| Specialty | Number of applications | Number of direct entry posts | Competition ratio |
| Andrology | 26 | 3 | 8.6 |
| Audiology | 129 | 19 | 6.7 |
| Cancer Genomics | 656 | 10 | 65.6 |
| Cardiac Science | 714 | 40 | 17.8 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 869 | 21 | 41.3 |
| Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics | 350 | 5 | 70 |
| Clinical Engineering | 239 | 13 | 18.3 |
| Clinical Immunology | 289 | 5 | 57.8 |
| Clinical Informatics | 68 | 3 | 22.6 |
| Clinical Microbiology | 728 | 5 | 145.6 |
| Clinical Scientific Computing | 92 | 9 | 10.2 |
| Critical Care Science | 28 | 3 | 9.3 |
| Embryology | 495 | 9 | 55 |
| Gastrointestinal Physiology | 48 | 4 | 12 |
| Genomic Counselling | 535 | 13 | 41.1 |
| Genomics | 584 | 13 | 44.9 |
| Haematology and Transfusion Science | 121 | 2 | 60.5 |
| Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics | 49 | 3 | 16.3 |
| Histopathology | 146 | 3 | 48.6 |
| Imaging with non-ionising radiation | 44 | 7 | 6.2 |
| Medical Physics – non defined | 386 | 29 | 13.3 |
| Neurophysiology | 386 | 9 | 42.8 |
| Nuclear Medicine | 84 | 10 | 8.4 |
| Ophthalmic and Vision Sciences | 18 | 2 | 9 |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 344 | 17 | 20.2 |
| Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology | 68 | 11 | 6.1 |
| Radiotherapy Physics | 135 | 21 | 6.4 |
| Reconstructive Science | 20 | 4 | 5 |
| Respiratory and Sleep Sciences | 131 | 14 | 9.3 |
| Vascular Science | 91 | 13 | 7 |
Access to earlier data
Data prior to 2021 can be found in the publications section by using the ‘content type’ filter and selecting ‘data’.