Hertfordshire NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Romford Rotherham Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	87
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.083 %	2.518 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£317
Average daily rate	£200	£367
% change on same period last year	-45.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£327
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-55.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.08	£18.45
% change on same period last year	+8.87 %
Miscellaneous Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	240	278
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.320 %	0.281 %
Daily rates quoted	67	113
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£326
Average daily rate	£360	£341
% change on same period last year	+5.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.07	£25.14
Average hourly rate	£29.86	£26.77
% change on same period last year	+11.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.65	£28.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
NHS 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.

NHS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing NHS across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (36.36 %) MS Excel 1 4 (36.36 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (27.27 %) Health 2 3 (27.27 %) Informatics 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 3 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 3 2 (18.18 %) iSOFT 3 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (18.18 %) VC++ 3 2 (18.18 %) MS Access 3 2 (18.18 %) C# 3 2 (18.18 %) C++ 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL 3 2 (18.18 %) .NET 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server

3 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 4 1 (9.091 %) Balanced Scorecard 4 1 (9.091 %) Construction 4 1 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (9.091 %) Migration 4 1 (9.091 %) Network Design 4 1 (9.091 %) Insurance 4 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 4 1 (9.091 %) Linux 4 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio 4 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (9.091 %) LAN 4 1 (9.091 %) VPN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (18.18 %) .NET 1 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (36.36 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) LAN 1 1 (9.091 %) VPN 1 1 (9.091 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Access	General 1 4 (36.36 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (27.27 %) Health 3 1 (9.091 %) Insurance 3 1 (9.091 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 2 (18.18 %) Software Developer 1 2 (18.18 %) Trainer 1 2 (18.18 %) Developer 2 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Development Manager 2 1 (9.091 %) Support Assistant 2 1 (9.091 %) Technical Support 2 1 (9.091 %) Administrator 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Administrator 2 1 (9.091 %) Information Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Sales Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows 1 1 (9.091 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) B2B 1 1 (9.091 %) Balanced Scorecard 1 1 (9.091 %) Migration 1 1 (9.091 %) Network Design 1 1 (9.091 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) C# 1 2 (18.18 %) C++ 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL 1 2 (18.18 %) VC++	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 2 2 (18.18 %) iSOFT