The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 22 22 36
Rank change year-on-year
0 +14
Contract jobs citing NHS 3 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.754% 3.297% 0.587%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.04% 20.93% 2.817%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £296 £275
% change year-on-year
-11.45% +7.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.75 £14.96
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.31%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
23 43 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 13.45% 15.75% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 13
Average daily rate £550 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+76.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £234 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £459 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 16
Average hourly rate £32.00 £41.25 £24.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.42% +70.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
NHS
England

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NHS across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Midlands NHS Jobs Demand Trend

NHS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands NHS Daily Rate Trend

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Midlands NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Information Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) NHS Information Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Information Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) NHS Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
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