Kent NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Channel Islands Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne England Essex Exeter Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Worcestershire Wrexham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	24
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	65	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	54.17 %	29.13 %
Daily rates quoted	21	5
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£406
Average daily rate	£377	£416
% change on same period last year	-9.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£312
% change on same period last year	+3.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£14.36
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£16.04
% change on same period last year	+49.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£17.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.73	£19.46
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Miscellaneous Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	120	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.193 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	30	11
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£383
Average daily rate	£330	£395
% change on same period last year	-16.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£345
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	15	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£16.96
Average hourly rate	£20.04	£18.29
% change on same period last year	+9.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	£19.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.41	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Kent region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Maidstone	-	15	£383	-
Canterbury	0	11	£344	-

NHS South East

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 37 (44.05 %) Health 2 15 (17.86 %) Change Management 3 14 (16.67 %) Project Management 4 12 (14.29 %) Stakeholder Management 4 12 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 5 9 (10.71 %) SQL 5 9 (10.71 %) Risk Management 6 8 (9.524 %) Data Analysis 7 7 (8.333 %) Document Management 7 7 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 8 6 (7.143 %) Project Planning 9 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server 2005 9 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 5 (5.952 %) Programme Management 9 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server

9 5 (5.952 %) SharePoint 10 4 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 10 4 (4.762 %) Finance 10 4 (4.762 %) NPfIT 10 4 (4.762 %) Casewise 10 4 (4.762 %) Back Office 11 3 (3.571 %) PerformancePoint 11 3 (3.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 3 (3.571 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 3 (3.571 %) Service Management 11 3 (3.571 %) Windows 11 3 (3.571 %) MS Project 11 3 (3.571 %) MS Office 11 3 (3.571 %) Microsoft 11 3 (3.571 %) TCP/IP

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 5 (5.952 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.190 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.190 %) Documentum 2 1 (1.190 %) CMS 2 1 (1.190 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (1.190 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (1.190 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.190 %) SharePoint Server 2007	Applications 1 3 (3.571 %) MS Project 1 3 (3.571 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.381 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.381 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.190 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.190 %) Spreadsheet
Business Applications 1 2 (2.381 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (1.190 %) Cerner Millennium	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.571 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.190 %) DNS 2 1 (1.190 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server 2005 1 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server Integration Services 1 5 (5.952 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (3.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 3 (3.571 %) PerformancePoint 3 3 (3.571 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 2 (2.381 %) DTS 4 2 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.381 %) EDMS 5 1 (1.190 %) MS Access	General 1 37 (44.05 %) Health 2 4 (4.762 %) Back Office 2 4 (4.762 %) Finance 3 1 (1.190 %) Government 3 1 (1.190 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 43 (51.19 %) Analyst 2 19 (22.62 %) Business Analyst 3 16 (19.05 %) Project Manager 4 14 (16.67 %) Information Analyst 5 6 (7.143 %) Change Manager 5 6 (7.143 %) NHS Project Manager 6 5 (5.952 %) Change Analyst 7 4 (4.762 %) Consultant 8 3 (3.571 %) Senior Analyst 8 3 (3.571 %) PMO Manager 8 3 (3.571 %) Communications Manager 9 2 (2.381 %) NHS Information Analyst 9 2 (2.381 %) Trainer 9 2 (2.381 %) Coordinator 9 2 (2.381 %) Junior 9 2 (2.381 %) Developer 9 2 (2.381 %) Junior Project Manager 9 2 (2.381 %) Datawarehouse Developer 9 2 (2.381 %) Data Analyst 9 2 (2.381 %) Project Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.762 %) NPfIT 2 2 (2.381 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.190 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.190 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.190 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.190 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 3 (3.571 %) Windows 2 2 (2.381 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.190 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.190 %) Linux 3 1 (1.190 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (17.86 %) Change Management 2 14 (16.67 %) Project Management 3 12 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 3 12 (14.29 %) Stakeholder Management 4 9 (10.71 %) Risk Management 5 8 (9.524 %) Data Analysis 6 7 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 6 7 (8.333 %) Document Management 7 6 (7.143 %) Project Planning 8 5 (5.952 %) Programme Management 9 3 (3.571 %) Service Management 10 2 (2.381 %) Validation 10 2 (2.381 %) Migration 10 2 (2.381 %) ITSM 10 2 (2.381 %) ITIL 10 2 (2.381 %) IT Governance 10 2 (2.381 %) Data Validation 11 1 (1.190 %) Strategic Planning 11 1 (1.190 %) Load Balancing 11 1 (1.190 %) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages 1 9 (10.71 %) SQL 2 1 (1.190 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.190 %) PMP 2 1 (1.190 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (1.190 %) Degree 2 1 (1.190 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.190 %) HL7	System Software 1 1 (1.190 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.190 %) NetBackup 1 1 (1.190 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 4 (4.762 %) Casewise 2 3 (3.571 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.381 %) Cerner 3 2 (2.381 %) Cognos 4 1 (1.190 %) Novell 4 1 (1.190 %) Symantec 4 1 (1.190 %) Citrix