NHS Jobs in Berkshire

National Health Service (NHS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 137 159
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 +7
Permanent jobs citing NHS 9 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.56% 0.75% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 2.52% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 18
10th Percentile £48,375 £50,625 £35,427
25th Percentile £59,063 £57,500 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £46,581
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +28.81% +16.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,063 £72,500
90th Percentile - £97,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +4.97%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

NHS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 524 912 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 32.37% 29.65% 45.14%
Number of salaries quoted 224 625 686
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,910 £35,006
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.53% -2.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £74,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,320 £56,250
% change year-on-year +16.59% -12.32% +2.27%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Berkshire

NHS
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for NHS in Berkshire

NHS
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in Berkshire

NHS
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
Reading +46 6 £53,750 -10.42% 3
Bracknell - 2 £80,000 - 3
Slough -30 1 - - 3
NHS
South East

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Health Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Designer
1 2 (22.22%) Integration Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Service Designer
1 2 (22.22%) Technology Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) User Researcher
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) API Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Business Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Business Development
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Coaching
2 2 (22.22%) Design Thinking
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
2 2 (22.22%) Line Management
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Service Design
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) User Research
2 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) HL7
1 2 (22.22%) SNOMED CT
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki