North East HND Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Diploma (HND) in IT contracts within the North East region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HND over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Diploma (HND)
Location Abingdon Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clackmannanshire County Antrim Derby Derbyshire East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sale Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Staines Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Yeovil	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	8.955 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£300
% change on same period last year	-11.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	-
Average hourly rate	£13.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.21	£23.99
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
Qualifications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	67	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.118 %
Daily rates quoted	15	44
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£296
Average daily rate	£258	£301
% change on same period last year	-14.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.32	£18.54
Average hourly rate	£16.30	£20.04
% change on same period last year	-18.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.29	£21.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
HND 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 HND across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HND across the North East region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HND within the North East region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-	5	-	-

HND England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 7 (87.50 %) Degree 2 4 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) OC4J 3 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Application Server 3 3 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (37.50 %) E-business 3 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 3 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (37.50 %) Linux 3 3 (37.50 %) IBM 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003

4 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel 4 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 2 (25.00 %) Law 4 2 (25.00 %) Police 4 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 10gAS 4 2 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (12.50 %) SCADA 5 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 5 1 (12.50 %) Chemicals 5 1 (12.50 %) Electric 5 1 (12.50 %) Government 5 1 (12.50 %) HNC 5 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (12.50 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 1 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere 1 3 (37.50 %) OC4J	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Law 1 2 (25.00 %) Police 2 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 2 1 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (12.50 %) Chemicals 2 1 (12.50 %) Electric 2 1 (12.50 %) Government	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) DBA 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle DBA 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications DBA 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Commercial Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) NHS 1 1 (12.50 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Linux 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (37.50 %) E-business 3 2 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C
Qualifications 1 7 (87.50 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) HNC	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 1 3 (37.50 %) IBM 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft