Suffolk HND Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Higher National Diploma (HND) in IT contracts within the Suffolk 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Diploma (HND)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bradford Buckinghamshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Devon Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Lancaster Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Motherwell Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Scotland South Coast South East South Wales South West St Albans Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	6.897 %	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	£298	£288
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
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	£24.31	£21.06
% change on same period last year	+15.45 %
Qualifications Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	29	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	2	14
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£329
Average daily rate	£344	£338
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.96	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£26.09	£18.25
% change on same period last year	+42.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.22	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.48	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
HND 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 HND across the Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 3 (100.00 %) Electric 2 2 (66.67 %) EMC 2 2 (66.67 %) CAD 2 2 (66.67 %) HNC 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) C 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP
General 1 3 (100.00 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Mechanical Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) CAD
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) HNC
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) EMC 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft