Kent LDAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LDAP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Devon Docklands, London Dorset East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Prescot Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£394
% change on same period last year	-5.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.00	£35.46
% change on same period last year	-9.76 %
Communications & Networking Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	84	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.117 %
Daily rates quoted	16	17
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£231
Average daily rate	£370	£245
% change on same period last year	+51.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£259
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.61	£20.04
Average hourly rate	£23.80	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+12.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£22.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
LDAP South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LDAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LDAP across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LDAP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (72.73 %) UNIX 1 8 (72.73 %) Solaris 1 8 (72.73 %) Linux 1 8 (72.73 %) Kerberos 1 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory 2 7 (63.64 %) Migration 3 6 (54.55 %) Change Management 3 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft 4 3 (27.27 %) Sun 5 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical

LDAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Communications & Networking 1 8 (72.73 %) Kerberos	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 5 (45.45 %) Administrator 1 5 (45.45 %) UNIX Administrator 2 4 (36.36 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 2 4 (36.36 %) Systems Administrator 3 3 (27.27 %) Consultant 3 3 (27.27 %) UNIX Engineer 3 3 (27.27 %) Sun Consultant	Operating Systems 1 8 (72.73 %) UNIX 1 8 (72.73 %) Solaris 1 8 (72.73 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (63.64 %) Migration 2 6 (54.55 %) Change Management	System Software 1 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft 2 3 (27.27 %) Sun