NHS Jobs in Reading

National Health Service (NHS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 112 108
Rank change year-on-year +53 -4 +12
Permanent jobs citing NHS 5 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.02% 0.67% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 2.01% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 14
10th Percentile - £45,125 £35,427
25th Percentile - £57,500 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +62.50%
75th Percentile - £66,250 £74,375
90th Percentile - £103,375 £75,000
Berkshire median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £46,581
% change year-on-year +33.33% +28.81% +16.45%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 193 596 668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 39.39% 33.31% 43.24%
Number of salaries quoted 108 375 337
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,525
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,283 £52,500 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% -17.00% +1.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £91,250
Berkshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +7.00% -14.53% -2.50%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Reading

NHS
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for NHS in Reading

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Designer
1 2 (40.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Development
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Line Management
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) User Research
2 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Meraki
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft