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 in the UK excluding London. 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 394 377 361
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 -186
Permanent jobs citing NHS 190 460 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 1.91% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 61 359 342
10th Percentile - £30,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,199 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,637 £46,500 £46,581
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -0.17% -2.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £51,573
% change year-on-year +15.00% -3.05% +3.15%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,266 24,085 25,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.63% 33.95% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6,113 15,187 11,130
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK 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 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 16 May 2025.

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 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
North of England -34 88 £32,500 -19.02% 92
South East +41 43 £53,750 +7.50% 78
North West -32 33 £32,500 -18.75% 39
North East +46 32 - - 16
East of England +39 32 £60,000 +100.00% 50
Yorkshire +9 23 £47,500 +8.59% 39
Midlands +5 19 £60,000 +12.15% 52
West Midlands +6 14 £60,000 +12.15% 22
Wales +29 6 £65,000 +21.50% 13
East Midlands +27 5 £60,000 +23.71% 27
South West +70 4 £47,500 +20.25% 42
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 19 (10.00%) CMS
1 19 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 3 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.89%) Azure
2 84 (44.21%) Entra ID
3 23 (12.11%) AWS
4 21 (11.05%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.47%) SaaS
6 14 (7.37%) Azure AI
6 14 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 14 (7.37%) Azure Key Vault
6 14 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (7.37%) IaaS
6 14 (7.37%) PaaS
6 14 (7.37%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.53%) Figma
7 1 (0.53%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.53%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.53%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.00%) Intranet
2 16 (8.42%) Firewall
2 16 (8.42%) VPN
3 15 (7.89%) DNS
4 14 (7.37%) SD-WAN
4 14 (7.37%) WAN
5 3 (1.58%) Broadband
5 3 (1.58%) Internet
5 3 (1.58%) SSL
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.05%) VoIP
6 2 (1.05%) WPA
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.53%) MPLS
7 1 (0.53%) Network Security
7 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.42%) Power BI
3 15 (7.89%) MySQL
4 14 (7.37%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.68%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.58%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.58%) Metadata
7 3 (1.58%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.05%) Tableau
9 1 (0.53%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 17 (8.95%) Git
2 5 (2.63%) JIRA
3 2 (1.05%) Selenium
4 1 (0.53%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.53%) GitLab
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.47%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.37%) Marketing
4 13 (6.84%) Finance
5 12 (6.32%) Health Technology
6 11 (5.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.21%) Local Government
8 7 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.68%) Law
9 5 (2.63%) Games
10 4 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.58%) Legal
11 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Police
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 70 (36.84%) Technology Specialist
2 39 (20.53%) Identity Management Specialist
3 24 (12.63%) Developer
4 19 (10.00%) Umbraco Developer
5 14 (7.37%) Architect
5 14 (7.37%) Cloud Architect
6 13 (6.84%) Senior
7 10 (5.26%) Analyst
8 8 (4.21%) Consultant
9 6 (3.16%) Civil Engineer
9 6 (3.16%) Development Engineer
9 6 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.16%) Lead
9 6 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (3.16%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.63%) Operations Manager
10 5 (2.63%) Sales Executive
11 4 (2.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.11%) Software Engineer
12 3 (1.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.11%) CSS
1 23 (12.11%) HTML
2 21 (11.05%) HTML5
3 20 (10.53%) jQuery
4 5 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.11%) React
6 3 (1.58%) FHIR
6 3 (1.58%) Kafka
6 3 (1.58%) NumPy
6 3 (1.58%) Pandas
6 3 (1.58%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.05%) .NET
7 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.05%) Vue
8 1 (0.53%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.53%) Jinja
8 1 (0.53%) OpenConfig
8 1 (0.53%) React Native
8 1 (0.53%) Sass
8 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.21%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.63%) PACS
5 4 (2.11%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.05%) ASTM
6 2 (1.05%) Blog
6 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) LIMS
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.05%) Social Media
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.84%) Windows
2 6 (3.16%) Linux
3 4 (2.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (46.84%) ITIL
2 70 (36.84%) Identity Management
3 28 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (14.21%) Project Management
5 26 (13.68%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (12.11%) Analytics
7 22 (11.58%) Agile
7 22 (11.58%) Customer Requirements
8 20 (10.53%) Clean Code
8 20 (10.53%) Content Management
9 19 (10.00%) Web Development
10 18 (9.47%) Decision-Making
11 17 (8.95%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.42%) CI/CD
12 16 (8.42%) DevOps
12 16 (8.42%) Migration
13 15 (7.89%) B2B
13 15 (7.89%) Business Development
13 15 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (7.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.58%) SQL
2 21 (11.05%) C#
3 17 (8.95%) PowerShell
4 14 (7.37%) Bicep
5 11 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.68%) Python
7 5 (2.63%) Java
8 4 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.53%) PHP
9 1 (0.53%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 120 (63.16%) Degree
2 90 (47.37%) DBS Check
3 14 (7.37%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.68%) HNC
5 3 (1.58%) HND
6 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) CCNA
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.53%) CWNA
7 1 (0.53%) CWTS
7 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMP
7 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.68%) Accessibility
2 22 (11.58%) GDPR
3 20 (10.53%) WCAG
4 6 (3.16%) QA
5 3 (1.58%) HL7
5 3 (1.58%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 71 (37.37%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (7.37%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.58%) SCCM
3 1 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 96 (50.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.00%) HP
3 14 (7.37%) Databricks
3 14 (7.37%) Meraki
4 6 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.11%) Cisco
6 3 (1.58%) Adobe
6 3 (1.58%) Google
6 3 (1.58%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.05%) Facebook
7 2 (1.05%) Tenable
8 1 (0.53%) Aerohive Networks
8 1 (0.53%) Citrix
8 1 (0.53%) Mitel
8 1 (0.53%) Monzo
8 1 (0.53%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.53%) Sage
8 1 (0.53%) Samsung
8 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Telerik