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The first table below looks at the demand for HND in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HND 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 currently tracked.

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 Diploma (HND)
Rank 489 451 527
Rank change year-on-year
-38 +76
Contract jobs citing HND 52 119 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.108% 0.205% 0.119%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.596% 1.194% 0.752%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 19
Average daily rate £338 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £192 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £485 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £280 £300
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 23
Average hourly rate £10.89 £14.88 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.78% -57.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £9.50 £14.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.13% -57.50%
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8728 9969 9842
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.18% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4650 5163 4803
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 522 685
Average hourly rate £22.13 £20.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.92% -8.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%

HND
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HND within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

HND Jobs Demand Trend

HND
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HND within the UK.

HND Daily Rate Trend

HND
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HND within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

HND Daily Rate Histogram

HND
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HND within the UK.

HND Hourly Rate Trend

HND
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HND within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

HND Hourly Rate Histogram

HND
Top 30 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 UK 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
England -48 34 £338 +5.55% 59
Scotland -16 14 £315 +50.00% 8
London +21 9 £245 -32.41% 4
South East -18 7 £365 +62.22% 12
South West +26 5 £400 +10.34% 18
East of England +18 3 £315 +96.87% 2
North West +10 3 £300 +93.54% 14
West Midlands +8 3 £310 - 4
City of London +2 3 £190 -66.95%
Dorset -2 3 £425 +22.30% 2
Buckinghamshire -4 3 £365 -9.98% 1
Bristol +18 2 £375 - 4
Surrey +10 2 - - 4
Bournemouth -1 2 £425 +13.33%
Berkshire -9 2 - - 3
Norfolk - 2 £315 -
Merseyside +8 1 £300 - 1
Cambridgeshire +8 1 - - 1
Cheshire 0 1 - - 2
East Midlands -2 1 £280 - 2
Reading -12 1 - - 1
Leeds - 1 £325 -
Norwich - 1 £315 -
Nottingham - 1 £280 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £280 - 1
Birmingham - 1 - -
Chester - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £325 - 2
West Yorkshire - 1 £325 -
Wiltshire - - - - 4

HND
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 63 (51.22%) Degree
2 39 (31.71%) HNC
3 38 (30.89%) Microsoft
4 27 (21.95%) Telecoms
5 26 (21.14%) MS Office
6 25 (20.33%) SQL
7 23 (18.70%) Computer Science
8 22 (17.89%) MS Excel
9 17 (13.82%) MS Project
9 17 (13.82%) Project Management
10 16 (13.01%) Finance
11 15 (12.20%) Electronics
11 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
12 14 (11.38%) Oracle
13 13 (10.57%) UNIX
13 13 (10.57%) Windows
13 13 (10.57%) CAD
14 12 (9.756%) SLA
15 11 (8.943%) Network Planning
16 10 (8.130%) Linux
16 10 (8.130%) Java
16 10 (8.130%) SC Cleared
17 9 (7.317%) MPEG
17 9 (7.317%) Middleware
17 9 (7.317%) STB
17 9 (7.317%) IPTV
18 8 (6.504%) Service Delivery
18 8 (6.504%) Cramer
18 8 (6.504%) Tcl
18 8 (6.504%) ATM

HND
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 9 (7.317%) Middleware
2 8 (6.504%) XML
3 7 (5.691%) .NET
3 7 (5.691%) HTML
4 5 (4.065%) CSS
5 3 (2.439%) XSLT
6 2 (1.626%) WinForms
7 1 (0.813%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.813%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.813%) Web Services
7 1 (0.813%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.252%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.439%) Jetty
2 3 (2.439%) Oracle Spatial
3 2 (1.626%) CMS
3 2 (1.626%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (1.626%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.813%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (21.14%) MS Office
2 22 (17.89%) MS Excel
3 17 (13.82%) MS Project
4 6 (4.878%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (2.439%) NASTRAN
6 2 (1.626%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.626%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (1.626%) Fireworks
6 2 (1.626%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.626%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.813%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.813%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.813%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.504%) ATM
2 7 (5.691%) Ethernet
2 7 (5.691%) 3G
2 7 (5.691%) LAN
2 7 (5.691%) 2G
3 6 (4.878%) WAN
4 5 (4.065%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.065%) SS7
4 5 (4.065%) Internet
5 4 (3.252%) 2.5G
5 4 (3.252%) GSM
5 4 (3.252%) SDH
6 3 (2.439%) Modbus
6 3 (2.439%) LTE
6 3 (2.439%) UMTS
6 3 (2.439%) VoIP
7 2 (1.626%) Wireless
7 2 (1.626%) DPNSS
7 2 (1.626%) DVB
7 2 (1.626%) MGCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.691%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.878%) GIS
3 4 (3.252%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.252%) MS Access
3 4 (3.252%) MySQL
4 3 (2.439%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (2.439%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.626%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.626%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.626%) OLTP
5 2 (1.626%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.626%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.813%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (4.878%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.252%) Subversion
3 3 (2.439%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (2.439%) Selenium
4 2 (1.626%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.626%) NUnit
4 2 (1.626%) InstallShield
4 2 (1.626%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.813%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.813%) JIRA
General
1 27 (21.95%) Telecoms
2 16 (13.01%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Electronics
4 5 (4.065%) Military
4 5 (4.065%) Automotive
5 4 (3.252%) Legal
6 3 (2.439%) Marketing
6 3 (2.439%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.626%) Publishing
8 1 (0.813%) Avionics
8 1 (0.813%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (8.943%) Software Engineer
1 11 (8.943%) Support Engineer
2 10 (8.130%) Analyst
3 9 (7.317%) Test Engineer
4 6 (4.878%) GIS Technician
4 6 (4.878%) DBA
4 6 (4.878%) Project Manager
5 4 (3.252%) Telecoms Engineer
5 4 (3.252%) Field Engineer
6 3 (2.439%) Build Engineer
6 3 (2.439%) Stress Engineer
6 3 (2.439%) Graduate
6 3 (2.439%) Support Analyst
6 3 (2.439%) Developer
6 3 (2.439%) Software Developer
6 3 (2.439%) Tester
6 3 (2.439%) Project Officer
6 3 (2.439%) Team Leader
6 3 (2.439%) Project Support Officer
6 3 (2.439%) Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.70%) Computer Science
2 9 (7.317%) MPEG
2 9 (7.317%) STB
2 9 (7.317%) IPTV
3 7 (5.691%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.065%) SCADA
5 3 (2.439%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.439%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (2.439%) Physics
6 2 (1.626%) Clustering
6 2 (1.626%) Handset
6 2 (1.626%) E-Learning
6 2 (1.626%) Copywriting
6 2 (1.626%) NHS
6 2 (1.626%) Social Media
6 2 (1.626%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.813%) Semantic Web
7 1 (0.813%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.813%) PMI
7 1 (0.813%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.57%) UNIX
1 13 (10.57%) Windows
2 10 (8.130%) Linux
3 3 (2.439%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.626%) VMS
4 2 (1.626%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.813%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (13.82%) Project Management
2 13 (10.57%) CAD
3 11 (8.943%) Network Planning
4 8 (6.504%) Service Delivery
4 8 (6.504%) PRINCE2
5 7 (5.691%) Data Modelling
6 6 (4.878%) Workflow
6 6 (4.878%) Workflow Management
6 6 (4.878%) UML
6 6 (4.878%) System Testing
6 6 (4.878%) Data Entry
7 5 (4.065%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (3.252%) Validation
8 4 (3.252%) Change Management
8 4 (3.252%) Supplier Management
8 4 (3.252%) SysML
8 4 (3.252%) Network Design
8 4 (3.252%) Software Engineering
8 4 (3.252%) Data Management
8 4 (3.252%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.33%) SQL
2 10 (8.130%) Java
3 8 (6.504%) Tcl
3 8 (6.504%) C
4 7 (5.691%) Perl
4 7 (5.691%) Python
5 5 (4.065%) C#
6 4 (3.252%) C++
6 4 (3.252%) Bash shell
7 2 (1.626%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.813%) sed
8 1 (0.813%) VBScript
8 1 (0.813%) VB
8 1 (0.813%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.813%) COBOL
8 1 (0.813%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 63 (51.22%) Degree
2 39 (31.71%) HNC
3 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.130%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.065%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 5 (4.065%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.252%) CCNP
7 3 (2.439%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 3 (2.439%) APMP
8 2 (1.626%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.626%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.626%) MCSE
8 2 (1.626%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.813%) NVQ Level 4
9 1 (0.813%) MCP
9 1 (0.813%) MCSA
9 1 (0.813%) CCNA
9 1 (0.813%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.813%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.813%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.756%) SLA
2 5 (4.065%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.439%) NDS
1 3 (2.439%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.626%) VMware Workstation
2 2 (1.626%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.626%) Netcool
1 2 (1.626%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (30.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle
3 8 (6.504%) Cramer
4 4 (3.252%) BT
5 3 (2.439%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 3 (2.439%) Adobe
5 3 (2.439%) HP
5 3 (2.439%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.439%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 2 (1.626%) VMware
6 2 (1.626%) Serena
6 2 (1.626%) Huawei
6 2 (1.626%) Siemens
6 2 (1.626%) EMC
6 2 (1.626%) Nortel
6 2 (1.626%) Sun
6 2 (1.626%) SAP
7 1 (0.813%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.813%) Primavera
7 1 (0.813%) Google
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