NHS Jobs with Work from Home 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 345 380
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 +56
Permanent jobs citing NHS 175 206 627
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 0.77% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.94% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 116 182 454
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,295 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,229 £85,977 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,500 £40,500 £53,219
% change year-on-year +37.04% -23.90% -7.45%

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 8,400 10,615 30,995
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.24% 39.87% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,725 8,297 17,366
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,294 £37,942
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £106,250 £100,640
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

NHS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NHS trend for jobs with a WFH option

NHS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing NHS over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

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 4 (2.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.14%) Trello
4 1 (0.57%) InVision
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Sketch
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (8.57%) NEC Housing
2 7 (4.00%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.14%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.57%) Azure
2 20 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 16 (9.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (8.57%) SaaS
5 13 (7.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.71%) AWS
8 6 (3.43%) BigCommerce
8 6 (3.43%) Serverless
9 5 (2.86%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.71%) Azure Stack
12 2 (1.14%) Firebase
12 2 (1.14%) Google Ads
12 2 (1.14%) npm
12 2 (1.14%) Storyblok
13 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.57%) Google Tag Manager
13 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) Broadband
1 5 (2.86%) DNS
1 5 (2.86%) Internet
1 5 (2.86%) SAN
1 5 (2.86%) WPA
2 1 (0.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) Power BI
2 16 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.71%) Oracle Database
4 9 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.57%) SQLite
6 7 (4.00%) Power Query
7 4 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.71%) Big Data
8 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.71%) Tableau
9 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.57%) MySQL
10 1 (0.57%) QlikView
10 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (1.71%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.71%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) gulp
3 2 (1.14%) Selenium
4 1 (0.57%) Appium
4 1 (0.57%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 59 (33.71%) Finance
3 40 (22.86%) Public Sector
4 34 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (16.57%) Marketing
6 19 (10.86%) Local Government
7 15 (8.57%) Police
8 12 (6.86%) Digital Healthcare
8 12 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (6.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (5.71%) Electronics
10 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.00%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.86%) Health Technology
13 4 (2.29%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (1.14%) Public Speaking
16 1 (0.57%) Advertising
16 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 43 (24.57%) Developer
2 28 (16.00%) Analyst
3 19 (10.86%) Senior
4 18 (10.29%) Software Developer
5 14 (8.00%) Development Manager
5 14 (8.00%) Product Manager
6 13 (7.43%) Business Development Manager
6 13 (7.43%) Business Manager
7 12 (6.86%) Lead
8 10 (5.71%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.71%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (5.71%) PL/SQL Developer
8 10 (5.71%) Power BI Developer
8 10 (5.71%) SQL Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Head of Engineering
11 6 (3.43%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.43%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.86%) .NET
2 18 (10.29%) CSS
3 16 (9.14%) HTML
4 15 (8.57%) REST
5 11 (6.29%) JSON
5 11 (6.29%) React
5 11 (6.29%) XML
6 10 (5.71%) Ruby on Rails
6 10 (5.71%) SOAP
7 8 (4.57%) Django
7 8 (4.57%) htmx
8 7 (4.00%) ASP.NET
9 6 (3.43%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (2.29%) FHIR
12 3 (1.71%) Razor View Engine
13 2 (1.14%) .NET Framework
13 2 (1.14%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (1.14%) Vue
14 1 (0.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) PMI
2 7 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.29%) CSOC
3 4 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.29%) Life Science
3 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.71%) Genomics
4 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.14%) Blog
5 2 (1.14%) Replication
5 2 (1.14%) Social Media
6 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.57%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Android
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.29%) Computer Science
2 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (17.71%) Software Engineering
4 30 (17.14%) Analytics
5 24 (13.71%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (13.71%) Mentoring
5 24 (13.71%) Roadmaps
6 23 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (12.57%) Acceptance Criteria
8 21 (12.00%) Agile
8 21 (12.00%) User Stories
9 18 (10.29%) Customer Service
9 18 (10.29%) Product Roadmap
10 17 (9.71%) Business Development
10 17 (9.71%) Project Management
11 16 (9.14%) Market Research
12 15 (8.57%) Product Requirements
13 14 (8.00%) Change Management
13 14 (8.00%) Product Strategy
14 13 (7.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (24.57%) SQL
2 18 (10.29%) Java
3 17 (9.71%) C#
4 12 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.86%) Python
5 11 (6.29%) R
6 10 (5.71%) C
6 10 (5.71%) PL/SQL
6 10 (5.71%) Ruby
7 7 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (4.00%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.57%) JSX
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 61 (34.86%) Degree
2 37 (21.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (14.86%) DBS Check
4 16 (9.14%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.86%) PMI Certification
6 10 (5.71%) CIPD
7 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.86%) MCITP
8 5 (2.86%) MCSE
8 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.29%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.29%) GIAC
9 4 (2.29%) ISACA
9 4 (2.29%) SANS
10 3 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.57%) CISA
12 1 (0.57%) CISM
12 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.43%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) NIST
4 4 (2.29%) HL7
4 4 (2.29%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.71%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.71%) Docker
2 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.14%) Terraform
2 1 (0.57%) Grafana
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.57%) NEC
3 13 (7.43%) Oracle
4 7 (4.00%) SAP
5 5 (2.86%) Cisco
5 5 (2.86%) Commvault
5 5 (2.86%) IBM
5 5 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.86%) Veeam
5 5 (2.86%) VMware
6 2 (1.14%) Cerner
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) Google
7 1 (0.57%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat