDL
7 2 (0.48%) APMG
7 2 (0.48%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.21%) HL7
3 13 (3.10%) QA
4 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.19%) PMO
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) GDPR
7 3 (0.72%) GRC
7 3 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.72%) NCSC
8 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 17 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.58%) Docker
3 8 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.72%) TrustSec
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.48%) Puppet
5 2 (0.48%) SCCM
5 2 (0.48%) Terraform
6 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 69 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.07%) SAP
3 20 (4.77%) VMware
4 14 (3.34%) Veeam
5 12 (2.86%) Brio
6 10 (2.39%) Cerner
7 7 (1.67%) Cisco
8 6 (1.43%) WSO2
9 4 (0.95%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
9 4 (0.95%) Blue Prism
9 4 (0.95%) Datix
9 4 (0.95%) UiPath
10 3 (0.72%) Mitel
10 3 (0.72%) Oracle
10 3 (0.72%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.48%) Adobe
11 2 (0.48%) Citrix
11 2 (0.48%) Dell
11 2 (0.48%) Google