The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 54 58 55
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs citing NHS 4 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.667% 0.295% 0.633%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.252% 1.124% 2.424%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £269 £250 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.60% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £250 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £250 £273
UK excluding London average daily rate £273 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-9.16% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £14.91
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +17.37%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
123 178 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 20.50% 26.25% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 40 50
Average daily rate £370 £345 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.24% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £250 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 29
Average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.26% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.37 £13.50 £12.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
NHS
Buckinghamshire

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes NHS Daily Rate Trend

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Milton Keynes NHS Daily Rate Histogram

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes NHS Hourly Rate Trend

NHS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) E-Procurement
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) CMDB
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Law

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Services Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Release Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Junior
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Change Management
1 2 (25.00%) E-Procurement
2 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft