NHS Jobs in the South West

National Health Service (NHS)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 251 161
Rank change year-on-year +79 -90 +77
Permanent jobs citing NHS 10 41 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.40% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.37% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 78
10th Percentile - £36,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,199 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -21.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,250 £71,750
90th Percentile £58,125 £66,137 £83,543
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -6.86% +1.65%

All Generic Skills
South West

NHS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,144 2,993 2,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.81% 28.85% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 578 2,056 1,388
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,750 £28,925
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,960 £66,165 £71,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the South West

NHS
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in the South West.

Salary trend for NHS in the South West

NHS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the South West

NHS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 June 2025. 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
Gloucestershire +62 3 - - 9
Dorset +41 3 £27,500 -53.19% 1
Somerset +18 2 £56,250 +25.00% 2
Bristol +52 1 - - 15
Devon +28 1 £42,500 - 6
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Local Government
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Advertising
3 2 (20.00%) Health Technology
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Civil Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support
1 3 (30.00%) Junior
1 3 (30.00%) Junior IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Software Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Django
1 1 (10.00%) jQuery
1 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (30.00%) Document Management
1 3 (30.00%) Due Diligence
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (30.00%) Presales
1 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (30.00%) Project Management
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (30.00%) Strategic Planning
1 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bicep
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Meraki
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