Cheshire NHS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for National Health Service (NHS) skills within the Cheshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

National Health Service (NHS)
Location Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ilford Inverclyde Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newcastle Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimborne Winchester Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	67
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching permanent IT job ads	51	89
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	8.808 %	13.59 %
Salaries quoted	23	74
Average minimum salary	£31,043	£25,134
Average salary	£33,587	£25,810
% change on same period last year	+30.13 %
Average maximum salary	£36,130	£26,487
UK excluding London average salary	£38,831	£37,923
% change on same period last year	+2.39 %
Miscellaneous Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	579	655
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.284 %	0.290 %
Salaries quoted	516	585
Average minimum salary	£37,157	£32,105
Average salary	£41,343	£35,264
% change on same period last year	+17.23 %
Average maximum salary	£45,530	£38,424
UK excluding London average salary	£38,553	£39,119
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
NHS North West

NHS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing NHS across the Cheshire 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 ads citing NHS across the Cheshire region.

NHS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NHS across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

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 Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Warrington	-17	24	£33,810	+20.31 %
2	Nantwich	-	1	£32,500	-

NHS North West

NHS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing NHS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing NHS.

1 66 (88.00 %) Health 2 16 (21.33 %) NPfIT 3 14 (18.67 %) iSOFT 4 11 (14.67 %) Project Management 4 11 (14.67 %) PRINCE2 4 11 (14.67 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 11 (14.67 %) QA 5 9 (12.00 %) Test Scripting 6 8 (10.67 %) Release Management 7 7 (9.333 %) SQL 8 6 (8.000 %) Software Testing 8 6 (8.000 %) SLA 9 5 (6.667 %) VB 10 4 (5.333 %) Finance 10 4 (5.333 %) SQL Server

10 4 (5.333 %) Crystal Reports 10 4 (5.333 %) MS Excel 10 4 (5.333 %) Requirements Analysis 11 3 (4.000 %) Oracle 11 3 (4.000 %) Validation 11 3 (4.000 %) PACS 12 2 (2.667 %) Government 12 2 (2.667 %) JD Edwards 12 2 (2.667 %) .NET 12 2 (2.667 %) ERP 12 2 (2.667 %) Microsoft 12 2 (2.667 %) PeopleSoft 12 2 (2.667 %) SAP 12 2 (2.667 %) C# 12 2 (2.667 %) Document Management

NHS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing NHS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing NHS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (2.667 %) .NET 2 1 (1.333 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.333 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.333 %) XML 2 1 (1.333 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.333 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.333 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (5.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.333 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (5.333 %) SQL Server 1 4 (5.333 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (2.667 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (1.333 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	General 1 66 (88.00 %) Health 2 4 (5.333 %) Finance 3 2 (2.667 %) Government 4 1 (1.333 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 17 (22.67 %) Analyst 2 14 (18.67 %) Applications Support 3 13 (17.33 %) Project Manager 4 8 (10.67 %) Support Analyst 5 7 (9.333 %) QA Analyst 6 5 (6.667 %) Team Leader 6 5 (6.667 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 4 (5.333 %) Release Analyst 7 4 (5.333 %) Release Manager 7 4 (5.333 %) Applications Consultant 7 4 (5.333 %) Support Consultant 7 4 (5.333 %) Consultant 7 4 (5.333 %) Support Team Leader 7 4 (5.333 %) Delivery Manager 7 4 (5.333 %) Software Consultant 7 4 (5.333 %) Applications Support Consultant 7 4 (5.333 %) Software Manager 8 3 (4.000 %) Developer 9 1 (1.333 %) Senior Developer 9 1 (1.333 %) Trainer	Miscellaneous 1 16 (21.33 %) NPfIT 2 3 (4.000 %) PACS 3 1 (1.333 %) e-Health 3 1 (1.333 %) Informatics 3 1 (1.333 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.333 %) Windows 1 1 (1.333 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (14.67 %) PRINCE2 1 11 (14.67 %) Project Management 2 9 (12.00 %) Test Scripting 3 8 (10.67 %) Release Management 4 6 (8.000 %) Software Testing 5 4 (5.333 %) Requirements Analysis 6 3 (4.000 %) Validation 7 2 (2.667 %) Document Management 7 2 (2.667 %) ERP 8 1 (1.333 %) SOA 8 1 (1.333 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (1.333 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (1.333 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (1.333 %) Resource Management 8 1 (1.333 %) ITIL 8 1 (1.333 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (9.333 %) SQL 2 5 (6.667 %) VB 3 2 (2.667 %) C# 4 1 (1.333 %) C++ 4 1 (1.333 %) Delphi 4 1 (1.333 %) Java 4 1 (1.333 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.333 %) VB.NET 4 1 (1.333 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (1.333 %) C	Qualifications 1 11 (14.67 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.333 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (1.333 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (14.67 %) QA 2 6 (8.000 %) SLA 3 1 (1.333 %) HL7	System Software 1 1 (1.333 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 14 (18.67 %) iSOFT 2 3 (4.000 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.667 %) PeopleSoft 3 2 (2.667 %) SAP 3 2 (2.667 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.667 %) JD Edwards 4 1 (1.333 %) Sage 4 1 (1.333 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.333 %) Borland