Electronic Patient Records Job Trends

Electronic Patient/Health/Medical Records (EPR, EHR, EMR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Electronic Patient Records skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 562 745
Rank change year-on-year -75 +183 +182
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Patient Records 45 89 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 1.08% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 72 55
10th Percentile £37,500 £61,375 £37,004
25th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £43,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -16.03%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £83,750
90th Percentile £78,125 £84,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £75,000 £50,504
% change year-on-year -46.67% +48.50% +1.01%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Electronic Patient Records falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,917 8,236 15,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 18.75% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,141 5,176 12,243
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Electronic Patient Records
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Electronic Patient Records relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Electronic Patient Records job vacancy trend in the UK

Electronic Patient Records
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronic Patient Records.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronic Patient Records

Electronic Patient Records
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Patient Records over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Electronic Patient Records in the UK

Electronic Patient Records
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Patient Records within the UK over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
England -16 39 £62,500 -16.67% 55
UK excluding London -43 22 £40,000 -46.67% 47
London +13 15 £62,500 -3.85% 6
Midlands -13 9 - - 13
East Midlands -24 9 - - 9
North of England -47 7 £40,000 -46.67% 11
Work from Home +12 6 £82,500 +10.00% 25
North West -8 5 £40,000 - 6
South East -17 5 £72,500 -3.33% 10
Yorkshire -62 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
South West -28 1 £31,000 - 9

Electronic Patient Records
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) AWS
1 8 (17.78%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.89%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) Pulumi
4 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) VPN
2 6 (13.33%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) Power Query
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 20 (44.44%) Health Technology
2 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Lead
2 10 (22.22%) Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) EPR Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) Integration Specialist
4 5 (11.11%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) DBA
6 2 (4.44%) NHS DBA
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Administrator
7 1 (2.22%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (2.22%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.22%) Development Specialist
7 1 (2.22%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Migration Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.22%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) FHIR
2 11 (24.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) CSS
3 1 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) NestJS
3 1 (2.22%) SvelteKit
3 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (48.89%) NHS
2 10 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (13.33%) PACS
4 2 (4.44%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) CCTV
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Hackathon
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (22.22%) Information Governance
2 10 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (13.33%) API Integration
4 5 (11.11%) AI
4 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.67%) ETL
6 2 (4.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (4.44%) High Availability
6 2 (4.44%) Informatics
6 2 (4.44%) Microservices
6 2 (4.44%) Migration
6 2 (4.44%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (4.44%) Project Delivery
6 2 (4.44%) Risk Management
6 2 (4.44%) Roadmaps
6 2 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.44%) Validation
7 1 (2.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) SQL
2 13 (28.89%) JavaScript
3 10 (22.22%) LINC
4 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (40.00%) HL7
2 6 (13.33%) DICOM
2 6 (13.33%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Argo
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
1 1 (2.22%) Cerner
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle
1 1 (2.22%) Salesforce