NHS Jobs in the East of England

National Health Service (NHS)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 195 186
Rank change year-on-year +47 -9 +54
Permanent jobs citing NHS 33 36 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.99% 0.56% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 1.73% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 8 31 34
10th Percentile £47,000 £25,759 £23,150
25th Percentile £53,750 £27,339 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £30,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +15.38% -50.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,250 £39,720
90th Percentile - £85,000 £45,985
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.81% +2.96%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,324 2,079 2,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 39.59% 32.29% 51.83%
Number of salaries quoted 446 1,531 862
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,000 £28,075
25th Percentile £33,274 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £80,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the East of England

NHS
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in the East of England.

Salary trend for NHS in the East of England

NHS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the East of England

NHS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Essex +15 18 - - 13
Cambridgeshire +48 9 £60,000 +56.63% 6
Hertfordshire +34 6 £60,000 -14.29% 13
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
1 18 (54.55%) Entra ID
2 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.03%) IaaS
3 1 (3.03%) PaaS
3 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
1 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Balsamiq
1 1 (3.03%) Git
1 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (15.15%) Games
1 5 (15.15%) Marketing
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Health Technology
3 2 (6.06%) Legal
3 2 (6.06%) Local Government
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Technology Specialist
2 4 (12.12%) Operations Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Account Executive
4 2 (6.06%) Business Sales Executive
4 2 (6.06%) Civil Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Development Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) New Business Sales Executive
4 2 (6.06%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Sales Executive
5 1 (3.03%) Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Development Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.03%) CSS
1 1 (3.03%) HTML
1 1 (3.03%) HTML5
1 1 (3.03%) JSON
1 1 (3.03%) React
1 1 (3.03%) Web Services
1 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) ITIL
2 17 (51.52%) Identity Management
3 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
3 5 (15.15%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (12.12%) Budget Management
4 4 (12.12%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (12.12%) Contract Management
4 4 (12.12%) Performance Measurement
4 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (6.06%) Agile
6 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.06%) Due Diligence
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.06%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (6.06%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) Bicep
2 1 (3.03%) C#
2 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) DBS Check
2 21 (63.64%) Degree
3 4 (12.12%) HNC
4 2 (6.06%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Meraki
2 1 (3.03%) Telerik