City of London NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontypool Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Romford Rotherham Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	173	191
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	50	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.536 %	0.268 %
Daily rates quoted	26	3
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£283
Average daily rate	£377	£367
% change on same period last year	+2.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.75	£13.00
Average hourly rate	£11.69	£14.50
% change on same period last year	-19.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.63	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.86	£18.22
% change on same period last year	+8.96 %
Miscellaneous City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3256	2984
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.324 %	3.062 %
Daily rates quoted	1910	1440
Average minimum daily rate	£477	£498
Average daily rate	£522	£542
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£568	£586
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.62	£22.06
Average hourly rate	£21.43	£24.09
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.24	£26.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.49	£28.98
% change on same period last year	-15.50 %
NHS London

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 40 (39.60 %) Health 2 15 (14.85 %) SQL 3 14 (13.86 %) Project Management 4 13 (12.87 %) MS Excel 5 11 (10.89 %) MS Office 6 9 (8.911 %) Windows 6 9 (8.911 %) SQL Server 6 9 (8.911 %) Microsoft 7 8 (7.921 %) PRINCE2 8 7 (6.931 %) Active Directory 8 7 (6.931 %) Finance 9 6 (5.941 %) Information Management 9 6 (5.941 %) MS Exchange 9 6 (5.941 %) MS Access 10 5 (4.950 %) Cerner

10 5 (4.950 %) Government 11 4 (3.960 %) Service Management 11 4 (3.960 %) ECDL 11 4 (3.960 %) SharePoint 11 4 (3.960 %) ITIL 12 3 (2.970 %) MS Project 12 3 (2.970 %) Windows 2000 12 3 (2.970 %) Oracle 12 3 (2.970 %) SQL Server 7 12 3 (2.970 %) SPSS 12 3 (2.970 %) Service Delivery 12 3 (2.970 %) Change Management 12 3 (2.970 %) MS Visio 12 3 (2.970 %) Business Intelligence 12 3 (2.970 %) SLA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 2 (1.980 %) .NET 1 2 (1.980 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (0.990 %) CSS 2 1 (0.990 %) SOAP 2 1 (0.990 %) WebServices 2 1 (0.990 %) XML 2 1 (0.990 %) XHTML 2 1 (0.990 %) AJAX 2 1 (0.990 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 1 (0.990 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.941 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (3.960 %) SharePoint 3 2 (1.980 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (1.980 %) CMS 4 1 (0.990 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.990 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.990 %) SAS
Applications 1 13 (12.87 %) MS Excel 2 11 (10.89 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.970 %) MS Project 3 3 (2.970 %) MS Visio 3 3 (2.970 %) SPSS 4 2 (1.980 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (1.980 %) Cerner Millennium 2 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.990 %) LAN 1 1 (0.990 %) Internet 1 1 (0.990 %) Wireless 1 1 (0.990 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (8.911 %) SQL Server 2 6 (5.941 %) MS Access 3 3 (2.970 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (1.980 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.990 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.990 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (0.990 %) Visual Studio	General 1 40 (39.60 %) Health 2 7 (6.931 %) Finance 3 5 (4.950 %) Government 4 1 (0.990 %) Telecoms 4 1 (0.990 %) Law 4 1 (0.990 %) Legal 4 1 (0.990 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 27 (26.73 %) Analyst 2 14 (13.86 %) Information Analyst 3 12 (11.88 %) Project Manager 4 9 (8.911 %) Trainer 4 9 (8.911 %) Desktop Support 5 7 (6.931 %) Service Manager 5 7 (6.931 %) IT Trainer 6 4 (3.960 %) Desktop Engineer 6 4 (3.960 %) Delivery Manager 6 4 (3.960 %) Data Analyst 6 4 (3.960 %) Developer 6 4 (3.960 %) Senior Analyst 7 3 (2.970 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (2.970 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 3 (2.970 %) IT Manager 7 3 (2.970 %) Delivery Project Manager 7 3 (2.970 %) Information Manager 7 3 (2.970 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 3 (2.970 %) Support Manager 7 3 (2.970 %) Business Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.980 %) NPfIT 1 2 (1.980 %) Management Information System 2 1 (0.990 %) Asset Management 2 1 (0.990 %) Freedom of Information 2 1 (0.990 %) Data Protection Act 2 1 (0.990 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 9 (8.911 %) Windows 2 3 (2.970 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (1.980 %) Windows NT 3 2 (1.980 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.990 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (13.86 %) Project Management 2 8 (7.921 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (5.941 %) Information Management 4 4 (3.960 %) ITIL 4 4 (3.960 %) Service Management 5 3 (2.970 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (2.970 %) Change Management 5 3 (2.970 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (1.980 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (1.980 %) Document Management 6 2 (1.980 %) Supplier Management 6 2 (1.980 %) Knowledge Management 6 2 (1.980 %) Data Protection 7 1 (0.990 %) Strategic Planning 7 1 (0.990 %) Incident Management 7 1 (0.990 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (0.990 %) Web Development 7 1 (0.990 %) Operations Management 7 1 (0.990 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (0.990 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 15 (14.85 %) SQL 2 2 (1.980 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (1.980 %) VB 2 2 (1.980 %) JavaScript 3 1 (0.990 %) C# 3 1 (0.990 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 4 (3.960 %) ECDL 2 2 (1.980 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (1.980 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.990 %) A+ Certification 3 1 (0.990 %) PMP 3 1 (0.990 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (0.990 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.970 %) SLA 1 3 (2.970 %) QA 2 1 (0.990 %) SNOMED CT 2 1 (0.990 %) HL7 2 1 (0.990 %) BS15000	System Software 1 7 (6.931 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.990 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 9 (8.911 %) Microsoft 2 5 (4.950 %) Cerner 3 3 (2.970 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.980 %) Business Objects 4 2 (1.980 %) Lotus 4 2 (1.980 %) iSOFT 5 1 (0.990 %) VMware 5 1 (0.990 %) Novell 5 1 (0.990 %) Cisco 5 1 (0.990 %) HP 5 1 (0.990 %) Alcatel