NHS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 359 299
Rank change year-on-year +13 -60 +14
Permanent jobs citing NHS 130 253 435
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.74% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 2.09% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 45 217 363
10th Percentile £37,010 £31,250 £31,551
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +4.39% +2.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £81,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -2.91% +2.65%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,862 12,098 15,476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.22% 35.39% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 9,252 11,284
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £39,294
25th Percentile £46,813 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

NHS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NHS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NHS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NHS.

NHS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NHS over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

NHS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.85%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) AutoCAD
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.31%) Blender
3 3 (2.31%) ProjectWise
3 3 (2.31%) Revit
3 3 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.77%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.77%) Power Platform
2 23 (17.69%) AWS
2 23 (17.69%) Azure
3 22 (16.92%) SaaS
4 18 (13.85%) Entra ID
5 17 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (13.08%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (13.08%) Power Automate
6 16 (12.31%) Azure AI
6 16 (12.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 16 (12.31%) Azure Key Vault
6 16 (12.31%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (12.31%) IaaS
6 16 (12.31%) PaaS
7 4 (3.08%) Google Workspace
7 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.54%) GitHub
8 2 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.54%) Serverless
9 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.38%) WAN
2 19 (14.62%) VPN
3 17 (13.08%) DNS
4 16 (12.31%) Firewall
4 16 (12.31%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.08%) 4G
5 4 (3.08%) 5G
5 4 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.08%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.77%) Broadband
6 1 (0.77%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.77%) Power BI
2 17 (13.08%) MySQL
3 16 (12.31%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.38%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (2.31%) Data Mining
6 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.31%) GIS
6 3 (2.31%) QGIS
6 3 (2.31%) Tableau
7 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.77%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.77%) Big Data
8 1 (0.77%) Metadata
8 1 (0.77%) Power Query
8 1 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.77%) QlikView
8 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) Git
2 1 (0.77%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.77%) Gatling
2 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) JMeter
2 1 (0.77%) Locust
2 1 (0.77%) Postman
2 1 (0.77%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.62%) Public Sector
3 24 (18.46%) Finance
4 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (13.85%) Local Government
6 13 (10.00%) Legal
7 10 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.38%) Health Technology
9 6 (4.62%) Fire and Rescue
10 5 (3.85%) Tech for Good
11 4 (3.08%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (3.08%) Marketing
12 3 (2.31%) Environmental Health
13 2 (1.54%) Back Office
13 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.54%) Retail
14 1 (0.77%) Aviation
14 1 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 17 (13.08%) Architect
2 16 (12.31%) Civil Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Cloud Architect
2 16 (12.31%) Development Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Principal Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Senior
3 15 (11.54%) Consultant
4 9 (6.92%) Analyst
4 9 (6.92%) Product Manager
4 9 (6.92%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (5.38%) Senior Development Engineer
5 7 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Data Analyst
6 6 (4.62%) Principal Consultant
7 5 (3.85%) Lead
8 4 (3.08%) Associate Director
8 4 (3.08%) Developer
8 4 (3.08%) Digital Product Manager
8 4 (3.08%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.62%) Flash
2 4 (3.08%) .NET
3 3 (2.31%) HTML
3 3 (2.31%) Leaflet
3 3 (2.31%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.31%) PostGIS
4 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.54%) CSS
4 2 (1.54%) FHIR
4 2 (1.54%) JSON
4 2 (1.54%) React
4 2 (1.54%) XML
5 1 (0.77%) EDI
5 1 (0.77%) HTML5
5 1 (0.77%) Node.js
5 1 (0.77%) NumPy
5 1 (0.77%) RESTful
5 1 (0.77%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Data Centre
2 14 (10.77%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.92%) Housing Association
3 9 (6.92%) Renewable Energy
4 7 (5.38%) IoT
5 6 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.85%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.08%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.31%) Tandem
9 2 (1.54%) ASTM
9 2 (1.54%) Blog
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.54%) PACS
9 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.77%) Animation
10 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.77%) LIMS
10 1 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.31%) Windows
2 2 (1.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.77%) Android
3 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 48 (36.92%) Project Management
3 28 (21.54%) Agile
3 28 (21.54%) Project Delivery
4 27 (20.77%) Analytics
4 27 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 25 (19.23%) Migration
7 22 (16.92%) ITIL
7 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (16.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (15.38%) DevOps
9 20 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
10 19 (14.62%) Service Management
11 18 (13.85%) Waterfall
12 17 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (12.31%) Log Analytics
13 16 (12.31%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.38%) SQL
2 18 (13.85%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.31%) Bicep
4 10 (7.69%) Python
5 7 (5.38%) C#
6 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.31%) Java
7 3 (2.31%) R
8 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.77%) PHP
9 1 (0.77%) Ruby
9 1 (0.77%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (26.92%) Degree
2 20 (15.38%) DBS Check
3 16 (12.31%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.38%) Postgraduate
6 4 (3.08%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.31%) ACCA
7 3 (2.31%) CIMA
7 3 (2.31%) CIPFA
7 3 (2.31%) HNC
7 3 (2.31%) HND
8 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.62%) Accessibility
2 16 (12.31%) QA
3 5 (3.85%) GDPR
4 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.31%) PMO
6 2 (1.54%) DICOM
6 2 (1.54%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.77%) HL7
7 1 (0.77%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (12.31%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (12.31%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.31%) SCCM
3 1 (0.77%) Ansible
3 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (12.31%) Databricks
1 16 (12.31%) Meraki
2 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.85%) Google
4 4 (3.08%) Oracle
4 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.31%) Autodesk
5 3 (2.31%) Siemens
5 3 (2.31%) TOWER Software
6 2 (1.54%) Adobe
6 2 (1.54%) Cerner
7 1 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.77%) Sage
7 1 (0.77%) SIMUL8
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.77%) Telerik
7 1 (0.77%) Tenable
7 1 (0.77%) VMware