Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

‘Please could you supply a list of all roles advertised on NHS Jobs which include the keywords: nurse, nursing, and nurses, between January 2019 and May 2025 [or the most recent complete month if not May 2025]. If you cannot provide data back to Jan 2019, please provide data as far back as possible.

Please can you ensure the data includes information that captures the following fields. If you cannot provide them all, please still extract the data but highlight which fields you were not able to provide in your extraction:

a. Job title

b. Staff group [e.g. ‘Allied Health Professionals’, ‘Nursing & Midwifery Registered’]

c. Area of work [e.g. ‘Mental Health’, ‘Surgery’]

d. Eligibility [if this exists] [which would allow one to select e.g. ‘newly qualified nurse’, ‘near qualified nurse’] to see all jobs that fit these eligibility criteria

e. Salary

f. Pay band / scale

g. Published date / date posted

h. Advert closed date / closing date

i. Job type [i.e. ‘Permanent’, ‘Bank’, etc]

j. Working pattern [i.e. ‘Part-time’, ‘Full-time’ etc]

k. Fixed term contract length

l. Organisation name / Employer name

m. NHS Trust

n. Town or city

o. Post code

p. Region [i.e. NHS region such as ‘London’, ‘North West’]

q. Why the role is being advertised [i.e. ‘replacing someone who’s leaving’, ‘this is a new job’ etc]

r. Job overview / summary

s. Person specification [i.e. ‘Qualifications’, ‘Experience’ etc]

t. Job description

With these data, we want to be able to identify the number of jobs being advertised where newly qualified nurses or nearly qualified nurses are eligible to apply. Such that we can see how many roles [and we can work out the proportion of these jobs against all available jobs for nursing staff] were advertised in successive periods. If there are any other fields not listed above, which you think would help us determine this, please can you include this in the data.’

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 23 June 2025.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested, and a copy of the information is attached.

The data has been filtered on the following criteria:

Job Title

Contains keywords ‘Nurse’, ‘Nurses’, ‘Nursing’ (Note this does include ‘Nursery’ for completeness).

Staff Group

Covers all staff groups with keywords in Job Title.

Date Range

Data is provided for 18 July 2019 to 31 May 2025.

1 January 2019 to 17 July 2019

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA.

Eligibility

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA.

Why the role is being advertised

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA.

Person Specification

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA.

Job Description

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA.

We do not hold data for job description or specification or why a role is being advertised, as these are locally stored with the recruiter

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.