The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 68 51 -
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -
Contract jobs citing NHS 8 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.857% 1.398% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.053% 8.148% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 0
Average daily rate £280 £298 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £300 £276
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.20 £16.49 £14.96
% change year-on-year
+10.36% +10.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
262 135 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 28.08% 17.15% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 62 58
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £198 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £428 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
NHS
Scotland

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (42.11%) .NET
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
1 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
2 6 (31.58%) C#
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) VB.NET
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
4 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (21.05%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) HTML
5 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.79%) XML
6 2 (10.53%) XSLT
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.53%) CSS
6 2 (10.53%) Web Services
6 2 (10.53%) OOD
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.53%) XHTML
6 2 (10.53%) OO
6 2 (10.53%) Citrix
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) CMS
6 2 (10.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (10.53%) Ajax
6 2 (10.53%) InfoPath
6 2 (10.53%) Social Network

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (42.11%) .NET
1 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
2 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 3 (15.79%) XML
4 2 (10.53%) XSLT
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) XHTML
4 2 (10.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (10.53%) Ajax
4 2 (10.53%) LINQ
4 2 (10.53%) jQuery
5 1 (5.263%) NHibernate
5 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) CMS
1 2 (10.53%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.263%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) InfoPath
2 1 (5.263%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) Intranet
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (5.263%) MS Access
4 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (5.263%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Web Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Functional Tester
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) NHS Project Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Data Migration Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) IT Trainer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (10.53%) Social Network
2 2 (10.53%) Web 2.0
3 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.263%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.263%) E-Learning
3 1 (5.263%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.263%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
1 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (5.263%) Windows NT
1 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
1 1 (5.263%) UNIX
1 1 (5.263%) Windows
1 1 (5.263%) Linux
1 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (15.79%) Project Management
3 2 (10.53%) OOD
3 2 (10.53%) OO
3 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Migration
4 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.263%) Information Management
4 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) CRM
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) VB.NET
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) XPath
5 1 (5.263%) VB
5 1 (5.263%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.263%) ISEB
2 1 (5.263%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) MetaFrame
1 1 (5.263%) Terminal Services
1 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Citrix
2 1 (5.263%) iSOFT
2 1 (5.263%) Adobe
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Knowledge of Visual Basic, C#, jQuery and source code control utilities, e.g. Git/Subversion/Tortoise, would be beneficial as would an understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP)...
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Rate: From £21,176 to £27,625 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013