Bedfordshire NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Rotherham Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	34
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	14.81 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£340
% change on same period last year	-2.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	-
Average hourly rate	£21.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.68	£19.63
% change on same period last year	+5.36 %
Miscellaneous Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	27	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.033 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£290
Average daily rate	£388	£330
% change on same period last year	+17.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.75	£25.71
Average hourly rate	£16.44	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-36.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.13	£25.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
NHS East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

NHS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing NHS across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

NHS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NHS across the Bedfordshire region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NHS across the Bedfordshire region.

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing NHS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NHS.

1 3 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (22.22 %) Windows 2 2 (22.22 %) MS Excel 3 1 (11.11 %) Health 3 1 (11.11 %) MS Visio 3 1 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft 3 1 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (11.11 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing NHS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NHS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) MS Excel 2 1 (11.11 %) MS Visio
General 1 1 (11.11 %) Health	Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) Support Technician 2 2 (22.22 %) Data Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) PC Support 3 1 (11.11 %) NHS Information Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Project Administrator 3 1 (11.11 %) Information Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Technical Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Administrator 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Assistant
Operating Systems 1 2 (22.22 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (11.11 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft