HND Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Diploma (HND) in IT contracts across the UK 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Diploma (HND)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Motherwell Newcastle Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sale Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West St Albans Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire Yeovil	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	453	538
Rank change on same period last year	+85
Matching contract IT job ads	118	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.136 %
As % of the category below	1.614 %	1.373 %
Daily rates quoted	15	18
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£304
Average daily rate	£304	£330
% change on same period last year	-7.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£322
% change on same period last year	-11.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.24	£23.41
Average hourly rate	£24.08	£24.84
% change on same period last year	-3.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.91	£26.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.08	£24.52
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Qualifications UK
Matching contract IT job ads	7309	9834
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.21 %	9.880 %
Daily rates quoted	2498	3157
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£343
Average daily rate	£364	£361
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	810	944
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.78	£23.90
Average hourly rate	£25.30	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.82	£27.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HND within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HND within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HND within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	+72	86	£304	-7.81 %
South East	+47	35	£230	-24.23 %
Scotland	+2	15	-	-
Wales	-	13	-	-
South Wales	-	13	-	-
London	+66	12	£327	-3.03 %
Newport	-	11	-	-
Hampshire	+29	11	-	-
East of England	+22	10	£215	-42.66 %
East Midlands	+18	8	-	-
Nottinghamshire	+10	8	-	-
Nottingham	+2	8	-	-
North West	+8	7	£301	-
West Lothian	-	7	-	-
Hertfordshire	+30	7	£215	-42.66 %
South West	+12	6	£350	-12.50 %
North East	+11	5	-	-
City of London	-6	5	£400	-
Belfast	-	4	-	-
Tyne and Wear	-	4	-	-
Livingston	-	4	-	-
Berkshire	+42	4	£230	-51.57 %
Northern Ireland	-	4	-	-
County Antrim	-	4	-	-
Gloucestershire	-4	3	-	-
Oxfordshire	-6	3	-	-
Surrey	+22	3	-	-
Merseyside	+2	3	£301	-
Manchester	-2	3	-	-
Liverpool	-6	3	£301	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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.

1 125 (63.78 %) Degree 2 77 (39.29 %) HNC 3 43 (21.94 %) Microsoft 4 34 (17.35 %) Security Cleared 5 31 (15.82 %) Windows 6 28 (14.29 %) Electronics 7 27 (13.78 %) MS Office 8 23 (11.73 %) C 9 22 (11.22 %) Electric 10 20 (10.20 %) Education 10 20 (10.20 %) UNIX 10 20 (10.20 %) MS Excel 11 19 (9.694 %) Microsoft Certification 11 19 (9.694 %) Telecoms 12 18 (9.184 %) Configuration Management

13 16 (8.163 %) SQL 14 15 (7.653 %) MS Project 14 15 (7.653 %) Flash 15 14 (7.143 %) Windows XP 15 14 (7.143 %) XML 15 14 (7.143 %) HTML 15 14 (7.143 %) EMC 15 14 (7.143 %) Finance 15 14 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 16 13 (6.633 %) Cisco 16 13 (6.633 %) Cisco Certification 16 13 (6.633 %) CAD 16 13 (6.633 %) Windows Server 2003 16 13 (6.633 %) Oracle 16 13 (6.633 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 14 (7.143 %) HTML 1 14 (7.143 %) XML 2 10 (5.102 %) CSS 2 10 (5.102 %) ASP 3 3 (1.531 %) J2EE 3 3 (1.531 %) WebSphere 3 3 (1.531 %) OC4J 4 2 (1.020 %) .NET 5 1 (0.510 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.510 %) XSLT 5 1 (0.510 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 3 (1.531 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 3 (1.531 %) Documentum 1 3 (1.531 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (1.020 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 2 (1.020 %) IIS 2 2 (1.020 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.510 %) GroupWise 3 1 (0.510 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 27 (13.78 %) MS Office 2 20 (10.20 %) MS Excel 3 15 (7.653 %) MS Project 4 11 (5.612 %) Photoshop 5 10 (5.102 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 9 (4.592 %) FreeHand 7 4 (2.041 %) MS Visio 7 4 (2.041 %) FrameMaker 8 3 (1.531 %) CATIA 8 3 (1.531 %) MS PowerPoint 8 3 (1.531 %) Spreadsheet 9 2 (1.020 %) CorelDRAW 9 2 (1.020 %) RoboHelp 10 1 (0.510 %) AutoCAD 10 1 (0.510 %) Paint Shop Pro 10 1 (0.510 %) LightWave 3D 10 1 (0.510 %) ArcView	Business Applications 1 2 (1.020 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 12 (6.122 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (5.612 %) Internet 3 10 (5.102 %) Broadband 4 7 (3.571 %) DNS 4 7 (3.571 %) DHCP 5 6 (3.061 %) WAN 6 4 (2.041 %) UMTS 6 4 (2.041 %) LAN 6 4 (2.041 %) VPN 6 4 (2.041 %) SAN 6 4 (2.041 %) 3G 7 3 (1.531 %) GPRS 7 3 (1.531 %) GSM 7 3 (1.531 %) VoIP 7 3 (1.531 %) Firewall 7 3 (1.531 %) Wireless 8 2 (1.020 %) Frame Relay 8 2 (1.020 %) Intrusion Detection 8 2 (1.020 %) C7 8 2 (1.020 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (6.633 %) SQL Server 2 7 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 3 6 (3.061 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (2.041 %) OLTP 4 4 (2.041 %) RDBMS 4 4 (2.041 %) OLAP 4 4 (2.041 %) Oracle OLAP 5 3 (1.531 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (1.020 %) GIS 6 2 (1.020 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (0.510 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (0.510 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 15 (7.653 %) Flash 2 11 (5.612 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (1.531 %) ClearQuest 3 3 (1.531 %) ClearCase 4 2 (1.020 %) PVCS 4 2 (1.020 %) GoLive 4 2 (1.020 %) FrontPage	General 1 28 (14.29 %) Electronics 2 22 (11.22 %) Electric 3 20 (10.20 %) Education 4 19 (9.694 %) Telecoms 5 14 (7.143 %) Finance 5 14 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 6 9 (4.592 %) Military 6 9 (4.592 %) Government 7 8 (4.082 %) Construction 8 7 (3.571 %) Aerospace 9 6 (3.061 %) Health 9 6 (3.061 %) Avionics 10 5 (2.551 %) Automotive 11 3 (1.531 %) Law 11 3 (1.531 %) Marketing 11 3 (1.531 %) Police 12 2 (1.020 %) Pensions 12 2 (1.020 %) Banking 13 1 (0.510 %) Multimedia 13 1 (0.510 %) General Ledger
Job Titles 1 35 (17.86 %) Analyst 2 20 (10.20 %) Support Engineer 2 20 (10.20 %) Developer 3 13 (6.633 %) Test Engineer 4 12 (6.122 %) Test Analyst 4 12 (6.122 %) Mechanical Engineer 5 11 (5.612 %) Support Analyst 6 10 (5.102 %) Design Engineer 7 9 (4.592 %) EMC Engineer 8 8 (4.082 %) Service Analyst 8 8 (4.082 %) ASP Developer 8 8 (4.082 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 8 (4.082 %) Software Developer 9 7 (3.571 %) Author 9 7 (3.571 %) Technical Author 9 7 (3.571 %) Systems Engineer 10 6 (3.061 %) Quality Engineer 11 5 (2.551 %) DBA 12 4 (2.041 %) Desktop Support 12 4 (2.041 %) Programme Manager	Miscellaneous 1 11 (5.612 %) Physics 2 6 (3.061 %) Computer Science 3 5 (2.551 %) Handset 4 4 (2.041 %) Replication 5 3 (1.531 %) Device Driver 5 3 (1.531 %) Video Conferencing 6 2 (1.020 %) Blackberry 6 2 (1.020 %) PMI 6 2 (1.020 %) EPoS 6 2 (1.020 %) NHS 6 2 (1.020 %) IVR 6 2 (1.020 %) CCTV 6 2 (1.020 %) Statistics 7 1 (0.510 %) SCADA 7 1 (0.510 %) Fat Client 7 1 (0.510 %) Remote Sensing 7 1 (0.510 %) Thin Client 7 1 (0.510 %) ASIC 7 1 (0.510 %) Clustering 7 1 (0.510 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 31 (15.82 %) Windows 2 20 (10.20 %) UNIX 3 14 (7.143 %) Windows XP 4 13 (6.633 %) Windows Server 2003 5 12 (6.122 %) Windows 2000 6 8 (4.082 %) Linux 7 5 (2.551 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 4 (2.041 %) HPUX 9 3 (1.531 %) Embedded Linux 10 2 (1.020 %) Solaris 11 1 (0.510 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (17.35 %) Security Cleared 2 18 (9.184 %) Configuration Management 3 13 (6.633 %) CAD 4 12 (6.122 %) Software Testing 5 11 (5.612 %) QMS 5 11 (5.612 %) Quality Management 6 10 (5.102 %) ITIL 6 10 (5.102 %) SC Cleared 6 10 (5.102 %) Requirements Analysis 7 9 (4.592 %) Software Engineering 8 8 (4.082 %) Project Management 9 7 (3.571 %) Service Delivery 9 7 (3.571 %) BC Cleared 10 5 (2.551 %) DV Cleared 10 5 (2.551 %) PDM 10 5 (2.551 %) Disaster Recovery 10 5 (2.551 %) Validation 11 4 (2.041 %) Workflow 11 4 (2.041 %) Business Intelligence 11 4 (2.041 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 23 (11.73 %) C 2 16 (8.163 %) SQL 3 11 (5.612 %) JavaScript 4 9 (4.592 %) C++ 4 9 (4.592 %) ActionScript 5 6 (3.061 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (1.531 %) Java 6 3 (1.531 %) Embedded C 6 3 (1.531 %) Embedded C++ 7 2 (1.020 %) VB 8 1 (0.510 %) VB.NET 8 1 (0.510 %) VC++ 8 1 (0.510 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 125 (63.78 %) Degree 2 77 (39.29 %) HNC 3 19 (9.694 %) Microsoft Certification 4 13 (6.633 %) Cisco Certification 5 12 (6.122 %) MCP 5 12 (6.122 %) ISEB 6 6 (3.061 %) MCSE 7 3 (1.531 %) CCNA 7 3 (1.531 %) MCAD 8 2 (1.020 %) CNA 8 2 (1.020 %) Novell Certification 9 1 (0.510 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.510 %) CIMA 9 1 (0.510 %) NVQ Level 4 9 1 (0.510 %) MCSA 9 1 (0.510 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (4.592 %) SLA 2 6 (3.061 %) QA 3 1 (0.510 %) GAMP	System Software 1 8 (4.082 %) Active Directory 2 4 (2.041 %) Oracle RMAN 2 4 (2.041 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (0.510 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (0.510 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (1.020 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 43 (21.94 %) Microsoft 2 14 (7.143 %) EMC 3 13 (6.633 %) Oracle 3 13 (6.633 %) Cisco 4 5 (2.551 %) HP 5 4 (2.041 %) Adobe 6 3 (1.531 %) IBM 7 2 (1.020 %) Macromedia 7 2 (1.020 %) Nortel 7 2 (1.020 %) Avaya 7 2 (1.020 %) Ericsson 7 2 (1.020 %) Nokia 7 2 (1.020 %) Novell 7 2 (1.020 %) Siemens 8 1 (0.510 %) Apple 8 1 (0.510 %) Symantec 8 1 (0.510 %) ESRI 8 1 (0.510 %) Mentor Graphics 8 1 (0.510 %) Lucent 8 1 (0.510 %) CommVault