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 have cited NHS over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 409 294
Rank change year-on-year +13 -115 +117
Permanent jobs citing NHS 652 759 2,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.78% 1.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.84% 1.82% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 510 565 915
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,671
25th Percentile £37,563 £41,659 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,550 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +2.75% -8.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,470 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £47,500 £48,167
% change year-on-year -2.11% -1.38% -8.25%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,507 41,619 80,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.38% 42.84% 48.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,113 22,631 34,154
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,607
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 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NHS in the UK

NHS
Top 16 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 29 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
England +33 590 £47,500 -7.86% 1,220
UK excluding London -12 479 £46,500 -2.11% 973
Work from Home -52 260 £53,500 +3.78% 247
North of England +51 187 £42,000 -6.67% 269
London +41 116 £57,500 -5.06% 280
South East +2 116 £50,000 -3.03% 184
Yorkshire +106 82 £43,742 -1.70% 97
Midlands +25 78 £53,500 +7.00% 197
North West +24 76 £40,000 -20.41% 140
West Midlands +39 67 £53,500 +1.90% 99
South West -71 42 £39,500 -16.84% 137
East of England -9 36 £30,000 +15.38% 134
North East -24 29 £41,000 -8.55% 34
Wales -18 16 £53,500 +19.78% 46
East Midlands -27 8 £48,500 +19.75% 98
Scotland -68 4 £38,470 -38.45% 9

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 8 (1.23%) CMS
2 5 (0.77%) Confluence
3 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.46%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.15%) Jetty
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.07%) InVision
4 7 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Sketch
5 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.15%) CorelDRAW
8 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.31%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 114 (17.48%) Azure
2 59 (9.05%) AWS
3 56 (8.59%) Power Platform
4 43 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (2.45%) SaaS
7 15 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (1.69%) GCP
9 10 (1.53%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.53%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (1.23%) dbt
10 8 (1.23%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.77%) BigCommerce
12 4 (0.61%) npm
12 4 (0.61%) Storyblok
13 3 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.37%) Internet
2 21 (3.22%) LAN
2 21 (3.22%) WAN
3 17 (2.61%) Broadband
3 17 (2.61%) WPA
4 16 (2.45%) Firewall
5 11 (1.69%) DNS
6 10 (1.53%) Intranet
7 9 (1.38%) DHCP
7 9 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.23%) Network Security
9 7 (1.07%) SAN
10 6 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.61%) VPN
12 3 (0.46%) Wireless
13 1 (0.15%) BGP
13 1 (0.15%) MPLS
13 1 (0.15%) NGFW
13 1 (0.15%) OSPF
13 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.98%) Power BI
3 42 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.91%) Tableau
5 19 (2.91%) Electronic Patient Records
6 17 (2.61%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.61%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.69%) Big Data
9 11 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (1.23%) Metadata
10 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 8 (1.23%) SQLite
11 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.07%) Looker
12 6 (0.92%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.77%) MySQL
13 5 (0.77%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.38%) JIRA
2 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.61%) Git
3 4 (0.61%) gulp
3 4 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (0.61%) Postman
4 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.31%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (0.31%) Mercurial
5 2 (0.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.15%) Moq
6 1 (0.15%) NUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 229 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 134 (20.55%) Finance
3 103 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 72 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (10.12%) Pharmaceutical
6 62 (9.51%) Marketing
7 55 (8.44%) Presentation Skills
8 54 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (7.82%) Local Government
10 42 (6.44%) Health Technology
11 39 (5.98%) Retail
12 37 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (4.75%) Billing
14 18 (2.76%) Digital Health
15 15 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 14 (2.15%) Environmental Health
17 13 (1.99%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.84%) Digital Healthcare
18 12 (1.84%) Electronics
19 10 (1.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 91 (13.96%) Senior
2 82 (12.58%) Developer
3 64 (9.82%) Project Manager
4 57 (8.74%) Lead
5 52 (7.98%) Analyst
6 32 (4.91%) Audit Manager
7 31 (4.75%) Architect
8 25 (3.83%) Senior Developer
9 22 (3.37%) Product Manager
10 20 (3.07%) Business Manager
11 18 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.61%) Data Engineer
12 17 (2.61%) Senior Manager
12 17 (2.61%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.30%) Support Technician
14 14 (2.15%) Business Analyst
15 13 (1.99%) IT Manager
15 13 (1.99%) Technical Architect
15 13 (1.99%) Technical Manager
16 12 (1.84%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.98%) .NET
2 34 (5.21%) HTML
3 33 (5.06%) CSS
4 27 (4.14%) React
5 14 (2.15%) ASP.NET
6 13 (1.99%) FHIR
6 13 (1.99%) Node.js
6 13 (1.99%) XML
7 12 (1.84%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.84%) AngularJS
7 12 (1.84%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.38%) Vue
9 8 (1.23%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.23%) Django
9 8 (1.23%) htmx
9 8 (1.23%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (1.07%) HTML5
10 7 (1.07%) jQuery
10 7 (1.07%) RESTful
11 5 (0.77%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.74%) Management Information System
2 33 (5.06%) Housing Association
3 26 (3.99%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.99%) Social Media
8 10 (1.53%) PKI
9 9 (1.38%) Blog
9 9 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.38%) LIMS
10 8 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.92%) CCTV
12 6 (0.92%) Life Science
12 6 (0.92%) PMI
13 5 (0.77%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.74%) Windows
2 28 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.61%) Windows 10
4 12 (1.84%) Linux
5 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.61%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (17.64%) Project Management
2 113 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (14.11%) Agile
4 69 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
5 57 (8.74%) Business Development
6 53 (8.13%) Analytics
7 52 (7.98%) Decision-Making
8 50 (7.67%) Coaching
8 50 (7.67%) Customer Service
9 48 (7.36%) Roadmaps
10 45 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (6.29%) PRINCE2
11 41 (6.29%) Project Delivery
12 40 (6.13%) DevOps
12 40 (6.13%) Service Management
13 39 (5.98%) Change Management
13 39 (5.98%) Information Governance
14 38 (5.83%) Mentoring
15 37 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (5.37%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (15.64%) SQL
2 57 (8.74%) C#
3 44 (6.75%) JavaScript
4 39 (5.98%) Python
5 24 (3.68%) Java
6 20 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.76%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.30%) R
9 6 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.77%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.61%) Groovy
11 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.61%) PHP
11 4 (0.61%) Ruby
12 3 (0.46%) Bash
12 3 (0.46%) JSX
13 2 (0.31%) Bicep
13 2 (0.31%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (14.72%) Degree
2 67 (10.28%) DBS Check
3 32 (4.91%) ACCA
4 24 (3.68%) CIPD
5 16 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.69%) Postgraduate
7 8 (1.23%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.07%) CISSP
8 7 (1.07%) NVQ Level 3
8 7 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.77%) CISM
10 5 (0.77%) MCSE
10 5 (0.77%) PMP
11 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.44%) GDPR
2 31 (4.75%) GAAP
2 31 (4.75%) IFRS
3 25 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (3.53%) QA
5 22 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (3.22%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.15%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.69%) PMO
9 9 (1.38%) HL7
10 8 (1.23%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.92%) GMP
11 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 6 (0.92%) NCSC
12 5 (0.77%) SLA
13 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.46%) WCAG
15 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.61%) Docker
3 13 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.61%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (4.45%) Terraform
2 15 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 134 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.91%) CA
3 18 (2.76%) Northgate
4 17 (2.61%) Google
5 15 (2.30%) VMware
6 14 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.84%) Adobe
8 11 (1.69%) Databricks
9 10 (1.53%) Facebook
10 9 (1.38%) SAP
11 8 (1.23%) Cisco
12 6 (0.92%) Hotjar
13 5 (0.77%) RedGate
14 4 (0.61%) Datix
14 4 (0.61%) ESRI
14 4 (0.61%) HP
14 4 (0.61%) YouTube
15 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.46%) Oracle
15 3 (0.46%) ServiceNow