The first table below looks at the demand for NDS skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NDS over the 3 months to 21 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 System Software category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell Directory Services (NDS)
Rank 603 624 618
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Permanent jobs citing NDS 4 14 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.026% 0.011%
As % of the System Software category 0.098% 0.313% 0.160%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 6
Average salary £44,250 £42,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.11% -19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £38,750 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year
-22.50% -
All System Software
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4063 4480 3753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 9.241% 8.317% 6.599%
Number of salaries quoted 3475 3937 3066
Average salary £46,500 £45,000 £43,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% +4.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £29,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
NDS
England

NDS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing NDS across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

London NDS Jobs Demand Trend

NDS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing NDS across the London region.

London NDS Salary Trend

NDS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NDS across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London NDS Salary Histogram

NDS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NDS within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -5 1 £51,500 +21.17%
NDS
England

NDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing NDS 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NDS.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) EMC
4 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 2 (33.33%) Hitachi
4 2 (33.33%) Novell
4 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
4 2 (33.33%) ADSL
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) SMTP
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) NetWare
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

NDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing NDS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited NDS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) ADSL
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
3 1 (16.67%) DVB
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) STB
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Video on Demand
2 1 (16.67%) MPEG
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) NetWare
5 1 (16.67%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Network Management
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) HND
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Hitachi
2 2 (33.33%) Novell
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Tandberg
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) CA