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 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 256 215 245
Rank change year-on-year -41 +30 -155
Permanent jobs citing NHS 33 76 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 0.73% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 2.39% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 23 57 35
10th Percentile - £26,100 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £48,939
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -18.27% -6.78%
75th Percentile £33,875 £48,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,500 £63,955 £85,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £51,525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.81% +2.96%

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 2,560 3,182 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.62% 30.58% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 907 2,284 1,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £32,572
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £42,500
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 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
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 31 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 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
Merseyside +44 22 £32,500 - 4
Manchester +32 11 £67,500 +42.66% 24
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 17 (51.52%) CMS
1 17 (51.52%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) Azure AI
2 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
2 2 (6.06%) IaaS
2 2 (6.06%) PaaS
2 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
2 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) Intranet
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) DNS
3 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Legal
2 4 (12.12%) Marketing
2 4 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Digital Health
5 1 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
1 17 (51.52%) Umbraco Developer
2 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (6.06%) Analyst
3 2 (6.06%) Architect
3 2 (6.06%) Civil Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.06%) Development Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (6.06%) Senior Support Analyst
3 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Account Director
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Transformation Director
4 1 (3.03%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Security Product Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) CSS
1 17 (51.52%) HTML
1 17 (51.52%) HTML5
1 17 (51.52%) jQuery
2 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Digital Media
2 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) Blog
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) Social Media
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (51.52%) Clean Code
2 17 (51.52%) Content Management
2 17 (51.52%) Customer Requirements
2 17 (51.52%) Web Development
3 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (15.15%) MVC
5 4 (12.12%) Co-Creation
5 4 (12.12%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (12.12%) Customer Insight
5 4 (12.12%) ITIL
5 4 (12.12%) Project Management
6 3 (9.09%) Agile
6 3 (9.09%) B2B
6 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 3 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.06%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) SQL
2 17 (51.52%) C#
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Bicep
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.03%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (54.55%) Accessibility
2 17 (51.52%) GDPR
2 17 (51.52%) WCAG
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) SCCM
1 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) HP
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) Facebook
3 2 (6.06%) Meraki
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Monzo
4 1 (3.03%) Samsung