NHS Workforce Statistics, Vacancies & Recruitment Trends

Explore NHS live vacancies and NHS workforce statistics across the UK. Analyse NHS jobs and workforce data by staff group, pay band, employer, location, contract type and working pattern.

Our NHS vacancy dashboard uses data from NHS Jobs and is updated twice daily. Track active NHS job vacancies across pay bands, UK regions and staff groups, with insights into recruitment trends, hiring demand and workforce demographics.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Our dashboard tracks live NHS job advertisements and shows vacancy trends based on jobs published through the NHS Jobs service. Vacancy numbers are updated twice daily as new jobs are added and existing adverts close.

Nursing and Midwifery, Medical and Dental, Administrative and Clerical, and Allied Health Professionals are among the largest staff groups by advertised vacancies. Our dashboard allows you to compare demand across NHS job categories.

NHS vacancies are available across a range of pay bands. Our dashboard shows the distribution of advertised roles by pay band, including Band 3, Band 5, Band 6, Band 7, Consultant roles and vacancies with negotiable or local salary scales.

Demand changes over time depending on NHS recruitment activity. The dashboard highlights which staff groups, roles and locations currently have the highest number of advertised vacancies.

We track advertised working patterns including full-time, part-time, flexible working, remote working and vacancies where the working pattern has not been specified.

NHS vacancies are categorised by contract type, including permanent, fixed-term, bank, locum, apprenticeship, secondment and voluntary positions.

Our dashboard compares advertised NHS vacancies across England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, helping users understand where recruitment demand is highest.

Our NHS vacancy data is updated twice daily using live job adverts from the NHS Jobs Self-Serve Job Adverts API.

No. This dashboard analyses live NHS job advertisements from the NHS Jobs service. Official NHS vacancy statistics measure vacant funded posts and use different data collection methods, so figures may differ.

NHS vacancy trends can be useful for healthcare recruiters, workforce analysts, researchers, journalists, job seekers and organisations monitoring NHS workforce demand.

Data is collected from the NHS Jobs Self-Serve Job Adverts API, which provides access to live NHS job advertisements. The data is processed and analysed to create vacancy trends and recruitment insights.