ePrescribing Contracts

Electronic Prescribing (e-Prescribing)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ePrescribing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ePrescribing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 670 787
Rank change year-on-year +91 +117 -89
Contract jobs citing ePrescribing 4 26 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.045% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.050% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £246 - £234
25th Percentile £303 - £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £150 £438
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -65.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £416 - £538
90th Percentile £426 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ePrescribing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

ePrescribing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ePrescribing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ePrescribing in the UK

ePrescribing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ePrescribing.

Daily rate trend for ePrescribing in the UK

ePrescribing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ePrescribing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ePrescribing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ePrescribing.

Hourly rate trend for ePrescribing in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ePrescribing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +58 4 £400 - 9
Work from Home +113 3 £408 -
England +85 3 £312 +107.67% 12
East Midlands +23 2 £415 -
Midlands +22 2 £415 - 2
North West +22 1 £208 - 1
North of England +20 1 £208 - 4
Scotland - 1 £400 -

ePrescribing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) e-Health
1 1 (25.00%) LIMS
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Informatics
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Health Informatics
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HL7