NHS Jobs in England

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 385 434
Rank change year-on-year -37 +49 -110
Permanent jobs citing NHS 282 560 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.65% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.88% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 127 444 471
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,965 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -3.05% +3.15%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £77,125 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,504 £51,573
% change year-on-year +13.85% -2.07% +3.15%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,928 29,798 39,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.71% 34.76% 43.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,772 20,825 21,320
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,478
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in England

NHS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for NHS in England

NHS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in England

NHS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England -25 90 £32,500 -19.02% 103
London +78 75 £57,500 - 187
South East +44 43 £53,750 +7.50% 87
North West -27 35 £32,500 -15.58% 40
North East +46 32 - - 18
East of England +42 32 £60,000 +100.00% 48
Yorkshire +19 23 £47,500 +5.56% 49
Midlands +2 19 £60,000 +12.15% 53
West Midlands +3 14 £60,000 +12.15% 19
East Midlands +28 5 £60,000 +23.71% 30
South West +67 4 £47,500 +20.25% 39
NHS
UK

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.09%) CMS
1 20 (7.09%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.71%) Maya
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Lorenzo
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 106 (37.59%) Azure
2 91 (32.27%) Entra ID
3 49 (17.38%) AWS
4 29 (10.28%) Power Platform
5 22 (7.80%) SaaS
6 17 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (5.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (5.32%) Azure AI
8 15 (5.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 15 (5.32%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (5.32%) IaaS
8 15 (5.32%) PaaS
8 15 (5.32%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.77%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.06%) GitHub
10 3 (1.06%) Slack
11 2 (0.71%) GCP
11 2 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.09%) Intranet
2 19 (6.74%) WAN
3 17 (6.03%) DNS
3 17 (6.03%) VPN
4 16 (5.67%) Firewall
5 15 (5.32%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.42%) 4G
6 4 (1.42%) 5G
6 4 (1.42%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.06%) Broadband
7 3 (1.06%) Internet
7 3 (1.06%) SSL
8 2 (0.71%) DHCP
8 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.71%) WPA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.35%) MPLS
9 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.12%) MySQL
2 30 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 23 (8.16%) Power BI
4 20 (7.09%) Electronic Patient Records
5 16 (5.67%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.06%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.06%) Metadata
7 3 (1.06%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.06%) Tableau
8 2 (0.71%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.71%) QlikView
8 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.35%) Big Data
9 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (6.74%) Git
2 6 (2.13%) JIRA
3 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.71%) Selenium
3 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.35%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Gatling
4 1 (0.35%) git-flow
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) JMeter
4 1 (0.35%) Locust
4 1 (0.35%) Postman
4 1 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.83%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.74%) Health Technology
5 17 (6.03%) Finance
6 16 (5.67%) Marketing
7 14 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (3.55%) Law
9 9 (3.19%) Local Government
10 8 (2.84%) Games
10 8 (2.84%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.42%) Advertising
11 4 (1.42%) Digital Health
11 4 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.06%) Back Office
12 3 (1.06%) Legal
12 3 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (25.53%) Technology Specialist
2 39 (13.83%) Identity Management Specialist
3 30 (10.64%) Developer
3 30 (10.64%) Lead
4 20 (7.09%) Umbraco Developer
5 19 (6.74%) Senior
6 16 (5.67%) Architect
7 15 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
8 13 (4.61%) Analyst
9 10 (3.55%) Product Manager
9 10 (3.55%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.19%) Consultant
11 7 (2.48%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (2.48%) Sales Executive
12 5 (1.77%) IT Support
12 5 (1.77%) Operations Manager
12 5 (1.77%) Senior Sales Executive
12 5 (1.77%) Software Engineer
12 5 (1.77%) Solutions Sales Executive
13 4 (1.42%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.54%) jQuery
2 26 (9.22%) HTML
3 25 (8.87%) CSS
3 25 (8.87%) React
4 22 (7.80%) HTML5
5 20 (7.09%) Ruby on Rails
6 9 (3.19%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (2.13%) .NET
7 6 (2.13%) FHIR
8 3 (1.06%) Kafka
8 3 (1.06%) NumPy
8 3 (1.06%) Pandas
8 3 (1.06%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (1.06%) Vue
9 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.71%) EDI
9 2 (0.71%) Web Services
9 2 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.74%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.61%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.19%) Housing Association
4 9 (3.19%) PACS
5 7 (2.48%) Social Media
6 5 (1.77%) Blog
6 5 (1.77%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.42%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.42%) IoT
7 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.42%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.06%) LIMS
9 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.71%) ASTM
9 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.96%) Windows
2 9 (3.19%) Linux
3 4 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.71%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.40%) ITIL
2 72 (25.53%) Identity Management
3 46 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (14.89%) Roadmaps
5 34 (12.06%) Analytics
6 32 (11.35%) Project Management
7 29 (10.28%) Agile
7 29 (10.28%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (9.57%) Software Engineering
9 26 (9.22%) DevOps
9 26 (9.22%) Migration
10 23 (8.16%) CI/CD
10 23 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
10 23 (8.16%) Decision-Making
10 23 (8.16%) Mentoring
11 22 (7.80%) Business Development
11 22 (7.80%) Clean Code
11 22 (7.80%) Product Roadmap
12 21 (7.45%) Content Management
12 21 (7.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (21.28%) SQL
2 26 (9.22%) C#
3 21 (7.45%) Ruby
4 19 (6.74%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.32%) Bicep
5 15 (5.32%) Python
6 14 (4.96%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.84%) Java
8 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.06%) Bash
10 2 (0.71%) PHP
10 2 (0.71%) VB
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 132 (46.81%) Degree
2 95 (33.69%) DBS Check
3 15 (5.32%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.48%) HNC
7 3 (1.06%) HND
8 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.35%) PMP
9 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.93%) Accessibility
2 26 (9.22%) GDPR
3 21 (7.45%) WCAG
4 14 (4.96%) QA
5 6 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.77%) HL7
7 4 (1.42%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (1.06%) DICOM
8 3 (1.06%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 74 (26.24%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.32%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.42%) Ansible
2 4 (1.42%) Terraform
3 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 109 (38.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.09%) HP
3 15 (5.32%) Databricks
3 15 (5.32%) Meraki
4 10 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.19%) Google
6 5 (1.77%) Cerner
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle
7 4 (1.42%) Siemens
8 3 (1.06%) Adobe
8 3 (1.06%) Cisco
8 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.06%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.71%) Facebook
9 2 (0.71%) Tenable
9 2 (0.71%) VMware
10 1 (0.35%) Monzo
10 1 (0.35%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.35%) Palantir
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow