| Specialty | Number of applications | Number of direct entry posts | Competition ratio |
| Andrology | 20 | 3 | 6.6 |
| Audiology | 113 | 21 | 5.3 |
| Cancer Genomics | 457 | 14 | 32.6 |
| Cardiac Science | 634 | 40 | 15.8 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 714 | 22 | 32.4 |
| Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics | 270 | 16 | 16.8 |
| Clinical Engineering | 181 | 10 | 18.1 |
| Clinical Immunology | 285 | 6 | 47.5 |
| Clinical Informatics | 49 | 3 | 16.3 |
| Clinical Microbiology | 675 | 5 | 135.0 |
| Clinical Scientific Computing | 48 | 5 | 9.6 |
| Critical Care Science | 49 | 8 | 6.1 |
| Embryology | 452 | 8 | 56.5 |
| Gastrointestinal Physiology | 38 | 6 | 6.3 |
| Genomic Counselling | 516 | 11 | 46.9 |
| Genomics | 557 | 22 | 25.3 |
| Haematology and Transfusion Science | 302 | 8 | 37.7 |
| Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics | 82 | 8 | 10.2 |
| Histopathology | 113 | 1 | 113.0 |
| Imaging with non-ionising radiation | 54 | 7 | 7.7 |
| Medical Physics – non defined | 335 | 35 | 9.5 |
| Neurophysiology | 305 | 7 | 43.5 |
| Nuclear Medicine | 48 | 10 | 4.8 |
| Ophthalmic and Vision Sciences | 22 | 4 | 5.5 |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 332 | 26 | 12.7 |
| Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology | 64 | 17 | 3.7 |
| Radiotherapy Physics | 161 | 28 | 5.7 |
| Reconstructive Science | 20 | 6 | 3.3 |
| Respiratory and Sleep Sciences | 127 | 25 | 5.0 |
| Urodynamic Science | 6 | 3 | 2.0 |
| Vascular Science | 57 | 14 | 4.0 |
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