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 remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 183 163
Rank change year-on-year -40 -20 -12
Contract jobs citing NHS 119 316 749
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.81% 1.32% 1.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.76% 4.19% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 239 621
10th Percentile £175 £200 £188
25th Percentile £222 £223 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.59%
75th Percentile £489 £510 £495
90th Percentile £588 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £325 £290 £350
% change year-on-year +12.07% -17.14% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 22
10th Percentile £14.90 £12.63 £11.57
25th Percentile £15.17 £18.52 £16.58
Median hourly rate £18.74 £21.01 £23.37
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -10.10% +26.32%
75th Percentile £44.74 £38.24 £28.41
90th Percentile £50.82 £85.00 £33.90
UK median hourly rate £12.96 £20.00 £21.35
% change year-on-year -35.20% -6.32% +25.59%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 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 12 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 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.84%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.84%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.49%) Azure
2 14 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 12 (10.08%) AWS
3 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.20%) SaaS
5 2 (1.68%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.68%) GCP
5 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.84%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Intranet
1 3 (2.52%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) DHCP
2 2 (1.68%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) Wireless
3 1 (0.84%) 4G
3 1 (0.84%) 5G
3 1 (0.84%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.84%) SAN
3 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 11 (9.24%) Power BI
3 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.36%) Big Data
6 4 (3.36%) Tableau
7 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.84%) MySQL
9 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.84%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.84%) QlikView
9 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.84%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.36%) Local Government
6 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.68%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.84%) Electronics
9 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.84%) Social Science
9 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.84%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 17 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 17 (14.29%) Senior
2 12 (10.08%) Analyst
3 11 (9.24%) Lead
4 10 (8.40%) Developer
4 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Technician
5 9 (7.56%) Senior Manager
6 7 (5.88%) Consultant
7 6 (5.04%) Architect
7 6 (5.04%) Senior Project Manager
8 5 (4.20%) Administrator
8 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.36%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.36%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.36%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.36%) HR Manager
9 4 (3.36%) NHS Project Manager
9 4 (3.36%) Software Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.52%) OAuth
2 2 (1.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.84%) Django
3 1 (0.84%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.84%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.84%) FHIR
3 1 (0.84%) HTML
3 1 (0.84%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.84%) OpenID
3 1 (0.84%) PySpark
3 1 (0.84%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (0.84%) React
3 1 (0.84%) SAML
3 1 (0.84%) Web Services
3 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.68%) Life Science
2 2 (1.68%) Smartphone
3 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
3 1 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (0.84%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.84%) LIMS
3 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Windows
2 12 (10.08%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.84%) Linux
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 13 (10.92%) Project Management
2 10 (8.40%) Decision-Making
2 10 (8.40%) Network Management
2 10 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (7.56%) Data Analysis
3 9 (7.56%) Data Modelling
3 9 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (6.72%) Analytics
4 8 (6.72%) Migration
5 7 (5.88%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (5.88%) DevOps
5 7 (5.88%) PRINCE2
5 7 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 7 (5.88%) Visualisation
6 6 (5.04%) Risk Management
7 5 (4.20%) Change Management
7 5 (4.20%) Data Management
7 5 (4.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.24%) SQL
2 9 (7.56%) Python
3 5 (4.20%) Ruby
4 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.84%) C#
5 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.72%) Degree
2 4 (3.36%) CIPD
3 3 (2.52%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.68%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.84%) CCNA
5 1 (0.84%) CCNP
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.04%) HL7
3 4 (3.36%) QA
4 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.52%) GRC
4 3 (2.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (2.52%) NCSC
5 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.84%) GDPR
6 1 (0.84%) NIST
6 1 (0.84%) PMO
6 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.68%) SCCM
3 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) VMware
3 10 (8.40%) Veeam
4 5 (4.20%) Brio
5 3 (2.52%) Datix
6 2 (1.68%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe
7 1 (0.84%) Cerner
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco
7 1 (0.84%) Citrix
7 1 (0.84%) Databricks
7 1 (0.84%) Google
7 1 (0.84%) Intel
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.84%) SAP