NHS Jobs in the UK excluding London

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 367 176
Rank change year-on-year -5 -191 +165
Permanent jobs citing NHS 450 486 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.79% 2.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.91% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 349 344 583
10th Percentile £29,950 £27,750 £27,125
25th Percentile £36,900 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £46,581 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -1.94% -5.94%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,706 £57,750
90th Percentile £66,159 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,573 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.05% +3.15% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

NHS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,852 25,466 30,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.05% 41.21% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,176 11,511 15,839
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NHS in the UK excluding London

NHS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North of England +50 176 £40,132 -10.82% 50
South East +32 98 £50,000 +5.26% 53
Midlands +48 78 £53,500 +2.81% 31
Yorkshire +112 77 £45,000 +0.37% 23
North West +20 70 £40,000 -11.11% 25
West Midlands +63 64 £53,500 +1.90% 9
South West -44 45 £39,500 -12.22% 22
East of England +7 36 £30,000 +5.26% 19
North East -25 29 £41,000 -8.21% 7
Wales -8 13 £53,500 +19.78% 7
East Midlands -14 11 £46,750 +11.31% 22
Scotland -74 4 £18,000 -62.85% 6
NHS
UK

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (1.33%) CMS
2 4 (0.89%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.67%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.44%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Drupal
5 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.22%) Jetty
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.56%) InVision
4 7 (1.56%) Sketch
5 6 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 80 (17.78%) Azure
2 39 (8.67%) AWS
2 39 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 15 (3.33%) SaaS
5 12 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.22%) GCP
8 9 (2.00%) Google Analytics
8 9 (2.00%) Google Tag Manager
9 6 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.89%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.67%) PaaS
12 2 (0.44%) npm
12 2 (0.44%) Storyblok
13 1 (0.22%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.22%) Figma
13 1 (0.22%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.11%) WAN
2 22 (4.89%) Internet
2 22 (4.89%) LAN
3 17 (3.78%) Firewall
4 16 (3.56%) Broadband
4 16 (3.56%) WPA
5 10 (2.22%) Intranet
6 9 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.56%) DNS
8 6 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.11%) DHCP
10 3 (0.67%) SAN
10 3 (0.67%) VPN
10 3 (0.67%) Wireless
11 2 (0.44%) Network Security
12 1 (0.22%) DECT
12 1 (0.22%) NGFW
12 1 (0.22%) RFID
12 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (4.89%) Power BI
3 21 (4.67%) Tableau
4 14 (3.11%) Electronic Patient Records
5 11 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.56%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.56%) Looker
8 6 (1.33%) Big Data
8 6 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.11%) Metadata
9 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.89%) GIS
10 4 (0.89%) MySQL
10 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.56%) JIRA
2 4 (0.89%) Katalon Studio
2 4 (0.89%) Postman
3 3 (0.67%) Git
3 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.44%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.44%) gulp
4 2 (0.44%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.22%) Moq
5 1 (0.22%) NUnit
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Sourcetree
5 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 181 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 103 (22.89%) Finance
3 84 (18.67%) Public Sector
4 56 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
6 48 (10.67%) Local Government
7 45 (10.00%) Marketing
8 44 (9.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 39 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (7.11%) Billing
11 31 (6.89%) Retail
12 30 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (4.44%) Health Technology
14 15 (3.33%) Digital Health
15 14 (3.11%) Environmental Health
16 13 (2.89%) Telecoms
17 10 (2.22%) Manufacturing
17 10 (2.22%) Police
18 7 (1.56%) Electronics
19 5 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (13.11%) Senior
2 52 (11.56%) Developer
3 49 (10.89%) Project Manager
4 43 (9.56%) Analyst
5 35 (7.78%) Lead
6 32 (7.11%) Audit Manager
7 17 (3.78%) Business Manager
7 17 (3.78%) Senior Developer
7 17 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
8 16 (3.56%) Product Manager
9 15 (3.33%) Support Technician
10 13 (2.89%) Architect
10 13 (2.89%) IT Manager
11 12 (2.67%) Business Analyst
11 12 (2.67%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.44%) Consultant
12 11 (2.44%) IT Support
12 11 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
12 11 (2.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.67%) .NET
2 26 (5.78%) HTML
3 24 (5.33%) CSS
4 13 (2.89%) XML
5 12 (2.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 11 (2.44%) .NET Core
6 11 (2.44%) ASP.NET
7 8 (1.78%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.78%) React
7 8 (1.78%) Vue
8 7 (1.56%) HTML5
8 7 (1.56%) Node.js
8 7 (1.56%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (1.33%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.11%) Entity Framework
10 5 (1.11%) jQuery
10 5 (1.11%) RESTful
10 5 (1.11%) Web Services
10 5 (1.11%) WPF
11 4 (0.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.11%) Management Information System
2 35 (7.78%) Housing Association
3 26 (5.78%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.44%) Social Media
7 9 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.00%) LIMS
7 9 (2.00%) PKI
7 9 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.33%) CCTV
10 5 (1.11%) Blog
10 5 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.11%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.89%) BYOD
11 4 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
12 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (12.44%) Windows
2 27 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.56%) Windows 10
4 9 (2.00%) Linux
5 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.89%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (17.11%) Project Management
3 63 (14.00%) Agile
4 51 (11.33%) Business Development
5 49 (10.89%) Coaching
6 47 (10.44%) Customer Service
7 42 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (8.67%) Service Management
9 37 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (7.78%) People Management
10 35 (7.78%) Performance Management
11 32 (7.11%) Decision-Making
11 32 (7.11%) PRINCE2
11 32 (7.11%) User Stories
12 30 (6.67%) DevOps
13 29 (6.44%) Change Management
14 28 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (6.22%) Information Governance
14 28 (6.22%) Project Delivery
14 28 (6.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.78%) SQL
2 47 (10.44%) C#
3 29 (6.44%) JavaScript
4 24 (5.33%) Java
5 18 (4.00%) Python
6 13 (2.89%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.56%) R
9 4 (0.89%) Groovy
9 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.89%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.67%) Bash
11 2 (0.44%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) JSX
11 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Ruby
12 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (14.89%) Degree
2 49 (10.89%) DBS Check
3 32 (7.11%) ACCA
4 20 (4.44%) CIPD
5 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.00%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.89%) MCSE
9 3 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.67%) CISM
9 3 (0.67%) CISSP
9 3 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.44%) MCITP
10 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.44%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) CCNA
11 1 (0.22%) HNC
11 1 (0.22%) Project+ Certification
11 1 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.56%) GDPR
2 32 (7.11%) GAAP
2 32 (7.11%) IFRS
3 22 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.11%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.44%) PMO
6 11 (2.44%) QA
7 6 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.33%) GMP
7 6 (1.33%) NCSC
8 5 (1.11%) SLA
9 3 (0.67%) WCAG
10 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.33%) Docker
5 4 (0.89%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.89%) Terraform
3 7 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.67%) SCCM
5 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 106 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.11%) CA
3 18 (4.00%) Northgate
4 15 (3.33%) Google
5 14 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.11%) VMware
6 11 (2.44%) Adobe
7 10 (2.22%) Facebook
8 7 (1.56%) Cisco
9 6 (1.33%) Databricks
9 6 (1.33%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.89%) Datix
10 4 (0.89%) ESRI
10 4 (0.89%) HP
10 4 (0.89%) RedGate
10 4 (0.89%) SAP
10 4 (0.89%) YouTube
11 3 (0.67%) New Relic
11 3 (0.67%) Oracle
11 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow