Hampshire NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Hampshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Cumbria Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	107
Rank change on same period last year	+44
Matching contract IT job ads	35	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	10.97 %	3.409 %
Daily rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£335
Average daily rate	£286	£346
% change on same period last year	-17.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£325
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.91	£16.19
Average hourly rate	£17.05	£20.09
% change on same period last year	-15.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.19	£23.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.94	£19.21
% change on same period last year	+9.03 %
Miscellaneous Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	319	528
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.431 %	0.521 %
Daily rates quoted	66	71
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£324
Average daily rate	£358	£345
% change on same period last year	+3.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	84	151
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.51	£30.76
Average hourly rate	£33.83	£32.37
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.15	£33.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.26	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
NHS South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

NHS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Portsmouth	+5	13	£263	-32.25 %
Basingstoke	+13	9	-	-
Southampton	+5	4	-	-
Winchester	-	1	£275	-

NHS South East

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 15 (26.79 %) Project Management 2 13 (23.21 %) SQL 2 13 (23.21 %) MS Office 3 12 (21.43 %) MS Excel 3 12 (21.43 %) Health 4 9 (16.07 %) .NET 5 8 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 6 7 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 6 7 (12.50 %) MS Access 6 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (8.929 %) Microsoft 7 5 (8.929 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 3 (5.357 %) RDBMS

9 3 (5.357 %) Change Management 9 3 (5.357 %) XHTML 9 3 (5.357 %) HTML 9 3 (5.357 %) JavaScript 9 3 (5.357 %) CSS 9 3 (5.357 %) Visual Studio 9 3 (5.357 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (5.357 %) AJAX 9 3 (5.357 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (5.357 %) Degree 9 3 (5.357 %) Data Extraction 10 2 (3.571 %) Resource Management 10 2 (3.571 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (3.571 %) ITIL 10 2 (3.571 %) C#

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (16.07 %) .NET 2 7 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (5.357 %) CSS 3 3 (5.357 %) XHTML 3 3 (5.357 %) AJAX 3 3 (5.357 %) .NET Framework 3 3 (5.357 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.786 %) IIS 1 1 (1.786 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.786 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 13 (23.21 %) MS Office 2 12 (21.43 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.786 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.786 %) DHCP 1 1 (1.786 %) VPN 1 1 (1.786 %) DNS 1 1 (1.786 %) NetScreen 1 1 (1.786 %) Firewall 1 1 (1.786 %) Wireless 1 1 (1.786 %) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 7 (12.50 %) MS Access 1 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (5.357 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.786 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 3 (5.357 %) Visual Studio
General 1 12 (21.43 %) Health 2 2 (3.571 %) Publishing 2 2 (3.571 %) Finance 2 2 (3.571 %) Government 3 1 (1.786 %) Construction 3 1 (1.786 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 17 (30.36 %) Project Manager 2 16 (28.57 %) Analyst 3 7 (12.50 %) Data Analyst 3 7 (12.50 %) Developer 4 6 (10.71 %) Administrator 4 6 (10.71 %) Information Analyst 5 4 (7.143 %) IT Administrator 5 4 (7.143 %) Team Leader 5 4 (7.143 %) Business Analyst 6 3 (5.357 %) .NET Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) SQL Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (3.571 %) NHS Project Manager 7 2 (3.571 %) Project Support Officer 7 2 (3.571 %) Business Project Manager 7 2 (3.571 %) Business Manager 7 2 (3.571 %) Project Officer 7 2 (3.571 %) Lead Test Analyst 7 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.357 %) Data Extraction 2 2 (3.571 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.786 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.786 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (26.79 %) Project Management 2 8 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (8.929 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (5.357 %) Change Management 5 2 (3.571 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (3.571 %) Resource Management 5 2 (3.571 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.786 %) Digital Marketing 6 1 (1.786 %) Data Migration 6 1 (1.786 %) Strategic Planning 6 1 (1.786 %) Statistical Analysis 6 1 (1.786 %) Information Management 6 1 (1.786 %) Network Design 6 1 (1.786 %) Migration 6 1 (1.786 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (1.786 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 13 (23.21 %) SQL 2 3 (5.357 %) Transact-SQL 2 3 (5.357 %) JavaScript 3 2 (3.571 %) C# 4 1 (1.786 %) DHTML 4 1 (1.786 %) C 4 1 (1.786 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 3 (5.357 %) Degree 2 2 (3.571 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.786 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (1.786 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.786 %) MBA 3 1 (1.786 %) CIPD 3 1 (1.786 %) CCNP 3 1 (1.786 %) CCNA 3 1 (1.786 %) CCDA 3 1 (1.786 %) CCDP	System Software 1 2 (3.571 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (1.786 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 5 (8.929 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.571 %) Citrix 3 1 (1.786 %) Juniper 3 1 (1.786 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (1.786 %) Cisco