The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term NHS in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 21 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 Suffolk 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
National Health Service (NHS)
Rank 27 37 32
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -5
Contract jobs citing NHS 4 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.500% 1.186% 0.562%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.18% 4.918% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £225 £286 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.39% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
-9.48% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.20 £15.75 £14.91
% change year-on-year
+15.55% +5.63%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
22 61 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 13.75% 24.11% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 9
Average daily rate £325 £325 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +19.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £181 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £365 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
Average hourly rate £37.50 £19.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+92.30% -13.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
NHS
East of England

NHS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 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
Ipswich +7 1 - -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £225 -
NHS
East of England

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Service Management
1 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
2 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Information Assurance
2 1 (9.091%) Business Process Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
2 1 (9.091%) Process Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Smartcard
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) ASP
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.091%) CSS

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (9.091%) HTML
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
1 1 (9.091%) ASP
1 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.091%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
4 1 (9.091%) NHS Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Graduate
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Applications Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Junior
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Service Management
1 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
2 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.091%) Information Assurance
2 1 (9.091%) Business Process Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
2 1 (9.091%) Process Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) UML
2 1 (9.091%) OO
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
2 1 (9.091%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.091%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle