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 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 331 385 442
Rank change year-on-year +54 +57 +9
Permanent jobs citing NHS 65 116 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.14% 1.20% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 42 93 140
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,504 £43,096
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,997 £51,072
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year - -5.06% +8.02%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,883 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,050 £97,500 £94,024
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.81% +2.96%

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 5,681 9,669 14,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.45% 40.24% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 6,782 10,232
10th Percentile £41,550 £37,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,446
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.89% +1.93%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £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 31 May 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 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
Central London +19 5 £37,500 -36.38% 9
South London - 5 £27,500 - 4
East London -19 1 - - 9
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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.54%) Lorenzo
1 1 (1.54%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.77%) AWS
2 7 (10.77%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.15%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Slack
7 1 (1.54%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) WAN
2 4 (6.15%) 4G
2 4 (6.15%) 5G
2 4 (6.15%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.23%) MySQL
2 5 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (4.62%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.08%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Gatling
1 1 (1.54%) Git
1 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.54%) JMeter
1 1 (1.54%) Locust
1 1 (1.54%) Postman
General
1 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.23%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.69%) Local Government
5 3 (4.62%) Fire and Rescue
5 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.08%) Advertising
6 2 (3.08%) Finance
6 2 (3.08%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Back Office
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Lead
2 7 (10.77%) Senior
3 5 (7.69%) IT Support
3 5 (7.69%) Product Manager
3 5 (7.69%) Support Officer
4 4 (6.15%) Digital Product Manager
4 4 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Developer
5 3 (4.62%) Programme Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Integration Manager
6 2 (3.08%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Sales Executive
6 2 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Senior Sales Executive
6 2 (3.08%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.15%) jQuery
1 17 (26.15%) React
1 17 (26.15%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (6.15%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) Vue
4 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.54%) Blazor
4 1 (1.54%) CSS
4 1 (1.54%) EDI
4 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.54%) FHIR
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) Laravel
4 1 (1.54%) RESTful
4 1 (1.54%) Symfony
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Social Media
2 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Housing Association
2 4 (6.15%) IoT
2 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.15%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.62%) Blog
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) PACS
4 2 (3.08%) Tandem
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.54%) Femtech
5 1 (1.54%) Genomics
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) Roadmaps
2 18 (27.69%) Product Roadmap
2 18 (27.69%) Software Engineering
3 11 (16.92%) Analytics
3 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 8 (12.31%) Business Development
5 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (10.77%) ITIL
7 6 (9.23%) Agile
7 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
8 5 (7.69%) Data Science
8 5 (7.69%) Product Vision
8 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.69%) Project Management
8 5 (7.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (6.15%) CI/CD
9 4 (6.15%) Product Strategy
9 4 (6.15%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) Ruby
2 7 (10.77%) SQL
3 2 (3.08%) C#
3 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.08%) PHP
3 2 (3.08%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) R
4 1 (1.54%) Bicep
4 1 (1.54%) C
4 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.08%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) DICOM
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) HL7
3 1 (1.54%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) Google
3 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.62%) Siemens
4 3 (4.62%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.54%) Cerner
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Foundry
5 1 (1.54%) InterSystems
5 1 (1.54%) MEDITECH
5 1 (1.54%) Meraki
5 1 (1.54%) Palantir
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk