NHS Jobs in London

National Health Service (NHS)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 388 421
Rank change year-on-year +61 +33 +29
Permanent jobs citing NHS 68 123 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 1.24% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 40 101 130
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £41,209
25th Percentile £45,861 £43,997 £50,539
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year - -5.06% +9.84%
75th Percentile £61,250 £74,230 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £100,000 £94,024
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,200 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.53% -5.60% -0.34%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,827 9,889 13,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.40% 39.93% 45.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,083 6,876 9,693
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £132,500 £125,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in London

NHS
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for NHS in London

NHS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in London

NHS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Central London +22 5 £37,500 -36.38% 37
South London - 5 £27,500 - 9
East London -19 1 - - 22
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (4.41%) Confluence
1 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.94%) AutoCAD
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.47%) Lorenzo
2 1 (1.47%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.00%) AWS
2 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 7 (10.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.94%) GCP
6 2 (2.94%) GitHub
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.94%) Slack
7 1 (1.47%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.47%) IaaS
7 1 (1.47%) PaaS
7 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.47%) Serverless
7 1 (1.47%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) WAN
2 5 (7.35%) 4G
2 5 (7.35%) 5G
2 5 (7.35%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) MySQL
2 6 (8.82%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.94%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Gatling
1 1 (1.47%) Git
1 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.47%) JIRA
1 1 (1.47%) JMeter
1 1 (1.47%) Locust
1 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 23 (33.82%) Public Sector
2 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Local Government
4 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.41%) Finance
6 3 (4.41%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Advertising
7 2 (2.94%) Back Office
7 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.94%) Law
7 2 (2.94%) Legal
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Games
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Lead
2 8 (11.76%) Senior
3 5 (7.35%) IT Support
3 5 (7.35%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Product Manager
3 5 (7.35%) Support Officer
4 4 (5.88%) Civil Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Developer
4 4 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Digital Product Manager
4 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Programme Manager
5 3 (4.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (2.94%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.94%) Implementation Project Manager
6 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (2.94%) Integration Manager
6 2 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (2.94%) Senior Sales Executive
6 2 (2.94%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) jQuery
1 14 (20.59%) React
1 14 (20.59%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.94%) .NET
3 2 (2.94%) Vue
3 2 (2.94%) XML
4 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.47%) Blazor
4 1 (1.47%) CSS
4 1 (1.47%) EDI
4 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.47%) FHIR
4 1 (1.47%) HTML
4 1 (1.47%) Laravel
4 1 (1.47%) RESTful
4 1 (1.47%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) IoT
1 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
1 5 (7.35%) Operational Technology
1 5 (7.35%) Social Media
2 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.88%) Housing Association
3 3 (4.41%) Blog
3 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) PACS
4 2 (2.94%) Tandem
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.47%) Femtech
5 1 (1.47%) Genomics
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.94%) Roadmaps
2 15 (22.06%) Product Roadmap
2 15 (22.06%) Software Engineering
3 14 (20.59%) Mentoring
4 12 (17.65%) Analytics
4 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (11.76%) Business Development
6 8 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.29%) Agile
7 7 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
7 7 (10.29%) ITIL
7 7 (10.29%) Project Management
8 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.82%) Data Science
8 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (7.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (7.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) Ruby
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) C#
4 2 (2.94%) C
4 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.94%) PHP
4 2 (2.94%) Python
4 2 (2.94%) R
5 1 (1.47%) Bicep
5 1 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.41%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.94%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.47%) DICOM
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) HL7
3 1 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Google
3 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.41%) Siemens
4 3 (4.41%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.47%) Cerner
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Foundry
5 1 (1.47%) InterSystems
5 1 (1.47%) MEDITECH
5 1 (1.47%) Meraki
5 1 (1.47%) Palantir
5 1 (1.47%) Splunk