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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 358 397
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 +8
Permanent jobs citing NHS 473 338 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.77% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 1.84% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 332 154 500
10th Percentile £30,025 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £39,929 £37,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,504
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +13.85% -2.07%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,534
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £80,673
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% - +1.97%

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 24,104 18,348 34,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.66% 41.79% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,513 9,360 23,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,870 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NHS job vacancy trend in the UK

NHS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NHS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NHS

NHS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for NHS in the UK

NHS
Top 16 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 11 May 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 +60 407 £60,000 +4.35% 266
UK excluding London +59 353 £60,000 +26.32% 215
North of England +26 156 £60,000 +84.62% 67
Yorkshire +31 114 £60,000 +26.32% 30
Work from Home +3 102 £60,000 +9.09% 103
South East +23 85 £57,000 +34.12% 52
London -31 62 £69,559 +20.97% 71
North West -1 42 £70,000 +115.38% 34
Midlands -15 39 £42,500 -29.17% 41
South West -18 36 £32,000 -40.47% 29
West Midlands -12 26 £40,000 -33.33% 25
Wales -22 14 £85,000 +30.77% 12
East Midlands -19 13 £70,000 +16.67% 16
East of England -32 13 £38,000 -36.67% 10
Scotland - 7 £90,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 3 - -

NHS
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 7 (1.48%) Moodle
2 5 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (0.85%) Apache
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.42%) WordPress
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.27%) Maya
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.63%) Sketch
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 29 (6.13%) SystmOne
2 10 (2.11%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.42%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (0.42%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (6.34%) Azure
2 29 (6.13%) Power Platform
3 27 (5.71%) AWS
4 13 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (2.33%) SaaS
6 9 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.48%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.27%) OCI
8 6 (1.27%) Serverless
9 5 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.85%) Figma
10 4 (0.85%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.63%) dbt
11 3 (0.63%) GCP
11 3 (0.63%) GitHub
11 3 (0.63%) PaaS
12 2 (0.42%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.42%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.59%) VPN
2 9 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.48%) Firewall
4 6 (1.27%) SSL
5 5 (1.06%) Internet
5 5 (1.06%) WebEx
6 4 (0.85%) VLAN
7 3 (0.63%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.42%) DNS
8 2 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.42%) Wireless
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.07%) Electronic Patient Records
2 21 (4.44%) Power BI
3 14 (2.96%) MySQL
4 8 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.27%) Tableau
7 4 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.21%) Big Data
10 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.21%) Metadata
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.21%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 9 (1.90%) JIRA
2 6 (1.27%) Git
3 5 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.63%) Maven
4 3 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.42%) GitLab
5 2 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 107 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.24%) Public Sector
3 68 (14.38%) Digital Healthcare
4 57 (12.05%) Local Government
5 49 (10.36%) Finance
6 45 (9.51%) Health Technology
7 31 (6.55%) Digital Health
8 28 (5.92%) Marketing
9 26 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.59%) Billing
11 15 (3.17%) French Language
11 15 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (3.17%) Portuguese Language
12 14 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.75%) Spanish Language
14 12 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.90%) Legal
16 8 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (14.59%) Account Manager
2 60 (12.68%) Senior
3 26 (5.50%) Developer
4 25 (5.29%) Analyst
4 25 (5.29%) Architect
4 25 (5.29%) Lead
5 22 (4.65%) Business Manager
5 22 (4.65%) Senior Developer
6 21 (4.44%) Development Manager
6 21 (4.44%) IT Support
6 21 (4.44%) Senior Manager
7 20 (4.23%) Business Development Manager
8 19 (4.02%) Audit Manager
9 17 (3.59%) Consultant
9 17 (3.59%) Technical Support
10 15 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
11 14 (2.96%) Coordinator
11 14 (2.96%) Support Analyst
12 12 (2.54%) Support Engineer
13 11 (2.33%) Head of Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.59%) FHIR
2 9 (1.90%) JSON
3 6 (1.27%) React
4 4 (0.85%) MFC
4 4 (0.85%) PySpark
4 4 (0.85%) REST
4 4 (0.85%) Vue
5 3 (0.63%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.63%) RAML
5 3 (0.63%) SOAP
5 3 (0.63%) XML
6 2 (0.42%) .NET
6 2 (0.42%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.42%) CSS
6 2 (0.42%) EDI
6 2 (0.42%) HTML
6 2 (0.42%) Laravel
6 2 (0.42%) Middleware
7 1 (0.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.90%) e-Learning
6 9 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.48%) Augmented Reality
7 7 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.48%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.06%) Web Conferencing
9 4 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 4 (0.85%) Life Science
9 4 (0.85%) PACS
10 3 (0.63%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.65%) Windows
2 19 (4.02%) Linux
3 3 (0.63%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Android
4 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (9.94%) Mentoring
3 42 (8.88%) Decision-Making
4 39 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 38 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (7.82%) Agile
7 31 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (5.71%) Data Protection
9 26 (5.50%) Roadmaps
10 25 (5.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (5.07%) Business Development
12 21 (4.44%) Coaching
12 21 (4.44%) Migration
13 20 (4.23%) Information Governance
14 19 (4.02%) Benchmarking
14 19 (4.02%) Data Security
15 18 (3.81%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (3.81%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (3.81%) Disaster Recovery
15 18 (3.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.77%) SQL
2 16 (3.38%) JavaScript
3 14 (2.96%) Java
4 13 (2.75%) Python
5 7 (1.48%) C++
6 6 (1.27%) C#
7 4 (0.85%) PHP
7 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.42%) Bicep
8 2 (0.42%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.21%) R
9 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (6.77%) Degree
2 19 (4.02%) ACCA
3 14 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.33%) Postgraduate
5 10 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.48%) City & Guilds
7 4 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.63%) CISM
8 3 (0.63%) CISSP
9 2 (0.42%) CRISC
9 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.42%) PhD
9 2 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.21%) CBAP
10 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.21%) MBA
10 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.23%) HL7
2 19 (4.02%) GAAP
2 19 (4.02%) GDPR
2 19 (4.02%) IFRS
3 12 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.33%) SLA
5 10 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.11%) SNOMED CT
6 9 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.06%) GRC
8 5 (1.06%) QA
9 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.85%) DICOM
9 4 (0.85%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.21%) NIST
11 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.27%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Docker
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.06%) Terraform
2 3 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.63%) SCCM
3 2 (0.42%) Ansible
3 2 (0.42%) cPanel
3 2 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.42%) Plesk
4 1 (0.21%) Argo
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Graylog
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 43 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.54%) Oracle
3 9 (1.90%) Databricks
3 9 (1.90%) Palantir
4 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.48%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.06%) Foundry
6 5 (1.06%) Yealink
7 4 (0.85%) Google
7 4 (0.85%) VMware
8 3 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.42%) IBM
9 2 (0.42%) InterSystems
9 2 (0.42%) Okta
9 2 (0.42%) OpenText
9 2 (0.42%) Sage
9 2 (0.42%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.21%) Cerner
10 1 (0.21%) Facebook