NHS Jobs in the West Midlands

National Health Service (NHS)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 182 186 230
Rank change year-on-year +4 +44 -39
Permanent jobs citing NHS 15 67 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.85% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 2.60% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2 59 17
10th Percentile £59,125 £23,500 £38,395
25th Percentile £63,438 £41,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.85% +1.90% +28.83%
75th Percentile £85,938 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,375 £64,750 £80,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.81% +2.96%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,328 2,573 2,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.76% 32.60% 45.84%
Number of salaries quoted 668 1,689 966
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the West Midlands

NHS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +24 10 £90,000 +56.52% 10
Solihull - 2 - -
Worcestershire +19 1 - -
Coventry - 1 - - 4
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure AI
1 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (13.33%) IaaS
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
1 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) IOS XR
3 1 (6.67%) MPLS
3 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Local Government
4 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Civil Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Development Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Network Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Network Operations Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Business Development Director
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Development Director
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Development Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Jinja
1 1 (6.67%) OpenConfig
1 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
2 7 (46.67%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) Business Development
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (20.00%) Business Case
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Due Diligence
5 3 (20.00%) Feasibility Study
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Line Management
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Psychology
5 3 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bicep
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) HNC
2 3 (20.00%) HND
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Meraki
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Juniper
2 1 (6.67%) Nexthink
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow