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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 226 275
Rank change year-on-year -14 +49 -167
Permanent jobs citing NHS 91 176 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 1.01% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 3.26% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 32 117 104
10th Percentile - £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,132 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.02% -10.82% -14.29%
75th Percentile £47,063 £53,750 £53,250
90th Percentile £71,375 £66,137 £70,000
England median annual salary £56,250 £50,000 £51,573
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.05% +3.15%

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 3,622 5,396 6,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.34% 30.83% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,598 3,995 3,109
10th Percentile £29,425 £27,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £70,625 £66,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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 12 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 12 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 West -31 35 £32,500 -15.58% 49
North East +48 32 - - 14
Yorkshire +16 24 £47,500 +5.56% 55
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 20 (21.98%) CMS
1 20 (21.98%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.20%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.20%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.20%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (49.45%) Azure
2 43 (47.25%) Entra ID
3 7 (7.69%) SaaS
4 6 (6.59%) AWS
5 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.40%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.40%) IaaS
6 4 (4.40%) PaaS
6 4 (4.40%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.30%) Figma
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.98%) Intranet
2 5 (5.49%) Firewall
3 4 (4.40%) DNS
3 4 (4.40%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) WAN
4 3 (3.30%) Broadband
5 2 (2.20%) Internet
5 2 (2.20%) WPA
6 1 (1.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) Power BI
3 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.40%) MySQL
4 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.10%) git-flow
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.40%) Marketing
3 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.20%) Finance
4 2 (2.20%) Law
4 2 (2.20%) Legal
4 2 (2.20%) Retail
5 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (42.86%) Identity Management Specialist
1 39 (42.86%) Technology Specialist
2 24 (26.37%) Developer
3 20 (21.98%) Umbraco Developer
4 4 (4.40%) Architect
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (3.30%) Analyst
5 3 (3.30%) Consultant
5 3 (3.30%) Lead
5 3 (3.30%) Lead Consultant
5 3 (3.30%) Senior
6 2 (2.20%) Designer
6 2 (2.20%) Digital Transformation
6 2 (2.20%) IT Engineer
6 2 (2.20%) IT Support
6 2 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (2.20%) Senior Support Analyst
6 2 (2.20%) Service Designer
6 2 (2.20%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (2.20%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) CSS
1 23 (25.27%) HTML
2 21 (23.08%) HTML5
3 20 (21.98%) jQuery
4 3 (3.30%) .NET
4 3 (3.30%) React
4 3 (3.30%) Vue
5 2 (2.20%) Laravel
5 2 (2.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.20%) Sass
6 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.10%) CSS3
6 1 (1.10%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.10%) Preactjs
6 1 (1.10%) SignalR
6 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.40%) Digital Media
2 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.20%) ASTM
2 2 (2.20%) Blog
2 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.20%) PACS
2 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (2.20%) Social Media
3 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) ITIL
2 39 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.08%) Web Development
5 20 (21.98%) Clean Code
5 20 (21.98%) Content Management
5 20 (21.98%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (9.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (8.79%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.69%) Agile
9 6 (6.59%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (6.59%) Project Delivery
10 5 (5.49%) Analytics
10 5 (5.49%) B2B
10 5 (5.49%) CI/CD
10 5 (5.49%) DevOps
10 5 (5.49%) MVC
10 5 (5.49%) Project Management
10 5 (5.49%) Roadmaps
11 4 (4.40%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.67%) SQL
2 23 (25.27%) C#
3 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.40%) Bicep
4 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.30%) VB
6 2 (2.20%) PHP
7 1 (1.10%) Java
7 1 (1.10%) Python
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (70.33%) Degree
2 45 (49.45%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) CISSP
5 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.18%) GDPR
2 20 (21.98%) Accessibility
2 20 (21.98%) WCAG
3 3 (3.30%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (51.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.98%) HP
3 4 (4.40%) Adobe
3 4 (4.40%) Databricks
3 4 (4.40%) Meraki
4 2 (2.20%) Facebook
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.20%) Tenable
5 1 (1.10%) Google
5 1 (1.10%) Monzo
5 1 (1.10%) Samsung