Merseyside NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Merseyside 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	23	17
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	27.27 %	30.19 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£170
Average daily rate	-	£170
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£170
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.89	£12.69
Average hourly rate	£14.06	£13.04
% change on same period last year	+7.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.22	£13.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.71	£18.61
% change on same period last year	+5.92 %
Miscellaneous Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	66	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.055 %
Daily rates quoted	5	11
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£176
Average daily rate	£323	£181
% change on same period last year	+78.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£186
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£351
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.46	£17.98
Average hourly rate	£13.60	£19.82
% change on same period last year	-31.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.75	£21.66
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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NHS across the Merseyside region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-1	10	-	-
Southport	-4	3	-	-
Wirral	-	1	-	-

NHS North West

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 15 (28.85 %) Health 2 7 (13.46 %) SQL 2 7 (13.46 %) MS Office 2 7 (13.46 %) Microsoft 3 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 4 4 (7.692 %) Windows 4 4 (7.692 %) Performance Management 5 3 (5.769 %) Degree 5 3 (5.769 %) Smartcard 5 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (3.846 %) .NET 6 2 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 6 2 (3.846 %) Active Directory 6 2 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (3.846 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

7 1 (1.923 %) Data Cleansing 7 1 (1.923 %) Reference Data 7 1 (1.923 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.923 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (1.923 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.923 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (1.923 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.923 %) Novell eDirectory 7 1 (1.923 %) NPfIT 7 1 (1.923 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.923 %) Firewall 7 1 (1.923 %) Migration 7 1 (1.923 %) Novell 7 1 (1.923 %) VERITAS 7 1 (1.923 %) iSOFT

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (3.846 %) .NET 1 2 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.923 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (1.923 %) XHTML 2 1 (1.923 %) CSS 2 1 (1.923 %) SOAP 2 1 (1.923 %) XML 2 1 (1.923 %) ADO 2 1 (1.923 %) ASP 2 1 (1.923 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.923 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (1.923 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.923 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.923 %) IIS
Applications 1 7 (13.46 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.923 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.923 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.923 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.923 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (1.923 %) Reference Data 2 1 (1.923 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (1.923 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.923 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 15 (28.85 %) Health	Job Titles 1 10 (19.23 %) Trainer 1 10 (19.23 %) Analyst 2 7 (13.46 %) Information Analyst 3 4 (7.692 %) Support Technician 3 4 (7.692 %) Technical Trainer 3 4 (7.692 %) 1st Line Support 3 4 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (5.769 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (5.769 %) Helpdesk Support 5 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 2 (3.846 %) Developer 5 2 (3.846 %) Buyer 5 2 (3.846 %) Senior Buyer 5 2 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Technician 5 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Support Technician 5 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Engineer 6 1 (1.923 %) Server Engineer 6 1 (1.923 %) IT Administrator 6 1 (1.923 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) Smartcard 2 1 (1.923 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 4 (7.692 %) Windows 2 1 (1.923 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.923 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (7.692 %) Performance Management 2 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (1.923 %) Content Management 3 1 (1.923 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (1.923 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (1.923 %) Change Management 3 1 (1.923 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 7 (13.46 %) SQL 2 1 (1.923 %) VBScript 2 1 (1.923 %) VBA 2 1 (1.923 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 3 (5.769 %) Degree 2 2 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.923 %) MCSA	System Software 1 2 (3.846 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.923 %) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management 1 2 (3.846 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 7 (13.46 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.923 %) Novell 2 1 (1.923 %) VERITAS 2 1 (1.923 %) iSOFT 2 1 (1.923 %) Citrix 2 1 (1.923 %) Cisco