Dorset Health Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Health' in contract IT jobs within the Dorset region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Health over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Ayrshire Barking Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.381 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	-
Average hourly rate	£23.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.10	£22.86
% change on same period last year	-3.33 %
General Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	252	223
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.332 %	0.237 %
Daily rates quoted	139	131
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£353
Average daily rate	£410	£369
% change on same period last year	+10.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.10	£22.05
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+19.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.24	£24.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Health South West

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 Health across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Health across the Dorset region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Health across the Dorset region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Health within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bournemouth	-	3	-	-
Poole	-	2	-	-

Health South West

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing Health 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 Health.

1 3 (37.50 %) UML 1 3 (37.50 %) NHS 1 3 (37.50 %) GAP Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Requirements Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Use Case 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) System Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Information Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing Health 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 Health. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Analyst 1 3 (37.50 %) Analyst 1 3 (37.50 %) UML Business Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Trainee 3 1 (12.50 %) NHS Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) UML 1 3 (37.50 %) GAP Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Requirements Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Use Case 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) System Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Information Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL