Housing Association Job Trends

Housing Association
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Housing Association in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Housing Association over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 640 528
Rank change year-on-year +10 -112 +51
Permanent jobs citing Housing Association 175 26 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.053% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.13% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 135 15 71
10th Percentile - £40,000 £27,117
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,200 £49,762
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.90% +24.74%
75th Percentile £64,500 £56,250 £61,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £64,500 £83,121
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,200 £46,000
% change year-on-year -18.58% +13.48% +22.67%

All Generic Skills
UK

Housing Association 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 32,149 19,978 22,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.09% 40.61% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 19,674 10,209 11,300
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,947 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +14.44% -15.09% -3.64%

Housing Association
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Housing Association job vacancy trend in the UK

Housing Association
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Housing Association.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Housing Association

Housing Association
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Housing Association over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Housing Association within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 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 +7 161 £45,001 -13.79% 47
UK excluding London -32 114 £42,500 -18.58% 34
London -7 60 £64,000 +21.90% 22
Work from Home -15 46 £45,001 -14.28% 27
Midlands -26 33 £35,000 -32.95% 7
West Midlands -12 32 £35,000 -32.95% 6
North of England -30 32 £49,551 -23.77% 7
East of England - 22 £37,000 - 3
North West -18 13 £47,500 -26.92% 5
South East - 10 £44,750 - 8
Yorkshire - 10 £60,000 - 2
North East - 9 £60,000 -
Wales - 8 £60,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 -
South West -64 4 £62,500 +56.25%
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

Housing Association
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 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.57%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 21 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.00%) NEC Housing
2 6 (3.43%) Academy Housing
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 14 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.29%) SaaS
5 3 (1.71%) Azure
6 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.57%) AWS
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.43%) Power BI
2 3 (1.71%) Power Query
3 2 (1.14%) Tableau
4 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Selenium
1 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 46 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.29%) Local Government
3 33 (18.86%) Social Housing
4 29 (16.57%) Finance
5 23 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (12.57%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (9.71%) Retail
8 13 (7.43%) Legal
9 6 (3.43%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.14%) Advertising
11 2 (1.14%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Marketing
12 1 (0.57%) Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.43%) Analyst
2 22 (12.57%) Applications Manager
2 22 (12.57%) Planning Manager
3 20 (11.43%) Developer
4 19 (10.86%) Salesforce Developer
5 17 (9.71%) Cloud Developer
6 14 (8.00%) Data Analyst
7 10 (5.71%) Business Development Manager
7 10 (5.71%) Business Manager
7 10 (5.71%) Development Manager
8 9 (5.14%) Lead
8 9 (5.14%) Senior
8 9 (5.14%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Service Analyst
10 6 (3.43%) Administrator
10 6 (3.43%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.43%) Technical Support
11 5 (2.86%) Applications Support
11 5 (2.86%) Support Analyst
11 5 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.57%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.71%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.14%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.14%) PDA
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Clustering
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Derivative
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.71%) Windows
2 2 (1.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (9.71%) Business Development
3 16 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (9.14%) Data Analysis
4 15 (8.57%) Service Delivery
5 11 (6.29%) Decision-Making
5 11 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (5.71%) Agile
6 10 (5.71%) AI
6 10 (5.71%) Customer Service
7 9 (5.14%) Analytics
7 9 (5.14%) Information Management
7 9 (5.14%) Mentoring
8 8 (4.57%) Asset Management
8 8 (4.57%) Change Management
8 8 (4.57%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (4.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (4.00%) Housing Management
9 7 (4.00%) Validation
10 6 (3.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.29%) SQL
2 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
2 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (1.14%) SOQL
2 2 (1.14%) SOSL
3 1 (0.57%) C#
3 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (5.14%) DBS Check
2 5 (2.86%) CCAB
3 4 (2.29%) ACCA
3 4 (2.29%) CIMA
3 4 (2.29%) CIPFA
3 4 (2.29%) Degree
4 2 (1.14%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.71%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.14%) PMO
3 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.43%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.00%) NEC
4 5 (2.86%) Civica
4 5 (2.86%) SAP
5 3 (1.71%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.14%) Northgate
6 2 (1.14%) Sophos
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle