The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term e-Health in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited e-Health over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

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.

eHealth
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank560562531
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-31
Matching contract IT job ads19195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.032 %0.031 %0.009 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category0.136 %0.113 %0.032 %
Number of daily rates quoted8163
Average daily rate£425£338£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.92 %+3.84 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£280£338£325
% change year-on-year
-17.03 %+3.84 %
Number of hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
139801683015833
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK23.62 %27.43 %28.76 %
Number of daily rates quoted8259100028854
Average daily rate£435£525£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14 %+5.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£285£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£604£650£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£345£338£315
% change year-on-year
+2.22 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted657720644
Average hourly rate£22.50£22.63£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.55 %+7.73 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£11.37£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£25.83£20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.14 %+29.15 %

e-Health
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing e-Health within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

e-Health Demand Trend

e-Health
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing e-Health within the UK.

e-Health Daily Rate Trend

e-Health
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing e-Health within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

e-Health Daily Rate Histogram

e-Health
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing e-Health within the UK.

e-Health Hourly Rate Trend

e-Health
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing e-Health within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+2217£450+111.76 %
South EastUp+48£280+49.33 %
LondonUp+336£465+106.66 %
Milton KeynesNew entry-4£280-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-4£280-
SurreyNew entry-3£201-
ScotlandDown-12£400+77.77 %
WiltshireDown-42--
SwindonDown-72--
South WestDown-202--
BerkshireDown-101£450-
CamberleyNew entry-1--
GlasgowNew entry-1£400-
ReadingNew entry-1£450-
SolihullNew entry-1£165-
West MidlandsNew entry-1£165-

e-Health
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing e-Health 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 e-Health.

119 (73.08 %)Cisco
212 (46.15 %)MPLS
311 (42.31 %)Cisco Certification
311 (42.31 %)UNIX
410 (38.46 %)WAN
59 (34.62 %)SNMP
59 (34.62 %)CCNA
59 (34.62 %)OpenView
68 (30.77 %)Perl
68 (30.77 %)Network Management
77 (26.92 %)Firewall
77 (26.92 %)Windows
77 (26.92 %)ITIL
77 (26.92 %)TCP/IP
77 (26.92 %)LAN
77 (26.92 %)CA
77 (26.92 %)Netcool
86 (23.08 %)VoIP
86 (23.08 %)Telecoms
86 (23.08 %)Finance
86 (23.08 %)F5
95 (19.23 %)Service Management
95 (19.23 %)HP NNM
95 (19.23 %)BGP
95 (19.23 %)HP
95 (19.23 %)Avaya
104 (15.38 %)CiscoWorks
104 (15.38 %)CheckPoint
104 (15.38 %)Windows Server 2003
104 (15.38 %)Tivoli

e-Health
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing e-Health 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 e-Health. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (11.54 %)HTML
13 (11.54 %)CGI
21 (3.846 %)JSON
21 (3.846 %)Django
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (3.846 %)Apache Solr
11 (3.846 %)SharePoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (11.54 %)MS Visio
22 (7.692 %)MS Excel
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (46.15 %)MPLS
210 (38.46 %)WAN
39 (34.62 %)SNMP
47 (26.92 %)Firewall
47 (26.92 %)TCP/IP
47 (26.92 %)LAN
56 (23.08 %)VoIP
65 (19.23 %)BGP
74 (15.38 %)Ethernet
74 (15.38 %)FCAPS
74 (15.38 %)BSS
83 (11.54 %)DNS
83 (11.54 %)OSPF
92 (7.692 %)DSL
92 (7.692 %)DWDM
92 (7.692 %)VPN
92 (7.692 %)DHCP
92 (7.692 %)ADSL
92 (7.692 %)PBX
92 (7.692 %)WAAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (11.54 %)MySQL
21 (3.846 %)MongoDB
21 (3.846 %)Data Mining
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (7.692 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (23.08 %)Telecoms
16 (23.08 %)Finance
22 (7.692 %)Banking
31 (3.846 %)Investment Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110 (38.46 %)Network Engineer
24 (15.38 %)Analyst
24 (15.38 %)Senior Network Engineer
24 (15.38 %)Network Support
24 (15.38 %)Operations Analyst
24 (15.38 %)Network Analyst
33 (11.54 %)Support Engineer
33 (11.54 %)Network Support Engineer
33 (11.54 %)Consultant
33 (11.54 %)Project Manager
42 (7.692 %)Senior Consultant
42 (7.692 %)Designer
51 (3.846 %)Procurement Project Manager
51 (3.846 %)Network Technician
51 (3.846 %)Procurement Manager
51 (3.846 %)Support Technician
51 (3.846 %)Implementation Project Manager
51 (3.846 %)Implementation Manager
51 (3.846 %)Network Support Technician
51 (3.846 %)Incident Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (11.54 %)NHS
22 (7.692 %)PKI
22 (7.692 %)IVR
31 (3.846 %)FMCG
31 (3.846 %)Open Source
31 (3.846 %)Firmware
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
111 (42.31 %)UNIX
27 (26.92 %)Windows
34 (15.38 %)Windows Server 2003
34 (15.38 %)Linux
34 (15.38 %)Windows Server 2008
43 (11.54 %)Solaris
51 (3.846 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
18 (30.77 %)Network Management
27 (26.92 %)ITIL
35 (19.23 %)Service Management
43 (11.54 %)System Testing
43 (11.54 %)Capacity Planning
43 (11.54 %)ITSM
43 (11.54 %)Systems Analysis
52 (7.692 %)Project Management
52 (7.692 %)B2B
52 (7.692 %)Workflow
52 (7.692 %)Use Case
52 (7.692 %)User Acceptance Testing
61 (3.846 %)Load Balancing
61 (3.846 %)Risk Management
61 (3.846 %)Disaster Recovery
61 (3.846 %)Incident Management
61 (3.846 %)Knowledge Management
61 (3.846 %)Data Analysis
61 (3.846 %)PRINCE2
61 (3.846 %)BCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (30.77 %)Perl
23 (11.54 %)JavaScript
23 (11.54 %)Shell Script
23 (11.54 %)Tcl
32 (7.692 %)C
32 (7.692 %)SQL
41 (3.846 %)Java
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
111 (42.31 %)Cisco Certification
29 (34.62 %)CCNA
34 (15.38 %)Security Cleared
43 (11.54 %)Degree
43 (11.54 %)CCNP
52 (7.692 %)Avaya Certification
52 (7.692 %)CCIE
52 (7.692 %)CCSP
52 (7.692 %)CCVP
52 (7.692 %)SC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (11.54 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (7.692 %)VMware ESX
12 (7.692 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
19 (34.62 %)OpenView
27 (26.92 %)Netcool
35 (19.23 %)HP NNM
44 (15.38 %)CiscoWorks
44 (15.38 %)Tivoli
44 (15.38 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
44 (15.38 %)Netcool/Webtop
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
119 (73.08 %)Cisco
27 (26.92 %)CA
36 (23.08 %)F5
45 (19.23 %)HP
45 (19.23 %)Avaya
54 (15.38 %)CheckPoint
54 (15.38 %)Remedy
54 (15.38 %)IBM
54 (15.38 %)Microsoft
54 (15.38 %)SolarWinds
54 (15.38 %)Opsware
63 (11.54 %)NetScout
63 (11.54 %)Nortel
63 (11.54 %)Citrix
72 (7.692 %)Juniper
72 (7.692 %)Genesys
72 (7.692 %)Oracle
72 (7.692 %)Blue Coat
72 (7.692 %)BT
72 (7.692 %)VMware