The first table below looks at the demand for HNC in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HNC over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Rank 112 - 88
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing HNC 6 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.353% - 0.223%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.136% - 0.638%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 3
Average salary £22,500 - £28,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
528 393 470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.06% 26.52% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 419 340 389
Average salary £43,250 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £31,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
HNC
West Midlands

HNC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham HNC Salary Trend

HNC
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Back Office
2 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 5 (71.43%) MCDST
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) MCSE
2 5 (71.43%) VoIP
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) C
2 5 (71.43%) HND
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government

HNC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) VoIP
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Back Office
1 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Field Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Field Service Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
1 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) MCDST
1 5 (71.43%) MCSE
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (71.43%) HND
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco