The first table below looks at the demand for LDAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LDAP over the 3 months to 22 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 Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Rank 51 53 47
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -6
Contract jobs citing LDAP 3 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.571% 1.119% 1.340%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.882% 6.838% 8.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £363
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.63 £45.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-9.72% +34.32%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
51 117 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 9.714% 16.36% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 45
Average daily rate £425 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £173 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 13
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -35.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
LDAP
Buckinghamshire

LDAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes LDAP Hourly Rate Trend

LDAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) DTS
1 2 (33.33%) CTI
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (33.33%) Spanish Language
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
1 2 (33.33%) Verint
2 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall

LDAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
1 2 (33.33%) CTI
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DTS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Deployment Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
1 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (16.67%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Verint
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix