South East NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the South East 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 13 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 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	157
Rank change on same period last year	+101
Matching contract IT job ads	279	145
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.395 %	0.147 %
As % of the category below	16.29 %	5.899 %
Daily rates quoted	64	33
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£292
Average daily rate	£302	£317
% change on same period last year	-4.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£321
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.69	£19.29
Average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.06
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.56	£24.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.01	£19.30
% change on same period last year	+3.70 %
Miscellaneous South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1713	2458
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.422 %	2.488 %
Daily rates quoted	435	533
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£319
Average daily rate	£351	£342
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£344
% change on same period last year	+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	283	412
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.45	£27.67
Average hourly rate	£25.06	£29.32
% change on same period last year	-14.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.67	£30.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.09	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
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 South East 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 South East region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the South East region over the 3 months to 13 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 South East region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the South East region over the 3 months to 13 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 South East region over the 3 months to 13 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
Hampshire	+48	47	£280	+7.12 %
Berkshire	+51	28	£208	-34.39 %
Surrey	+15	28	£393	+10.60 %
Kent	+27	28	£340	+1.34 %
Thames Valley	+21	27	£276	-
East Sussex	+21	15	£480	+152.63 %
Buckinghamshire	+24	13	£308	-
Middlesex	-4	6	£301	-
Oxfordshire	-1	6	£480	+43.28 %
Home Counties	+21	5	£325	-
M4 Corridor	-	1	-	-
West Sussex	+13	1	-	-
Sussex	+16	1	-	-

NHS England

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 110 (22.92 %) Health 2 96 (20.00 %) SQL 3 50 (10.42 %) MS Excel 4 36 (7.500 %) Project Management 5 35 (7.292 %) PRINCE2 6 32 (6.667 %) Microsoft 7 31 (6.458 %) Windows 7 31 (6.458 %) SQL Server 8 30 (6.250 %) Data Analysis 9 27 (5.625 %) Finance 9 27 (5.625 %) MS Office 10 24 (5.000 %) Change Management 11 23 (4.792 %) MS Access 12 18 (3.750 %) VBA 12 18 (3.750 %) .NET

12 18 (3.750 %) Migration 12 18 (3.750 %) SQL Server 2005 13 17 (3.542 %) Degree 14 16 (3.333 %) SharePoint 14 16 (3.333 %) Active Directory 15 15 (3.125 %) Windows XP 15 15 (3.125 %) Stakeholder Management 15 15 (3.125 %) Performance Management 16 14 (2.917 %) Web Design 16 14 (2.917 %) NPfIT 16 14 (2.917 %) HTML 16 14 (2.917 %) CSS 17 13 (2.708 %) SLA 17 13 (2.708 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 13 (2.708 %) Validation

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 18 (3.750 %) .NET 2 14 (2.917 %) HTML 2 14 (2.917 %) CSS 3 12 (2.500 %) XHTML 4 10 (2.083 %) ASP.NET 5 8 (1.667 %) AJAX 6 5 (1.042 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (0.625 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 3 (0.625 %) XML 8 2 (0.417 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 1 (0.208 %) LINQ 9 1 (0.208 %) ODBC 9 1 (0.208 %) WinForms 9 1 (0.208 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 16 (3.333 %) SharePoint 2 9 (1.875 %) CMS 2 9 (1.875 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 7 (1.458 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (1.042 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 4 (0.833 %) Plone 6 1 (0.208 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (0.208 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (0.208 %) SAS 6 1 (0.208 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.208 %) Content Management Server 6 1 (0.208 %) Joomla! 6 1 (0.208 %) IIS 6 1 (0.208 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (0.208 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 50 (10.42 %) MS Excel 2 27 (5.625 %) MS Office 3 8 (1.667 %) MS Project 4 6 (1.250 %) SPSS 4 6 (1.250 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (1.250 %) Spreadsheet 5 4 (0.833 %) MS Visio 6 3 (0.625 %) Photoshop 7 1 (0.208 %) Acrobat 7 1 (0.208 %) RoboHelp	Business Applications 1 8 (1.667 %) Cerner Millennium 2 3 (0.625 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (0.208 %) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking 1 10 (2.083 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (1.042 %) Intranet 3 3 (0.625 %) SAN 4 2 (0.417 %) DNS 4 2 (0.417 %) WAN 4 2 (0.417 %) DHCP 5 1 (0.208 %) SMS 5 1 (0.208 %) VoIP 5 1 (0.208 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (6.458 %) SQL Server 2 23 (4.792 %) MS Access 3 18 (3.750 %) SQL Server 2005 4 11 (2.292 %) Datawarehouse 5 8 (1.667 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 7 (1.458 %) BusinessObjects 7 5 (1.042 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (0.833 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 4 (0.833 %) Crystal Reports 8 4 (0.833 %) PerformancePoint 9 3 (0.625 %) DTS 9 3 (0.625 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 10 2 (0.417 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 2 (0.417 %) Data Cleansing 10 2 (0.417 %) ETL 11 1 (0.208 %) OLAP 11 1 (0.208 %) Data Mining 11 1 (0.208 %) QlikView
Development Applications 1 5 (1.042 %) FrontPage 2 4 (0.833 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (0.833 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.208 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.208 %) ProC	General 1 110 (22.92 %) Health 2 27 (5.625 %) Finance 3 11 (2.292 %) Government 4 6 (1.250 %) Legal 4 6 (1.250 %) Pharmaceutical 5 5 (1.042 %) Back Office 6 4 (0.833 %) Education 6 4 (0.833 %) Local Government 7 3 (0.625 %) Publishing 7 3 (0.625 %) Auditing 8 2 (0.417 %) Marketing 9 1 (0.208 %) Electric 9 1 (0.208 %) Aerospace 9 1 (0.208 %) Electronics 9 1 (0.208 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 231 (48.13 %) Analyst 2 151 (31.46 %) Information Analyst 3 82 (17.08 %) NHS Information Analyst 4 61 (12.71 %) Project Manager 5 53 (11.04 %) Data Analyst 6 26 (5.417 %) Business Analyst 7 25 (5.208 %) NHS Project Manager 8 21 (4.375 %) Developer 9 17 (3.542 %) Support Engineer 9 17 (3.542 %) Senior Analyst 10 15 (3.125 %) Desktop Support 11 14 (2.917 %) Change Manager 12 13 (2.708 %) Junior 12 13 (2.708 %) Senior Information Analyst 13 12 (2.500 %) Trainer 13 12 (2.500 %) Consultant 13 12 (2.500 %) Support Analyst 13 12 (2.500 %) Performance Analyst 14 10 (2.083 %) Desktop Engineer 15 9 (1.875 %) 2nd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 14 (2.917 %) NPfIT 2 9 (1.875 %) Management Information System 2 9 (1.875 %) Data Extraction 3 4 (0.833 %) Statistics 3 4 (0.833 %) Client/Server 4 3 (0.625 %) Smartcard 4 3 (0.625 %) Data Protection Act 5 2 (0.417 %) Freedom of Information 5 2 (0.417 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.208 %) PACS 6 1 (0.208 %) Chip and PIN 6 1 (0.208 %) Thin Client 6 1 (0.208 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.208 %) Informatics 6 1 (0.208 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.208 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 31 (6.458 %) Windows 2 15 (3.125 %) Windows XP 3 6 (1.250 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (1.042 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (0.833 %) Windows NT 6 2 (0.417 %) Windows Server 2008 6 2 (0.417 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (0.208 %) NetWare 7 1 (0.208 %) Linux 7 1 (0.208 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (7.500 %) Project Management 2 35 (7.292 %) PRINCE2 3 30 (6.250 %) Data Analysis 4 24 (5.000 %) Change Management 5 18 (3.750 %) Migration 6 15 (3.125 %) Stakeholder Management 6 15 (3.125 %) Performance Management 7 14 (2.917 %) Web Design 8 13 (2.708 %) Validation 9 12 (2.500 %) Business Intelligence 10 10 (2.083 %) Business Analysis 11 8 (1.667 %) Content Management 11 8 (1.667 %) Data Validation 12 7 (1.458 %) Data Migration 12 7 (1.458 %) Information Management 12 7 (1.458 %) Risk Management 13 6 (1.250 %) Data Management 13 6 (1.250 %) Project Planning 14 5 (1.042 %) Business Continuity 15 4 (0.833 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 96 (20.00 %) SQL 2 18 (3.750 %) VBA 3 9 (1.875 %) C 3 9 (1.875 %) DHTML 4 7 (1.458 %) C# 4 7 (1.458 %) JavaScript 5 6 (1.250 %) VB.NET 6 5 (1.042 %) VB 7 4 (0.833 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (0.417 %) VB6 9 1 (0.208 %) MUMPS 9 1 (0.208 %) Java	Qualifications 1 17 (3.542 %) Degree 2 13 (2.708 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 8 (1.667 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (0.625 %) MCSE 5 2 (0.417 %) MCP 5 2 (0.417 %) ISEB 5 2 (0.417 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (0.208 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.208 %) MBA 6 1 (0.208 %) MCTS 6 1 (0.208 %) CIPD 6 1 (0.208 %) MCPD 6 1 (0.208 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (0.208 %) MCSD 6 1 (0.208 %) HNC 6 1 (0.208 %) MCSA 6 1 (0.208 %) CCNP 6 1 (0.208 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (2.708 %) SLA 2 1 (0.208 %) QA 2 1 (0.208 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 16 (3.333 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.417 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (0.208 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.208 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (0.208 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 32 (6.667 %) Microsoft 2 9 (1.875 %) Casewise 3 8 (1.667 %) Cerner 4 7 (1.458 %) Business Objects 5 6 (1.250 %) Citrix 5 6 (1.250 %) iSOFT 6 5 (1.042 %) Novell 7 4 (0.833 %) Cognos 8 2 (0.417 %) Oracle 9 1 (0.208 %) Adobe 9 1 (0.208 %) Macromedia 9 1 (0.208 %) HP 9 1 (0.208 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.208 %) McAfee Security 9 1 (0.208 %) BT 9 1 (0.208 %) Infoflex 9 1 (0.208 %) ARDENTIA 9 1 (0.208 %) Northgate 9 1 (0.208 %) Fujitsu 9 1 (0.208 %) Lotus