Essex HNC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Certificate (HNC) in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HNC over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cheltenham Cheshire Coventry Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester North West Portsmouth Sale Scotland Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	66
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.802 %	0.741 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£80	£320
Average daily rate	£80	£320
% change on same period last year	-75.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£80	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£271
% change on same period last year	-2.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.17	£23.33
% change on same period last year	+25.03 %
Qualifications Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	111	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.140 %
Daily rates quoted	50	65
Average minimum daily rate	£199	£172
Average daily rate	£214	£178
% change on same period last year	+20.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£229	£184
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£28.26
Average hourly rate	£22.36	£28.46
% change on same period last year	-21.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.71	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.24	£26.09
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
HNC East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HNC across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HNC across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HNC across the Essex region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing HNC 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 HNC.

1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) DV Cleared 2 2 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) MCP 3 1 (33.33 %) Degree 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing HNC 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 HNC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst	Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) DV Cleared 1 2 (66.67 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCP 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory