Midlands HNC Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Certificate (HNC) in IT jobs within the Midlands 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Location Aberdeen Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bellshill Berkshire Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England Enfield England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Grimsby Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Inverness Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadcaster UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	90
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	4.516 %	0.983 %
Salaries quoted	0	4
Average minimum salary	-	£27,500
Average salary	-	£31,250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£35,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,166	£32,879
% change on same period last year	-2.16 %
Qualifications Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	155	407
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.086 %	0.171 %
Salaries quoted	125	313
Average minimum salary	£39,133	£39,993
Average salary	£43,232	£44,075
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum salary	£47,331	£48,156
UK excluding London average salary	£37,894	£38,547
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
HNC England

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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 Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (22.22 %) Electric 1 2 (22.22 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (11.11 %) Health 2 1 (11.11 %) Electronics 2 1 (11.11 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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.

General 1 2 (22.22 %) Electric 2 1 (11.11 %) Health 2 1 (11.11 %) Electronics 2 1 (11.11 %) Education	Job Titles 1 7 (77.78 %) Test Manager 2 1 (11.11 %) Customer Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) Risk Assessment