The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 179 189 215
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +26
Contract jobs citing NHS 36 25 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.522% 0.329% 0.229%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.636% 1.017% 0.582%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 13
Average daily rate £225 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £163 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £415 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
Average hourly rate £13.75 £14.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £11.00 £12.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.35 £17.00 £23.30
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2200 2459 3954
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.93% 32.32% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1638 1913 3097
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £638 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 59
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.35 £12.65 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.85 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
NHS
London

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 18 (21.69%) SQL
2 14 (16.87%) MS Excel
2 14 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (13.25%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Project Management
4 10 (12.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (12.05%) Informatics
5 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
6 8 (9.639%) SQL Server
6 8 (9.639%) MS Office
7 6 (7.229%) Management Information System
7 6 (7.229%) Data Analysis
8 5 (6.024%) Change Management
8 5 (6.024%) Active Directory
8 5 (6.024%) Oracle
8 5 (6.024%) Business Objects
8 5 (6.024%) Windows
8 5 (6.024%) SharePoint
8 5 (6.024%) PRINCE2
8 5 (6.024%) Workflow
9 4 (4.819%) Windows 7
9 4 (4.819%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.819%) Statistics
9 4 (4.819%) Degree
9 4 (4.819%) QlikView
9 4 (4.819%) Cerner
9 4 (4.819%) Validation
9 4 (4.819%) Information Management
10 3 (3.614%) Programme Management

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (3.614%) .NET
2 1 (1.205%) AWT
2 1 (1.205%) Swing
2 1 (1.205%) XHTML
2 1 (1.205%) J2EE
2 1 (1.205%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.205%) COM
2 1 (1.205%) EJB
2 1 (1.205%) CSS
2 1 (1.205%) Web Services
2 1 (1.205%) GWT
2 1 (1.205%) jQuery
2 1 (1.205%) SWT
2 1 (1.205%) Ajax
2 1 (1.205%) RESTful
2 1 (1.205%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.024%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.410%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.205%) JCAPS
3 1 (1.205%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.205%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (16.87%) MS Excel
2 8 (9.639%) MS Office
3 2 (2.410%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.205%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.410%) Cerner Millennium
1 2 (2.410%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.205%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.205%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.205%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.205%) LAN
1 1 (1.205%) VoIP
1 1 (1.205%) WAN
1 1 (1.205%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (9.639%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.819%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.819%) QlikView
5 2 (2.410%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.205%) WebFOCUS
6 1 (1.205%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (1.205%) BODI
6 1 (1.205%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.205%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.205%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.205%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 1 (1.205%) Maven
1 1 (1.205%) Subversion
1 1 (1.205%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.205%) Ant
1 1 (1.205%) JIRA
1 1 (1.205%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.205%) Git (software)
General
1 11 (13.25%) Finance
2 3 (3.614%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (1.205%) General Ledger
3 1 (1.205%) Electronics
3 1 (1.205%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.205%) Law
3 1 (1.205%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.205%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) Analyst
2 14 (16.87%) Developer
3 12 (14.46%) Information Analyst
4 7 (8.434%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.434%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.024%) Systems Manager
5 5 (6.024%) NHS Information Analyst
5 5 (6.024%) Clinical Coder
6 4 (4.819%) NHS Project Manager
6 4 (4.819%) SQL Developer
7 3 (3.614%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.614%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 3 (3.614%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.614%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.614%) Senior Information Analyst
7 3 (3.614%) NHS Business Analyst
8 2 (2.410%) NHS Programme Manager
8 2 (2.410%) Digital Project Manager
8 2 (2.410%) Business Change Analyst
8 2 (2.410%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Informatics
2 6 (7.229%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.819%) Statistics
4 2 (2.410%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.410%) Health Informatics
4 2 (2.410%) Visualisation
4 2 (2.410%) Data Extraction
5 1 (1.205%) PACS
5 1 (1.205%) Handset
5 1 (1.205%) DTV
5 1 (1.205%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.205%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.205%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.205%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.205%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.024%) Windows
2 4 (4.819%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.614%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.410%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.205%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.205%) UNIX
5 1 (1.205%) Android
5 1 (1.205%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (13.25%) Project Management
3 6 (7.229%) Data Analysis
4 5 (6.024%) Change Management
4 5 (6.024%) PRINCE2
4 5 (6.024%) Workflow
5 4 (4.819%) Validation
5 4 (4.819%) Information Management
6 3 (3.614%) Programme Management
6 3 (3.614%) Data Modelling
6 3 (3.614%) ETL
6 3 (3.614%) Time Management
6 3 (3.614%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (3.614%) Data Validation
6 3 (3.614%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (3.614%) Information Governance
7 2 (2.410%) Data Transformation
7 2 (2.410%) Analytics
7 2 (2.410%) Predictive Modelling
7 2 (2.410%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) SQL
2 2 (2.410%) Java
2 2 (2.410%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.205%) VB
3 1 (1.205%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.205%) VBA
3 1 (1.205%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.819%) Degree
2 2 (2.410%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.410%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.205%) ISEB
3 1 (1.205%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.410%) HL7
2 1 (1.205%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (6.024%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.205%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (1.205%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.024%) Oracle
2 5 (6.024%) Business Objects
3 4 (4.819%) Cerner
4 1 (1.205%) McKesson
4 1 (1.205%) Apple
4 1 (1.205%) IBM
4 1 (1.205%) Cognos
4 1 (1.205%) SAP
4 1 (1.205%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.205%) Northgate
City of London
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Rate: £200 - £225 per day
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Rate: £250 - £251 per annum
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day
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Sand Resources
Rate: £220 - £230 per day
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Rate: £250 - £270 per annum
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Rate: £300 - £320 per annum
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E-Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £330 per annum
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City, London
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Rate: £001 - £330 per annum
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Rate: Up to UKP 320 per day
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Rate: £11 - £15 per hour
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Rate: £260 - £290 per day
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Rate: £250 - £300 per day
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