Edinburgh NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	76
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.694 %	1.342 %
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	£321	£320
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.88	£19.25
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
Miscellaneous Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	144	149
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	30	25
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£375
Average daily rate	£336	£394
% change on same period last year	-14.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.15	£23.83
Average hourly rate	£17.85	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-30.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.54	£27.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.03	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
NHS Scotland

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.

NHS
Demand Trend

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

NHS
Daily Rate Trend

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

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (66.67 %) Health 2 1 (33.33 %) Symposium 2 1 (33.33 %) Nortel 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Workflow

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Symposium	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Health 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Designer 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Programme Director 1 1 (33.33 %) Services Delivery Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Workflow
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Nortel