Berkshire NHS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NHS over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Abingdon Banbury Banstead Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Pagnell North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rochester Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wimborne Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	240	261
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	38
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.479 %	1.431 %
Salaries quoted	26	32
Average minimum salary	£31,154	£31,011
Average salary	£34,269	£32,607
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Average maximum salary	£37,385	£34,204
UK excluding London average salary	£38,382	£37,794
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Miscellaneous Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1758	2655
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.926 %	1.089 %
Salaries quoted	1521	2048
Average minimum salary	£37,436	£37,898
Average salary	£41,189	£41,376
% change on same period last year	-0.45 %
Average maximum salary	£44,942	£44,854
UK excluding London average salary	£38,000	£39,211
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
NHS South East

NHS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing NHS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

NHS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing NHS across the Berkshire region.

NHS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NHS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

NHS
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NHS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+31	22	£31,455	+5.72 %
Maidenhead	-	1	£85,000	-

NHS South East

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NHS.

1 43 (66.15 %) Health 2 17 (26.15 %) Project Management 2 17 (26.15 %) SQL Server 3 15 (23.08 %) Degree 4 10 (15.38 %) Datawarehouse 4 10 (15.38 %) NPfIT 5 8 (12.31 %) Postgraduate 6 7 (10.77 %) TestDirector 6 7 (10.77 %) .NET 6 7 (10.77 %) PRINCE2 6 7 (10.77 %) Finance 6 7 (10.77 %) Education 6 7 (10.77 %) Information Management 7 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server 2005 7 6 (9.231 %) Performance Management

7 6 (9.231 %) ITIL 7 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server 2000 7 6 (9.231 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (9.231 %) Business Objects 7 6 (9.231 %) BusinessObjects 7 6 (9.231 %) Visual Studio 7 6 (9.231 %) MS Excel 8 4 (6.154 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 4 (6.154 %) MS Access 8 4 (6.154 %) Government 8 4 (6.154 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (4.615 %) ISEB 9 3 (4.615 %) SQL 9 3 (4.615 %) Test Scripting 10 2 (3.077 %) Document Management

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NHS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (10.77 %) .NET 2 6 (9.231 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (3.077 %) SOAP 3 2 (3.077 %) Struts 3 2 (3.077 %) XML 3 2 (3.077 %) WebSphere 3 2 (3.077 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.077 %) WebLogic 1 2 (3.077 %) MQSeries 2 1 (1.538 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (9.231 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.077 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (26.15 %) SQL Server 2 10 (15.38 %) Datawarehouse 3 6 (9.231 %) BusinessObjects 3 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (6.154 %) MS Access 5 2 (3.077 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (3.077 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (1.538 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 7 (10.77 %) TestDirector 2 6 (9.231 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (3.077 %) PVCS	General 1 43 (66.15 %) Health 2 7 (10.77 %) Finance 2 7 (10.77 %) Education 3 4 (6.154 %) Government 4 2 (3.077 %) Police 4 2 (3.077 %) Local Government 4 2 (3.077 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.538 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 26 (40.00 %) Analyst 2 23 (35.38 %) Information Analyst 3 9 (13.85 %) Senior Analyst 4 7 (10.77 %) Business Analyst 5 6 (9.231 %) DBA 5 6 (9.231 %) SQL DBA 5 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server DBA 5 6 (9.231 %) Junior 5 6 (9.231 %) Junior DBA 6 5 (7.692 %) Business Objects Analyst 7 4 (6.154 %) Release Manager 7 4 (6.154 %) Coordinator 8 3 (4.615 %) Project Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Test Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Services Delivery Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Tester 8 3 (4.615 %) Team Leader 8 3 (4.615 %) Delivery Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Service Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Test Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 10 (15.38 %) NPfIT 2 2 (3.077 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.538 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.077 %) UNIX 1 2 (3.077 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (26.15 %) Project Management 2 7 (10.77 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (10.77 %) Information Management 3 6 (9.231 %) ITIL 3 6 (9.231 %) Performance Management 4 4 (6.154 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 4 (6.154 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (4.615 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (3.077 %) Document Management 6 2 (3.077 %) Scrum 6 2 (3.077 %) UML 6 2 (3.077 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.538 %) Quality Management 7 1 (1.538 %) PRINCE 7 1 (1.538 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (1.538 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (1.538 %) Workflow 7 1 (1.538 %) Migration 7 1 (1.538 %) Web Design 7 1 (1.538 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (4.615 %) SQL 2 2 (3.077 %) Java	Qualifications 1 15 (23.08 %) Degree 2 8 (12.31 %) Postgraduate 3 3 (4.615 %) ISEB 4 2 (3.077 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.077 %) SLA 2 1 (1.538 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 2 (3.077 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 6 (9.231 %) Business Objects 2 2 (3.077 %) Citrix 2 2 (3.077 %) Fujitsu 2 2 (3.077 %) Oracle