North West NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	32
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	279	165
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.393 %	0.167 %
As % of the category below	40.38 %	21.60 %
Daily rates quoted	93	32
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£253
Average daily rate	£276	£281
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.78	£13.68
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£15.27
% change on same period last year	+42.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.70	£16.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£19.31
% change on same period last year	+3.54 %
Miscellaneous North West
Matching contract IT job ads	691	764
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	0.772 %
Daily rates quoted	171	114
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£299
Average daily rate	£309	£319
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	106	146
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£15.51
Average hourly rate	£23.25	£16.76
% change on same period last year	+38.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.26	£18.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.99	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
NHS England

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 North West 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 North West region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 North West region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

NHS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Manchester	-2	70	£263	+11.10 %
Lancashire	+21	33	£256	-11.78 %
Merseyside	+5	30	£279	+64.17 %
Cheshire	+23	25	£206	-29.52 %

NHS England

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 129 (25.29 %) Health 2 81 (15.88 %) SQL 3 40 (7.843 %) Project Management 4 39 (7.647 %) MS Excel 5 35 (6.863 %) PRINCE2 6 30 (5.882 %) NPfIT 7 26 (5.098 %) SQL Server 8 23 (4.510 %) MS Office 8 23 (4.510 %) Finance 9 19 (3.725 %) VBA 9 19 (3.725 %) Stakeholder Management 10 17 (3.333 %) Microsoft 11 16 (3.137 %) Datawarehouse 12 15 (2.941 %) Migration 12 15 (2.941 %) Performance Management

12 15 (2.941 %) Informatics 13 14 (2.745 %) MS Access 14 13 (2.549 %) .NET 14 13 (2.549 %) PRINCE2 Certification 15 12 (2.353 %) ASP.NET 15 12 (2.353 %) ITIL 15 12 (2.353 %) Requirements Analysis 16 11 (2.157 %) MS Visio 16 11 (2.157 %) Smartcard 17 10 (1.961 %) Pharmaceutical 17 10 (1.961 %) ECDL 17 10 (1.961 %) Data Analysis 17 10 (1.961 %) Business Analysis 17 10 (1.961 %) Data Migration 18 9 (1.765 %) Data Protection

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 13 (2.549 %) .NET 2 12 (2.353 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (1.176 %) CSS 3 6 (1.176 %) ASP 4 4 (0.784 %) HTML 4 4 (0.784 %) XML 5 3 (0.588 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.196 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (0.196 %) LINQ 6 1 (0.196 %) XSL 6 1 (0.196 %) XHTML 6 1 (0.196 %) ADO 6 1 (0.196 %) SOAP 6 1 (0.196 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 5 (0.980 %) SharePoint 2 3 (0.588 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (0.588 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (0.588 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (0.392 %) SAS 4 1 (0.196 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (0.196 %) Apache 4 1 (0.196 %) IIS
Applications 1 39 (7.647 %) MS Excel 2 23 (4.510 %) MS Office 3 11 (2.157 %) MS Visio 4 2 (0.392 %) SPSS 4 2 (0.392 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (0.392 %) Spreadsheet 4 2 (0.392 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.196 %) Photoshop 5 1 (0.196 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (0.196 %) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking 1 4 (0.784 %) WAN 2 3 (0.588 %) LAN 2 3 (0.588 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (0.588 %) Intranet 2 3 (0.588 %) Internet 2 3 (0.588 %) Firewall 3 2 (0.392 %) Network Security 4 1 (0.196 %) Cisco ASA 4 1 (0.196 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (0.196 %) MPLS 4 1 (0.196 %) DNS 4 1 (0.196 %) SAN 4 1 (0.196 %) SMS 4 1 (0.196 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.196 %) DHCP 4 1 (0.196 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (5.098 %) SQL Server 2 16 (3.137 %) Datawarehouse 3 14 (2.745 %) MS Access 4 9 (1.765 %) SQL Server 2005 5 7 (1.373 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 6 (1.176 %) BusinessObjects 7 4 (0.784 %) Crystal Reports 8 3 (0.588 %) Oracle Reports 8 3 (0.588 %) Adabas 8 3 (0.588 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 3 (0.588 %) MySQL 8 3 (0.588 %) GIS 9 2 (0.392 %) SQL Server 2000 10 1 (0.196 %) Data Cleansing 10 1 (0.196 %) Reference Data 10 1 (0.196 %) PerformancePoint 10 1 (0.196 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.196 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.196 %) OLAP 10 1 (0.196 %) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications 1 4 (0.784 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (0.392 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.196 %) Synon 3 1 (0.196 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 129 (25.29 %) Health 2 23 (4.510 %) Finance 3 10 (1.961 %) Pharmaceutical 4 9 (1.765 %) Government 5 6 (1.176 %) Legal 6 5 (0.980 %) Local Government 7 3 (0.588 %) Telecoms 8 2 (0.392 %) Education 9 1 (0.196 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.196 %) Criminal Justice 9 1 (0.196 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.196 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.196 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 171 (33.53 %) Analyst 2 112 (21.96 %) Information Analyst 3 86 (16.86 %) Project Manager 4 54 (10.59 %) NHS Information Analyst 5 51 (10.00 %) NHS Project Manager 6 44 (8.627 %) Trainer 7 36 (7.059 %) Developer 8 30 (5.882 %) Data Analyst 9 23 (4.510 %) Senior Analyst 10 22 (4.314 %) Business Analyst 11 19 (3.725 %) Senior Information Analyst 12 11 (2.157 %) Information Manager 12 11 (2.157 %) Performance Analyst 12 11 (2.157 %) 1st Line Support 12 11 (2.157 %) IT Trainer 13 10 (1.961 %) Helpdesk Support 13 10 (1.961 %) Service Manager 13 10 (1.961 %) Consultant 14 9 (1.765 %) Junior 15 7 (1.373 %) Analyst Developer	Miscellaneous 1 30 (5.882 %) NPfIT 2 15 (2.941 %) Informatics 3 11 (2.157 %) Smartcard 4 7 (1.373 %) Freedom of Information 5 6 (1.176 %) PACS 6 3 (0.588 %) Mainframe 7 2 (0.392 %) Management Information System 7 2 (0.392 %) VLE 7 2 (0.392 %) Data Protection Act 7 2 (0.392 %) Freedom of Information Act 8 1 (0.196 %) Data Extraction 8 1 (0.196 %) Blackberry 8 1 (0.196 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 8 (1.569 %) Windows 2 5 (0.980 %) Windows XP 3 4 (0.784 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (0.784 %) UNIX 4 2 (0.392 %) Linux 4 2 (0.392 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.196 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (7.843 %) Project Management 2 35 (6.863 %) PRINCE2 3 19 (3.725 %) Stakeholder Management 4 15 (2.941 %) Performance Management 4 15 (2.941 %) Migration 5 12 (2.353 %) Requirements Analysis 5 12 (2.353 %) ITIL 6 10 (1.961 %) Data Analysis 6 10 (1.961 %) Business Analysis 6 10 (1.961 %) Data Migration 7 9 (1.765 %) Data Protection 8 8 (1.569 %) Information Security 9 6 (1.176 %) Risk Management 9 6 (1.176 %) Web Development 10 5 (0.980 %) Validation 10 5 (0.980 %) Information Management 11 4 (0.784 %) Change Management 12 3 (0.588 %) Service Delivery 12 3 (0.588 %) SSADM 12 3 (0.588 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 81 (15.88 %) SQL 2 19 (3.725 %) VBA 3 6 (1.176 %) JavaScript 3 6 (1.176 %) C 4 5 (0.980 %) PHP 4 5 (0.980 %) FoxPro (VFP) 5 4 (0.784 %) VB 5 4 (0.784 %) C# 6 3 (0.588 %) NATURAL 7 2 (0.392 %) MUMPS 7 2 (0.392 %) C++ 7 2 (0.392 %) Java 8 1 (0.196 %) VBScript 8 1 (0.196 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 13 (2.549 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 10 (1.961 %) ECDL 3 9 (1.765 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (1.176 %) Degree 5 5 (0.980 %) MCSE 6 3 (0.588 %) CCNA 6 3 (0.588 %) Cisco Certification 6 3 (0.588 %) ITIL Certification 7 2 (0.392 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 2 (0.392 %) MCSA 8 1 (0.196 %) CCNP 8 1 (0.196 %) MCP 8 1 (0.196 %) A+ Certification 8 1 (0.196 %) IBM Certification 8 1 (0.196 %) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (0.980 %) SLA 2 4 (0.784 %) HL7 3 2 (0.392 %) QA 4 1 (0.196 %) SNOMED CT	System Software 1 9 (1.765 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.392 %) Novell eDirectory
Vendors 1 17 (3.333 %) Microsoft 2 9 (1.765 %) Oracle 3 7 (1.373 %) iSOFT 4 6 (1.176 %) Business Objects 4 6 (1.176 %) HP 5 4 (0.784 %) Cisco 6 3 (0.588 %) SAP 6 3 (0.588 %) Mapinfo 6 3 (0.588 %) Citrix 6 3 (0.588 %) Novell 6 3 (0.588 %) Lotus 7 2 (0.392 %) Serena 7 2 (0.392 %) Cerner 7 2 (0.392 %) Cognos 7 2 (0.392 %) Dell 8 1 (0.196 %) IBM 8 1 (0.196 %) Hyperion 8 1 (0.196 %) VERITAS 8 1 (0.196 %) ESRI 8 1 (0.196 %) VMware