Higher National Diploma (HND)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HND qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 513 687
Rank change year-on-year +445 +174 +282
Permanent jobs citing HND 2,078 454 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.71% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.92% 1.58% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 804 239 105
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,875 £30,265
25th Percentile £47,683 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £42,500 £45,850
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -7.31% -3.47%
75th Percentile £59,081 £52,500 £55,675
90th Percentile £60,265 £61,500 £60,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £42,000 £45,425
% change year-on-year +19.18% -7.54% -4.37%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26,234 28,760 31,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.82% 26.10% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10,747 17,288 14,266
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,734 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +7.42%

HND
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HND as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HND in the UK

HND
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HND.

Salary trend for HND in the UK

HND
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HND over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for HND in the UK

HND
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HND within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
UK excluding London +364 2,049 £50,055 +19.18% 347
England +420 1,830 £50,055 +16.97% 376
North of England +251 834 £50,055 +25.14% 71
North West +221 803 £50,055 +43.01% 41
East of England +144 339 £55,000 +46.56% 42
South East +227 297 £44,605 -6.09% 97
Midlands +201 241 £35,000 -19.54% 65
Scotland +224 225 £58,033 +37.51% 31
East Midlands +162 215 £40,000 -20.00% 32
South West +141 109 £52,600 +31.50% 38
Work from Home +125 35 £42,500 -5.56% 94
Yorkshire +52 31 £57,560 +21.18% 24
West Midlands +55 26 £35,000 - 31
London +101 8 £44,500 -31.54% 50
Northern Ireland +45 6 - - 4
Wales +33 1 - - 11

HND
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (0.72%) Confluence
2 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.096%) SharePoint
Applications
1 404 (19.44%) Simulink
2 176 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 145 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 101 (4.86%) Abaqus
6 69 (3.32%) Mathcad
7 9 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.29%) Windchill
9 5 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.096%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.096%) QuarkXPress
11 1 (0.048%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.048%) Revit
Business Applications
1 186 (8.95%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.096%) Primavera
3 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (0.48%) Google Workspace
2 8 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (0.14%) GitHub
4 2 (0.096%) Azure
4 2 (0.096%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.048%) AWS
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.048%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 733 (35.27%) 5G
1 733 (35.27%) Wi-Fi
2 730 (35.13%) Bluetooth
2 730 (35.13%) GSM
2 730 (35.13%) LTE
2 730 (35.13%) UMTS
2 730 (35.13%) Wireless
3 14 (0.67%) Ethernet
3 14 (0.67%) Modbus
3 14 (0.67%) NAS
3 14 (0.67%) SAN
4 13 (0.63%) Firewall
4 13 (0.63%) MQTT
4 13 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.48%) BGP
5 10 (0.48%) DHCP
5 10 (0.48%) DNS
5 10 (0.48%) OSPF
5 10 (0.48%) VLAN
5 10 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.096%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (3.03%) LabVIEW
2 60 (2.89%) Rational DOORS
3 30 (1.44%) JIRA
4 8 (0.38%) Git
5 5 (0.24%) ClearCase
General
1 788 (37.92%) Electronics
2 328 (15.78%) Social Skills
3 255 (12.27%) Automotive
4 253 (12.18%) Aerospace
5 188 (9.05%) Manufacturing
6 131 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (3.13%) Aeronautics
9 62 (2.98%) Avionics
9 62 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.54%) Agriculture
11 31 (1.49%) Finance
12 26 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 21 (1.01%) Retail
14 18 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.48%) Public Sector
16 8 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.29%) Fire and Rescue
17 6 (0.29%) Local Government
18 4 (0.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 828 (39.85%) Electronics Engineer
1 828 (39.85%) Systems Engineer
2 733 (35.27%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 733 (35.27%) Test Engineer
3 428 (20.60%) Senior
4 237 (11.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 84 (4.04%) Lead
6 69 (3.32%) Engineering Specialist
6 69 (3.32%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 60 (2.89%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 58 (2.79%) Integration Engineer
8 58 (2.79%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 48 (2.31%) Support Engineer
10 47 (2.26%) Design Engineer
11 40 (1.92%) Associate Engineer
12 39 (1.88%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 39 (1.88%) PCB Design Engineer
12 39 (1.88%) PCB Engineer
13 36 (1.73%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 35 (1.68%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.34%) CSS
2 6 (0.29%) .NET
3 5 (0.24%) XML
3 5 (0.24%) XSD
4 3 (0.14%) pytest
5 2 (0.096%) Leaflet
5 2 (0.096%) Node-RED
6 1 (0.048%) HTML
6 1 (0.048%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 732 (35.23%) Driving Licence
2 43 (2.07%) Management Information System
3 40 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
4 29 (1.40%) SCADA
5 21 (1.01%) Cyberattack
6 16 (0.77%) Operational Technology
7 15 (0.72%) Satnav
8 13 (0.63%) Biopharmaceutical
8 13 (0.63%) Data Centre
8 13 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
8 13 (0.63%) IoT
9 10 (0.48%) Smartphone
10 7 (0.34%) Analogue Electronics
11 6 (0.29%) Clustering
11 6 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.24%) Blackberry
13 4 (0.19%) NHS
14 3 (0.14%) CCTV
14 3 (0.14%) Fibre Optics
14 3 (0.14%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.54%) Windows
2 31 (1.49%) Linux
3 15 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (56.98%) Validation
2 1,129 (54.33%) Verification and Validation
3 938 (45.14%) Coaching
4 862 (41.48%) Systems Engineering
5 799 (38.45%) Customer Requirements
6 763 (36.72%) Mentoring
7 730 (35.13%) Test Strategy
8 594 (28.59%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 466 (22.43%) Mathematics
10 435 (20.93%) Software Engineering
11 412 (19.83%) SysML
12 397 (19.10%) Digital Twin
13 186 (8.95%) PLM
14 118 (5.68%) Requirements Management
15 115 (5.53%) CAD
16 101 (4.86%) Finite Element Analysis
17 95 (4.57%) Project Planning
18 84 (4.04%) Problem-Solving
19 75 (3.61%) Data Analysis
20 68 (3.27%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 587 (28.25%) MATLAB
2 22 (1.06%) PowerShell
3 17 (0.82%) Java
3 17 (0.82%) SQL
4 15 (0.72%) C
5 11 (0.53%) Python
6 7 (0.34%) C#
7 6 (0.29%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.048%) C++
8 1 (0.048%) PHP
8 1 (0.048%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 1,893 (91.10%) Degree
2 959 (46.15%) HNC
3 603 (29.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 114 (5.49%) Chartered Engineer
5 104 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 30 (1.44%) Security Cleared
7 20 (0.96%) SC Cleared
8 16 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.48%) MCSE
10 9 (0.43%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.29%) MOS
13 3 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.096%) CISM
14 2 (0.096%) CISSP
14 2 (0.096%) PMP
15 1 (0.048%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.048%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.048%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (5.58%) ISO 9001
2 60 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 54 (2.60%) AQAP
4 5 (0.24%) QA
5 4 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.048%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (0.63%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 191 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 180 (8.66%) ANSYS
3 39 (1.88%) EMC
4 28 (1.35%) VMware
5 16 (0.77%) Siemens
6 15 (0.72%) Atlassian
6 15 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 14 (0.67%) Rockwell
8 13 (0.63%) AVEVA
9 12 (0.58%) Cisco
10 10 (0.48%) Apple
10 10 (0.48%) Dell
10 10 (0.48%) Fortinet
10 10 (0.48%) Google
10 10 (0.48%) Ubiquiti
11 8 (0.38%) SAP
12 7 (0.34%) Mentor Graphics
12 7 (0.34%) Veeam
13 5 (0.24%) McAfee
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle