Oxford Health Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Health' in contract IT jobs within the Oxford region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Health over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	24
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	7	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	8.861 %	14.77 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£440
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£480
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£353
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	-
Average hourly rate	£24.60	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.20	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.76	£24.74
% change on same period last year	-12.04 %
General Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	79	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.105 %	0.089 %
Daily rates quoted	38	18
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£355
Average daily rate	£339	£379
% change on same period last year	-10.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.07	£20.25
Average hourly rate	£25.57	£22.63
% change on same period last year	+13.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.07	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Health Oxfordshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Health across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Health across the Oxford region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Health across the Oxford region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Health across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Health 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 Health.

1 7 (100.00 %) NHS 2 4 (57.14 %) Data Analysis 2 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 3 1 (14.29 %) SLA 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Health 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 Health. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel	Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Analyst 1 5 (71.43 %) Information Analyst 1 5 (71.43 %) NHS Information Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Incident Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (100.00 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (14.29 %) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (14.29 %) SLA