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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 400 298
Rank change year-on-year -5 -102 +115
Permanent jobs citing NHS 657 739 2,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.78% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.81% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 513 558 923
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,175 £29,879
25th Percentile £37,501 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,561 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +2.77% -8.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,470 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £46,739 £48,333
% change year-on-year -0.51% -3.30% -5.23%

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 35,820 40,772 81,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.08% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,199 22,412 34,284
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £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 1 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 1 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 +21 595 £47,500 -7.77% 1,273
UK excluding London -14 482 £46,500 -0.51% 997
Work from Home -62 264 £53,750 +4.22% 256
North of England +58 187 £42,000 -6.67% 264
London +67 118 £57,500 -5.06% 314
South East +3 118 £50,000 -3.01% 187
Yorkshire +90 82 £43,742 -1.70% 85
Midlands +28 78 £53,500 +8.00% 208
North West +22 76 £40,000 -18.27% 145
West Midlands +26 67 £53,500 +1.90% 111
South West -80 42 £39,500 -16.84% 142
East of England -10 37 £30,000 +17.65% 140
North East -34 29 £41,000 -8.55% 36
Wales -15 16 £53,500 +19.78% 53
East Midlands -20 8 £48,500 +19.75% 97
Scotland -72 4 £38,470 -38.45% 6

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 (1.22%) CMS
2 5 (0.76%) Confluence
3 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.46%) 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 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.07%) InVision
4 7 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Sketch
5 6 (0.91%) 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 (0.30%) Primavera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 115 (17.50%) Azure
2 59 (8.98%) AWS
3 56 (8.52%) Power Platform
4 44 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (2.44%) SaaS
7 15 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (1.67%) GCP
9 10 (1.52%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.52%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (1.22%) dbt
10 8 (1.22%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.76%) BigCommerce
12 4 (0.61%) npm
12 4 (0.61%) Storyblok
13 3 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.46%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.35%) Internet
2 21 (3.20%) LAN
2 21 (3.20%) WAN
3 17 (2.59%) Broadband
3 17 (2.59%) WPA
4 16 (2.44%) Firewall
5 12 (1.83%) DNS
6 10 (1.52%) Intranet
7 9 (1.37%) DHCP
7 9 (1.37%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.22%) Network Security
8 8 (1.22%) SAN
9 6 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.61%) VPN
11 3 (0.46%) 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 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.91%) Power BI
3 42 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.87%) Tableau
5 19 (2.89%) Electronic Patient Records
6 17 (2.59%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.67%) Big Data
9 11 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (1.22%) Metadata
10 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 8 (1.22%) SQLite
11 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.07%) Looker
12 6 (0.91%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.76%) MySQL
13 5 (0.76%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.37%) JIRA
2 5 (0.76%) 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 (0.30%) 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
1 228 (34.70%) Social Skills
2 135 (20.55%) Finance
3 104 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 71 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (10.05%) Pharmaceutical
6 64 (9.74%) Marketing
7 55 (8.37%) Presentation Skills
8 54 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (7.76%) Local Government
10 44 (6.70%) Health Technology
11 39 (5.94%) Retail
12 36 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (4.72%) Billing
14 18 (2.74%) Digital Health
15 15 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 14 (2.13%) Environmental Health
17 13 (1.98%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.83%) Digital Healthcare
18 12 (1.83%) Electronics
19 10 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 91 (13.85%) Senior
2 83 (12.63%) Developer
3 64 (9.74%) Project Manager
4 58 (8.83%) Lead
5 52 (7.91%) Analyst
6 32 (4.87%) Audit Manager
7 31 (4.72%) Architect
8 25 (3.81%) Senior Developer
9 24 (3.65%) Product Manager
10 20 (3.04%) Business Manager
11 18 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (2.59%) Data Engineer
12 17 (2.59%) Senior Manager
12 17 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.28%) Support Technician
14 14 (2.13%) Business Analyst
15 13 (1.98%) IT Manager
15 13 (1.98%) Software Developer
15 13 (1.98%) Technical Architect
15 13 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.91%) .NET
2 34 (5.18%) HTML
3 33 (5.02%) CSS
4 27 (4.11%) React
5 14 (2.13%) ASP.NET
6 13 (1.98%) FHIR
6 13 (1.98%) Node.js
6 13 (1.98%) XML
7 12 (1.83%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 12 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.37%) Vue
9 8 (1.22%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.22%) Django
9 8 (1.22%) htmx
9 8 (1.22%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (1.07%) HTML5
10 7 (1.07%) jQuery
10 7 (1.07%) RESTful
11 5 (0.76%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.68%) Management Information System
2 33 (5.02%) Housing Association
3 26 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.98%) Social Media
8 10 (1.52%) PKI
9 9 (1.37%) Blog
9 9 (1.37%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.37%) LIMS
10 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.91%) CCTV
12 6 (0.91%) Life Science
12 6 (0.91%) PMI
13 5 (0.76%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.68%) Windows
2 28 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.59%) Windows 10
4 12 (1.83%) Linux
5 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.61%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (17.50%) Project Management
2 114 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (14.16%) Agile
4 69 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
5 58 (8.83%) Business Development
6 54 (8.22%) Analytics
7 52 (7.91%) Decision-Making
8 51 (7.76%) Customer Service
9 50 (7.61%) Coaching
9 50 (7.61%) Roadmaps
10 45 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (6.24%) PRINCE2
11 41 (6.24%) Project Delivery
12 40 (6.09%) Change Management
12 40 (6.09%) DevOps
12 40 (6.09%) Service Management
13 39 (5.94%) Information Governance
14 38 (5.78%) Mentoring
15 37 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
16 36 (5.48%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 102 (15.53%) SQL
2 57 (8.68%) C#
3 44 (6.70%) JavaScript
4 39 (5.94%) Python
5 24 (3.65%) Java
6 20 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.74%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.28%) R
9 6 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.76%) 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 (0.30%) Bicep
13 2 (0.30%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (14.76%) Degree
2 67 (10.20%) DBS Check
3 32 (4.87%) ACCA
4 24 (3.65%) CIPD
5 17 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.67%) Postgraduate
8 9 (1.37%) Security Cleared
9 7 (1.07%) CISSP
9 7 (1.07%) NVQ Level 3
9 7 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.91%) MCSE
10 6 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.76%) CISM
11 5 (0.76%) PMP
12 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.46%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.37%) GDPR
2 31 (4.72%) GAAP
2 31 (4.72%) IFRS
3 25 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (3.50%) QA
5 22 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (3.20%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.13%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.67%) PMO
9 9 (1.37%) HL7
10 8 (1.22%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.91%) GMP
11 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 6 (0.91%) NCSC
12 5 (0.76%) SLA
13 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.46%) WCAG
15 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.59%) Docker
3 14 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.61%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (4.41%) Terraform
2 15 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 135 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.87%) CA
3 18 (2.74%) Northgate
4 17 (2.59%) Google
5 16 (2.44%) VMware
6 14 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.83%) Adobe
8 11 (1.67%) Databricks
9 10 (1.52%) Facebook
10 9 (1.37%) Cisco
10 9 (1.37%) SAP
11 6 (0.91%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.76%) RedGate
13 4 (0.61%) Datix
13 4 (0.61%) ESRI
13 4 (0.61%) HP
13 4 (0.61%) YouTube
14 3 (0.46%) Commvault
14 3 (0.46%) New Relic
14 3 (0.46%) ServiceNow