HND Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Higher National Diploma (HND)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for HND qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing HND 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.048% - 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £488 £276 £450
% change year-on-year +76.95% -38.78% +23.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

HND falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 862 653 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 41.30% 37.08% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 382 664
10th Percentile £255 £235 £205
25th Percentile £358 £363 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £505 £512
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -1.42% +2.35%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £619
90th Percentile £637 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 31 64
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.30 £24.48
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.00 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.37% -0.84% +124.53%
75th Percentile £76.00 £64.73 £67.60
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.06 £60.00
% change year-on-year -44.19% -24.90% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HND relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

HND job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HND.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HND

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HND.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing HND

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HND within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire - 1 £488 -
HND
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk