Competition ratios per post for each specialty

Data showing the number/percentages of applicants, per post, for each of the specialties for recruitment to the Scientist Training Programme in 2026.

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Specialty Number of applications Number of direct entry posts Competition ratio
Andrology 49 4 12.25
Audiology 205 28 7.32
Cancer Genomics 948 12 79
Cardiac Science 1031 56 18.41
Clinical Biochemistry 1237 27 45.81
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics 535 8 66.88
Clinical Engineering 329 15 21.93
Clinical Immunology 346 4 86.50
Clinical Informatics 130 3 43.33
Clinical Microbiology 887 4 221.75
Clinical Scientific Computing 162 7 23.14
Critical Care Science 93 5 18.60
Embryology 618 12 51.50
Gastrointestinal Physiology 43 6 7.17
Genomic Counselling 529 8 66.13
Genomics 780 16 48.75
Haematology and Transfusion Science 282 3 94
Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics 158 7 22.57
Histopathology 282 5 56.40
Imaging with non-ionising radiation 73 7 10.43
Medical Physics – non defined 417 31 13.45
Neurophysiology 527 6 87.83
Neurophysiology: Intraoperative Neuromonitoring 14 1 14
Nuclear Medicine 106 10 10.60
Ophthalmic and Vision Science 39 2 19.50
Pharmaceutical Science 572 17 33.65
Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology 106 17 6.24
Radiotherapy Physics 222 26 8.54
Reconstructive Science 22 3 7.33
Respiratory and Sleep Science 244 23 10.61
Urodynamic Science 11 5 2.20
Vascular Science 112 11 10.18
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Access to earlier data

Data prior to 2021 can be found in the publications section by using the ‘content type’ filter and selecting ‘data’.