The first table below looks at the demand for HL7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HL7 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the North West 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
Health Level 7 (HL7)
Rank 117 128 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing HL7 6 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.255% 0.063% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.762% 0.943% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £283 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-19.28% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £16.50 -
% change year-on-year
+40.15% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
126 212 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 5.353% 6.675% 4.616%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 62
Average daily rate £248 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £165 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 17
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.30 £11.88 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £18.50 £52.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
HL7
England

HL7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West HL7 Daily Rate Trend

HL7
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HL7 across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West HL7 Daily Rate Histogram

HL7
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West HL7 Hourly Rate Trend

HL7
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HL7 within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester +15 3 £225 -
HL7
England

HL7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 10 (83.33%) NHS
2 9 (75.00%) C#
3 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (66.67%) .NET
3 8 (66.67%) XML
4 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
5 4 (33.33%) Twitter
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) Linux
6 3 (25.00%) OOP
6 3 (25.00%) OO
6 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (25.00%) JMS
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) J2EE
6 3 (25.00%) Oracle
6 3 (25.00%) JDBC
6 3 (25.00%) JSP
6 3 (25.00%) Servlets
6 3 (25.00%) Struts
6 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 3 (25.00%) ASP
6 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 3 (25.00%) Java
6 3 (25.00%) Data Guard
6 3 (25.00%) JCAPS

HL7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (66.67%) .NET
1 8 (66.67%) XML
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) JMS
3 3 (25.00%) J2EE
3 3 (25.00%) JDBC
3 3 (25.00%) JSP
3 3 (25.00%) Servlets
3 3 (25.00%) Struts
3 3 (25.00%) ASP
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.333%) CSS
4 1 (8.333%) WCF
4 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (25.00%) JCAPS
2 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (25.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (8.333%) Rational Rhapsody
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) .NET Developer
2 5 (41.67%) C# Developer
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 5 (41.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 5 (41.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Software Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) Installations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) NHS
2 3 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (8.333%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (25.00%) OOP
1 3 (25.00%) OO
1 3 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) DICOM
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Twitter
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle