NHS Jobs in Manchester

National Health Service (NHS)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 184 199
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 -135
Permanent jobs citing NHS 11 35 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.50% 0.64% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 1.95% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 31
10th Percentile £34,000 - £33,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £25,875 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,316 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.66% +5.15% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,625 £66,478 £53,096
90th Percentile £93,125 £67,525 £70,000
North West median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £50,256
% change year-on-year -18.75% -20.41% -4.27%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

NHS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,020 1,798 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 46.11% 33.03% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 525 1,274 997
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.09% +5.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,500 £84,700
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in Manchester.

Salary trend for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in Manchester

NHS
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 2 £34,000 - 17
NHS
North West

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) VoIP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Legal
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Law
4 2 (18.18%) Local Government
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Health
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Civil Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Development Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Account Director
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Director
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 2 (18.18%) Blog
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Social Media
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) B2B
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (18.18%) Product Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bicep
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
1 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Facebook
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Monzo
3 1 (9.09%) Samsung