Health Technology Job Trends

Health Technology (HealthTech)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Health Technology in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Health Technology over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 534 634
Rank change year-on-year -24 +100 +78
Permanent jobs citing Health Technology 237 165 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.48% 0.48% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 212 145 169
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% +3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £99,875 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All General Skills
UK

Health Technology falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 49,582 34,450 47,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.67% 68.98% 57.36%
Number of salaries quoted 30,326 18,013 28,361
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

Health Technology
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Health Technology relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Health Technology job vacancy trend in the UK

Health Technology
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Technology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Technology

Health Technology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Health Technology over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Health Technology in the UK

Health Technology
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Health Technology within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 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 -12 208 £60,000 -6.25% 99
UK excluding London -21 138 £60,000 -4.00% 44
Work from Home +10 113 £60,000 -6.25% 53
London -48 63 £71,250 +11.33% 64
South East +14 47 £85,000 +25.93% 12
East of England +3 35 £60,000 +20.00% 10
North of England -32 29 £40,000 -40.74% 9
North West +8 22 £40,000 -40.74% 6
South West -44 15 £52,500 -25.00% 9
Midlands -39 10 £48,375 -19.38% 5
Yorkshire -20 7 £62,500 +78.57% 2
East Midlands -27 7 £46,750 +6.86% 2
West Midlands -25 3 £50,500 - 3
Scotland +15 2 £125,000 +78.57% 1

Health Technology
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 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.10%) AWS
2 35 (14.77%) SaaS
3 19 (8.02%) Azure
4 11 (4.64%) Serverless
5 10 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.69%) GitHub
7 4 (1.69%) IaaS
7 4 (1.69%) PaaS
8 3 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.27%) Figma
8 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (0.84%) dbt
9 2 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.84%) Fivetran
9 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) AMQP
1 5 (2.11%) SMS
2 2 (0.84%) MQTT
3 1 (0.42%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.39%) Electronic Patient Records
2 15 (6.33%) MySQL
3 9 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.84%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.84%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.42%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (1.69%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) Git
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
3 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.42%) JMeter
4 1 (0.42%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
General
1 36 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.77%) Wearables
3 27 (11.39%) Tech for Good
4 15 (6.33%) Digital Health
4 15 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.91%) Finance
6 11 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.53%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Publishing
11 3 (1.27%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.84%) Automotive
12 2 (0.84%) Games
12 2 (0.84%) Law
12 2 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 55 (23.21%) Senior
2 30 (12.66%) Compliance Manager
3 29 (12.24%) Developer
4 22 (9.28%) Account Manager
5 20 (8.44%) Java Engineer
6 17 (7.17%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.75%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.49%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.49%) Senior Manager
10 12 (5.06%) Architect
10 12 (5.06%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (5.06%) Python Developer
10 12 (5.06%) Senior Python Developer
11 10 (4.22%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.22%) Business Development Manager
11 10 (4.22%) Development Manager
11 10 (4.22%) Sales Account Manager
11 10 (4.22%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.91%) JSON
2 12 (5.06%) FHIR
3 10 (4.22%) HTML
3 10 (4.22%) React
4 8 (3.38%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.95%) CSS
5 7 (2.95%) Spring
5 7 (2.95%) XML
6 5 (2.11%) JPA
6 5 (2.11%) OAuth
6 5 (2.11%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.11%) OpenID
6 5 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.11%) Spring Security
6 5 (2.11%) Thymeleaf
7 4 (1.69%) RESTful
7 4 (1.69%) Swagger
8 3 (1.27%) Next.js
8 3 (1.27%) Playwright
8 3 (1.27%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.78%) NHS
2 16 (6.75%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.11%) Robotics
7 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.69%) IoT
7 4 (1.69%) PACS
8 3 (1.27%) LIMS
8 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.22%) Linux
2 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (13.08%) Roadmaps
2 25 (10.55%) AI
3 22 (9.28%) Software Engineering
4 19 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (7.59%) Machine Learning
5 18 (7.59%) Migration
6 17 (7.17%) Agile
7 15 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (5.91%) Decision-Making
9 13 (5.49%) Data Migration
9 13 (5.49%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (5.49%) User Experience
10 12 (5.06%) CRM
11 11 (4.64%) Business Development
11 11 (4.64%) DevOps
12 10 (4.22%) Business Case
12 10 (4.22%) Data Science
12 10 (4.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.19%) Java
2 32 (13.50%) SQL
3 28 (11.81%) Python
4 22 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.38%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.69%) C#
7 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.27%) PHP
9 1 (0.42%) Bicep
9 1 (0.42%) C
9 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (2.53%) Degree
2 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.84%) PMP
3 2 (0.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.84%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.42%) ACCA
4 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.42%) CIMA
4 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.91%) HL7
1 14 (5.91%) QA
2 10 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.38%) SLA
4 4 (1.69%) DICOM
4 4 (1.69%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.27%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 2 (0.84%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.42%) GAAP
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (4.22%) Terraform
2 5 (2.11%) Ansible
3 2 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.42%) Argo
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.42%) Graylog
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (2.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.11%) Blue Prism
3 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.27%) Adobe
4 3 (1.27%) Hotjar
5 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.84%) Meraki
6 1 (0.42%) Xero