NHS Jobs in Scotland

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 212 36
Rank change year-on-year -62 -176 +145
Permanent jobs citing NHS 4 15 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.059% 0.32% 7.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.79% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 55
10th Percentile - £29,900 -
25th Percentile - £34,988 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £18,000 £48,452 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -62.85% +24.24% +18.63%
75th Percentile - £71,875 £56,250
90th Percentile - £97,125 £62,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,573 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.05% +3.15% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

NHS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,256 1,906 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.34% 40.38% 47.95%
Number of salaries quoted 850 804 1,045
10th Percentile £29,880 £32,491 £28,450
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,325 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Scotland

NHS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in Scotland.

Salary trend for NHS in Scotland

NHS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -106 4 £18,000 -79.72% 2
NHS
UK

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) ClickUp
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Project Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Project Support Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft