350+ Nursing & Healthcare Jobs in San Jose, CA

Government wage data for the broad occupation family show a 2025 median of $159,560, a 25th percentile of $99,890, a mean of $165,480, and a 75th percentile of $219,170 in San Jose. In the newer local posting sample, advertised salary ranges center on about $150k to $197k, with a broader band of about $100k to $270k, and hourly postings center on about $60 to $70 / hour.

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Advertised pay

Across the 303 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $105,000 at the 25th percentile, $149,271 at the median and $208,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

San Jose is still a good market for licensed healthcare practitioners, but it is not a spray-and-pray market. Metro unemployment was 4.3% in August, local education and health services employment was up 6.1510% year over year, and we observed more than 800 practitioner postings across more than 250 companies over the last 90 days. The catch is selectivity: California healthcare-practitioner employment was up 1.9% year over year in September while active postings were down 7.3% year over year, which suggests real need but tighter requisition approval and screening.

Best positioned: A fully licensed candidate who can work on-site, show strong clinical documentation and patient-assessment skill, and target large systems, ambulatory clinics, or county-linked care settings has the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not mistake high headline pay for easy access: most openings are on-site, most postings skew mid-career, and the public metro release does not fully break out local sub-role wage rows on-page.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 358 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Stanford Health Care: 23 open roles
2. Intermountain Healthcare Inc.: 17 open roles
3. Kaiser Permanente International: 13 open roles
4. One Medical: 11 open roles
5. Sutter Health: 11 open roles
6. Therapy Partners Group: 10 open roles
7. The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.: 9 open roles
8. PacSun: 8 open roles
9. Sprinter Health: 7 open roles
10. Veterans Affairs: 7 open roles

Where the openings are

• San Jose: 68
• Fremont: 36
• Pleasanton: 30
• Palo Alto: 28
• Santa Clara: 26
• Sunnyvale: 20
• Redwood City: 20
• Milpitas: 16

Work arrangement

on-site 303 (90%), remote 19 (6%), hybrid 13 (4%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in patient-facing provider settings, not remote-first employers. In the local sample, hospitals and health care account for about 45% of postings, healthcare for about 35%, and health care services & hospitals for about 10%. We observed more than 800 practitioner postings across more than 250 companies over the last 90 days, and hiring is fragmented rather than controlled by one dominant employer. Within that spread, the most consistently active named employers include Stanford Health Care, Kaiser Permanente International, BACH, One Medical, and ABL Health Care, LLC. The county's new San José-Campbell facility adds primary care, urgent care, OB-GYN, maternal-fetal medicine, pharmacy, imaging, and laboratory services, while Santa Clara County Health System is also maintaining a travel-nurse staffing channel for routine and specialty coverage. For most job seekers, that means the best odds are in on-site care delivery roles tied to large systems, county or ambulatory expansion, or flexible coverage models rather than waiting for rare remote openings.

• Large integrated systems and hospitals (high): This is the biggest target pool, led by Stanford Health Care and Kaiser Permanente International, with the local industry mix still centered on hospital and health-care employers.
• Ambulatory, primary care, and county clinic expansion (high): BACH and One Medical show up among active employers, and the new San José-Campbell county site expands primary care, urgent care, OB-GYN, pharmacy, imaging, and lab service lines.
• Home health and contingent coverage (moderate): ABL Health Care, LLC appears in the active-employer mix, and the county's travel-nurse solicitation points to ongoing demand for flexible coverage capacity.

Where to focus: If you want the fastest path, prioritize on-site roles in large systems and expanding ambulatory or county settings, then keep a second lane open for home-health or coverage-based work.

Roles worth searching next

• Clinical informatics specialist: Healthcare employers are prioritizing AI-fluent professionals, and digital fluency is becoming essential, which makes this a natural bridge for clinicians who like EHRs, workflows, and implementation work.
• Clinical documentation improvement specialist: Local employer demand is heavily weighted toward clinical documentation, so experienced clinicians can move into chart-quality and documentation roles without a full career reset.
• Clinical AI workflow lead: Ambient AI scribes and clinical AI tooling are moving into mainstream operations, creating room for clinicians who can connect care delivery with implementation.
• Clinical data scientist: This is an emerging route for clinicians who want to stay close to medicine while moving toward analytics and product work.
• Medical and health services manager: Clinicians who already coordinate teams, throughput, or service lines can move toward operations as provider organizations expand and try to improve productivity.

What postings ask for

• Clinical documentation (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in the local posting sample at about 20%, and it now overlaps with employers' push for AI-fluent workflow adoption. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level and mid-career applicants trying to prove recent readiness.
• Patient assessment and patient evaluation (table_stakes | immediate): Patient assessment appears in about 15% of local postings and patient evaluation in about 10%, which makes assessment language a basic screening signal across care settings. Who: Entry-level clinicians, therapists, nurses, and anyone changing settings.
• Treatment planning and patient education (table_stakes | immediate): Both treatment planning and patient education show up in about 15% of local postings, making them good proof points for candidates who want ambulatory, rehab, or chronic-care roles. Who: Mid-career practitioners and applicants targeting clinic-based or longitudinal care.
• CPR / Basic Life Support (table_stakes | immediate): CPR certification and basic life support are the most commonly named certifications in the local sample. Who: Anyone applying to direct patient-care roles who needs a clean screening profile.
• Digital fluency and EHR comfort (differentiator | near-term): Digital fluency and data competency are increasingly essential across healthcare roles, and employers are prioritizing clinicians who can work with new technology rather than fight it. Who: Career switchers, returning clinicians, and applicants moving into larger systems.
• AI-assisted documentation and clinical decision-support tools (differentiator | near-term): Ambient clinical AI scribes are a major driver of healthcare AI hiring, and nurse practitioners and physician assistants are increasingly using tools such as OpenEvidence, UpToDate Expert AI, DynaMed, Doximity Ask, ChatGPT for Clinicians, Glass Health, and AMBOSS. Who: APPs, nurses, physicians, and clinicians aiming for high-productivity environments.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Practitioners roles pay in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA?

Government wage data for the broad occupation family show a 2025 median of $159,560, a 25th percentile of $99,890, a mean of $165,480, and a 75th percentile of $219,170 in San Jose. In the newer local posting sample, advertised salary ranges center on about $150k to $197k, with a broader band of about $100k to $270k, and hourly postings center on about $60 to $70 / hour. This is a premium-pay market. The San Jose mean annual wage for the occupation family is about $165,480 versus $108,700 nationally, and the metro mean hourly wage of $79.56 is well above the national $52.26 benchmark for the group.

Where is demand for Healthcare Practitioners roles in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in patient-facing provider settings, not remote-first employers. In the local sample, hospitals and health care account for about 45% of postings, healthcare for about 35%, and health care services & hospitals for about 10%. We observed more than 800 practitioner postings across more than 250 companies over the last 90 days, and hiring is fragmented rather than controlled by one dominant employer. Within that spread, the most consistently active named employers include Stanford Health Care, Kaiser Permanente International, BACH, One Medical, and ABL Health Care, LLC. The county's new San José-Campbell facility adds primary care, urgent care, OB-GYN, maternal-fetal medicine, pharmacy, imaging, and laboratory services, while Santa Clara County Health System is also maintaining a travel-nurse staffing channel for routine and specialty coverage. For most job seekers, that means the best odds are in on-site care delivery roles tied to large systems, county or ambulatory expansion, or flexible coverage models rather than waiting for rare remote openings.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Practitioners talent in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA?

Recent postings show the most activity from Stanford Health Care (more than 50 postings), Kaiser Permanente International (more than 30 postings), BACH (more than 20 postings), One Medical (more than 20 postings), ABL Health Care, LLC (more than 20 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

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