NHS Job Trends in Birmingham

National Health Service (NHS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 129 86
Rank change year-on-year +36 -43 +45
Permanent jobs citing NHS 12 4 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.69% 0.22% 1.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 0.66% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 16
10th Percentile £38,100 £59,000 £31,354
25th Percentile - £65,000 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +30.43% +28.73%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £65,313
90th Percentile £64,900 £85,000 £66,250
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -46.67% +30.43% +15.00%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 427 610 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.65% 33.91% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 290 240 438
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £38,777
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £60,000 £54,825
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +9.44% -5.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NHS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

NHS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

NHS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NHS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NHS

NHS
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NHS in Birmingham

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Billing
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Client Relationship Manager
1 6 (50.00%) Relationships Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Audit Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Bid Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (8.33%) RAML
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) CRM
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Data Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.33%) SDLC
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ACCA
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GAAP
1 2 (16.67%) IFRS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Adaptive Insights
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow