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 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 403 419 299
Rank change year-on-year +16 -120 +110
Permanent jobs citing NHS 665 720 2,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.77% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 1.80% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 515 547 933
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,501 £41,659 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +2.65% -8.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,282 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £46,315 £48,500
% change year-on-year +0.40% -4.50% -5.37%

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 36,675 40,106 83,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.08% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,359 22,226 34,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,570 £45,500
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 £85,000 £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 9 June 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 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
England +33 603 £47,500 -6.86% 1,142
UK excluding London -36 487 £46,500 +0.40% 915
Work from Home -33 272 £53,500 +3.78% 242
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% 256
Yorkshire +91 82 £43,742 -1.70% 82
Midlands +11 78 £53,500 +14.38% 183
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
Wales -12 16 £53,500 +19.78% 43
East Midlands -34 8 £46,750 +19.87% 86
Scotland -67 4 £38,470 -35.88% 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 (1.20%) CMS
2 5 (0.75%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.30%) 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 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.05%) InVision
4 7 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.05%) Sketch
5 6 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.45%) 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 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 117 (17.59%) Azure
2 58 (8.72%) AWS
2 58 (8.72%) Power Platform
3 45 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 19 (2.86%) SaaS
5 17 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.65%) GCP
8 10 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (1.50%) Google Analytics
8 10 (1.50%) Google Tag Manager
9 8 (1.20%) dbt
9 8 (1.20%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.75%) BigCommerce
11 4 (0.60%) npm
11 4 (0.60%) Storyblok
12 3 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.45%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.31%) Internet
2 20 (3.01%) LAN
2 20 (3.01%) WAN
3 17 (2.56%) Broadband
3 17 (2.56%) WPA
4 16 (2.41%) Firewall
5 13 (1.95%) DNS
6 10 (1.50%) Intranet
7 9 (1.35%) DHCP
7 9 (1.35%) SAN
7 9 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.20%) Network Security
9 6 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.60%) VPN
11 3 (0.45%) Wireless
12 1 (0.15%) BGP
12 1 (0.15%) DECT
12 1 (0.15%) MPLS
12 1 (0.15%) OSPF
12 1 (0.15%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.12%) Power BI
1 54 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.81%) Tableau
4 19 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
5 17 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.65%) Big Data
8 11 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (1.20%) Metadata
9 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 8 (1.20%) SQLite
10 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.05%) Looker
11 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.75%) MySQL
12 5 (0.75%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (1.50%) JIRA
2 5 (0.75%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.60%) Git
3 4 (0.60%) gulp
3 4 (0.60%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (0.60%) Postman
4 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.30%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (0.30%) Mercurial
5 2 (0.30%) 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
1 230 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 139 (20.90%) Finance
3 106 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 71 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (10.08%) Marketing
6 66 (9.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 55 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
8 54 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (7.67%) Local Government
10 45 (6.77%) Health Technology
11 39 (5.86%) Retail
12 36 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (4.66%) Billing
14 18 (2.71%) Digital Health
15 16 (2.41%) Telecoms
16 14 (2.11%) Environmental Health
17 13 (1.95%) Digital Healthcare
17 13 (1.95%) Electronics
17 13 (1.95%) Manufacturing
18 10 (1.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 91 (13.68%) Senior
2 86 (12.93%) Developer
3 62 (9.32%) Project Manager
4 59 (8.87%) Lead
5 53 (7.97%) Analyst
6 32 (4.81%) Audit Manager
7 31 (4.66%) Architect
8 26 (3.91%) Product Manager
9 25 (3.76%) Senior Developer
10 20 (3.01%) Business Manager
11 18 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.56%) Data Engineer
12 17 (2.56%) Senior Manager
12 17 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.26%) Support Technician
14 14 (2.11%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.11%) Software Developer
15 13 (1.95%) IT Manager
15 13 (1.95%) Technical Architect
16 12 (1.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.82%) .NET
2 34 (5.11%) HTML
3 33 (4.96%) CSS
4 27 (4.06%) React
5 14 (2.11%) ASP.NET
6 13 (1.95%) FHIR
6 13 (1.95%) Node.js
6 13 (1.95%) XML
7 12 (1.80%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.80%) AngularJS
7 12 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.35%) Vue
9 8 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.20%) Django
9 8 (1.20%) htmx
9 8 (1.20%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (1.05%) HTML5
10 7 (1.05%) jQuery
10 7 (1.05%) RESTful
11 5 (0.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 32 (4.81%) Housing Association
3 26 (3.91%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.95%) Social Media
8 9 (1.35%) Blog
8 9 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.35%) LIMS
8 9 (1.35%) PKI
9 8 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.90%) CCTV
11 6 (0.90%) Life Science
11 6 (0.90%) PMI
12 5 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.42%) Windows
2 27 (4.06%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.11%) Linux
5 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.60%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.15%) Unix
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
1 114 (17.14%) Project Management
2 95 (14.29%) Agile
3 69 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (9.02%) Business Development
5 57 (8.57%) Analytics
6 52 (7.82%) Customer Service
6 52 (7.82%) Roadmaps
7 51 (7.67%) Decision-Making
8 50 (7.52%) Coaching
9 45 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (6.32%) Change Management
11 41 (6.17%) DevOps
11 41 (6.17%) PRINCE2
11 41 (6.17%) Project Delivery
12 40 (6.02%) Service Management
13 39 (5.86%) Information Governance
14 38 (5.71%) Mentoring
14 38 (5.71%) User Stories
15 36 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 105 (15.79%) SQL
2 57 (8.57%) C#
3 44 (6.62%) JavaScript
4 39 (5.86%) Python
5 24 (3.61%) Java
6 20 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.71%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.26%) R
9 7 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.60%) Groovy
11 4 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.60%) PHP
11 4 (0.60%) Ruby
12 3 (0.45%) Bash
12 3 (0.45%) JSX
13 2 (0.30%) Bicep
13 2 (0.30%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 101 (15.19%) Degree
2 66 (9.92%) DBS Check
3 32 (4.81%) ACCA
4 24 (3.61%) CIPD
5 18 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.65%) Postgraduate
7 10 (1.50%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.05%) CISSP
8 7 (1.05%) MCSE
8 7 (1.05%) NVQ Level 3
8 7 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.75%) CISM
10 5 (0.75%) PMP
11 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.60%) MCITP
12 3 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.12%) GDPR
2 31 (4.66%) GAAP
2 31 (4.66%) IFRS
3 24 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (3.46%) QA
5 22 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (3.16%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.11%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.50%) PMO
9 9 (1.35%) HL7
10 8 (1.20%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.90%) GMP
11 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 6 (0.90%) NCSC
12 5 (0.75%) SLA
13 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.45%) WCAG
15 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.71%) Docker
3 15 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.60%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (4.51%) Terraform
2 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 135 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.81%) CA
3 18 (2.71%) Northgate
4 17 (2.56%) Google
4 17 (2.56%) VMware
5 14 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.80%) Adobe
7 11 (1.65%) Databricks
8 10 (1.50%) Cisco
8 10 (1.50%) Facebook
9 9 (1.35%) SAP
10 6 (0.90%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.75%) RedGate
12 4 (0.60%) Commvault
12 4 (0.60%) Datix
12 4 (0.60%) ESRI
12 4 (0.60%) HP
12 4 (0.60%) IBM
12 4 (0.60%) Veeam
12 4 (0.60%) YouTube