The first table below looks at the demand for HND in IT jobs advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HND 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 East Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Higher National Diploma (HND)
Rank 87 94 73
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -21
Permanent jobs citing HND 3 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.329% 0.104% 0.739%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.235% 0.315% 2.793%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
Average salary £32,500 £33,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.98% -
UK excluding London average salary £31,250 £35,000 £29,750
% change year-on-year
-10.71% +17.64%
All Qualifications
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
243 317 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 26.62% 32.92% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 209 295 165
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
HND
South East

HND
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex HND Jobs Demand Trend

HND
Salary Trend

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

East Sussex HND Salary Trend

HND
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HND within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Brighton - 3 £32,500 -
HND
South East

HND
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HND.

1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 5 (62.50%) C
2 5 (62.50%) HNC
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 4 (50.00%) MCSE
3 4 (50.00%) Back Office
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (50.00%) VoIP
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (50.00%) MCDST
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (37.50%) jQuery
4 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) C#
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) OOD
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow

HND
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited HND. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VoIP
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 4 (50.00%) Back Office
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Field Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Field Service Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior
4 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior C# .NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior C# Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior .NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Perl Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Perl Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) OOD
1 2 (25.00%) BDD
1 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Matrix Management
2 1 (12.50%) CAD
2 1 (12.50%) OOP
2 1 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) HNC
2 4 (50.00%) MCSE
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) MCDST
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 14001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
East Sussex
Education and Experience: - HNC/HND or Degree in electronic engineering... - Computer literate with experience of Windows, Linux operating systems and Microsoft office products... - Experience of working within an...
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Posted: 24 May 2013