Hertfordshire Health Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Health' in contract IT jobs within the Hertfordshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Health over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Ayrshire Barking Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	73
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	21	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	2.419 %	2.275 %
Daily rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£130
Average daily rate	£308	£180
% change on same period last year	+70.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.57
Average hourly rate	-	£22.64
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.01	£23.31
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
General Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	868	879
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.144 %	0.919 %
Daily rates quoted	344	402
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£322
Average daily rate	£390	£344
% change on same period last year	+13.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.55	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£25.58	£22.71
% change on same period last year	+12.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.61	£24.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.46	£26.98
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Health East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Health across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Health within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Watford	+3	2	£450	-

Health East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Health 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 Health.

1 6 (20.69 %) Perl 1 6 (20.69 %) Pharmaceutical 2 5 (17.24 %) NetApp 2 5 (17.24 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (13.79 %) Cisco 3 4 (13.79 %) Microsoft 3 4 (13.79 %) Project Management 4 3 (10.34 %) NHS 4 3 (10.34 %) Finance 4 3 (10.34 %) GMP 4 3 (10.34 %) Windows 4 3 (10.34 %) Linux 4 3 (10.34 %) MS Project 4 3 (10.34 %) Telecoms 4 3 (10.34 %) QMS

5 2 (6.897 %) Project Planning 5 2 (6.897 %) Degree 5 2 (6.897 %) Planview 5 2 (6.897 %) SAP 5 2 (6.897 %) MCSE 5 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint 5 2 (6.897 %) ADSL 5 2 (6.897 %) LAN 5 2 (6.897 %) Ethernet 5 2 (6.897 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (6.897 %) SLA 5 2 (6.897 %) CCNA 5 2 (6.897 %) Wi-Fi 5 2 (6.897 %) Risk Management 5 2 (6.897 %) iSOFT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Health 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 Health. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.448 %) CSS 1 1 (3.448 %) WebServices 1 1 (3.448 %) HTML 1 1 (3.448 %) .NET 1 1 (3.448 %) WCF 1 1 (3.448 %) WPF 1 1 (3.448 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.448 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.448 %) SAS 2 1 (3.448 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.448 %) MS Visio 2 1 (3.448 %) Photoshop 2 1 (3.448 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) ADSL 1 2 (6.897 %) LAN 1 2 (6.897 %) Ethernet 1 2 (6.897 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (6.897 %) Wi-Fi 1 2 (6.897 %) WAN 2 1 (3.448 %) SAN 2 1 (3.448 %) Firewall 2 1 (3.448 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) MySQL 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server	General 1 6 (20.69 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (10.34 %) Finance 2 3 (10.34 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.448 %) Publishing 3 1 (3.448 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 5 (17.24 %) Project Manager 2 3 (10.34 %) Analyst 2 3 (10.34 %) Senior Manager 2 3 (10.34 %) Senior Project Manager 3 2 (6.897 %) Helpdesk Support 3 2 (6.897 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (6.897 %) Administrator 3 2 (6.897 %) Consultant 3 2 (6.897 %) Trainer 3 2 (6.897 %) Developer 4 1 (3.448 %) Architect 4 1 (3.448 %) Programmer 4 1 (3.448 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (3.448 %) Technical Support 4 1 (3.448 %) Applications Support 4 1 (3.448 %) Team Leader 4 1 (3.448 %) Configuration Analyst 4 1 (3.448 %) Communications Manager 4 1 (3.448 %) Data Administrator 4 1 (3.448 %) Storage Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.34 %) NHS 2 1 (3.448 %) Replication 2 1 (3.448 %) CLARiiON 2 1 (3.448 %) Biostatistics 2 1 (3.448 %) Celerra
Operating Systems 1 3 (10.34 %) Windows 1 3 (10.34 %) Linux 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (3.448 %) Solaris 2 1 (3.448 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (17.24 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (13.79 %) Project Management 3 3 (10.34 %) QMS 4 2 (6.897 %) Project Planning 4 2 (6.897 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Validation 5 1 (3.448 %) Data Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Statistical Analysis 5 1 (3.448 %) Problem Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 6 (20.69 %) Perl 2 1 (3.448 %) AWK 2 1 (3.448 %) C# 2 1 (3.448 %) C++ 2 1 (3.448 %) Java 2 1 (3.448 %) JavaScript 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) Degree 1 2 (6.897 %) MCSE 1 2 (6.897 %) CCNA 1 2 (6.897 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (6.897 %) PMP 1 2 (6.897 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.34 %) GMP 2 2 (6.897 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 1 (3.448 %) Tivoli 1 1 (3.448 %) AutoSys 1 1 (3.448 %) EMC Navisphere
Vendors 1 5 (17.24 %) NetApp 2 4 (13.79 %) Cisco 2 4 (13.79 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.897 %) Planview 3 2 (6.897 %) SAP 3 2 (6.897 %) iSOFT 4 1 (3.448 %) EMC 4 1 (3.448 %) Nortel 4 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.448 %) Sybase 4 1 (3.448 %) Brocade