Lancashire Health Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Health' in contract IT jobs within the Lancashire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Health over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billericay Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Channel Islands Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidlington Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	38
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	9	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.081 %	3.226 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£333	-
Average daily rate	£348	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£364	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£342
% change on same period last year	+6.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.49	£23.42
% change on same period last year	+17.37 %
General Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	148	186
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.240 %	0.203 %
Daily rates quoted	27	48
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£319
Average daily rate	£337	£328
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£378
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.25	£21.41
Average hourly rate	£27.91	£24.16
% change on same period last year	+15.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.58	£26.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.32	£26.63
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Health North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 Lancashire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Health within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Fleetwood	-	3	£380	-
Blackburn	-	1	-	-
Lancaster	-	1	-	-

Health North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 8 (50.00 %) NHS 2 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (25.00 %) Government 4 3 (18.75 %) Migration 4 3 (18.75 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (18.75 %) NPfIT 4 3 (18.75 %) SAP 4 3 (18.75 %) Finance 4 3 (18.75 %) UML 4 3 (18.75 %) MS Visio 4 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 4 3 (18.75 %) Pensions 4 3 (18.75 %) HL7 4 3 (18.75 %) Data Migration 5 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing

5 2 (12.50 %) Local Government 6 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (6.250 %) Validation 6 1 (6.250 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Smartcard 6 1 (6.250 %) Benchmarking 6 1 (6.250 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Data Mining 6 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 6 1 (6.250 %) C 6 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 6 1 (6.250 %) Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) MS Visio 2 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) Data Mining 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 4 (25.00 %) Government 2 3 (18.75 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Pensions 3 2 (12.50 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 3 (18.75 %) Architect 1 3 (18.75 %) Analyst 1 3 (18.75 %) Systems Architect 2 2 (12.50 %) Lead Test Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Trainer 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) Configuration Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Leader 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) NHS Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (50.00 %) NHS 2 3 (18.75 %) NPfIT 3 1 (6.250 %) Smartcard	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (18.75 %) UML 2 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 2 3 (18.75 %) Migration 2 3 (18.75 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (18.75 %) Data Migration 3 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (6.250 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Validation 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (6.250 %) Benchmarking 4 1 (6.250 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (18.75 %) HL7	Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) SAP 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle