NHS Job Trends in the East Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Permanent jobs citing NHS 11 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.44% - 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% - 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 14
10th Percentile £39,000 - £41,672
25th Percentile £41,250 - £44,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £64,374
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.04%
75th Percentile £47,125 - £65,000
90th Percentile £116,000 - £65,796
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +43.75% -27.27%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 770 683 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.60% 30.90% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 435 291 427
10th Percentile £25,600 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £39,375 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.02% -9.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

NHS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

NHS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing NHS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing NHS

NHS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NHS in the East Midlands

NHS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 4 £42,500 - 4
Lincolnshire - 2 £44,250 - 4
Nottinghamshire - 2 £115,000 - 8
Derbyshire - 1 - - 5
NHS
England

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Health Technology
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Local Government
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Consultant
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Support
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Support Consultant
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
1 4 (36.36%) Support Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Change Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Change Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Compliance Officer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Sales
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Sales Director
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 5 (45.45%) Driving Licence
3 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Speech Recognition
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) ITSM
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) CRM
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
3 1 (9.09%) Data Security
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Quality Management
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Strategic Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft