ePrescribing Contracts in England

Electronic Prescribing (e-Prescribing)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ePrescribing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ePrescribing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 640 753
Rank change year-on-year +109 +113 -126
Contract jobs citing ePrescribing 4 23 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.046% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.050% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £227 - £181
25th Percentile £255 - £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £312 £150 £350
Median % change year-on-year +107.67% -57.14% -15.15%
75th Percentile £376 - £538
90th Percentile £410 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £150 £350
% change year-on-year +166.67% -57.14% -15.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

ePrescribing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

ePrescribing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ePrescribing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ePrescribing in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ePrescribing in England.

Daily rate trend for ePrescribing in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ePrescribing in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ePrescribing in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ePrescribing in England.

Hourly rate trend for ePrescribing in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ePrescribing within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +18 3 £415 -
Midlands +13 3 £415 -
North of England +31 1 £208 -
North West +14 1 £208 -
ePrescribing
UK

ePrescribing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) NHS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) e-Health
1 2 (50.00%) LIMS
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
1 2 (50.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Informatics
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Health Informatics
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) HL7
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR