NHS Jobs in the North of England

National Health Service (NHS)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 215 280
Rank change year-on-year -47 +65 -166
Permanent jobs citing NHS 88 187 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.75% 1.01% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 3.40% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 127 95
10th Percentile - £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £64,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.81% +2.96%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,905 5,496 6,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.19% 29.76% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,498 3,994 3,020
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,119 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,348 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

NHS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing NHS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NHS in the North of England.

Salary trend for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the North of England

NHS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
North East +51 33 - - 31
North West -41 33 £32,500 -18.75% 50
Yorkshire -3 22 £47,500 +8.59% 41
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (20.45%) CMS
2 17 (19.32%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.27%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) Azure
2 43 (48.86%) Entra ID
3 6 (6.82%) AWS
4 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.55%) Azure AI
5 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (4.55%) IaaS
5 4 (4.55%) PaaS
5 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.32%) Intranet
2 5 (5.68%) Firewall
3 4 (4.55%) DNS
3 4 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.55%) VPN
3 4 (4.55%) WAN
4 3 (3.41%) Broadband
5 2 (2.27%) Internet
5 2 (2.27%) WPA
6 1 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.68%) Power BI
3 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.68%) Finance
3 5 (5.68%) Legal
4 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Marketing
4 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.41%) Local Government
6 2 (2.27%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (44.32%) Identity Management Specialist
1 39 (44.32%) Technology Specialist
2 18 (20.45%) Developer
3 17 (19.32%) Umbraco Developer
4 4 (4.55%) Architect
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (4.55%) Lead
5 3 (3.41%) Analyst
5 3 (3.41%) Civil Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Consultant
5 3 (3.41%) Development Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Lead Consultant
5 3 (3.41%) Senior
6 2 (2.27%) Designer
6 2 (2.27%) IT Support
6 2 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (2.27%) Support Analyst
6 2 (2.27%) Systems Support Engineer
6 2 (2.27%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) CSS
1 18 (20.45%) HTML
1 18 (20.45%) HTML5
2 17 (19.32%) jQuery
3 2 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.27%) React
4 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.14%) CSS3
4 1 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.55%) Digital Media
2 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.27%) ASTM
2 2 (2.27%) Blog
2 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.27%) PACS
2 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (2.27%) Social Media
3 1 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.14%) ITIL
2 39 (44.32%) Identity Management
3 21 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (20.45%) Content Management
5 17 (19.32%) Clean Code
5 17 (19.32%) Customer Requirements
5 17 (19.32%) Web Development
6 9 (10.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (9.09%) Agile
7 8 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 7 (7.95%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.95%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.95%) Project Management
9 6 (6.82%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (6.82%) Roadmaps
9 6 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (5.68%) Analytics
10 5 (5.68%) B2B
10 5 (5.68%) MVC
10 5 (5.68%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) SQL
2 17 (19.32%) C#
3 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.55%) Bicep
4 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) Java
5 1 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 59 (67.05%) Degree
2 43 (48.86%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.27%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.14%) CISSP
5 1 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.59%) Accessibility
1 19 (21.59%) GDPR
2 17 (19.32%) WCAG
3 4 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (44.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (52.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.32%) HP
3 4 (4.55%) Databricks
3 4 (4.55%) Meraki
4 2 (2.27%) Adobe
4 2 (2.27%) Facebook
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.27%) Tenable
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) Monzo
5 1 (1.14%) Samsung