The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 103 112 116
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Contract jobs citing NHS 18 26 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.769% 0.820% 0.464%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.666% 4.120% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 6
Average daily rate £381 £400 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.68% +35.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £300 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £14.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+157.28% -8.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £14.91
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +17.37%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
491 631 560
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.97% 19.91% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 255 230
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £521 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £14.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £39.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
NHS
South East

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NHS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire NHS Jobs Demand Trend

NHS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire NHS Daily Rate Trend

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire NHS Daily Rate Histogram

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire NHS Hourly Rate Histogram

NHS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
Reading +9 9 £400 +4.91% 1
Slough -7 1 - - 1
NHS
South East

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
2 7 (23.33%) SCCM
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (16.67%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) MS Office
5 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (10.00%) Windows
6 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.667%) Information Management
7 2 (6.667%) Banking
7 2 (6.667%) Retail
7 2 (6.667%) Business Analysis
7 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (6.667%) IPTV
7 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (6.667%) Marketing
7 2 (6.667%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.667%) FMCG
7 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (6.667%) QA
7 2 (6.667%) Spotfire
7 2 (6.667%) Digital Media
7 2 (6.667%) Business Analytics

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 Development
1 1 (3.333%) CSS
1 1 (3.333%) Web Services
1 1 (3.333%) HTML
1 1 (3.333%) jQuery
1 1 (3.333%) HTML5
1 1 (3.333%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (6.667%) Spotfire
4 1 (3.333%) MS Access
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 5 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Banking
2 2 (6.667%) Retail
2 2 (6.667%) Marketing
2 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) IT Support
3 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Business Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Contracts Manager
5 2 (6.667%) NHS Information Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Information Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.667%) IPTV
2 2 (6.667%) FMCG
2 2 (6.667%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.333%) PMI
3 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.333%) NPfIT
3 1 (3.333%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
3 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
3 1 (3.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (13.33%) Analytics
3 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.667%) Information Management
4 2 (6.667%) Business Analysis
4 2 (6.667%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.667%) Business Analytics
4 2 (6.667%) ITIL
5 1 (3.333%) ETL
5 1 (3.333%) Project Management
5 1 (3.333%) Migration
5 1 (3.333%) Risk Management
5 1 (3.333%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (3.333%) Information Governance
5 1 (3.333%) Inmon Methodology
5 1 (3.333%) Database Security
5 1 (3.333%) Matrix Management
5 1 (3.333%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.333%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) CISSP
1 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (3.333%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.333%) ECDL
1 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) QA
2 1 (3.333%) GAMP
2 1 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.333%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.333%) Cisco
2 1 (3.333%) Citrix
2 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
Berkshire, Thames Valley
You will be responsible for enhancing the in-house, warehouse to support an effective Information Service.A key part of this role will involve designing, coding and testing...
Hudson
Rate: £300 - £360 per day
Posted: 2 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Role: Clinical Governance and Risk Officer Type: NHS Contract Location:ThamesValley Length: 3 months Rate: 200 - £250 Start Date: ASAP My client, an NHS organisation based in theThamesValleyarea...
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
Berkshire
Rio and Cerner Millenium experience highly desirable. A very experienced Project Manager id required to help on a major transition programme for the NHS covering numerous Trusts and...
NES Global Talent
Rate: £500 to £545 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Role: Management Accountant/ Financial Planning Manager Location: Berkshire Rate: Negotiable Duration: 3 months (strong possibility of extension) My NHS client in Berkshire is looking for an interim Management...
Computer Futures
Posted: 5 June 2013