The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 21 May 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 Bradford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 25 22 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing NHS 1 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 0.645% 4.321% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.571% 28.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £325 £365 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
-9.48% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.20 £15.75 £14.91
% change year-on-year
+15.55% +5.63%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
28 25 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 18.06% 15.43% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 6
Average daily rate £260 £165 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -34.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £139 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £365 £258
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Average hourly rate £12.42 £25.00 £7.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.32% +233.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
NHS
West Yorkshire

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford NHS Daily Rate Trend

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) MS Access
4 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (20.00%) Information Governance
5 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle OWB
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (13.33%) jQuery
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (13.33%) UNIX
5 2 (13.33%) MS Office
5 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (6.667%) Information Management
6 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
6 1 (6.667%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (6.667%) Web Development
6 1 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (6.667%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (6.667%) SharePoint

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (13.33%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) XHTML
2 1 (6.667%) CSS
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
2 1 (6.667%) Symfony
2 1 (6.667%) Grails
2 1 (6.667%) Django
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) Plone
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (13.33%) MS Office
2 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MS Access
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle OWB
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Information Governance Officer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Support
3 2 (13.33%) Author
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Author
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Information Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Access Developer
4 1 (6.667%) IT Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Web Development Manager
4 1 (6.667%) MI Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Web Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.667%) Freedom of Information Act
1 1 (6.667%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (6.667%) Information Management
2 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
2 1 (6.667%) Web Development
2 1 (6.667%) OO
2 1 (6.667%) Data Protection
2 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (6.667%) Scrum
2 1 (6.667%) Migration
2 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.667%) Python
4 1 (6.667%) PHP
4 1 (6.667%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft