Aberdeen HNC Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Certificate (HNC) in IT jobs within the Aberdeen region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HNC over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Location Aberdeen Avon Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grampian Grimsby Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Inverness Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadcaster Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	6.349 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	1	0
Average minimum salary	£28,000	-
Average salary	£28,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£29,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£31,783	£31,104
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Qualifications Aberdeen
Matching permanent IT job ads	126	115
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.049 %
Salaries quoted	77	70
Average minimum salary	£32,606	£32,300
Average salary	£34,203	£35,100
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
Average maximum salary	£35,800	£37,900
UK excluding London average salary	£37,889	£38,388
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
HNC Scotland

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing HNC across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

HNC
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HNC across the Aberdeen region.

HNC
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HNC.

1 6 (75.00 %) Degree 2 4 (50.00 %) HND 3 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 3 3 (37.50 %) MCP 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (37.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 3 (37.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (37.50 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (12.50 %) E-Procurement

4 1 (12.50 %) C 4 1 (12.50 %) C++ 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) Logistics 4 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HNC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Administrator 2 2 (25.00 %) Junior 2 2 (25.00 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Coordinator 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Administrator
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) E-Procurement 2 1 (12.50 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) C++
Qualifications 1 6 (75.00 %) Degree 2 4 (50.00 %) HND 3 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (37.50 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (37.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle