The first table below looks at the demand for NDS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Novell Directory Services (NDS)
Rank 850 859 865
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +6
Permanent jobs citing NDS 10 28 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.009% 0.023% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.096% 0.266% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 8 27 6
Average salary £38,750 £45,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.83% -13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £38,750 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year
-22.50% -
All System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10442 10528 9231
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 9.612% 8.688% 7.565%
Number of salaries quoted 8804 9065 7576
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%

NDS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

NDS Jobs Demand Trend

NDS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing NDS within the UK.

NDS Salary Trend

NDS
Salary Histogram

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

NDS Salary Histogram

NDS
Top 8 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 UK 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
England -7 8 £40,000 -12.08%
London +21 4 £44,250 +4.11%
South East -4 4 £40,000 -20.00%
Staines +26 2 £40,000 -20.00%
Surrey +11 2 £40,000 -20.00%
Berkshire +10 2 - -
Reading +1 1 - -
City of London -5 1 £51,500 +21.17%

NDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 17 (53.13%) UNIX
2 16 (50.00%) Linux
3 15 (46.88%) Degree
4 14 (43.75%) SQL
5 12 (37.50%) Windows
6 11 (34.38%) SS7
6 11 (34.38%) TIBCO
6 11 (34.38%) GSM
6 11 (34.38%) UMTS
6 11 (34.38%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 10 (31.25%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 9 (28.13%) Telecoms
8 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
8 9 (28.13%) Computer Science
9 8 (25.00%) HND
10 7 (21.88%) Oracle
10 7 (21.88%) CA
10 7 (21.88%) Novell
10 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
11 6 (18.75%) STB
11 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
11 6 (18.75%) VB
12 5 (15.63%) .NET
12 5 (15.63%) HTML
12 5 (15.63%) SAP
12 5 (15.63%) ASP
12 5 (15.63%) XML
12 5 (15.63%) XSLT
12 5 (15.63%) Perl
12 5 (15.63%) MCSE

NDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 Development
1 5 (15.63%) .NET
1 5 (15.63%) HTML
1 5 (15.63%) ASP
1 5 (15.63%) XML
1 5 (15.63%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (6.250%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (6.250%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) SS7
1 11 (34.38%) GSM
1 11 (34.38%) UMTS
2 5 (15.63%) LDAP
3 4 (12.50%) DVB
4 3 (9.375%) SAN
5 2 (6.250%) NAS
5 2 (6.250%) Network Security
5 2 (6.250%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.250%) IP Telephony
5 2 (6.250%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (6.250%) VPN
5 2 (6.250%) DNS
5 2 (6.250%) SMTP
5 2 (6.250%) DHCP
5 2 (6.250%) ADSL
5 2 (6.250%) WAN
5 2 (6.250%) LAN
5 2 (6.250%) Firewall
6 1 (3.125%) HTTP
General
1 9 (28.13%) Telecoms
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (3.125%) Law
4 1 (3.125%) Legal
4 1 (3.125%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Junior
4 2 (6.250%) Trainee
4 2 (6.250%) Systems Support Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.250%) Graduate Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Graduate
4 2 (6.250%) Systems Support
5 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.125%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Professional Services Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Network Support
5 1 (3.125%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Computer Science
2 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
3 6 (18.75%) STB
4 5 (15.63%) Mainframe
5 3 (9.375%) Smartcard
5 3 (9.375%) Video on Demand
5 3 (9.375%) CESG
6 2 (6.250%) IPTV
6 2 (6.250%) Digital Media
6 2 (6.250%) MPEG
7 1 (3.125%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) UNIX
2 16 (50.00%) Linux
3 12 (37.50%) Windows
4 5 (15.63%) OS/400
4 5 (15.63%) HPUX
4 5 (15.63%) OS/390
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (9.375%) VMS
7 2 (6.250%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.63%) Change Management
1 5 (15.63%) Identity Management
1 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
1 5 (15.63%) Information Security
2 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 4 (12.50%) Product Marketing
3 3 (9.375%) Security Testing
4 2 (6.250%) Data Management
4 2 (6.250%) Business Continuity
4 2 (6.250%) Network Management
4 2 (6.250%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.125%) Password Management
5 1 (3.125%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.125%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) VB
3 5 (15.63%) Perl
4 2 (6.250%) Java
5 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Degree
2 8 (25.00%) HND
3 5 (15.63%) MCSE
3 5 (15.63%) CISSP
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.375%) HNC
4 3 (9.375%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.375%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) TIBCO
1 11 (34.38%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 10 (31.25%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 7 (21.88%) Oracle
3 7 (21.88%) CA
3 7 (21.88%) Novell
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 5 (15.63%) SAP
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco
5 5 (15.63%) Tandberg
6 4 (12.50%) VMware
7 2 (6.250%) Brocade
7 2 (6.250%) Juniper
7 2 (6.250%) Hitachi
7 2 (6.250%) EMC
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