National Health Service (NHS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 414 278
Rank change year-on-year +2 -136 +114
Permanent jobs citing NHS 607 795 2,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.77% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 1.80% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 492 586 907
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,263 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,501 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,573 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +3.15% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,623
90th Percentile £78,625 £77,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,700 £46,581 £47,915
% change year-on-year +0.26% -2.79% -5.12%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,939 44,198 74,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 42.68% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 22,999 23,881 34,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NHS in the UK

NHS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NHS in the UK

NHS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +28 550 £50,000 -3.05% 1,323
UK excluding London -13 446 £46,700 +0.26% 1,084
Work from Home -44 237 £54,000 +5.62% 289
North of England +40 175 £40,066 -10.96% 292
London +26 110 £57,500 -5.06% 275
South East +11 98 £50,000 +5.26% 210
Yorkshire +110 78 £45,000 +0.37% 128
Midlands +59 77 £53,500 +3.74% 219
North West +19 68 £38,500 -14.44% 133
West Midlands +57 64 £53,500 +1.90% 119
South West -63 44 £39,500 -16.84% 160
East of England +12 35 £30,000 +5.26% 159
North East -26 29 £41,000 -8.21% 35
Wales -7 15 £53,500 +19.78% 44
East Midlands -14 10 £48,500 +17.58% 100
Scotland -77 2 £18,000 -62.85% 9

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 6 (0.99%) CMS
2 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.49%) Confluence
3 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.49%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) Drupal
5 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.16%) Jetty
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Moodle
5 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.16%) Totara
5 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.15%) InVision
5 7 (1.15%) Sketch
6 6 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.16%) CorelDRAW
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.33%) Primavera
4 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 103 (16.97%) Azure
2 59 (9.72%) AWS
3 45 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 17 (2.80%) SaaS
6 14 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.81%) GCP
8 10 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.48%) Google Analytics
9 9 (1.48%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (1.32%) dbt
10 8 (1.32%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.66%) BigCommerce
13 3 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.49%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (0.49%) PaaS
14 2 (0.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.62%) Internet
2 21 (3.46%) LAN
2 21 (3.46%) WAN
3 19 (3.13%) Firewall
4 16 (2.64%) Broadband
4 16 (2.64%) WPA
5 10 (1.65%) Intranet
6 9 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.15%) DNS
8 6 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.82%) DHCP
9 5 (0.82%) VPN
10 3 (0.49%) SAN
10 3 (0.49%) Wireless
11 2 (0.33%) Network Security
12 1 (0.16%) DECT
12 1 (0.16%) NGFW
12 1 (0.16%) RFID
12 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 38 (6.26%) Power BI
3 34 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (4.45%) Tableau
5 19 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 14 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (1.32%) Big Data
10 7 (1.15%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.15%) Looker
11 6 (0.99%) Metadata
11 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 6 (0.99%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.82%) MySQL
12 5 (0.82%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.32%) JIRA
2 4 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
2 4 (0.66%) Postman
2 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.49%) Git
3 3 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.33%) gulp
4 2 (0.33%) JIRA Agile
4 2 (0.33%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) Moq
5 1 (0.16%) NUnit
5 1 (0.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) Sourcetree
5 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 216 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.60%) Finance
3 100 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 68 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (9.06%) Presentation Skills
6 54 (8.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 52 (8.57%) Local Government
8 49 (8.07%) Marketing
9 46 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (6.43%) Health Technology
10 39 (6.43%) Retail
11 36 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (5.11%) Billing
13 17 (2.80%) Digital Health
14 14 (2.31%) Environmental Health
14 14 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.81%) Electronics
17 10 (1.65%) Police
18 9 (1.48%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 90 (14.83%) Senior
2 70 (11.53%) Developer
3 65 (10.71%) Project Manager
4 55 (9.06%) Lead
5 49 (8.07%) Analyst
6 32 (5.27%) Audit Manager
7 24 (3.95%) Senior Developer
8 23 (3.79%) Architect
9 22 (3.62%) Business Manager
10 19 (3.13%) Product Manager
11 18 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.80%) Senior Manager
12 17 (2.80%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.47%) Data Engineer
13 15 (2.47%) Support Technician
14 14 (2.31%) Business Analyst
15 13 (2.14%) IT Manager
15 13 (2.14%) Technical Architect
16 12 (1.98%) IT Support
16 12 (1.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (8.24%) .NET
2 29 (4.78%) HTML
3 27 (4.45%) CSS
4 15 (2.47%) React
5 14 (2.31%) ASP.NET
6 13 (2.14%) FHIR
6 13 (2.14%) XML
7 12 (1.98%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.98%) Lightning Web Components
8 11 (1.81%) AngularJS
8 11 (1.81%) Node.js
9 8 (1.32%) Vue
10 7 (1.15%) .NET Framework
10 7 (1.15%) HTML5
10 7 (1.15%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (1.15%) RESTful
11 6 (0.99%) jQuery
12 5 (0.82%) Entity Framework
12 5 (0.82%) Web Services
12 5 (0.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.39%) Management Information System
2 34 (5.60%) Housing Association
3 26 (4.28%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.81%) Social Media
9 9 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.48%) LIMS
10 8 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.32%) PKI
11 7 (1.15%) Blog
11 7 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.99%) CCTV
12 6 (0.99%) PMI
13 5 (0.82%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.23%) Windows
2 27 (4.45%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.80%) Windows 10
4 12 (1.98%) Linux
5 5 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.66%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (18.29%) Project Management
3 92 (15.16%) Agile
4 60 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (8.73%) Business Development
6 50 (8.24%) Decision-Making
7 49 (8.07%) Coaching
8 47 (7.74%) Customer Service
9 46 (7.58%) Analytics
10 43 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (6.75%) PRINCE2
11 41 (6.75%) Roadmaps
12 40 (6.59%) Change Management
12 40 (6.59%) Project Delivery
12 40 (6.59%) Service Management
13 37 (6.10%) DevOps
14 36 (5.93%) People Management
15 35 (5.77%) Information Governance
15 35 (5.77%) Performance Management
16 33 (5.44%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 94 (15.49%) SQL
2 54 (8.90%) C#
3 35 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 30 (4.94%) Python
5 25 (4.12%) Java
6 18 (2.97%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.64%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.15%) R
9 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.82%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.82%) PHP
11 4 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.66%) Groovy
11 4 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.66%) Ruby
12 3 (0.49%) Bash
13 2 (0.33%) Bicep
13 2 (0.33%) JSX
13 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (13.84%) Degree
2 60 (9.88%) DBS Check
3 32 (5.27%) ACCA
4 20 (3.29%) CIPD
5 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.81%) Postgraduate
7 8 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.32%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.15%) NVQ Level 3
8 7 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.82%) CISM
10 5 (0.82%) CISSP
10 5 (0.82%) MCSE
10 5 (0.82%) PMP
11 4 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.91%) GDPR
2 31 (5.11%) GAAP
2 31 (5.11%) IFRS
3 22 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.62%) QA
4 21 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.14%) PMO
6 10 (1.65%) HL7
7 8 (1.32%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.99%) GMP
8 6 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 6 (0.99%) NCSC
9 5 (0.82%) SLA
10 3 (0.49%) WCAG
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.48%) Docker
3 9 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (4.45%) Terraform
2 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.66%) SCCM
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 129 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.27%) CA
3 18 (2.97%) Northgate
4 17 (2.80%) VMware
5 16 (2.64%) Google
6 14 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.98%) Adobe
8 10 (1.65%) Facebook
9 9 (1.48%) Databricks
10 8 (1.32%) SAP
11 7 (1.15%) Cisco
12 6 (0.99%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.82%) RedGate
14 4 (0.66%) Datix
14 4 (0.66%) ESRI
14 4 (0.66%) HP
14 4 (0.66%) YouTube
15 3 (0.49%) New Relic
15 3 (0.49%) Oracle
15 3 (0.49%) ServiceNow