The current public-sector job market offers a range of opportunities across various sectors. There are 3544 open vacancies, with the majority found in councils and local government at 2054. The NHS has 483 open roles, while schools and education have 888 vacancies. Central government has 57 open positions. Roles are available with distinct employers, totaling 1382, with the largest employers including Birmingham City Council, Aberdeenshire Council, and Staffordshire County Council. Top locations for these roles include Birmingham, London, and Coventry. Many roles are time-sensitive, with 1088 closing within the next 7 days. New roles are being added regularly, with 3544 added in the last week. 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.