Surrey NHS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Surrey 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Avon Banstead Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhyl Rotherham Runcorn Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	72
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	24	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	11.32 %	12.37 %
Daily rates quoted	6	20
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£305
Average daily rate	£373	£339
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£340
% change on same period last year	-2.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£11.44
Average hourly rate	£17.03	£14.11
% change on same period last year	+20.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.05	£16.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.68	£19.63
% change on same period last year	+5.36 %
Miscellaneous Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	212	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.298 %
Daily rates quoted	51	84
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£356
Average daily rate	£352	£379
% change on same period last year	-6.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.27	£20.24
Average hourly rate	£22.35	£22.42
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.44	£24.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
NHS South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

NHS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Surrey region.

NHS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NHS across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

NHS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Epsom	-	3	-	-
Leatherhead	-8	2	-	-
Chertsey	-	2	-	-
Banstead	-	1	-	-

NHS South East

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 19 (38.00 %) Windows 2 10 (20.00 %) Migration 3 9 (18.00 %) Health 4 8 (16.00 %) SQL 4 8 (16.00 %) Microsoft 5 7 (14.00 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (12.00 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (12.00 %) Citrix 7 4 (8.000 %) Active Directory 7 4 (8.000 %) Novell 7 4 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 7 4 (8.000 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (8.000 %) Windows XP 7 4 (8.000 %) PDA 7 4 (8.000 %) LANDesk

8 3 (6.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 3 (6.000 %) Data Migration 8 3 (6.000 %) Degree 8 3 (6.000 %) MS Office 8 3 (6.000 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 3 (6.000 %) SAN 8 3 (6.000 %) Cerner 8 3 (6.000 %) Project Management 9 2 (4.000 %) Management Information System 9 2 (4.000 %) Education 9 2 (4.000 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (4.000 %) Cisco Certification 9 2 (4.000 %) Microsoft Certification 9 2 (4.000 %) CCNP 9 2 (4.000 %) CCNA

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (2.000 %) ASP 1 1 (2.000 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.000 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.000 %) SAS 3 1 (2.000 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 3 (6.000 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.000 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.000 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.000 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 1 (2.000 %) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.000 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (6.000 %) SAN 3 2 (4.000 %) DNS 3 2 (4.000 %) WAN 3 2 (4.000 %) DHCP 4 1 (2.000 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (2.000 %) VPN 4 1 (2.000 %) NetScreen 4 1 (2.000 %) Wireless 4 1 (2.000 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.000 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 9 (18.00 %) Health 2 2 (4.000 %) Education 2 2 (4.000 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.000 %) Auditing 3 1 (2.000 %) Government	Job Titles 1 9 (18.00 %) Desktop Engineer 1 9 (18.00 %) Analyst 2 8 (16.00 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (16.00 %) Information Analyst 3 5 (10.00 %) 2nd Line Support 3 5 (10.00 %) Desktop Support 4 4 (8.000 %) Project Manager 4 4 (8.000 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 3 (6.000 %) Network Support 5 3 (6.000 %) Migration Engineer 5 3 (6.000 %) Data Migration Engineer 5 3 (6.000 %) NHS Information Analyst 5 3 (6.000 %) Trainer 5 3 (6.000 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.000 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (4.000 %) IT Manager 6 2 (4.000 %) Support Technician 6 2 (4.000 %) Field Engineer 6 2 (4.000 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 6 2 (4.000 %) IT Trainer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.000 %) PDA 2 2 (4.000 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.000 %) PACS 3 1 (2.000 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.000 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 19 (38.00 %) Windows 2 6 (12.00 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (8.000 %) Windows XP 4 2 (4.000 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.00 %) Migration 2 7 (14.00 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (6.000 %) Data Migration 3 3 (6.000 %) Project Management 4 2 (4.000 %) Data Validation 4 2 (4.000 %) Validation 5 1 (2.000 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (2.000 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (2.000 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.000 %) Network Design 5 1 (2.000 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (2.000 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.000 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.000 %) PRINCE 5 1 (2.000 %) E-Procurement 5 1 (2.000 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (16.00 %) SQL 2 1 (2.000 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 3 (6.000 %) Degree 1 3 (6.000 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (4.000 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (4.000 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (4.000 %) CCNP 2 2 (4.000 %) CCNA 3 1 (2.000 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.000 %) MCP 3 1 (2.000 %) CCDA 3 1 (2.000 %) CCDP	System Software 1 4 (8.000 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 8 (16.00 %) Microsoft 2 6 (12.00 %) Citrix 3 4 (8.000 %) Novell 3 4 (8.000 %) LANDesk 4 3 (6.000 %) Cerner 5 2 (4.000 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.000 %) Juniper 6 1 (2.000 %) CheckPoint