NHS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

National Health Service (NHS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 126 175
Rank change year-on-year -41 +49 +83
Permanent jobs citing NHS 14 73 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.39% 1.69% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 5.38% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 17
10th Percentile - £54,500 -
25th Percentile £30,250 £77,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,929 £80,000 £39,085
Median % change year-on-year -50.09% +104.68% -21.83%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £69,000
South East median annual salary £41,215 £57,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -28.32% +36.90% -26.96%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,301 1,357 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.93% 31.38% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 675 553 780
10th Percentile £27,200 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £40,484
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

NHS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

NHS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing NHS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing NHS

NHS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the Thames Valley

NHS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Berkshire -61 7 £66,250 -17.19% 18
Buckinghamshire - 5 £32,500 - 6
Oxfordshire +28 2 £39,929 - 6
NHS
South East

NHS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Health Technology
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Support
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Development Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Development Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) NHS DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Development Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Support
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) FHIR
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (21.43%) API Integration
2 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Line Management
3 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.14%) B2B
4 1 (7.14%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) CRM
4 1 (7.14%) Information Governance
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile First
4 1 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.14%) TDD
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) HL7
1 3 (21.43%) SNOMED CT
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Argo
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) HubSpot