The first table below looks at the demand for HL7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HL7 over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Health Level 7 (HL7)
Rank 72 82 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing HL7 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.322% 0.077% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.660% 1.064% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £283 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-19.28% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £16.50 -
% change year-on-year
+40.15% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
53 94 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 5.681% 7.276% 4.798%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 20
Average daily rate £338 £195 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.07% -36.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £177 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £388 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
Average hourly rate £17.75 £17.00 £12.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.41% +37.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £11.60 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
HL7
North West

HL7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HL7 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Manchester HL7 Jobs Demand Trend

HL7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HL7 across the Manchester region.

Manchester HL7 Daily Rate Trend

HL7
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HL7 across the Manchester region.

Manchester HL7 Hourly Rate Trend

HL7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing HL7 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 HL7.

1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) XML
1 5 (83.33%) NHS
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Content Management
2 3 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (50.00%) JCAPS
2 3 (50.00%) JDBC
2 3 (50.00%) JSP
2 3 (50.00%) Servlets
2 3 (50.00%) Struts
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) JMS
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio

HL7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing HL7 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 HL7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) XML
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 3 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) JDBC
2 3 (50.00%) JSP
2 3 (50.00%) Servlets
2 3 (50.00%) Struts
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) JMS
2 3 (50.00%) ASP
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) JCAPS
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) NetBeans
1 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Architect
1 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Development Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Installations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) NHS
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Content Management
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) OOP
1 3 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) DICOM
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Twitter