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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 563 774
Rank change year-on-year -94 +211 +136
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Patient Records 52 82 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.67% 1.13% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 36 64 51
10th Percentile £37,500 £55,375 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £68,750 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £50,952
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +47.20% -21.61%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £85,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £79,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -46.67% +50.00% -5.66%

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 7,790 7,275 17,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 17.18% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 5,099 12,516
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -57 44 £60,000 -20.00% 43
UK excluding London -79 21 £40,000 -46.67% 39
Work from Home -17 17 £70,000 -6.67% 13
London -12 16 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Midlands -25 9 - - 8
East Midlands - 9 - - 3
North of England -62 6 £40,000 -46.67% 11
North West -30 5 £40,000 - 5
South East -38 4 £82,500 +10.00% 9
East of England -19 1 £75,000 - 5
South West -45 1 £31,000 -22.50% 3
Yorkshire -73 1 £70,000 -6.67% 6

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 (1.92%) Apache
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.92%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.92%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.92%) Datadog
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) SSL
1 6 (11.54%) VPN
2 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) MySQL
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (48.08%) Health Technology
2 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Digital Health
3 2 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (1.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Games
4 1 (1.92%) Law
4 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Lead
2 10 (19.23%) Consultant
3 9 (17.31%) EPR Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) Integration Specialist
4 6 (11.54%) Technical Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Applications Support
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior
8 2 (3.85%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.92%) Data Consultant
9 1 (1.92%) Head of IT
9 1 (1.92%) Implementation Specialist
9 1 (1.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) FHIR
2 9 (17.31%) JSON
3 3 (5.77%) XML
4 1 (1.92%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.92%) Middleware
4 1 (1.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.92%) React
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (44.23%) NHS
2 9 (17.31%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (11.54%) PACS
4 3 (5.77%) LIMS
5 1 (1.92%) CCTV
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (19.23%) Information Governance
3 9 (17.31%) Migration
3 9 (17.31%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
6 6 (11.54%) API Integration
6 6 (11.54%) ETL
7 5 (9.62%) AI
7 5 (9.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (7.69%) Informatics
9 3 (5.77%) Agile
9 3 (5.77%) Health Informatics
9 3 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (5.77%) Validation
10 2 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (3.85%) Data Cleansing
10 2 (3.85%) Data Governance
10 2 (3.85%) Data Integration
10 2 (3.85%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) SQL
2 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 10 (19.23%) LINC
4 6 (11.54%) Python
5 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.85%) Java
7 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (34.62%) HL7
2 6 (11.54%) DICOM
2 6 (11.54%) SNOMED CT
3 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Blue Prism
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.92%) Cerner
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce