NHS Jobs in the North West

National Health Service (NHS)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited NHS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 220 240
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -148
Permanent jobs citing NHS 35 69 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.71% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 2.22% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 29 50 45
10th Percentile - £25,875 £33,067
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% -12.78% -14.69%
75th Percentile £33,750 £49,688 £53,096
90th Percentile £66,500 £66,273 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,573
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.90% +3.15%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,995 3,103 3,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 26.34% 31.93% 42.23%
Number of salaries quoted 953 2,271 1,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £31,752
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,100 £82,548 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for NHS in the North West

NHS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for NHS in the North West

NHS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing NHS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NHS in the North West

NHS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Merseyside +54 27 £32,500 - 5
Manchester +44 8 £62,500 +32.09% 39
NHS
England

NHS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 21 (60.00%) CMS
1 21 (60.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) AWS
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (2.86%) Figma
2 1 (2.86%) GCP
2 1 (2.86%) GitHub
2 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (2.86%) SaaS
2 1 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (60.00%) Intranet
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (62.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) git-flow
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Marketing
2 4 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (62.86%) Developer
2 21 (60.00%) Umbraco Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Support Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Account Director
5 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Account Director
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (2.86%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Security Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Security Product Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Transformation Director
5 1 (2.86%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (60.00%) CSS
1 21 (60.00%) HTML
1 21 (60.00%) HTML5
1 21 (60.00%) jQuery
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) React
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) Preactjs
3 1 (2.86%) SignalR
3 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Digital Media
2 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.71%) Blog
2 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Social Media
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.86%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (62.86%) Web Development
3 21 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 21 (60.00%) Content Management
3 21 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 5 (14.29%) MVC
4 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.43%) Co-Creation
5 4 (11.43%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (11.43%) Customer Insight
6 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (5.71%) CRM
7 2 (5.71%) Data Protection
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) ITIL
7 2 (5.71%) Proactive Maintenance
7 2 (5.71%) Risk Management
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineering
7 2 (5.71%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) C#
2 22 (62.86%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 21 (60.00%) GDPR
1 21 (60.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) HP
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Facebook
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Monzo
4 1 (2.86%) Samsung