Lancashire NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Lancashire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	34
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	33	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	55.00 %	21.67 %
Daily rates quoted	18	4
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£269
Average daily rate	£256	£290
% change on same period last year	-11.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£269	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£15.50
Average hourly rate	£20.42	£17.00
% change on same period last year	+20.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.84	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£19.31
% change on same period last year	+3.54 %
Miscellaneous Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	60	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.061 %
Daily rates quoted	18	19
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£258
Average daily rate	£268	£270
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£19.16
Average hourly rate	£24.42	£20.29
% change on same period last year	+20.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.18	£21.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.99	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
NHS 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.

NHS
Demand Trend

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

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Lancashire region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Preston	-	8	£230	-
Blackpool	-	3	-	-
Lancaster	-	2	£398	-
Blackburn	+4	1	-	-
Fleetwood	-	1	£370	-

NHS North West

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 18 (39.13 %) SQL 2 11 (23.91 %) MS Excel 3 8 (17.39 %) VBA 4 7 (15.22 %) SQL Server 4 7 (15.22 %) Health 5 6 (13.04 %) Migration 6 5 (10.87 %) NPfIT 6 5 (10.87 %) Government 7 4 (8.696 %) Data Migration 8 3 (6.522 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 3 (6.522 %) Performance Management 8 3 (6.522 %) Local Government 8 3 (6.522 %) HL7 8 3 (6.522 %) SAP 9 2 (4.348 %) ASP

9 2 (4.348 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (4.348 %) .NET 9 2 (4.348 %) Microsoft 9 2 (4.348 %) ECDL 9 2 (4.348 %) iSOFT 9 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005 9 2 (4.348 %) Data Analysis 9 2 (4.348 %) E-business 10 1 (2.174 %) Finance 10 1 (2.174 %) GIS 10 1 (2.174 %) ESRI 10 1 (2.174 %) Insurance 10 1 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 10 1 (2.174 %) Pensions

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (4.348 %) .NET 1 2 (4.348 %) ASP 1 2 (4.348 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 11 (23.91 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.174 %) SPSS 2 1 (2.174 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.174 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.22 %) SQL Server 2 3 (6.522 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (2.174 %) GIS
General 1 7 (15.22 %) Health 2 5 (10.87 %) Government 3 3 (6.522 %) Local Government 4 1 (2.174 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.174 %) Finance 4 1 (2.174 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 22 (47.83 %) Analyst 2 17 (36.96 %) Information Analyst 3 9 (19.57 %) NHS Information Analyst 4 6 (13.04 %) Performance Analyst 5 5 (10.87 %) Trainer 6 4 (8.696 %) Architect 6 4 (8.696 %) Systems Architect 7 3 (6.522 %) Developer 8 2 (4.348 %) Senior Information Analyst 8 2 (4.348 %) ECDL Trainer 8 2 (4.348 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (4.348 %) Senior Analyst 9 1 (2.174 %) Data Analyst 9 1 (2.174 %) Applications Support Analyst 9 1 (2.174 %) IT Trainer 9 1 (2.174 %) Project Manager 9 1 (2.174 %) Business Analyst 9 1 (2.174 %) Test Analyst 9 1 (2.174 %) Support Analyst 9 1 (2.174 %) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 5 (10.87 %) NPfIT 2 1 (2.174 %) Smartcard	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.04 %) Migration 2 4 (8.696 %) Data Migration 3 3 (6.522 %) Performance Management 4 2 (4.348 %) E-business 4 2 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (4.348 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.174 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.174 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.174 %) UML 5 1 (2.174 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 18 (39.13 %) SQL 2 8 (17.39 %) VBA 3 1 (2.174 %) C 3 1 (2.174 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (4.348 %) ECDL 2 1 (2.174 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.522 %) HL7 2 1 (2.174 %) SLA	Vendors 1 3 (6.522 %) SAP 2 2 (4.348 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.348 %) iSOFT 3 1 (2.174 %) ESRI 3 1 (2.174 %) Fujitsu 3 1 (2.174 %) HP 3 1 (2.174 %) Dell