Manchester NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex 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 Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Pontypool Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Romford Rotherham Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	44
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	79	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	20.31 %	15.53 %
Daily rates quoted	13	3
Average minimum daily rate	£264	£193
Average daily rate	£287	£227
% change on same period last year	+26.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.85	£16.11
Average hourly rate	£16.51	£20.73
% change on same period last year	-20.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.17	£25.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.71	£18.61
% change on same period last year	+5.92 %
Miscellaneous Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	389	161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.513 %	0.168 %
Daily rates quoted	58	15
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£228
Average daily rate	£390	£245
% change on same period last year	+59.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£263
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£351
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	73	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.46	£18.24
Average hourly rate	£15.80	£20.49
% change on same period last year	-22.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.13	£22.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.27	£28.61
% change on same period last year	-15.17 %
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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 Manchester region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

NHS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing NHS within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Stockport	+3	2	-	-
Wigan	0	2	£170	-38.18 %
Bury	-	1	-	-

NHS North West

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 22 (16.79 %) Health 2 20 (15.27 %) MS Excel 3 18 (13.74 %) SQL 4 17 (12.98 %) PRINCE2 5 14 (10.69 %) SQL Server 6 13 (9.924 %) MS Access 7 12 (9.160 %) NPfIT 7 12 (9.160 %) Stakeholder Management 8 11 (8.397 %) Finance 9 10 (7.634 %) Smartcard 9 10 (7.634 %) MS Office 9 10 (7.634 %) SQL Server 2005 10 9 (6.870 %) PRINCE 11 8 (6.107 %) Active Directory 11 8 (6.107 %) Windows

11 8 (6.107 %) Windows 2000 11 8 (6.107 %) Project Management 12 6 (4.580 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (4.580 %) .NET 13 5 (3.817 %) VB 13 5 (3.817 %) Microsoft 13 5 (3.817 %) Datawarehouse 13 5 (3.817 %) ECDL 13 5 (3.817 %) Performance Management 14 4 (3.053 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 4 (3.053 %) Windows XP 14 4 (3.053 %) HTML 14 4 (3.053 %) Oracle 15 3 (2.290 %) Java 15 3 (2.290 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (4.580 %) ASP.NET 1 6 (4.580 %) .NET 2 4 (3.053 %) HTML 3 3 (2.290 %) CSS 3 3 (2.290 %) ASP 4 2 (1.527 %) XML 5 1 (0.763 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.763 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.527 %) SAS 2 1 (0.763 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 20 (15.27 %) MS Excel 2 10 (7.634 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.527 %) MS Visio 3 2 (1.527 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.763 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.763 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.527 %) Network Security 2 1 (0.763 %) WAN 2 1 (0.763 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (10.69 %) SQL Server 2 13 (9.924 %) MS Access 3 10 (7.634 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (3.817 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (1.527 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (0.763 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.763 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.763 %) Data Cleansing	Development Applications 1 3 (2.290 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (1.527 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 22 (16.79 %) Health 2 11 (8.397 %) Finance 3 2 (1.527 %) General Ledger 4 1 (0.763 %) Education 4 1 (0.763 %) Law 4 1 (0.763 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 29 (22.14 %) Analyst 2 20 (15.27 %) Project Manager 3 16 (12.21 %) Developer 4 15 (11.45 %) NHS Project Manager 5 14 (10.69 %) Information Analyst 6 12 (9.160 %) Trainer 7 8 (6.107 %) Business Analyst 7 8 (6.107 %) Helpdesk Support 8 6 (4.580 %) SQL Developer 9 5 (3.817 %) 1st Line Support 9 5 (3.817 %) NHS Information Analyst 10 4 (3.053 %) PC Engineer 10 4 (3.053 %) ECDL Trainer 10 4 (3.053 %) Rollout Engineer 10 4 (3.053 %) Senior Analyst 10 4 (3.053 %) Junior 11 3 (2.290 %) 2nd Line Support 12 2 (1.527 %) Data Quality Manager 12 2 (1.527 %) Report Writer 12 2 (1.527 %) Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 12 (9.160 %) NPfIT 2 10 (7.634 %) Smartcard 3 3 (2.290 %) Data Extraction 4 2 (1.527 %) Informatics 4 2 (1.527 %) VLE 5 1 (0.763 %) W3C 5 1 (0.763 %) PACS	Operating Systems 1 8 (6.107 %) Windows 1 8 (6.107 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (3.053 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (12.98 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (9.160 %) Stakeholder Management 3 9 (6.870 %) PRINCE 4 8 (6.107 %) Project Management 5 5 (3.817 %) Performance Management 6 3 (2.290 %) ITIL 6 3 (2.290 %) Data Mapping 6 3 (2.290 %) Data Protection 7 2 (1.527 %) Data Migration 7 2 (1.527 %) Project Planning 7 2 (1.527 %) Web Development 7 2 (1.527 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (1.527 %) Data Management 7 2 (1.527 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (1.527 %) Supplier Management 7 2 (1.527 %) Business Continuity 7 2 (1.527 %) Risk Management 7 2 (1.527 %) Migration 7 2 (1.527 %) Change Management 7 2 (1.527 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 18 (13.74 %) SQL 2 5 (3.817 %) VB 3 3 (2.290 %) Java 4 1 (0.763 %) PHP 4 1 (0.763 %) C# 4 1 (0.763 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 5 (3.817 %) ECDL 2 4 (3.053 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 3 (2.290 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.763 %) PAS 78
System Software 1 8 (6.107 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (3.817 %) Microsoft 2 4 (3.053 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.763 %) Cisco 3 1 (0.763 %) Dell 3 1 (0.763 %) SeeBeyond