Northamptonshire NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Northamptonshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Romford Rotherham Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	28
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	13	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	23.64 %	16.67 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum daily rate	£313	-
Average daily rate	£338	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£363	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£327
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£16.33
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£26.50
% change on same period last year	-11.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£36.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.08	£18.45
% change on same period last year	+8.87 %
Miscellaneous Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	55	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.030 %
Daily rates quoted	19	8
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£394
Average daily rate	£345	£412
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.85	£14.56
Average hourly rate	£16.33	£18.11
% change on same period last year	-9.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.80	£21.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
NHS East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Northamptonshire region.

NHS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Northampton	-11	2	£450	-

NHS East Midlands

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 11 (52.38 %) Project Management 2 10 (47.62 %) Health 3 9 (42.86 %) PRINCE2 4 8 (38.10 %) NPfIT 5 5 (23.81 %) Service Delivery 6 3 (14.29 %) SQL 6 3 (14.29 %) MS Office 7 2 (9.524 %) LAN 7 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft 8 1 (4.762 %) Data Integration 8 1 (4.762 %) Data Management 8 1 (4.762 %) Information Management 8 1 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (4.762 %) Project Planning 8 1 (4.762 %) Degree

8 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (4.762 %) Risk Analysis 8 1 (4.762 %) Performance Management 8 1 (4.762 %) Data Protection 8 1 (4.762 %) Service Management 8 1 (4.762 %) Management Information System 8 1 (4.762 %) Workflow 8 1 (4.762 %) Finance 8 1 (4.762 %) ITIL Certification 8 1 (4.762 %) Smartcard 8 1 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (4.762 %) C# 8 1 (4.762 %) ITIL 8 1 (4.762 %) .NET 8 1 (4.762 %) MS Project

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (4.762 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint 1 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 2 (9.524 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Access	General 1 10 (47.62 %) Health 2 1 (4.762 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 8 (38.10 %) Project Manager 2 6 (28.57 %) Implementation Manager 2 6 (28.57 %) Implementation Project Manager 3 3 (14.29 %) Consultant 4 2 (9.524 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (9.524 %) Analyst 4 2 (9.524 %) Information Analyst 4 2 (9.524 %) Implementation Specialist 4 2 (9.524 %) NHS Project Manager 5 1 (4.762 %) ITIL Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Sharepoint Specialist 5 1 (4.762 %) Procurement Consultant 5 1 (4.762 %) Support Technician 5 1 (4.762 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (38.10 %) NPfIT 2 1 (4.762 %) Management Information System 2 1 (4.762 %) Data Integration 2 1 (4.762 %) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (52.38 %) Project Management 2 9 (42.86 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (23.81 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (4.762 %) Workflow 4 1 (4.762 %) Data Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Information Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (4.762 %) Project Planning 4 1 (4.762 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (4.762 %) Performance Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Data Protection 4 1 (4.762 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (4.762 %) Service Management 4 1 (4.762 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 3 (14.29 %) SQL 2 1 (4.762 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (4.762 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft