The first table below looks at the demand for HNC in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HNC over the 3 months to 19 June 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 South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Rank 211 209 240
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +31
Contract jobs citing HNC 9 38 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.112% 0.380% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.443% 1.740% 0.268%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 3
Average daily rate £358 £258 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.83% -14.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £26.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +4.47%
All Qualifications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2031 2184 2236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 25.36% 21.85% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 957 940
Average daily rate £365 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 121 212
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.43% -8.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.35 £12.49 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.20 £41.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
HNC
England

HNC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East HNC Jobs Demand Trend

HNC
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East HNC Daily Rate Trend

HNC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East HNC Hourly Rate Trend

HNC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HNC within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire -5 5 £325 +46.06% 1
Buckinghamshire -4 3 £365 -9.98%
Surrey +20 1 - - 3
West Sussex - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Hampshire - - - - 2
Kent - - - - 1
Oxfordshire - - - - 1
HNC
England

HNC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 20 (62.50%) HND
2 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 11 (34.38%) Electronics
4 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
5 9 (28.13%) UNIX
6 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (21.88%) Telecoms
8 6 (18.75%) Project Management
8 6 (18.75%) Degree
8 6 (18.75%) Windows
8 6 (18.75%) MS Excel
8 6 (18.75%) SQL
9 5 (15.63%) MS Project
9 5 (15.63%) MS Office
9 5 (15.63%) QA
9 5 (15.63%) System Testing
10 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (12.50%) CAPA
10 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
10 4 (12.50%) Military
10 4 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (12.50%) Finance
10 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
10 4 (12.50%) XML
10 4 (12.50%) Perl
10 4 (12.50%) CRM
10 4 (12.50%) ATM
10 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
10 4 (12.50%) CCNP

HNC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 Development
1 4 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (6.250%) HTML
3 1 (3.125%) Web Services
3 1 (3.125%) .NET
3 1 (3.125%) J2EE
3 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) IIS
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (3.125%) Apache
2 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.125%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.125%) FileNet
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.125%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 5 (15.63%) MS Project
2 5 (15.63%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) ATM
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.375%) DNS
2 3 (9.375%) LAN
2 3 (9.375%) WAN
2 3 (9.375%) Internet
3 2 (6.250%) 4G
3 2 (6.250%) LTE
3 2 (6.250%) 2G
3 2 (6.250%) Firewall
3 2 (6.250%) 3G
4 1 (3.125%) SNMP
4 1 (3.125%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.125%) HTTP
4 1 (3.125%) PSTN
4 1 (3.125%) SMS
4 1 (3.125%) UMTS
4 1 (3.125%) SAN
4 1 (3.125%) ADSL
4 1 (3.125%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) MS Access
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (6.250%) LabVIEW
General
1 11 (34.38%) Electronics
2 7 (21.88%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.50%) Military
3 4 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (6.250%) Retail
5 1 (3.125%) Legal
5 1 (3.125%) Marketing
5 1 (3.125%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 4 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Design Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Windows Support Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Databuild Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Build Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Data Build Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) IP Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) IP Network Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Network Design Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Mechanical Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (6.250%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Project Planner
5 1 (3.125%) DBA
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Fat Client
1 2 (6.250%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.125%) PMI
2 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.125%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) UNIX
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
3 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.250%) Linux
4 2 (6.250%) Windows 2000
5 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) Project Management
2 5 (15.63%) System Testing
3 4 (12.50%) CAPA
3 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 4 (12.50%) CRM
4 3 (9.375%) Validation
4 3 (9.375%) Time Management
5 2 (6.250%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.250%) Network Design
5 2 (6.250%) Logistics
5 2 (6.250%) ITIL
6 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.125%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.125%) Change Management
6 1 (3.125%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.125%) Risk Management
6 1 (3.125%) Workflow
6 1 (3.125%) Migration
6 1 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.125%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (3.125%) Tcl
3 1 (3.125%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) HND
2 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (18.75%) Degree
6 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (12.50%) CCNP
7 3 (9.375%) CCNA
7 3 (9.375%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (9.375%) CCA
7 3 (9.375%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (9.375%) MCSE
8 2 (6.250%) DV Cleared
9 1 (3.125%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.250%) MetaFrame
2 2 (6.250%) NFS
3 1 (3.125%) NDS
3 1 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.125%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) OpenView
1 1 (3.125%) Foglight
1 1 (3.125%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle
3 2 (6.250%) 3Com
3 2 (6.250%) Juniper
3 2 (6.250%) HP
3 2 (6.250%) Nortel
3 2 (6.250%) Citrix
3 2 (6.250%) Cisco
4 1 (3.125%) IBM
4 1 (3.125%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (3.125%) Siemens
4 1 (3.125%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.125%) JBoss
4 1 (3.125%) Remedy
4 1 (3.125%) Primavera
4 1 (3.125%) BT
4 1 (3.125%) ReadSoft
4 1 (3.125%) Cramer
4 1 (3.125%) VMware
4 1 (3.125%) Nokia Siemens Networks
Surrey, South East
I am looking for an Electrical Design engineer to work for a growing company in the Surrey area. You will be working for a growing team of Electrical...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £30 - £40 per hour
Posted: 29 May 2013
Surrey, South East
I am looking for an Electrical Design engineer to work for a growing company in the Surrey area. You will be working for a growing team of Electrical...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £25 - £35 per hour
Posted: 29 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Must have experience of using PDM System, ideally Windchill / Sprint - Must have experience of writing a configuration plan and product data management, managing large engineering projects within configuration.
s-com
Rate: £32 - £35 per hour + circa DOE
Posted: 18 June 2013
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