| Specialty | Number of applications | Number of direct entry posts | Competition ratio |
| Andrology | 21 | 5 | 10.5 |
| Audiology | 78 | 29 | 3.9 |
| Cancer Genomics | 362 | 25 | 20.1 |
| Cardiac Science | 567 | 67 | 14.1 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 545 | 27 | 25.9 |
| Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics | 194 | 19 | 16.1 |
| Clinical Engineering | 140 | 21 | 9.3 |
| Clinical Immunology | 228 | 6 | 32.5 |
| Clinical Informatics | 21 | 2 | 7.0 |
| Clinical Microbiology | 567 | 15 | 51.5 |
| Clinical Scientific Computing | 56 | 14 | 5.0 |
| Critical Care Science | 47 | 6 | 6.7 |
| Embryology | 413 | 29 | 29.5 |
| Gastrointestinal Physiology | 14 | 4 | 4.6 |
| Genomic Counselling | 387 | 22 | 25.8 |
| Genomics | 413 | 30 | 17.2 |
| Haematology and Transfusion Science | 172 | 11 | 21.5 |
| Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics | 48 | 5 | 9.6 |
| Histopathology | 127 | 9 | 14.1 |
| Imaging with non-ionising radiation | 25 | 7 | 5.0 |
| Medical Physics – non defined | 288 | 41 | 7.0 |
| Neurophysiology | 232 | 14 | 38.6 |
| Nuclear Medicine | 44 | 16 | 4.0 |
| Ophthalmic and Vision Sciences | 21 | 4 | 7.0 |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 164 | 22 | 10.9 |
| Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology | 42 | 19 | 3.2 |
| Radiotherapy Physics | 117 | 35 | 4.0 |
| Reconstructive Science | 26 | 6 | 2.8 |
| Respiratory and Sleep Sciences | 66 | 24 | 6.0 |
| Vascular Science | 55 | 12 | 4.5 |
Access to earlier data
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