NHS Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Scotland 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 107 90 111
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +21
Contract jobs citing NHS 13 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.533% 0.566% 0.107%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.178% 3.472% 0.765%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 1
Average daily rate £270 £267 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.31% -31.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £290 £280
% change year-on-year
-9.48% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.20 £15.75 £14.71
% change year-on-year
+15.55% +7.10%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 597 432 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.48% 16.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 183 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £195 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.48 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
NHS
UK

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland NHS Daily Rate Trend

NHS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland NHS Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Glasgow -22 8 £280 -15.15%
Edinburgh - 4 £208 -
NHS
UK

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (45.16%) SQL Server
2 12 (38.71%) .NET
2 12 (38.71%) ASP.NET
3 11 (35.48%) SQL
4 10 (32.26%) C#
5 7 (22.58%) HTML
5 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
5 7 (22.58%) XML
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
6 6 (19.35%) Web Services
6 6 (19.35%) Ajax
6 6 (19.35%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (19.35%) jQuery
7 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (16.13%) VB.NET
8 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
8 4 (12.90%) Project Management
8 4 (12.90%) Mercurial
8 4 (12.90%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (12.90%) Inversion of Control
8 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
8 4 (12.90%) MVC
8 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (12.90%) Telerik
9 3 (9.677%) Degree
9 3 (9.677%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (6.452%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (6.452%) CMS
10 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 12 (38.71%) .NET
1 12 (38.71%) ASP.NET
2 7 (22.58%) HTML
2 7 (22.58%) XML
3 6 (19.35%) Web Services
3 6 (19.35%) Ajax
3 6 (19.35%) jQuery
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.452%) LINQ
5 2 (6.452%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (6.452%) CSS
5 2 (6.452%) XSLT
5 2 (6.452%) XHTML
6 1 (3.226%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.226%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.452%) IIS
1 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.452%) CMS
1 2 (6.452%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.226%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (6.452%) InfoPath
2 1 (3.226%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.226%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) Intranet
1 1 (3.226%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.226%) MySQL
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.226%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.226%) MS Access
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
1 4 (12.90%) Mercurial
2 1 (3.226%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (3.226%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.90%) Web Developer
5 3 (9.677%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Trainer
6 2 (6.452%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Tester
7 1 (3.226%) Programme Manager
7 1 (3.226%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Consultant
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.226%) Coordinator
7 1 (3.226%) IT Trainer
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (6.452%) Web 2.0
2 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.452%) Social Network
3 1 (3.226%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.226%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.226%) LIMS
3 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.226%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.452%) Windows
1 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.226%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (3.226%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.226%) Linux
2 1 (3.226%) Windows 2000
2 1 (3.226%) Windows NT
2 1 (3.226%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.90%) Project Management
1 4 (12.90%) MVC
1 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (12.90%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (9.677%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (6.452%) OOD
3 2 (6.452%) ITIL
3 2 (6.452%) OO
3 2 (6.452%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.226%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.226%) Change Control
4 1 (3.226%) CRM
4 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.226%) Service Management
4 1 (3.226%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.226%) Change Management
4 1 (3.226%) Migration
4 1 (3.226%) Information Management
4 1 (3.226%) Business Analysis
4 1 (3.226%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.13%) VB.NET
5 2 (6.452%) XPath
5 2 (6.452%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.226%) VB
6 1 (3.226%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (9.677%) Degree
3 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.226%) HND
3 1 (3.226%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.226%) MetaFrame
1 1 (3.226%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Telerik
3 2 (6.452%) Citrix
4 1 (3.226%) iSOFT
4 1 (3.226%) Adobe
4 1 (3.226%) Oracle
4 1 (3.226%) Business Objects
Web Application Developer
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Knowledge of Visual Basic, C#, jQuery and source code control utilities, e.g. Git/Subversion/Tortoise, would be beneficial as would an understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP)...
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Rate: From £21,176 to £27,625 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
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