NHS Jobs 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 212 227
Rank change year-on-year +46 +15 +7
Permanent jobs citing NHS 16 34 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.47% 0.51% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 1.53% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6 27 25
10th Percentile £39,929 £40,000 £35,427
25th Percentile £40,259 £44,375 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +4.97%

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 1,315 2,228 2,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.77% 33.16% 41.99%
Number of salaries quoted 563 1,484 1,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,875 £61,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,500 £55,332
% change year-on-year +16.16% -10.54% +0.60%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the Thames Valley

NHS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for NHS in the Thames Valley

NHS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 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 10 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
Berkshire +31 9 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Oxfordshire +38 5 £39,929 -26.26% 4
Buckinghamshire +30 2 - - 8
NHS
South East

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (25.00%) Health Technology
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (12.50%) Police
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Technology Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Service Designer
2 2 (12.50%) User Researcher
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) FHIR
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Identity Management
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) B2B
5 2 (12.50%) Business Development
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (12.50%) Line Management
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 2 (12.50%) Service Management
5 2 (12.50%) Six Sigma
5 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 2 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Bicep
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) DBS Check
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) HL7
1 2 (12.50%) SNOMED CT
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Meraki
88 NHS jobs in the South East