The first table below looks at the demand for LDAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LDAP over the 3 months to 19 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 Communications & Networking category for the North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Rank 99 82 116
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +34
Contract jobs citing LDAP 18 53 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.754% 1.745% 0.298%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.696% 10.45% 1.811%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
Average daily rate £228 £301 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.29% +11.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £295 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £353 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year
-47.22% -
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
316 507 497
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 13.24% 16.69% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 182 250
Average daily rate £303 £318 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.56% -2.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £199 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 42 47
Average hourly rate £29.50 £22.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.09% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £31.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
LDAP
England

LDAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West LDAP Hourly Rate Trend

LDAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 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
Manchester -18 11 - -
Cheshire -11 5 £228 -24.29% 1
LDAP
England

LDAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 20 (55.56%) UNIX
2 17 (47.22%) Linux
3 15 (41.67%) IBM
4 14 (38.89%) Windows
4 14 (38.89%) Active Directory
5 12 (33.33%) C
5 12 (33.33%) Perl
5 12 (33.33%) Oracle
5 12 (33.33%) Ruby
6 11 (30.56%) Banking
6 11 (30.56%) Apache
6 11 (30.56%) Middleware
7 10 (27.78%) Red Hat
7 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
8 9 (25.00%) MS Visio
8 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 9 (25.00%) Netcool
8 9 (25.00%) Nagios
8 9 (25.00%) Change Management
8 9 (25.00%) Wiki
8 9 (25.00%) Puppet
9 8 (22.22%) Telecoms
9 8 (22.22%) Finance
9 8 (22.22%) Mainframe
9 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
10 7 (19.44%) SQL
10 7 (19.44%) Tivoli
11 6 (16.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 6 (16.67%) Project Management
11 6 (16.67%) Identity Management

LDAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 11 (30.56%) Middleware
2 3 (8.333%) HTML
2 3 (8.333%) CSS
2 3 (8.333%) XML
2 3 (8.333%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 3 (8.333%) SPNEGO
2 3 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (8.333%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.778%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 11 (30.56%) Apache
2 3 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (8.333%) Tomcat
2 3 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Network Security
2 3 (8.333%) SSL
2 3 (8.333%) SMS
2 3 (8.333%) Kerberos
2 3 (8.333%) DNS
2 3 (8.333%) Firewall
2 3 (8.333%) X.509
2 3 (8.333%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.778%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.778%) DB2
2 1 (2.778%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Cucumber
1 3 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 11 (30.56%) Banking
2 8 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (8.333%) Retail
4 1 (2.778%) French Language
4 1 (2.778%) German Language
4 1 (2.778%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.778%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (2.778%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Systems Support
1 9 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 3 (8.333%) Architect
3 2 (5.556%) Business Architect
3 2 (5.556%) Designer
3 2 (5.556%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.556%) Analyst
3 2 (5.556%) Technical Architect
3 2 (5.556%) Consultant
3 2 (5.556%) Programmer
4 1 (2.778%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (2.778%) Administrator
4 1 (2.778%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (2.778%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (2.778%) Business Analyst
4 1 (2.778%) Developer
4 1 (2.778%) Coordinator
4 1 (2.778%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Wiki
2 8 (22.22%) Mainframe
3 3 (8.333%) PMI
4 1 (2.778%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (55.56%) UNIX
2 17 (47.22%) Linux
3 14 (38.89%) Windows
4 5 (13.89%) Solaris
4 5 (13.89%) AIX
5 4 (11.11%) HPUX
6 2 (5.556%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.556%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Change Management
2 6 (16.67%) Project Management
2 6 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 5 (13.89%) ITIL
3 5 (13.89%) Migration
3 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.333%) PRINCE2
4 3 (8.333%) MVC
4 3 (8.333%) Risk Management
4 3 (8.333%) Information Security
4 3 (8.333%) Business Analysis
4 3 (8.333%) Project Planning
5 2 (5.556%) Performance Management
5 2 (5.556%) UML
6 1 (2.778%) Security Testing
6 1 (2.778%) OWASP
6 1 (2.778%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C
1 12 (33.33%) Perl
1 12 (33.33%) Ruby
2 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.333%) Java
5 3 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.333%) CISSP
1 3 (8.333%) PMI Certification
1 3 (8.333%) GIAC
1 3 (8.333%) CISA
2 2 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.556%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.778%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.556%) Shibboleth
3 1 (2.778%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (2.778%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Netcool
1 9 (25.00%) Nagios
1 9 (25.00%) Puppet
2 7 (19.44%) Tivoli
3 6 (16.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (8.333%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 2 (5.556%) SCCM
5 2 (5.556%) SCOM
5 2 (5.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) IBM
2 12 (33.33%) Oracle
3 10 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.778%) Sun
5 1 (2.778%) Veritas
5 1 (2.778%) Dell
Knutsford, Cheshire
Knowledge & Expertise: Knowledge: Possesses general understanding of infrastructure platforms (Mainframe, Unix, Windows etc), storage and networks. Familiarity with ITIL concepts and processes... Proven project and change management skills...
Networking People
Posted: 13 June 2013
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