Watford HND Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Higher National Diploma (HND) in IT jobs within the Watford region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HND over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Higher National Diploma (HND)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleveland County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grampian Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hendon Hertfordshire Highlands Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Plymouth Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teesside Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Waterlooville Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	38
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	10.45 %	10.29 %
Salaries quoted	10	18
Average minimum salary	£36,500	£28,000
Average salary	£41,500	£28,000
% change on same period last year	+48.21 %
Average maximum salary	£46,500	£28,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,143	£29,179
% change on same period last year	+10.16 %
Qualifications Watford
Matching permanent IT job ads	134	175
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.077 %
Salaries quoted	118	157
Average minimum salary	£39,764	£35,936
Average salary	£43,987	£38,060
% change on same period last year	+15.57 %
Average maximum salary	£48,210	£40,183
UK excluding London average salary	£37,899	£38,417
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
HND Hertfordshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing HND across the Watford 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 HND across the Watford region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing HND across the Watford region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Watford 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 15 (93.75 %) Degree 2 7 (43.75 %) Electric 3 6 (37.50 %) Marketing 4 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 4 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows 4 3 (18.75 %) Linux 4 3 (18.75 %) Service Management 4 3 (18.75 %) Change Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Firewall 5 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 5 2 (12.50 %) QA 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (12.50 %) LAN 5 2 (12.50 %) VoIP

5 2 (12.50 %) WAN 5 2 (12.50 %) MCP 5 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 5 2 (12.50 %) ISEB 5 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 5 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (12.50 %) WinRunner 5 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 5 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script 6 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 6 1 (6.250 %) HNC 6 1 (6.250 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Watford 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 1 (6.250 %) .NET 1 1 (6.250 %) J2EE	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) LAN 1 2 (12.50 %) VoIP 1 2 (12.50 %) WAN 1 2 (12.50 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) WinRunner 1 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 1 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner
General 1 7 (43.75 %) Electric 2 6 (37.50 %) Marketing 3 1 (6.250 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Technical Support 1 6 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 1 6 (37.50 %) Applications Support 1 6 (37.50 %) Technical Engineer 1 6 (37.50 %) Applications Support Engineer 1 6 (37.50 %) Technical Support Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Software Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Tester 3 1 (6.250 %) Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Systems Tester 3 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Support Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Product Manager
Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 1 3 (18.75 %) Linux 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (6.250 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) ITIL 1 3 (18.75 %) Service Management 1 3 (18.75 %) Change Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) Java 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL 1 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script 1 1 (6.250 %) AWK 1 1 (6.250 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 15 (93.75 %) Degree 2 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (12.50 %) MCP 2 2 (12.50 %) ISEB 3 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) HNC 3 1 (6.250 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 1 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 2 1 (6.250 %) Sun 2 1 (6.250 %) HP