HND Jobs in the UK excluding London

Higher National Diploma (HND)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for HND qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 406 527
Rank change year-on-year +359 +121 +115
Permanent jobs citing HND 1,983 428 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.94% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.83% 2.07% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 736 211 89
10th Percentile £40,000 £23,125 £28,550
25th Percentile £47,683 £29,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £41,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% -9.78% -3.16%
75th Percentile £59,081 £52,500 £55,675
90th Percentile £60,265 £59,998 £61,900
UK median annual salary £50,055 £42,202 £46,000
% change year-on-year +18.61% -8.26% -3.16%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,167 20,696 20,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.22% 25.30% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,250 12,395 7,880
10th Percentile £29,738 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,258 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.21% -12.04% +9.09%

HND
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HND as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HND in the UK excluding London

HND
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HND in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for HND in the UK excluding London

HND
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing HND in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for HND in the UK excluding London

HND
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HND within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +244 795 £50,055 +26.22% 177
North West +205 746 £50,055 +43.01% 106
East of England +140 338 £55,000 +46.56% 106
South East +230 299 £44,605 -6.09% 203
Midlands +215 241 £35,000 -16.67% 146
East Midlands +161 218 £40,000 -20.00% 76
Scotland +217 208 £58,033 +37.51% 83
South West +133 98 £52,600 +31.50% 100
Yorkshire +65 49 £57,560 +21.18% 56
West Midlands +53 23 £35,000 - 68
Northern Ireland +44 6 - - 15
Wales +38 1 - - 28
HND
UK

HND
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 369 (18.61%) Simulink
2 158 (7.97%) Microsoft Office
3 139 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 131 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 93 (4.69%) Abaqus
6 61 (3.08%) Mathcad
7 7 (0.35%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.30%) Windchill
9 5 (0.25%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.050%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.050%) Revit
Business Applications
1 172 (8.67%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.10%) Primavera
3 1 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (0.40%) Google Workspace
2 7 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (0.10%) Azure
3 2 (0.10%) GitHub
3 2 (0.10%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.050%) AWS
4 1 (0.050%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.050%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 723 (36.46%) 5G
2 721 (36.36%) Bluetooth
2 721 (36.36%) GSM
2 721 (36.36%) LTE
2 721 (36.36%) UMTS
2 721 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
2 721 (36.36%) Wireless
3 14 (0.71%) Modbus
3 14 (0.71%) NAS
3 14 (0.71%) SAN
4 13 (0.66%) MQTT
5 12 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 11 (0.55%) Firewall
6 11 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.40%) BGP
7 8 (0.40%) DHCP
7 8 (0.40%) DNS
7 8 (0.40%) OSPF
7 8 (0.40%) VLAN
7 8 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 58 (2.92%) Rational DOORS
2 54 (2.72%) LabVIEW
3 25 (1.26%) JIRA
4 7 (0.35%) Git
5 5 (0.25%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.050%) Bitbucket
General
1 780 (39.33%) Electronics
2 329 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 240 (12.10%) Automotive
4 239 (12.05%) Aerospace
5 166 (8.37%) Manufacturing
6 136 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (3.28%) Aeronautics
9 61 (3.08%) Avionics
9 61 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.61%) Agriculture
11 28 (1.41%) Finance
12 27 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (0.91%) Retail
14 16 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.45%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
17 6 (0.30%) Local Government
18 4 (0.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 817 (41.20%) Electronics Engineer
2 773 (38.98%) Systems Engineer
3 723 (36.46%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 723 (36.46%) Test Engineer
4 398 (20.07%) Senior
5 228 (11.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 66 (3.33%) Lead
7 61 (3.08%) Engineering Specialist
7 61 (3.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 58 (2.92%) Integration Engineer
8 58 (2.92%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 52 (2.62%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 51 (2.57%) Support Engineer
11 45 (2.27%) Design Engineer
12 39 (1.97%) Associate Engineer
12 39 (1.97%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 39 (1.97%) PCB Design Engineer
12 39 (1.97%) PCB Engineer
12 39 (1.97%) PLC Engineer
13 38 (1.92%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.35%) CSS
2 6 (0.30%) .NET
3 5 (0.25%) XML
3 5 (0.25%) XSD
4 2 (0.10%) Leaflet
4 2 (0.10%) Node-RED
4 2 (0.10%) pytest
5 1 (0.050%) HTML
5 1 (0.050%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 724 (36.51%) Driving Licence
2 58 (2.92%) Renewable Energy
3 39 (1.97%) Cyberattack
4 36 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 29 (1.46%) SCADA
6 16 (0.81%) Operational Technology
7 14 (0.71%) IoT
7 14 (0.71%) Satnav
8 13 (0.66%) Biopharmaceutical
8 13 (0.66%) Industry 4.0
9 11 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.40%) Smartphone
11 7 (0.35%) Analogue Electronics
12 6 (0.30%) Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) Blackberry
13 5 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.20%) NHS
14 4 (0.20%) Optoelectronics
15 2 (0.10%) CSOC
15 2 (0.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.41%) Linux
1 28 (1.41%) Windows
2 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
3 11 (0.55%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (0.40%) Mac OS X
4 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,138 (57.39%) Validation
2 1,085 (54.72%) Verification and Validation
3 912 (45.99%) Coaching
4 807 (40.70%) Systems Engineering
5 790 (39.84%) Customer Requirements
6 752 (37.92%) Mentoring
7 721 (36.36%) Test Strategy
8 556 (28.04%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 428 (21.58%) Mathematics
10 418 (21.08%) Software Engineering
11 377 (19.01%) SysML
12 362 (18.26%) Digital Twin
13 172 (8.67%) PLM
14 113 (5.70%) Requirements Management
15 104 (5.24%) CAD
16 99 (4.99%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (4.79%) Project Planning
18 93 (4.69%) Finite Element Analysis
19 76 (3.83%) Project Delivery
20 70 (3.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 537 (27.08%) MATLAB
2 20 (1.01%) PowerShell
3 17 (0.86%) Java
4 15 (0.76%) C
4 15 (0.76%) SQL
5 10 (0.50%) Python
6 7 (0.35%) C#
7 6 (0.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.050%) C++
8 1 (0.050%) PHP
8 1 (0.050%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 1,796 (90.57%) Degree
2 895 (45.13%) HNC
3 549 (27.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 106 (5.35%) Chartered Engineer
5 97 (4.89%) Master's Degree
6 31 (1.56%) Security Cleared
7 21 (1.06%) SC Cleared
8 14 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.45%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.40%) MCSE
11 6 (0.30%) MOS
12 3 (0.15%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.10%) CISM
13 2 (0.10%) CISSP
13 2 (0.10%) PMP
14 1 (0.050%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.050%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.050%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.64%) ISO 9001
2 52 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 38 (1.92%) AQAP
4 4 (0.20%) GDPR
5 2 (0.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.10%) QA
6 1 (0.050%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.050%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.050%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 26 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
6 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (0.71%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 171 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.37%) ANSYS
3 40 (2.02%) EMC
4 28 (1.41%) VMware
5 16 (0.81%) Siemens
6 14 (0.71%) Rockwell
6 14 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 13 (0.66%) AVEVA
8 11 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.45%) Cisco
10 8 (0.40%) Apple
10 8 (0.40%) Dell
10 8 (0.40%) Fortinet
10 8 (0.40%) Google
10 8 (0.40%) SAP
10 8 (0.40%) Ubiquiti
11 7 (0.35%) Mentor Graphics
11 7 (0.35%) Veeam
12 5 (0.25%) McAfee
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle