The first table below looks at the demand for HND in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HND over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Higher National Diploma (HND)
Rank 141 135 143
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +8
Permanent jobs citing HND 2 12 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.085% 0.469% 0.825%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.287% 1.606% 2.573%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 30
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +26.98%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £29,750
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +17.64%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
696 747 1166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 29.49% 29.17% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 536 615 969
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £59,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
HND
East of England

HND
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Hertford - 2 £40,000 -
HND
East of England

HND
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) FrameMaker
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) CCDA
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) ISO 9000
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) SLA
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco

HND
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) FrameMaker
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) CorelDRAW
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Author
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCDA
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9000
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) F5