NHS Jobs in England

National Health Service (NHS)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NHS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 422 326
Rank change year-on-year +40 -96 +63
Permanent jobs citing NHS 572 639 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.72% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 1.68% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 451 472 782
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,025 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,573 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.15% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,573 £50,045
% change year-on-year -3.05% +3.05% -9.01%

All Generic Skills
England

NHS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,822 38,083 63,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.48% 43.17% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20,875 20,890 30,322
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in England

NHS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in England.

Salary trend for NHS in England

NHS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NHS in England

NHS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
North of England +72 183 £40,132 -10.82% 283
London +32 113 £57,500 -5.06% 300
South East 0 105 £50,000 -2.68% 205
Yorkshire +111 83 £43,742 -1.89% 108
Midlands +38 78 £53,500 +7.00% 224
North West +25 71 £40,000 -22.44% 142
West Midlands +57 65 £53,500 +1.90% 120
South West -76 43 £39,500 -18.97% 143
East of England -4 36 £30,000 +15.38% 147
North East -30 29 £41,000 -8.21% 35
East Midlands -9 10 £48,500 +17.58% 104
NHS
UK

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (1.40%) CMS
2 5 (0.87%) Confluence
3 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.17%) Jetty
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.22%) InVision
4 7 (1.22%) Sketch
5 6 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.17%) CorelDRAW
8 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Primavera
3 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 107 (18.71%) Azure
2 55 (9.62%) AWS
3 44 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.45%) SaaS
7 13 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.75%) GCP
9 10 (1.75%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (1.40%) dbt
10 8 (1.40%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.87%) BigCommerce
12 4 (0.70%) npm
12 4 (0.70%) Storyblok
13 3 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.85%) Internet
1 22 (3.85%) LAN
1 22 (3.85%) WAN
2 18 (3.15%) Firewall
3 16 (2.80%) Broadband
3 16 (2.80%) WPA
4 10 (1.75%) Intranet
5 9 (1.57%) DNS
5 9 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.22%) DHCP
7 6 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.87%) Network Security
8 5 (0.87%) SAN
8 5 (0.87%) VPN
9 3 (0.52%) Wireless
10 1 (0.17%) DECT
10 1 (0.17%) NGFW
10 1 (0.17%) RFID
10 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 37 (6.47%) Power BI
3 34 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.67%) Tableau
5 20 (3.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 16 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (1.22%) Big Data
10 7 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.22%) Looker
10 7 (1.22%) Metadata
10 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 6 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.87%) MySQL
12 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (1.57%) JIRA
2 5 (0.87%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.70%) Git
3 4 (0.70%) gulp
3 4 (0.70%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (0.70%) Postman
4 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.35%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (0.35%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.17%) Moq
6 1 (0.17%) NUnit
6 1 (0.17%) Selenium
6 1 (0.17%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 216 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 123 (21.50%) Finance
3 97 (16.96%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 55 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
6 53 (9.27%) Marketing
7 48 (8.39%) Local Government
8 44 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (6.47%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (6.47%) Retail
10 35 (6.12%) Health Technology
11 31 (5.42%) Billing
12 15 (2.62%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.45%) Environmental Health
14 13 (2.27%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.10%) Digital Health
16 11 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
17 10 (1.75%) Police
18 9 (1.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (14.34%) Senior
2 73 (12.76%) Developer
3 64 (11.19%) Project Manager
4 48 (8.39%) Lead
5 47 (8.22%) Analyst
6 32 (5.59%) Audit Manager
7 24 (4.20%) Senior Developer
8 20 (3.50%) Business Manager
9 18 (3.15%) Architect
9 18 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
9 18 (3.15%) Product Manager
10 17 (2.97%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (2.80%) Senior Manager
12 15 (2.62%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.62%) Support Technician
13 14 (2.45%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.27%) IT Manager
15 12 (2.10%) Digital Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.10%) Software Developer
15 12 (2.10%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.09%) .NET
2 31 (5.42%) HTML
3 30 (5.24%) CSS
4 22 (3.85%) React
5 14 (2.45%) ASP.NET
6 13 (2.27%) XML
7 12 (2.10%) .NET Core
7 12 (2.10%) AngularJS
7 12 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (2.10%) Node.js
8 9 (1.57%) Vue
9 8 (1.40%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.40%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (1.22%) HTML5
10 7 (1.22%) jQuery
10 7 (1.22%) RESTful
11 5 (0.87%) Entity Framework
11 5 (0.87%) FHIR
11 5 (0.87%) Web Services
11 5 (0.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.97%) Management Information System
2 34 (5.94%) Housing Association
3 26 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 18 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.57%) LIMS
7 9 (1.57%) PKI
7 9 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.40%) Social Media
9 7 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.05%) CCTV
10 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.87%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.87%) PMI
12 4 (0.70%) BYOD
12 4 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.97%) Windows
2 28 (4.90%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.97%) Windows 10
4 12 (2.10%) Linux
5 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.70%) Android
7 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (17.66%) Project Management
3 85 (14.86%) Agile
4 55 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
5 51 (8.92%) Business Development
6 49 (8.57%) Coaching
7 48 (8.39%) Customer Service
8 45 (7.87%) Decision-Making
9 44 (7.69%) Analytics
10 43 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (7.17%) Roadmaps
12 40 (6.99%) Service Management
13 39 (6.82%) DevOps
13 39 (6.82%) PRINCE2
14 38 (6.64%) Change Management
14 38 (6.64%) Information Governance
15 35 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (6.12%) Performance Management
15 35 (6.12%) Project Delivery
16 34 (5.94%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (15.73%) SQL
2 57 (9.97%) C#
3 39 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 34 (5.94%) Python
5 23 (4.02%) Java
6 19 (3.32%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.80%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.92%) R
9 6 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.87%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.70%) Groovy
11 4 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.70%) PHP
11 4 (0.70%) Ruby
12 3 (0.52%) Bash
12 3 (0.52%) JSX
13 2 (0.35%) Bicep
13 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (15.21%) Degree
2 66 (11.54%) DBS Check
3 32 (5.59%) ACCA
4 24 (4.20%) CIPD
5 16 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.40%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.22%) NVQ Level 3
8 7 (1.22%) Postgraduate
9 6 (1.05%) CISSP
9 6 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.87%) CISM
10 5 (0.87%) MCSE
10 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.87%) PMP
11 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.74%) GDPR
2 31 (5.42%) GAAP
2 31 (5.42%) IFRS
3 23 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 19 (3.32%) QA
6 12 (2.10%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.92%) PMO
8 8 (1.40%) ISO 9001
9 6 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.05%) GMP
9 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 6 (1.05%) NCSC
10 5 (0.87%) SLA
11 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.52%) WCAG
12 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.35%) GRC
12 2 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.27%) Docker
4 9 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.70%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (4.90%) Terraform
2 16 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.70%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 131 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.59%) CA
3 18 (3.15%) Northgate
4 16 (2.80%) Google
4 16 (2.80%) VMware
5 14 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.10%) Adobe
7 9 (1.57%) Databricks
8 7 (1.22%) Cisco
9 6 (1.05%) Facebook
9 6 (1.05%) Hotjar
9 6 (1.05%) SAP
10 5 (0.87%) RedGate
11 4 (0.70%) Datix
11 4 (0.70%) ESRI
11 4 (0.70%) HP
12 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.52%) New Relic
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle
12 3 (0.52%) ServiceNow