NHS Jobs 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 295 298
Rank change year-on-year +41 +3 -63
Permanent jobs citing NHS 43 102 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.61% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 1.77% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10 86 81
10th Percentile £38,249 £37,250 £35,427
25th Percentile £40,259 £43,750 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +4.97%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £62,988
90th Percentile £80,500 £63,750 £74,706
England median annual salary £55,000 £49,250 £51,573
% change year-on-year +11.68% -4.50% +3.15%

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 3,538 5,771 6,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 37.09% 34.41% 42.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,825 3,731 3,159
10th Percentile £30,600 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -13.27% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £73,963
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £88,750
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 the South East

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the South East

NHS
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in the South East.

Salary trend for NHS in the South East

NHS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Thames Valley +44 17 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Berkshire +23 10 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Middlesex - 6 - - 1
Oxfordshire +37 5 £39,929 -26.26% 3
Kent +35 5 £23,250 -48.33% 4
Hampshire +29 5 - - 3
East Sussex - 4 - - 2
Surrey +38 2 - - 12
West Sussex +34 2 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +32 2 - - 2
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (6.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) Entra ID
3 10 (23.26%) AWS
4 6 (13.95%) SaaS
5 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.30%) Azure AI
6 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (9.30%) IaaS
6 4 (9.30%) PaaS
6 4 (9.30%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.33%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
1 4 (9.30%) SD-WAN
1 4 (9.30%) VPN
1 4 (9.30%) WAN
2 3 (6.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (11.63%) MySQL
2 5 (11.63%) Power BI
3 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.98%) Airbyte
4 3 (6.98%) Metadata
4 3 (6.98%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.33%) QlikView
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (16.28%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (11.63%) Health Technology
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Law
6 3 (6.98%) Marketing
6 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Police
8 1 (2.33%) Finance
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Local Government
8 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Technology Specialist
2 4 (9.30%) Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Architect
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (9.30%) Senior
3 3 (6.98%) Business Systems Analyst
3 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (6.98%) Lead
3 3 (6.98%) Sales Executive
3 3 (6.98%) Senior Sales Executive
3 3 (6.98%) Solutions Sales Executive
3 3 (6.98%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Designer
4 2 (4.65%) Developer
4 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
4 2 (4.65%) Service Designer
4 2 (4.65%) User Researcher
5 1 (2.33%) Information Governance Officer
5 1 (2.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) FHIR
1 3 (6.98%) Kafka
1 3 (6.98%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (6.98%) NumPy
1 3 (6.98%) Pandas
1 3 (6.98%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) PACS
4 2 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) ITIL
2 14 (32.56%) Identity Management
3 12 (27.91%) Analytics
4 6 (13.95%) Agile
5 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (11.63%) Business Development
5 5 (11.63%) DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) Project Management
5 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
6 4 (9.30%) API Management
6 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.30%) Data Analysis
6 4 (9.30%) Data Integration
6 4 (9.30%) Information Governance
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.30%) Log Analytics
6 4 (9.30%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (9.30%) RBAC
6 4 (9.30%) Waterfall
6 4 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) SQL
2 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.30%) Bicep
3 4 (9.30%) Java
4 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.98%) Python
4 3 (6.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (60.47%) Degree
2 19 (44.19%) DBS Check
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) HL7
1 3 (6.98%) SNOMED CT
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) Meraki
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.65%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Sage
5 1 (2.33%) SIMUL8