The first table below looks at the demand for LDAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LDAP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Rank - 55 -
Contract jobs citing LDAP 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.160% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 1.563% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £368
% change year-on-year
- +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.63 £45.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-9.72% +34.32%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
47 64 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 10.76% 10.22% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 33
Average daily rate £388 £313 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% +23.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 9
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
LDAP
West Midlands

LDAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LDAP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham LDAP Jobs Demand Trend

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LDAP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham LDAP Daily Rate Trend

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LDAP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham LDAP Hourly Rate Trend

LDAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing LDAP 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited LDAP.

1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) DB2
2 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) JMS
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) HTTP
2 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 7 (87.50%) IBM HTTP Server
2 7 (87.50%) WebSphere Process Server
2 7 (87.50%) WebSphere
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle
4 5 (62.50%) SOA
5 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) Banking
6 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (25.00%) JMX
6 2 (25.00%) Java
7 1 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
7 1 (12.50%) J2EE
7 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (12.50%) SAP

LDAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing LDAP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LDAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 7 (87.50%) JMS
2 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 7 (87.50%) WebSphere
3 2 (25.00%) JMX
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE
4 1 (12.50%) EJB
4 1 (12.50%) JDBC
4 1 (12.50%) Servlets
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) Java RMI
4 1 (12.50%) Java EE
4 1 (12.50%) JSTL
4 1 (12.50%) JSF
4 1 (12.50%) JTA
4 1 (12.50%) Java EE 5
4 1 (12.50%) JPA
4 1 (12.50%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) IBM HTTP Server
1 7 (87.50%) WebSphere Process Server
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (12.50%) SAP EP
3 1 (12.50%) ESB
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (12.50%) IIOP
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) NWDI
1 1 (12.50%) NWDS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) WebSphere Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Server Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) WebSphere Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) SOA
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 1 (12.50%) Jython
2 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) VMware