Health Technology Job Trends in England

Health Technology (HealthTech)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Health Technology in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Health Technology 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 485 570 486
Rank change year-on-year +85 -84 +280
Permanent jobs citing Health Technology 132 109 197
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.42% 0.34% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 119 96 188
10th Percentile £41,350 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £76,000 £76,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +7.69%

All General Skills
England

Health Technology falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 31,169 32,047 30,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 58.98% 66.57% 61.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,267 14,668 22,380
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.07%

Health Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Health Technology relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Health Technology job vacancy trend in England

Health Technology
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Health Technology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Health Technology

Health Technology
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Health Technology in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Health Technology in England

Health Technology
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Health Technology within the England 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
London +74 69 £64,000 -15.79% 25
South East +54 28 £45,000 -40.00% 52
Midlands +27 15 £70,000 +7.69% 14
East of England +30 7 £80,000 - 29
East Midlands -5 7 £47,125 -27.50% 10
West Midlands +26 6 £100,000 +53.85% 3
North West +17 3 £85,000 +30.77% 11
South West +5 3 £60,000 +9.09% 16
North of England -12 3 £85,000 +13.33% 26
Health Technology
UK

Health Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.76%) Apache
1 1 (0.76%) CMS
1 1 (0.76%) Confluence
1 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.09%) AWS
2 27 (20.45%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (20.45%) Serverless
3 20 (15.15%) SaaS
4 15 (11.36%) Amazon S3
4 15 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
4 15 (11.36%) Azure
5 8 (6.06%) GCP
6 2 (1.52%) Figma
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.76%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) SSL
1 6 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.36%) Electronic Patient Records
2 13 (9.85%) MySQL
3 12 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 12 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) JMeter
2 1 (0.76%) LoadRunner
General
1 38 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.52%) Tech for Good
3 29 (21.97%) Publishing
4 15 (11.36%) Influencing Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Marketing
6 6 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.79%) Digital Health
7 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.03%) Wearables
9 2 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.52%) Electronics
10 1 (0.76%) Finance
10 1 (0.76%) French Language
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (32.58%) Developer
2 29 (21.97%) Python Developer
3 23 (17.42%) Lead
3 23 (17.42%) Senior
4 22 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 22 (16.67%) React Developer
5 19 (14.39%) Lead Developer
6 16 (12.12%) Lead Python Developer
6 16 (12.12%) Software Developer
7 14 (10.61%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.85%) Software Engineer
9 12 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
10 9 (6.82%) Consultant
10 9 (6.82%) Lead Software Developer
11 8 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.30%) Data Migration Specialist
12 7 (5.30%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.30%) Migration Specialist
13 6 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.73%) RESTful
2 22 (16.67%) React
3 14 (10.61%) FHIR
4 12 (9.09%) Swagger
5 8 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 8 (6.06%) Vue
6 7 (5.30%) Web Services
7 6 (4.55%) JSON
8 4 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.27%) Laravel
9 3 (2.27%) Spring
9 3 (2.27%) Symfony
10 2 (1.52%) .NET
10 2 (1.52%) React Native
11 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.76%) Flask
11 1 (0.76%) OAuth
11 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
11 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.76%) NHS
2 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.76%) FMCG
5 1 (0.76%) Genomics
5 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Life Science
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) Omics
5 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.52%) Android
2 2 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.76%) Agile
2 31 (23.48%) Scrum
3 30 (22.73%) TDD
4 27 (20.45%) Operational Stability
4 27 (20.45%) Pair Programming
5 22 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 19 (14.39%) User Stories
7 18 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 18 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (13.64%) Process Improvement
8 16 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
8 16 (12.12%) Coaching
9 15 (11.36%) Code Quality
9 15 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (11.36%) Data Science
9 15 (11.36%) Extreme Programming
9 15 (11.36%) Software Engineering
9 15 (11.36%) Time Management
10 13 (9.85%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.79%) Python
2 19 (14.39%) SQL
3 14 (10.61%) TypeScript
4 12 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.58%) Java
6 9 (6.82%) C#
7 7 (5.30%) PHP
7 7 (5.30%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.76%) HND
2 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.00%) QA
2 15 (11.36%) HL7
3 7 (5.30%) GDPR
4 6 (4.55%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) DICOM
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (1.52%) Ansible
1 2 (1.52%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.27%) HubSpot
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.52%) SAP
4 1 (0.76%) Cerner
4 1 (0.76%) InterSystems
4 1 (0.76%) MEDITECH
4 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud