The first table below looks at the demand for HND in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HND over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the City of London region.

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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Higher National Diploma (HND)
Rank 198 218 234
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +16
Contract jobs citing HND 3 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.026% 0.021%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.315% 0.188% 0.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
Average daily rate £190 £275 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.90% -57.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £250 £325
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.93% -38.57%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
951 1065 1188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 15.05% 13.64% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 639 755
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 48 51
Average hourly rate £41.50 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.49% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.90 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
HND
London

HND
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HND across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London HND Jobs Demand Trend

HND
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HND across the City of London region.

City of London HND Daily Rate Trend

HND
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HND across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London HND Daily Rate Histogram

HND
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HND across the City of London region.

City of London HND Hourly Rate Trend

HND
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HND 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 HND.

1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Huawei
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 2 (50.00%) Nortel
2 2 (50.00%) Netcool
2 2 (50.00%) BT
2 2 (50.00%) VoIP
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (50.00%) DPNSS
2 2 (50.00%) MGCP
2 2 (50.00%) SS7
2 2 (50.00%) Megaco
2 2 (50.00%) Q.931
2 2 (50.00%) H.323
2 2 (50.00%) Softswitch
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) MS Project
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) MPEG

HND
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HND 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 HND. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Project
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) DPNSS
1 2 (50.00%) MGCP
1 2 (50.00%) SS7
1 2 (50.00%) Megaco
1 2 (50.00%) Q.931
1 2 (50.00%) H.323
1 2 (50.00%) Softswitch
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Voice Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Voice Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) MPEG
2 1 (25.00%) STB
2 1 (25.00%) IPTV
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sun
1 2 (50.00%) Nortel
1 2 (50.00%) BT
1 2 (50.00%) Huawei
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
City, London
Experience Required: General experience Formal training in the following areas: Health and Safety at Work Act Construction Health & Safety, CDM Regulations, Risk Assessment and Method Statements Environmental, Duty...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £32 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013