National Health Service (NHS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 410 409
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 -137
Permanent jobs citing NHS 273 609 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.62% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 1.74% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 158 492 584
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,277
25th Percentile £39,929 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -3.05% +3.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,625 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,569 £46,500 £46,581
% change year-on-year +0.15% -0.17% -1.94%

All Generic Skills
UK

NHS 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 18,030 35,099 45,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 35.64% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,845 23,059 23,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the UK

NHS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS.

Salary trend for NHS in the UK

NHS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the UK

NHS
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -68 205 £57,500 +21.05% 503
UK excluding London -59 115 £46,569 +0.15% 364
Work from Home +78 111 £56,250 +4.17% 237
London +76 78 £57,500 -2.13% 186
North of England -32 49 £32,500 -19.02% 123
North West -2 35 £32,500 -17.20% 58
South East +35 24 £42,500 -15.00% 80
East of England +36 15 £60,000 +100.00% 44
Midlands +19 15 £60,000 +12.15% 40
West Midlands -2 12 £60,000 +12.15% 18
Yorkshire +9 11 £50,500 +12.22% 58
Wales +43 10 £65,000 +21.50% 23
South West +66 4 £53,750 +36.08% 45
East Midlands +42 3 £60,000 +28.34% 20
North East +24 3 - - 13

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (8.42%) CMS
2 21 (7.69%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
Applications
1 17 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.10%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.73%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.73%) Maya
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.37%) InDesign
6 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.10%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.92%) AWS
2 28 (10.26%) Azure
3 17 (6.23%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.13%) SaaS
5 9 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.20%) Google Workspace
8 5 (1.83%) Google Ads
8 5 (1.83%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.47%) Figma
9 4 (1.47%) GCP
9 4 (1.47%) GitHub
9 4 (1.47%) Slack
10 3 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.69%) Intranet
2 5 (1.83%) SSL
2 5 (1.83%) WAN
3 4 (1.47%) 4G
3 4 (1.47%) 5G
3 4 (1.47%) DNS
3 4 (1.47%) Firewall
3 4 (1.47%) Unified Communications
3 4 (1.47%) VPN
4 3 (1.10%) Broadband
4 3 (1.10%) Internet
4 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.73%) DHCP
5 2 (0.73%) VoIP
5 2 (0.73%) Wireless
5 2 (0.73%) WPA
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 32 (11.72%) Electronic Patient Records
3 31 (11.36%) MySQL
4 11 (4.03%) Power BI
5 7 (2.56%) Tableau
6 6 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.10%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.10%) Metadata
7 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.73%) QlikView
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.37%) Big Data
9 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.56%) JIRA
2 6 (2.20%) Git
3 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.73%) git-flow
4 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) Selenium
4 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.37%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.37%) Gatling
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) JMeter
5 1 (0.37%) Locust
5 1 (0.37%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.32%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.99%) Finance
3 30 (10.99%) Health Technology
3 30 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.69%) Marketing
6 15 (5.49%) Local Government
6 15 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 12 (4.40%) Retail
8 11 (4.03%) Tech for Good
9 9 (3.30%) Advertising
9 9 (3.30%) Law
9 9 (3.30%) Legal
10 7 (2.56%) Games
11 6 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.10%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 39 (14.29%) Lead
2 33 (12.09%) Developer
2 33 (12.09%) Senior
3 23 (8.42%) Consultant
4 21 (7.69%) Umbraco Developer
5 18 (6.59%) Analyst
6 13 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 10 (3.66%) Product Manager
7 10 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (2.93%) Software Engineer
9 7 (2.56%) EPR Consultant
9 7 (2.56%) Sales Executive
10 6 (2.20%) Civil Engineer
10 6 (2.20%) Development Engineer
10 6 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.20%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (2.20%) Principal Consultant
11 5 (1.83%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.75%) jQuery
2 30 (10.99%) HTML
3 29 (10.62%) CSS
4 27 (9.89%) React
5 23 (8.42%) HTML5
6 21 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
7 16 (5.86%) FHIR
8 13 (4.76%) .NET
9 10 (3.66%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (2.20%) Flash
11 5 (1.83%) Vue
12 4 (1.47%) EDI
12 4 (1.47%) JSON
12 4 (1.47%) Node.js
13 3 (1.10%) Kafka
13 3 (1.10%) Laravel
13 3 (1.10%) NumPy
13 3 (1.10%) Pandas
13 3 (1.10%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.40%) Housing Association
2 12 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.03%) Social Media
4 8 (2.93%) Blog
4 8 (2.93%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.56%) PACS
6 5 (1.83%) Life Science
6 5 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.47%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.47%) IoT
7 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.10%) LIMS
8 3 (1.10%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.86%) Linux
1 16 (5.86%) Windows
2 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.73%) Android
4 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (15.02%) Mentoring
3 33 (12.09%) Project Management
4 31 (11.36%) Software Engineering
5 30 (10.99%) Decision-Making
6 29 (10.62%) Customer Requirements
6 29 (10.62%) Roadmaps
7 26 (9.52%) Analytics
7 26 (9.52%) Business Development
8 24 (8.79%) Content Management
8 24 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (8.42%) Clean Code
9 23 (8.42%) Product Roadmap
9 23 (8.42%) Project Delivery
9 23 (8.42%) Web Development
10 22 (8.06%) Risk Management
11 21 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (7.33%) ITIL
13 19 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (6.59%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 60 (21.98%) SQL
2 32 (11.72%) C#
3 27 (9.89%) JavaScript
4 25 (9.16%) Ruby
5 17 (6.23%) Python
6 11 (4.03%) Java
7 6 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.47%) PHP
9 4 (1.47%) VB
10 3 (1.10%) Bash
10 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.37%) Bicep
11 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 86 (31.50%) Degree
2 20 (7.33%) DBS Check
3 11 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.56%) HNC
6 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.47%) ACCA
8 3 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) CIMA
8 3 (1.10%) CIPFA
8 3 (1.10%) HND
9 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.37%) CWNA
10 1 (0.37%) CWTS
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.09%) Accessibility
2 28 (10.26%) GDPR
3 23 (8.42%) WCAG
4 20 (7.33%) QA
5 15 (5.49%) HL7
6 7 (2.56%) SNOMED CT
7 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.10%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.73%) DICOM
9 2 (0.73%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.37%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.37%) Docker
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.47%) Ansible
1 4 (1.47%) Terraform
2 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.10%) SCCM
3 1 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.69%) HP
3 13 (4.76%) Google
4 12 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.20%) Adobe
5 6 (2.20%) Cisco
5 6 (2.20%) Siemens
6 5 (1.83%) Cerner
6 5 (1.83%) VMware
7 4 (1.47%) Oracle
8 3 (1.10%) Facebook
8 3 (1.10%) Mitel
8 3 (1.10%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.10%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.73%) Logi
9 2 (0.73%) Logi Analytics
9 2 (0.73%) Tenable
10 1 (0.37%) Monzo
10 1 (0.37%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk