The first table below looks at the demand for LDAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LDAP over the 3 months to 17 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Rank 16 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing LDAP 10 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.757% 2.326% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.04% 10.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
Average daily rate £261 £260 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.48% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
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
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
27 59 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.24% 22.87% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 8
Average daily rate £300 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £180 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £456 £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £13.50 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
LDAP
Tyne and Wear

LDAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne LDAP Hourly Rate Trend

LDAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 11 (78.57%) Linux
3 8 (57.14%) UNIX
4 7 (50.00%) DNS
4 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (42.86%) WebSphere
5 6 (42.86%) Change Control
5 6 (42.86%) CentOS
5 6 (42.86%) SSL
5 6 (42.86%) IBM
5 6 (42.86%) Sun
5 6 (42.86%) Informatica
5 6 (42.86%) Business Objects
5 6 (42.86%) Perl
5 6 (42.86%) SQL
5 6 (42.86%) MySQL
5 6 (42.86%) AIX
5 6 (42.86%) Apache
5 6 (42.86%) FileNet
5 6 (42.86%) Workflow
5 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
6 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (35.71%) Firewall
6 5 (35.71%) Citrix
7 4 (28.57%) SAN
7 4 (28.57%) VPN
7 4 (28.57%) Cisco
7 4 (28.57%) DHCP
7 4 (28.57%) Solaris
8 3 (21.43%) Identity Management

LDAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (42.86%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Apache
1 6 (42.86%) FileNet
2 2 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (14.29%) WebLogic
3 1 (7.143%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
3 1 (7.143%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) SSL
3 5 (35.71%) Firewall
4 4 (28.57%) SAN
4 4 (28.57%) DHCP
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) OSPF
6 2 (14.29%) BGP
6 2 (14.29%) SMTP
6 2 (14.29%) FTP
6 2 (14.29%) SNMP
7 1 (7.143%) Internet
7 1 (7.143%) Wireless
7 1 (7.143%) IPsec
7 1 (7.143%) VLAN
7 1 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (7.143%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Build Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Server Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Network Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Network Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) UNIX
3 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (42.86%) CentOS
4 6 (42.86%) AIX
5 4 (28.57%) Solaris
6 2 (14.29%) Windows
7 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
1 6 (42.86%) Workflow
1 6 (42.86%) Change Control
2 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.143%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Perl
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) XenServer
2 2 (14.29%) SRDF
3 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 6 (42.86%) Informatica
2 6 (42.86%) Business Objects
2 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 6 (42.86%) Sun
3 5 (35.71%) Citrix
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco
5 3 (21.43%) JBoss
5 3 (21.43%) Siebel
5 3 (21.43%) HP
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) RightFax
6 2 (14.29%) Novell
6 2 (14.29%) McAfee
7 1 (7.143%) VMware
7 1 (7.143%) Axway
7 1 (7.143%) Oracle