The first table below looks at the demand for LDAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LDAP 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 Communications & Networking category for the South East 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
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Rank 168 179 191
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +12
Contract jobs citing LDAP 49 63 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.602% 0.641% 0.539%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.109% 2.977% 2.973%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 24
Average daily rate £375 £330 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £200 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 £45.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.22% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year
-47.22% -
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1576 2116 1917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.37% 21.53% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 608 650
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 173 253
Average hourly rate £25.25 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.30% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £14.58 £13.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
LDAP
England

LDAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East LDAP Daily Rate Trend

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LDAP across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South East LDAP Daily Rate Histogram

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East 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 South East 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
Hampshire -2 19 £375 -10.71% 3
Berkshire +9 17 £350 +16.66% 4
Oxfordshire -2 7 £305 +1.66%
Surrey +16 3 £450 - 2
Middlesex +7 2 £444 -
West Sussex +14 1 £350 +7.69% 2
Buckinghamshire -16 1 - -
Kent - - - -
LDAP
England

LDAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 36 (50.00%) SQL
2 35 (48.61%) Windows
3 32 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
5 26 (36.11%) Oracle
6 25 (34.72%) Java
6 25 (34.72%) SC Cleared
7 24 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 23 (31.94%) SAN
8 23 (31.94%) Apache
9 21 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
10 20 (27.78%) Linux
10 20 (27.78%) VMware
11 18 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 17 (23.61%) Perl
13 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
13 16 (22.22%) Tomcat
13 16 (22.22%) MS Excel
13 16 (22.22%) UNIX
13 16 (22.22%) LAN
13 16 (22.22%) WAN
14 15 (20.83%) SharePoint
14 15 (20.83%) DTS
15 14 (19.44%) .NET
15 14 (19.44%) C#
15 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET
15 14 (19.44%) SSL
16 13 (18.06%) MS Office
16 13 (18.06%) Visual Studio
16 13 (18.06%) T-SQL

LDAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 14 (19.44%) .NET
1 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET
2 13 (18.06%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 12 (16.67%) Web Services
3 12 (16.67%) XML
3 12 (16.67%) SAML
4 9 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 6 (8.333%) OC4J
5 6 (8.333%) Java EE
6 4 (5.556%) WebSphere
6 4 (5.556%) JDBC
7 2 (2.778%) Middleware
7 2 (2.778%) SOAP
7 2 (2.778%) COM
8 1 (1.389%) CSS
8 1 (1.389%) XSLT
8 1 (1.389%) ODBC
8 1 (1.389%) EDI
8 1 (1.389%) JMS
8 1 (1.389%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 23 (31.94%) Apache
2 16 (22.22%) Tomcat
3 15 (20.83%) SharePoint
4 13 (18.06%) SharePoint Server
5 11 (15.28%) GlassFish
6 7 (9.722%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 6 (8.333%) CM System
7 6 (8.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (8.333%) MS Project Server
7 6 (8.333%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (5.556%) Liferay
8 4 (5.556%) IIS
9 3 (4.167%) MS Exchange
9 3 (4.167%) Lync
10 2 (2.778%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (1.389%) IBM Notes
11 1 (1.389%) Lotus Domino
11 1 (1.389%) NetWeaver
11 1 (1.389%) QuickPlace
11 1 (1.389%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 16 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 13 (18.06%) MS Office
3 6 (8.333%) MS Project
4 1 (1.389%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.389%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.94%) SAN
2 16 (22.22%) LAN
2 16 (22.22%) WAN
3 14 (19.44%) SSL
4 12 (16.67%) IPsec
4 12 (16.67%) HTTP
5 11 (15.28%) TCP/IP
6 9 (12.50%) SNMP
6 9 (12.50%) NAS
7 8 (11.11%) DNS
7 8 (11.11%) DHCP
8 7 (9.722%) Internet
9 5 (6.944%) SMTP
9 5 (6.944%) tcpdump
10 4 (5.556%) iSCSI
10 4 (5.556%) Firewall
10 4 (5.556%) TELNET
11 3 (4.167%) Kerberos
11 3 (4.167%) 3G
11 3 (4.167%) INAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.83%) DTS
3 13 (18.06%) OLAP
3 13 (18.06%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (15.28%) IDOL
5 6 (8.333%) InterSystems Cache
5 6 (8.333%) Oracle Discoverer
5 6 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (5.556%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.556%) MySQL
7 3 (4.167%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.389%) DB2
8 1 (1.389%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (1.389%) MS Access
8 1 (1.389%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.389%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.333%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (6.944%) PVCS
4 4 (5.556%) Git (software)
4 4 (5.556%) Hudson
4 4 (5.556%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.389%) Ant
5 1 (1.389%) JUnit
5 1 (1.389%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.389%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.389%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.389%) FxCop
5 1 (1.389%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.389%) NWDI
5 1 (1.389%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (6.944%) Telecoms
1 5 (6.944%) Banking
2 4 (5.556%) Billing
3 3 (4.167%) Law
4 2 (2.778%) Spanish Language
4 2 (2.778%) Legal
5 1 (1.389%) Games
5 1 (1.389%) Finance
5 1 (1.389%) Military
5 1 (1.389%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Administrator
2 11 (15.28%) Developer
3 9 (12.50%) Architect
3 9 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
4 6 (8.333%) Team Leader
4 6 (8.333%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.944%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (5.556%) Technical Manager
6 4 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (5.556%) Analyst
6 4 (5.556%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.556%) Consultant
6 4 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.167%) Technical Project Manager
7 3 (4.167%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.167%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (4.167%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.167%) Development Team Leader
7 3 (4.167%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Open Source
2 7 (9.722%) Clustering
3 5 (6.944%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.556%) Cryptography
5 2 (2.778%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.778%) PKI
5 2 (2.778%) IVR
5 2 (2.778%) Replication
6 1 (1.389%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.389%) HACMP
6 1 (1.389%) Handset
6 1 (1.389%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (48.61%) Windows
2 21 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
3 20 (27.78%) Linux
4 16 (22.22%) UNIX
5 9 (12.50%) Solaris
6 5 (6.944%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (6.944%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.556%) Windows 7
8 3 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.778%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (2.778%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.389%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.06%) PRINCE2
1 13 (18.06%) Identity Management
2 10 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (12.50%) Web Development
4 8 (11.11%) Migration
5 7 (9.722%) Release Management
5 7 (9.722%) Test Automation
6 6 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (8.333%) SOA
7 5 (6.944%) Project Management
7 5 (6.944%) Workflow
7 5 (6.944%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (6.944%) Information Security
7 5 (6.944%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (6.944%) Load Balancing
8 4 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.556%) Memory Management
8 4 (5.556%) Unified Process
8 4 (5.556%) Risk Management
8 4 (5.556%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) SQL
2 25 (34.72%) Java
3 17 (23.61%) Perl
4 14 (19.44%) C#
5 13 (18.06%) T-SQL
6 12 (16.67%) PHP
7 5 (6.944%) Bash shell
8 4 (5.556%) sed
8 4 (5.556%) AWK
8 4 (5.556%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.389%) C
9 1 (1.389%) VBScript
9 1 (1.389%) VB
9 1 (1.389%) VBA
9 1 (1.389%) LotusScript
9 1 (1.389%) Korn
9 1 (1.389%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (12.50%) MCSD
5 3 (4.167%) MCSE
6 2 (2.778%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.778%) MCP
7 1 (1.389%) MCDBA
7 1 (1.389%) RHCE
7 1 (1.389%) Sun Certification
7 1 (1.389%) RHCT
7 1 (1.389%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.167%) SLA
2 1 (1.389%) QA
2 1 (1.389%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 18 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.333%) Shibboleth
3 6 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (5.556%) Postfix
4 4 (5.556%) Nmap
4 4 (5.556%) Squid
4 4 (5.556%) NFS
5 3 (4.167%) NLBS
6 2 (2.778%) XenApp
6 2 (2.778%) vSphere
6 2 (2.778%) Snort
6 2 (2.778%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.389%) Terminal Server
7 1 (1.389%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.389%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.389%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 5 (6.944%) Cisco UCCX
2 4 (5.556%) Puppet
2 4 (5.556%) Nagios
3 3 (4.167%) Netcool
4 2 (2.778%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (2.778%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.778%) MIIS
5 1 (1.389%) Cisco IPCC
5 1 (1.389%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 26 (36.11%) Oracle
3 20 (27.78%) VMware
4 12 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 11 (15.28%) Cisco
5 11 (15.28%) Meridio
6 10 (13.89%) JBoss
7 7 (9.722%) EMC
8 6 (8.333%) Juniper
9 5 (6.944%) SAP
10 4 (5.556%) NetApp
11 3 (4.167%) Citrix
11 3 (4.167%) Ericsson
12 2 (2.778%) Verint
12 2 (2.778%) Teradata
12 2 (2.778%) Remedy
12 2 (2.778%) HP
13 1 (1.389%) Business Objects
13 1 (1.389%) Sybase
13 1 (1.389%) Nortel
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