The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 35 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing NHS 6 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.754% 0.478% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.522% 1.724% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £290 £280
% change year-on-year
-9.48% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.20 £15.75 £14.71
% change year-on-year
+15.55% +7.10%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
92 116 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 26.90% 27.75% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 59 13
Average daily rate £263 £299 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.13% -14.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £197 £225 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £389 £403 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 11
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +240.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £21.20 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
NHS
Cambridgeshire

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (40.00%) C
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) MS Office
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL V3
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Information Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) NHS Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL V3
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
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