The current public-sector job market offers a range of opportunities across various sectors. There are 2803 open vacancies, with the NHS, schools and education, and councils and local government being the primary sectors. The NHS has 878 open roles, while schools and education have 1080, and councils and local government have 845. Central government currently has no open vacancies. Roles are being filled quickly, with 445 positions closing within the next 7 days. New opportunities are also emerging, with 2803 roles added in the last week. A total of 1410 distinct employers are hiring, with Birmingham City Council, Aberdeenshire Council, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council, and Wirral School being among the largest employers. Top locations for these jobs include Birmingham, London, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry, and Walsall. These are live figures that change daily, so we invite you to search our jobs to find the latest opportunities.
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What this means if you're looking for NHS work
GovJobs is tracking 3,997 open NHS vacancies today, 3,974 of them added in the past seven days. Across the adverts that publish a salary, the median advertised starting figure is £39,000.
The organisations recruiting most heavily right now are Barchester Healthcare (117), Avery Healthcare Group Ltd. (74), Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (73) and Cygnet Health Care (57).
Geographically the roles cluster in London (658), South East (614), North West (483), South West (467).
Recruitment announcements tend to lead the adverts by weeks or months. Rather than waiting for a campaign to open, a saved search on NHS roles will tell you when the postings actually appear.
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These figures are counted from the GovJobs index at the time you loaded this page, not from official statistics, and they change daily. They are our own analysis and are not part of the announcement summarised above.
Summarised by GovJobs from GovJobs data. Drafted with AI from the official source material.