The first table below looks at the demand for NDS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NDS over the 3 months to 20 June 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 System Software category for the England 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell Directory Services (NDS)
Rank 521 554 582
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +28
Contract jobs citing NDS 9 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.020% 0.013% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.210% 0.161% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
Average daily rate £275 £305 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.83% +38.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £308 £207
% change year-on-year
- +48.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £175.00
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4294 4337 4166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.762% 8.314% 7.277%
Number of daily rates quoted 2098 2091 1869
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £483
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 632 636
Average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £34.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%
NDS
UK

NDS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NDS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

England NDS Jobs Demand Trend

NDS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England NDS Daily Rate Trend

NDS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England NDS Hourly Rate Trend

NDS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NDS within the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +26 8 £275 -9.83%
NDS
UK

NDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NDS 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 NDS.

1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) UNIX
2 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (53.85%) Novell
4 5 (38.46%) VMware
4 5 (38.46%) SAN
4 5 (38.46%) Linux
5 4 (30.77%) DHCP
5 4 (30.77%) DNS
5 4 (30.77%) Firewall
5 4 (30.77%) Hitachi
5 4 (30.77%) iSCSI
5 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (30.77%) Data Management
5 4 (30.77%) Brocade
5 4 (30.77%) NAS
5 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
6 3 (23.08%) NHS
6 3 (23.08%) McAfee
6 3 (23.08%) Sophos
6 3 (23.08%) Cisco
7 2 (15.38%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (15.38%) ISEB
7 2 (15.38%) SQL
7 2 (15.38%) .NET
7 2 (15.38%) TIBCO
7 2 (15.38%) Nokia Siemens Networks

NDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NDS 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 NDS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.692%) XML
2 1 (7.692%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) SAN
2 4 (30.77%) DHCP
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) iSCSI
2 4 (30.77%) NAS
2 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.692%) Network Security
3 1 (7.692%) Internet
3 1 (7.692%) SS7
3 1 (7.692%) IP Telephony
3 1 (7.692%) ADSL
3 1 (7.692%) GSM
3 1 (7.692%) LAN
3 1 (7.692%) UMTS
3 1 (7.692%) WAN
3 1 (7.692%) SMTP
3 1 (7.692%) HTTP
3 1 (7.692%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) JProfiler
1 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.692%) Subversion
1 1 (7.692%) Selenium
1 1 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
1 1 (7.692%) Marketing
1 1 (7.692%) Front Office
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
1 1 (7.692%) Law
1 1 (7.692%) Legal
1 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Broadcast Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Software Test Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Network Support
3 1 (7.692%) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) NHS
2 1 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.692%) Replication
2 1 (7.692%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.692%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) UNIX
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (38.46%) Linux
4 1 (7.692%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Data Management
2 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Network Management
4 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
4 1 (7.692%) Product Marketing
4 1 (7.692%) Code Coverage
4 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.692%) Change Management
4 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.692%) Workflow
4 1 (7.692%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) Python
2 1 (7.692%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) C++
2 1 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ISEB
2 1 (7.692%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (7.692%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.692%) HNC
2 1 (7.692%) HND
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Novell
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Hitachi
3 4 (30.77%) Brocade
4 3 (23.08%) McAfee
4 3 (23.08%) Sophos
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco
5 2 (15.38%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 2 (15.38%) TIBCO
5 2 (15.38%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle
6 1 (7.692%) Juniper
6 1 (7.692%) Cognizant
6 1 (7.692%) HP
6 1 (7.692%) EMC