Stevenage HNC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Certificate (HNC) in IT contracts within the Stevenage 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Coventry Croydon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands North West Northamptonshire Portsmouth Reading Sale Salisbury Scotland South Coast South East South Wales South West Stevenage UK Wales West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	15
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	28.00 %	8.000 %
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	£61	£276
% change on same period last year	-77.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.14	£23.75
Average hourly rate	£26.43	£23.75
% change on same period last year	+11.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.71	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.67	£20.78
% change on same period last year	+33.14 %
Qualifications Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	25	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£265
Average daily rate	£265	£289
% change on same period last year	-8.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.88	£32.13
Average hourly rate	£28.33	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-14.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.77	£34.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
HNC Hertfordshire

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 Stevenage 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 HNC across the Stevenage region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 6 (75.00 %) Degree 2 3 (37.50 %) Electronics 2 3 (37.50 %) Aerospace 2 3 (37.50 %) Electric 3 2 (25.00 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 2 (25.00 %) Mentor Graphics 3 2 (25.00 %) VHDL 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Government 4 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (12.50 %) HND 4 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 4 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) BC Cleared

4 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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.

General 1 3 (37.50 %) Electronics 1 3 (37.50 %) Aerospace 1 3 (37.50 %) Electric 2 1 (12.50 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) FPGA Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Design Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Hardware Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) QA Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) VHDL 1 2 (25.00 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 1 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) BC Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 6 (75.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Mentor Graphics