NHS Job Trends in the South East

National Health Service (NHS)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 260 200
Rank change year-on-year +41 -60 +33
Permanent jobs citing NHS 112 41 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.65% 0.46% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.64% 1.09% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 100 11 77
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,929 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,938 £63,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +16.67% +16.34%
75th Percentile £68,125 £80,000 £78,458
90th Percentile £82,000 - £82,500
England median annual salary £57,423 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.83% +7.50% +4.88%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,243 3,747 4,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.63% 41.96% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,943 1,786 2,677
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,356 £27,757
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -8.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NHS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

NHS job vacancy trend in the South East

NHS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NHS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NHS

NHS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the South East over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for NHS in the South East

NHS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Thames Valley +20 34 £57,000 -18.57% 28
Surrey +6 32 £80,000 +6.67% 16
Kent +5 25 £35,000 - 9
Hampshire -41 15 £40,000 - 18
Berkshire +24 13 £63,750 -8.93% 15
Buckinghamshire +7 13 £57,000 - 8
Oxfordshire -16 8 £57,500 +44.01% 5
Isle of Wight - 3 - - 1
East Sussex -19 1 - - 7
NHS
England

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.71%) Azure
2 11 (9.82%) AWS
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.68%) SaaS
4 1 (0.89%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.89%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 2 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 30 (26.79%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.50%) Local Government
3 13 (11.61%) Health Technology
3 13 (11.61%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.14%) Marketing
5 7 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Electronics
7 2 (1.79%) Digital Health
7 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Finance
8 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (16.96%) Business Development Manager
1 19 (16.96%) Business Manager
1 19 (16.96%) Coordinator
1 19 (16.96%) Development Manager
1 19 (16.96%) Senior
2 12 (10.71%) Developer
3 10 (8.93%) Senior Business Development Manager
3 10 (8.93%) Senior Business Manager
3 10 (8.93%) Senior Development Manager
3 10 (8.93%) Senior Manager
4 8 (7.14%) Account Director
4 8 (7.14%) C++ Developer
4 8 (7.14%) Senior C++ Developer
4 8 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 8 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Head of Marketing
5 7 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Auditor
6 5 (4.46%) Consultant
6 5 (4.46%) Internal Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) MFC
2 2 (1.79%) Spring
3 1 (0.89%) FHIR
3 1 (0.89%) Kafka
3 1 (0.89%) REST
3 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.46%) SystemC
5 3 (2.68%) Clustering
5 3 (2.68%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.89%) PMI
7 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.86%) Business Development
2 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (10.71%) Decision-Making
4 11 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (7.14%) Mentoring
6 7 (6.25%) Agile
6 7 (6.25%) Coaching
6 7 (6.25%) Information Security
6 7 (6.25%) Line Management
6 7 (6.25%) Migration
7 6 (5.36%) Architectural Design
7 6 (5.36%) Cloud Enablement
7 6 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (5.36%) Data Security
7 6 (5.36%) Presales
7 6 (5.36%) Product Strategy
7 6 (5.36%) Product Vision
7 6 (5.36%) Project Delivery
7 6 (5.36%) Refactoring
7 6 (5.36%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.14%) C++
2 6 (5.36%) C#
3 5 (4.46%) Java
4 3 (2.68%) SQL
5 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (1.79%) CISA
1 2 (1.79%) CISM
1 2 (1.79%) CISSP
1 2 (1.79%) City & Guilds
1 2 (1.79%) CRISC
1 2 (1.79%) Degree
1 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.89%) PMP
2 1 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.79%) GRC
2 2 (1.79%) HL7
2 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.79%) Argo
2 2 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) Grafana
3 1 (0.89%) Graylog
3 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.68%) HubSpot
2 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.79%) OneTrust