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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 564 738
Rank change year-on-year -77 +174 +200
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Patient Records 48 87 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.68% 1.08% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 31 73 53
10th Percentile £37,500 £57,250 £36,940
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% -13.53%
75th Percentile £71,875 - £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £75,000 £50,504
% change year-on-year -31.67% +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 7,082 8,027 16,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 18.62% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,237 5,201 12,212
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,744
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 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Electronic Patient Records in the UK

Electronic Patient Records
Top 12 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 16 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 -37 43 £62,500 -16.67% 86
UK excluding London -50 23 £51,250 -31.67% 79
London +5 16 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Midlands -15 9 - - 21
East Midlands -34 9 - - 14
Work from Home -9 8 £82,500 +10.00% 29
North of England -54 7 £40,000 -46.67% 18
South East -9 5 £72,500 -3.33% 10
North West -13 5 £40,000 - 4
Yorkshire -58 2 £70,000 -6.67% 11
East of England -6 1 £75,000 - 11
South West - 1 £31,000 - 18

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.08%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) AWS
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) Datadog
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) VPN
2 6 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) Power Query
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (39.58%) Health Technology
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Games
4 1 (2.08%) Law
4 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Lead
2 11 (22.92%) Consultant
3 10 (20.83%) EPR Consultant
3 10 (20.83%) Technical Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
5 5 (10.42%) Applications Support
6 4 (8.33%) Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) DBA
8 2 (4.17%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) NHS DBA
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Data Consultant
9 1 (2.08%) Head of IT
9 1 (2.08%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) FHIR
2 10 (20.83%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.08%) CSS
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) NestJS
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) React
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) RESTful
3 1 (2.08%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) NHS
2 10 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (12.50%) PACS
4 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Hackathon
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (20.83%) Information Governance
2 10 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
4 6 (12.50%) API Integration
5 5 (10.42%) AI
5 5 (10.42%) ETL
6 4 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (8.33%) Migration
7 3 (6.25%) Agile
7 3 (6.25%) Data Migration
7 3 (6.25%) Informatics
7 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.17%) Case Management
8 2 (4.17%) Data Modelling
8 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (4.17%) Risk Management
8 2 (4.17%) Roadmaps
8 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) SQL
2 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 10 (20.83%) LINC
4 6 (12.50%) Python
5 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.17%) Java
6 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (35.42%) HL7
2 6 (12.50%) DICOM
2 6 (12.50%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (6.25%) Grafana
2 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Argo
3 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
1 1 (2.08%) Cerner
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce