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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 415 337
Rank change year-on-year +33 -78 +59
Permanent jobs citing NHS 603 611 1,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.74% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 1.69% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 459 456 791
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,146 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +1.65% -8.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £74,384 £81,875 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -2.91% +2.65% -8.78%

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 31,346 36,060 68,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.28% 43.63% 47.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,105 20,106 30,878
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,125 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,300 £46,900 £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 £87,480 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +49 187 £42,000 -6.67% 252
South East +13 124 £50,000 -2.96% 179
London +27 120 £57,500 -5.06% 254
Yorkshire +91 82 £43,742 -1.70% 82
Midlands +11 78 £53,500 +14.38% 185
North West +19 76 £40,000 -11.11% 143
West Midlands +30 67 £53,500 +2.81% 95
South West -90 41 £39,500 -21.00% 128
East of England -20 37 £30,000 +20.00% 123
North East -34 29 £41,000 -8.89% 30
East Midlands -34 8 £46,750 +19.87% 88
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 (1.33%) CMS
2 5 (0.83%) Confluence
3 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.33%) 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 47 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.16%) InVision
4 7 (1.16%) Sketch
5 6 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.17%) CorelDRAW
9 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Primavera
3 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.91%) Azure
2 54 (8.96%) AWS
3 52 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 44 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (2.99%) SaaS
7 16 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.66%) GCP
9 10 (1.66%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.66%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (1.33%) dbt
10 8 (1.33%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.83%) BigCommerce
12 4 (0.66%) npm
12 4 (0.66%) Storyblok
13 3 (0.50%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.65%) Internet
2 20 (3.32%) LAN
2 20 (3.32%) WAN
3 17 (2.82%) Broadband
3 17 (2.82%) WPA
4 16 (2.65%) Firewall
5 13 (2.16%) DNS
6 10 (1.66%) Intranet
7 9 (1.49%) DHCP
7 9 (1.49%) SAN
7 9 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.33%) Network Security
9 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.66%) VPN
11 3 (0.50%) Wireless
12 1 (0.17%) BGP
12 1 (0.17%) DECT
12 1 (0.17%) MPLS
12 1 (0.17%) OSPF
12 1 (0.17%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.96%) Power BI
3 40 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (4.31%) Tableau
5 19 (3.15%) Electronic Patient Records
6 17 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (2.49%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (1.33%) Big Data
11 8 (1.33%) Metadata
11 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (1.16%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.16%) Looker
13 6 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.00%) SQLite
14 5 (0.83%) MySQL
14 5 (0.83%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (1.66%) JIRA
2 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.66%) Git
3 4 (0.66%) gulp
3 4 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (0.66%) Postman
4 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.33%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (0.33%) Mercurial
5 2 (0.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.17%) Moq
6 1 (0.17%) NUnit
6 1 (0.17%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 220 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 134 (22.22%) Finance
3 100 (16.58%) Public Sector
4 67 (11.11%) Marketing
5 65 (10.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 62 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (9.12%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (7.79%) Local Government
9 46 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (6.47%) Health Technology
11 37 (6.14%) Retail
12 35 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (5.14%) Billing
14 16 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 14 (2.32%) Environmental Health
16 13 (2.16%) Digital Health
16 13 (2.16%) Digital Healthcare
16 13 (2.16%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.66%) Electronics
17 10 (1.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (13.76%) Senior
2 81 (13.43%) Developer
3 61 (10.12%) Project Manager
4 52 (8.62%) Analyst
5 50 (8.29%) Lead
6 32 (5.31%) Audit Manager
7 25 (4.15%) Product Manager
7 25 (4.15%) Senior Developer
8 22 (3.65%) Architect
9 19 (3.15%) Business Manager
10 18 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
11 17 (2.82%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (2.65%) Data Engineer
12 16 (2.65%) Senior Manager
13 15 (2.49%) Support Technician
14 14 (2.32%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.32%) Software Developer
15 13 (2.16%) IT Manager
16 12 (1.99%) Full Stack Developer
16 12 (1.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.62%) .NET
2 32 (5.31%) HTML
3 31 (5.14%) CSS
4 25 (4.15%) React
5 14 (2.32%) ASP.NET
6 13 (2.16%) Node.js
6 13 (2.16%) XML
7 12 (1.99%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.99%) AngularJS
7 12 (1.99%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.49%) Vue
9 8 (1.33%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.33%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (1.16%) HTML5
10 7 (1.16%) jQuery
10 7 (1.16%) RESTful
11 6 (1.00%) Django
11 6 (1.00%) htmx
12 5 (0.83%) FHIR
12 5 (0.83%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.29%) Management Information System
2 32 (5.31%) Housing Association
3 26 (4.31%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.49%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.49%) LIMS
7 9 (1.49%) PKI
7 9 (1.49%) Social Media
8 8 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.00%) CCTV
10 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.83%) Blog
11 5 (0.83%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.83%) PMI
12 4 (0.66%) BYOD
12 4 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.29%) Windows
2 27 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.82%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.32%) Linux
5 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.66%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.17%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (16.42%) Project Management
3 87 (14.43%) Agile
4 61 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (9.78%) Business Development
6 51 (8.46%) Analytics
6 51 (8.46%) Customer Service
7 50 (8.29%) Roadmaps
8 49 (8.13%) Coaching
9 45 (7.46%) Decision-Making
10 42 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (6.63%) DevOps
11 40 (6.63%) Service Management
12 39 (6.47%) Change Management
12 39 (6.47%) Information Governance
12 39 (6.47%) PRINCE2
13 38 (6.30%) User Stories
14 36 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (5.80%) Performance Management
15 35 (5.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 96 (15.92%) SQL
2 57 (9.45%) C#
3 42 (6.97%) JavaScript
4 36 (5.97%) Python
5 23 (3.81%) Java
6 20 (3.32%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.82%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.16%) R
9 7 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.66%) Groovy
11 4 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.66%) PHP
11 4 (0.66%) Ruby
12 3 (0.50%) Bash
12 3 (0.50%) JSX
13 2 (0.33%) Bicep
13 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 95 (15.75%) Degree
2 66 (10.95%) DBS Check
3 32 (5.31%) ACCA
4 24 (3.98%) CIPD
5 18 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.66%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.16%) CISSP
7 7 (1.16%) MCSE
7 7 (1.16%) NVQ Level 3
7 7 (1.16%) Postgraduate
8 6 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.83%) CISM
9 5 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.83%) PMP
10 4 (0.66%) MCITP
11 3 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.62%) GDPR
2 31 (5.14%) GAAP
2 31 (5.14%) IFRS
3 24 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (3.32%) QA
6 19 (3.15%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.99%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.49%) PMO
9 8 (1.33%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (1.00%) GMP
10 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 6 (1.00%) NCSC
11 5 (0.83%) SLA
12 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.50%) WCAG
14 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.65%) Docker
3 15 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.66%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (4.98%) Terraform
2 15 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.99%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 133 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.31%) CA
3 18 (2.99%) Northgate
4 17 (2.82%) VMware
5 16 (2.65%) Google
6 14 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.99%) Adobe
8 10 (1.66%) Cisco
8 10 (1.66%) Databricks
9 6 (1.00%) Facebook
9 6 (1.00%) Hotjar
9 6 (1.00%) SAP
10 5 (0.83%) RedGate
11 4 (0.66%) Commvault
11 4 (0.66%) Datix
11 4 (0.66%) ESRI
11 4 (0.66%) HP
11 4 (0.66%) IBM
11 4 (0.66%) Veeam
12 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow