South Yorkshire NHS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the South Yorkshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banbury Banstead Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Channel Islands Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne England Essex Exeter Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Worcestershire Wrexham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	36
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	23	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	36.51 %	24.14 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£210
Average daily rate	£274	£269
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£312
% change on same period last year	+3.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.52	£13.33
Average hourly rate	£17.01	£15.60
% change on same period last year	+9.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.49	£17.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.73	£19.46
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Miscellaneous South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	63	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.093 %
Daily rates quoted	11	12
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£181
Average daily rate	£318	£207
% change on same period last year	+53.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£234
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£345
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	22	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.47	£19.24
Average hourly rate	£24.47	£20.73
% change on same period last year	+18.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.46	£22.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.41	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
NHS Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Sheffield	+23	4	£230	-
Doncaster	+4	3	£250	-
Barnsley	-2	1	£250	-
Rotherham	-1	1	-	-

NHS Yorkshire

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 21 (37.50 %) Health 2 13 (23.21 %) Windows 3 11 (19.64 %) Windows XP 4 10 (17.86 %) Active Directory 5 7 (12.50 %) Cognos 5 7 (12.50 %) MS Office 6 6 (10.71 %) SQL 6 6 (10.71 %) MS Excel 7 5 (8.929 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (8.929 %) Project Management 8 4 (7.143 %) Microsoft 8 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server 9 3 (5.357 %) MS Access 9 3 (5.357 %) Datawarehouse 9 3 (5.357 %) Time Management

10 2 (3.571 %) Degree 10 2 (3.571 %) VBA 10 2 (3.571 %) .NET 10 2 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 10 2 (3.571 %) Supplier Management 10 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2005 10 2 (3.571 %) Construction 10 2 (3.571 %) Government 10 2 (3.571 %) Legal 11 1 (1.786 %) Programme Management 11 1 (1.786 %) NPfIT 11 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 1 (1.786 %) Data Analysis 11 1 (1.786 %) Spring 11 1 (1.786 %) Freedom of Information

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (3.571 %) .NET 1 2 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.786 %) CSS 2 1 (1.786 %) Spring	Applications 1 7 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 6 (10.71 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.786 %) DHCP 1 1 (1.786 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.357 %) MS Access 2 3 (5.357 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (1.786 %) Data Cleansing 4 1 (1.786 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 21 (37.50 %) Health 2 2 (3.571 %) Legal 2 2 (3.571 %) Construction 2 2 (3.571 %) Government	Job Titles 1 13 (23.21 %) Analyst 2 8 (14.29 %) Project Manager 2 8 (14.29 %) Information Analyst 3 4 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (5.357 %) Field Engineer 4 3 (5.357 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (5.357 %) Developer 4 3 (5.357 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (5.357 %) Rollout Engineer 5 2 (3.571 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (3.571 %) Web Developer 5 2 (3.571 %) NHS Project Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Field Support Engineer 6 1 (1.786 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (1.786 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 6 1 (1.786 %) Support Technician 6 1 (1.786 %) Desktop Support 6 1 (1.786 %) Trainer 6 1 (1.786 %) Coordinator 6 1 (1.786 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.786 %) NPfIT 1 1 (1.786 %) Freedom of Information	Operating Systems 1 13 (23.21 %) Windows 2 11 (19.64 %) Windows XP 3 5 (8.929 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (1.786 %) VMS 4 1 (1.786 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.786 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.929 %) Project Management 2 3 (5.357 %) Time Management 3 2 (3.571 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (1.786 %) Release Management 4 1 (1.786 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (1.786 %) Programme Management 4 1 (1.786 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (1.786 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (1.786 %) UML 4 1 (1.786 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 6 (10.71 %) SQL 2 2 (3.571 %) VBA 3 1 (1.786 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (3.571 %) Degree	System Software 1 10 (17.86 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (1.786 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 7 (12.50 %) Cognos 2 4 (7.143 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.786 %) Business Objects