The first table below looks at the demand for HNC in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HNC over the 3 months to 22 May 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 for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Rank 93 82 69
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -13
Permanent jobs citing HNC 2 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.184% 0.309% 0.592%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.719% 1.003% 1.742%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
Average salary £37,500 £22,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% -43.75%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
All Qualifications
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
278 299 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 25.53% 30.76% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 233 265 277
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £51,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
HNC
East of England

HNC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing HNC across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Bedfordshire HNC Jobs Demand Trend

HNC
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire HNC Salary Trend

HNC
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 4 (66.67%) VB
1 4 (66.67%) HND
1 4 (66.67%) Automotive
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) XMetaL
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) SCADA
2 2 (33.33%) Robotics
2 2 (33.33%) LTE
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (33.33%) WinCC
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (33.33%) ISO 9001
2 2 (33.33%) Siemens
2 2 (33.33%) XMLSpy
2 2 (33.33%) 3G
2 2 (33.33%) AutoCAD
2 2 (33.33%) FrameMaker
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) 2G
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) SQL

HNC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) XMetaL
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 2 (33.33%) AutoCAD
1 2 (33.33%) FrameMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LTE
1 2 (33.33%) 3G
1 2 (33.33%) 2G
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) XMLSpy
General
1 4 (66.67%) Automotive
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Writer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Author
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Writer
1 2 (33.33%) Author
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Author
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SCADA
1 2 (33.33%) Robotics
1 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VB
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Allen-Bradley
1 2 (33.33%) Siemens