HNC Contracts in the South East

Higher National Certificate (HNC)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for HNC qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 217 253
Rank change year-on-year +21 +36 -63
Contract jobs citing HNC 8 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.10% 0.064%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £350 £357 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £364 £331
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +9.89% +5.16%
75th Percentile £450 £371 £418
90th Percentile - - £450
England median daily rate £269 £425 £408
% change year-on-year -36.71% +4.29% +10.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £30.64 -
25th Percentile - £39.09 £20.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £53.19 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% +147.37% -49.81%
75th Percentile - £67.28 £22.75
90th Percentile - £75.73 -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -21.82% +39.24% +9.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

HNC is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,496 2,195 2,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.76% 37.40% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,448 1,607
10th Percentile £300 £300 £284
25th Percentile £433 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £646 £623 £615
90th Percentile £725 £704 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 144 90
10th Percentile £17.53 £21.30 £19.52
25th Percentile £26.92 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £56.19 £44.61
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% +25.96% +11.53%
75th Percentile £66.94 £68.75 £57.00
90th Percentile £85.29 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing HNC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for HNC in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HNC in the South East.

Daily rate trend for HNC in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HNC in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HNC in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HNC in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for HNC in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HNC within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Hampshire +9 3 £450 - 30
Thames Valley +6 3 £350 -3.85% 59
Berkshire -11 2 £350 -3.85% 34
Surrey - 2 £325 - 14
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 16
HNC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Infor M3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) 5G
2 1 (12.50%) Broadband
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) TestRail
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aeronautics
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Trainer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Provisioning Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Line Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) HND
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) NFS
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft