The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 21 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 Edinburgh 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing NHS 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.488% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.667% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £208 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
-9.48% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.20 £15.75 £14.91
% change year-on-year
+15.55% +5.63%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
150 148 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.32% 13.49% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 65 75
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £200 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.50% -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
NHS
Scotland

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
1 4 (66.67%) XML
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) Telerik
1 4 (66.67%) Ajax
1 4 (66.67%) jQuery
1 4 (66.67%) Mercurial
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
1 4 (66.67%) XML
1 4 (66.67%) Ajax
1 4 (66.67%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 4 (66.67%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Trainer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Telerik