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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 401 413
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 -116
Permanent jobs citing NHS 340 652 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.63% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 1.83% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 134 510 559
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,317 £37,563 £42,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £51,550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -3.01% +2.75%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,470 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £47,199
% change year-on-year +2.15% -1.48% -2.01%

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 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
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 31 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 31 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 -36 275 £57,500 +21.05% 526
UK excluding London -23 193 £47,500 +2.15% 343
Work from Home +7 129 £52,500 -1.87% 249
North of England -47 88 £32,500 -22.62% 118
London +54 65 £57,500 - 206
South East +5 42 £70,000 +40.00% 62
North East +51 33 - - 31
East of England +47 33 £60,000 +100.00% 42
North West -41 33 £32,500 -18.75% 50
Midlands +10 23 £60,000 +12.15% 62
Yorkshire -3 22 £47,500 +8.59% 41
West Midlands +4 15 £73,750 +37.85% 25
East Midlands +43 8 £60,000 +23.71% 36
South West +76 6 £42,500 +7.59% 36
Wales +28 3 - - 16

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 19 (5.59%) CMS
2 17 (5.00%) Umbraco
3 5 (1.47%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) WordPress
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 20 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.94%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.88%) Blender
4 3 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.88%) ProjectWise
4 3 (0.88%) Revit
4 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.29%) Lorenzo
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.29%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 101 (29.71%) Azure
2 93 (27.35%) Entra ID
3 42 (12.35%) AWS
4 34 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.47%) SaaS
6 17 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 16 (4.71%) Azure AI
7 16 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 16 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (4.71%) IaaS
7 16 (4.71%) PaaS
8 6 (1.76%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.18%) Google Ads
9 4 (1.18%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.59%) GCP
10 2 (0.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.18%) VPN
2 20 (5.88%) WAN
3 17 (5.00%) DNS
3 17 (5.00%) Firewall
3 17 (5.00%) Intranet
4 16 (4.71%) SD-WAN
5 9 (2.65%) SSL
6 4 (1.18%) 4G
6 4 (1.18%) 5G
6 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.18%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.88%) Broadband
7 3 (0.88%) Internet
8 2 (0.59%) WPA
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.29%) DHCP
9 1 (0.29%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.29%) MPLS
9 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.18%) MySQL
2 28 (8.24%) Power BI
3 26 (7.65%) Electronic Patient Records
3 26 (7.65%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.18%) Tableau
6 3 (0.88%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.88%) GIS
6 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.88%) QGIS
6 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.59%) QlikView
7 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.29%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) MS Access
8 1 (0.29%) Power Query
8 1 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (1.18%) JIRA
3 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.29%) Gatling
4 1 (0.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) JMeter
4 1 (0.29%) Locust
4 1 (0.29%) Postman
4 1 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.53%) Public Sector
3 30 (8.82%) Finance
3 30 (8.82%) Health Technology
4 24 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.47%) Local Government
7 20 (5.88%) Marketing
8 18 (5.29%) Legal
9 14 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.65%) Advertising
11 8 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.35%) Retail
12 7 (2.06%) Fire and Rescue
12 7 (2.06%) Law
12 7 (2.06%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.76%) Digital Health
13 6 (1.76%) Games
14 5 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (21.76%) Technology Specialist
2 40 (11.76%) Identity Management Specialist
3 38 (11.18%) Lead
4 25 (7.35%) Senior
5 23 (6.76%) Developer
6 21 (6.18%) Consultant
7 17 (5.00%) Umbraco Developer
8 16 (4.71%) Analyst
8 16 (4.71%) Architect
8 16 (4.71%) Civil Engineer
8 16 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (4.71%) Development Engineer
8 16 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (3.24%) IT Support
10 10 (2.94%) Integration Specialist
10 10 (2.94%) Product Manager
11 9 (2.65%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.06%) Sales Executive
12 7 (2.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.29%) jQuery
2 22 (6.47%) HTML
3 21 (6.18%) CSS
3 21 (6.18%) React
4 19 (5.59%) HTML5
5 17 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 15 (4.41%) FHIR
7 10 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (1.76%) Flash
9 4 (1.18%) .NET
10 3 (0.88%) Leaflet
10 3 (0.88%) PostGIS
10 3 (0.88%) Vue
11 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.59%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.59%) JSON
11 2 (0.59%) XML
12 1 (0.29%) Django
12 1 (0.29%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.76%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.94%) Social Media
4 9 (2.65%) Housing Association
4 9 (2.65%) PACS
4 9 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.35%) Blog
5 8 (2.35%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.06%) IoT
6 7 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.18%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.24%) Windows
2 10 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (29.71%) ITIL
2 74 (21.76%) Identity Management
3 54 (15.88%) Mentoring
4 52 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (15.29%) Project Management
5 45 (13.24%) Roadmaps
6 37 (10.88%) Analytics
7 36 (10.59%) Project Delivery
8 32 (9.41%) Agile
9 31 (9.12%) Artificial Intelligence
10 30 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (7.94%) Business Development
11 27 (7.94%) Decision-Making
11 27 (7.94%) Migration
11 27 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (7.65%) Customer Requirements
13 24 (7.06%) Software Engineering
14 23 (6.76%) CI/CD
14 23 (6.76%) DevOps
15 20 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 55 (16.18%) SQL
2 24 (7.06%) C#
3 18 (5.29%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.29%) Ruby
4 16 (4.71%) Bicep
5 15 (4.41%) Python
6 14 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.47%) Java
7 5 (1.47%) R
8 3 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.59%) PHP
9 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.29%) C
10 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (43.24%) Degree
2 105 (30.88%) DBS Check
3 16 (4.71%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.24%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.35%) Postgraduate
7 7 (2.06%) HNC
8 4 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (0.88%) ACCA
9 3 (0.88%) CIMA
9 3 (0.88%) CIPFA
9 3 (0.88%) HND
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PhD
10 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.59%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.76%) GDPR
3 21 (6.18%) QA
4 18 (5.29%) WCAG
5 14 (4.12%) HL7
6 10 (2.94%) SNOMED CT
7 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.88%) DICOM
8 3 (0.88%) PMO
9 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 75 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.76%) SCCM
3 3 (0.88%) Ansible
3 3 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 116 (34.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.00%) HP
3 16 (4.71%) Databricks
3 16 (4.71%) Meraki
4 13 (3.82%) Google
5 12 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.18%) Oracle
7 3 (0.88%) Adobe
7 3 (0.88%) Autodesk
7 3 (0.88%) Cerner
7 3 (0.88%) Facebook
7 3 (0.88%) Siemens
7 3 (0.88%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.59%) Cisco
8 2 (0.59%) Tenable
9 1 (0.29%) Citrix
9 1 (0.29%) InterSystems
9 1 (0.29%) Juniper
9 1 (0.29%) Monzo
9 1 (0.29%) Nexthink