LDAP Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LDAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LDAP over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	352	279	355
Rank change year-on-year	-73	+76
Contract jobs citing LDAP	263	429	298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.61%	0.87%	0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	4.40%	5.44%	4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	154	289	176
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£325	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£390	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.41%	+4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	7	0
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£52.00	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-23.07%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£52.00	£29.17
% change year-on-year	-	+78.26%

LDAP is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	5971	7879	7392
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	13.81%	15.89%	14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	3552	4865	4238
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£218	£240	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	352	364	431
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£28.00	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.21%	+22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£31.50	£24.00
% change year-on-year	-4.76%	+31.25%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing LDAP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing LDAP in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing LDAP in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-73	131	£525	+10.52%	25
South East	-43	47	£350	-4.10%	5
West Midlands	+42	24	£490	+63.33%
East of England	+8	20	£434	-9.68%	4
South West	+4	12	£388	-1.27%	2
Yorkshire	+27	10	£360	-10.00%	1
North West	+14	10	£350	-16.66%	1
North East	+43	6	£445	+22.67%	2
South Coast	-	2	-	-
East Midlands	-6	1	-	-	1
LDAP UK

LDAP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing LDAP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for LDAP.

1	281 (52.72%)	Linux
2	176 (33.02%)	Active Directory
3	167 (31.33%)	Windows
4	155 (29.08%)	Java
5	140 (26.27%)	Oracle
6	137 (25.70%)	Unix
7	120 (22.51%)	VMware
7	120 (22.51%)	Agile Software Development
8	116 (21.76%)	DevOps
9	112 (21.01%)	SQL
10	102 (19.14%)	DNS
11	100 (18.76%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	97 (18.20%)	Finance
13	95 (17.82%)	Red Hat
14	94 (17.64%)	Web Services

15	89 (16.70%)	Firewall
15	89 (16.70%)	Security Cleared
16	87 (16.32%)	Git (software)
16	87 (16.32%)	Bash Shell
17	83 (15.57%)	SC Cleared
18	82 (15.38%)	Jenkins
19	77 (14.45%)	SQL Server
20	76 (14.26%)	Perl
20	76 (14.26%)	XML
21	75 (14.07%)	CentOS
22	74 (13.88%)	Puppet
22	74 (13.88%)	Microsoft
23	73 (13.70%)	Python
24	72 (13.51%)	ITIL
25	71 (13.32%)	HTML

LDAP
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	50 (9.38%)	Apache
1	50 (9.38%)	Tomcat
2	44 (8.26%)	JBoss
3	31 (5.82%)	SharePoint
4	29 (5.44%)	IIS
4	29 (5.44%)	WebLogic
5	21 (3.94%)	Confluence
6	17 (3.19%)	WebSphere
7	16 (3.00%)	OpenStack
8	13 (2.44%)	Liferay
8	13 (2.44%)	MS Exchange
9	11 (2.06%)	BizTalk Server
10	10 (1.88%)	Apache Solr
10	10 (1.88%)	Elasticsearch
10	10 (1.88%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	9 (1.69%)	WebSphere Application Server
11	9 (1.69%)	WildFly
12	8 (1.50%)	MQSeries
13	7 (1.31%)	Skype for Business
14	5 (0.94%)	Apache Spark

Applications
1	10 (1.88%)	Microsoft Office
2	5 (0.94%)	Microsoft Project
3	4 (0.75%)	Microsoft Excel
4	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.19%)	InfoPath
5	1 (0.19%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	9 (1.69%)	Oracle Utilities
2	5 (0.94%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2	5 (0.94%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.75%)	Remedy ITSM
4	3 (0.56%)	Staffware
5	1 (0.19%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
5	1 (0.19%)	Misys Midas
5	1 (0.19%)	Oracle BPM
5	1 (0.19%)	Remedy AR System
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP GRC
5	1 (0.19%)	Sentinel
5	1 (0.19%)	Temenos T24

Cloud Services
1	31 (5.82%)	Amazon AWS
2	22 (4.13%)	SaaS
3	15 (2.81%)	Microsoft Azure
4	14 (2.63%)	PaaS
5	12 (2.25%)	IaaS
6	10 (1.88%)	OpenShift
7	9 (1.69%)	Office 365
8	5 (0.94%)	Cloud Computing
9	4 (0.75%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	3 (0.56%)	G Suite
10	3 (0.56%)	Mimecast
11	2 (0.38%)	AWS CloudFormation
12	1 (0.19%)	Amazon EC2
12	1 (0.19%)	Amazon ELB
12	1 (0.19%)	Amazon S3
12	1 (0.19%)	AWS Lambda
12	1 (0.19%)	Azure Active Directory
12	1 (0.19%)	GitHub
12	1 (0.19%)	Route 53
12	1 (0.19%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	102 (19.14%)	DNS
2	89 (16.70%)	Firewall
3	66 (12.38%)	HTTP
4	49 (9.19%)	Kerberos
5	48 (9.01%)	SSL
6	42 (7.88%)	SAN
7	37 (6.94%)	TCP/IP
8	34 (6.38%)	DHCP
9	31 (5.82%)	SMTP
10	30 (5.63%)	VPN
11	22 (4.13%)	WAN
12	21 (3.94%)	LAN
12	21 (3.94%)	NAS
12	21 (3.94%)	SSH
13	20 (3.75%)	Network Security
14	19 (3.56%)	Internet
15	16 (3.00%)	Diameter Protocol
16	15 (2.81%)	VLAN
17	14 (2.63%)	IMAP
18	13 (2.44%)	X.509

Database & Business Intelligence
1	77 (14.45%)	SQL Server
2	71 (13.32%)	MySQL
3	34 (6.38%)	Relational Database
4	30 (5.63%)	Hadoop
5	25 (4.69%)	Oracle Database
6	24 (4.50%)	Big Data
6	24 (4.50%)	MariaDB
7	16 (3.00%)	PostgreSQL
8	15 (2.81%)	DB2
9	13 (2.44%)	Oracle Database 11g
10	11 (2.06%)	MongoDB
11	10 (1.88%)	Apache Hive
12	9 (1.69%)	HBase
12	9 (1.69%)	SQL Server 2012
13	8 (1.50%)	Apache Cassandra
13	8 (1.50%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	7 (1.31%)	Impala
15	6 (1.13%)	Data Warehouse
15	6 (1.13%)	Oracle Reports
16	5 (0.94%)	Oracle Database 10g

Development Applications
1	87 (16.32%)	Git (software)
2	82 (15.38%)	Jenkins
3	38 (7.13%)	JIRA
4	28 (5.25%)	Maven
5	22 (4.13%)	JUnit
6	18 (3.38%)	Mockito
7	15 (2.81%)	Selenium
7	15 (2.81%)	Vagrant
8	13 (2.44%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	12 (2.25%)	Bitbucket
10	11 (2.06%)	Visual Studio
11	10 (1.88%)	Artifactory
11	10 (1.88%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	10 (1.88%)	TeamCity
12	9 (1.69%)	AppScan
13	7 (1.31%)	Fiddler
13	7 (1.31%)	Hudson
13	7 (1.31%)	JMeter
13	7 (1.31%)	Log4j
13	7 (1.31%)	Team Foundation Server

General
1	97 (18.20%)	Finance
2	41 (7.69%)	Banking
3	22 (4.13%)	Telecoms
4	11 (2.06%)	Back Office
5	7 (1.31%)	Legal
5	7 (1.31%)	Retail
6	6 (1.13%)	Manufacturing
7	5 (0.94%)	Investment Banking
8	4 (0.75%)	Electronics
8	4 (0.75%)	Local Government
8	4 (0.75%)	Marketing
9	2 (0.38%)	Advertising
9	2 (0.38%)	Publishing
9	2 (0.38%)	Retail Banking
10	1 (0.19%)	Financial Institution
10	1 (0.19%)	French Language
10	1 (0.19%)	Front Office

Job Titles
1	78 (14.63%)	Developer
2	76 (14.26%)	Architect
3	69 (12.95%)	Administrator
4	60 (11.26%)	Consultant
5	54 (10.13%)	DevOps Engineer
6	51 (9.57%)	Analyst
7	49 (9.19%)	Linux Administrator
8	44 (8.26%)	Linux Engineer
9	34 (6.38%)	Linux Systems Administrator
10	33 (6.19%)	Systems Administrator
11	30 (5.63%)	Java Developer
12	21 (3.94%)	Security Consultant
13	18 (3.38%)	ServiceNow Developer
14	16 (3.00%)	AWS DevOps
14	16 (3.00%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
14	16 (3.00%)	AWS Engineer
14	16 (3.00%)	Java Engineer
14	16 (3.00%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
14	16 (3.00%)	Systems Engineer
15	15 (2.81%)	Linux Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	94 (17.64%)	Web Services
2	76 (14.26%)	XML
3	71 (13.32%)	HTML
4	65 (12.20%)	REST
5	58 (10.88%)	SOAP
6	42 (7.88%)	Spring
7	41 (7.69%)	SAML
8	39 (7.32%)	CSS
9	33 (6.19%)	.NET
10	27 (5.07%)	Hibernate
10	27 (5.07%)	Middleware
11	25 (4.69%)	Spring MVC
12	22 (4.13%)	Elastic Stack
13	21 (3.94%)	J2EE
13	21 (3.94%)	Kafka
14	20 (3.75%)	JAAS
14	20 (3.75%)	RESTful
15	19 (3.56%)	JAXB
15	19 (3.56%)	OAuth
15	19 (3.56%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	57 (10.69%)	Data Centre
2	36 (6.75%)	Clustering
3	24 (4.50%)	Enterprise Software
3	24 (4.50%)	Linux Command Line
4	22 (4.13%)	Analytical Skills
4	22 (4.13%)	Computer Science
5	20 (3.75%)	PKI
6	18 (3.38%)	Management Information System
7	17 (3.19%)	Client/Server
7	17 (3.19%)	Replication
8	14 (2.63%)	Private Cloud
9	12 (2.25%)	YubiKey
10	8 (1.50%)	Enterprise Storage
10	8 (1.50%)	Mainframe
10	8 (1.50%)	User Experience
11	7 (1.31%)	CMDB
12	6 (1.13%)	Derivative
12	6 (1.13%)	Spread Betting
13	5 (0.94%)	Grid Computing
14	4 (0.75%)	RSA SecurID

Operating Systems
1	281 (52.72%)	Linux
2	167 (31.33%)	Windows
3	137 (25.70%)	Unix
4	100 (18.76%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	75 (14.07%)	CentOS
6	51 (9.57%)	Windows Server
7	49 (9.19%)	Solaris
8	34 (6.38%)	Ubuntu
9	33 (6.19%)	AIX
9	33 (6.19%)	Windows Server 2012
10	29 (5.44%)	Windows Server 2008
11	17 (3.19%)	Mac OS X
12	13 (2.44%)	Windows Server 2003
13	12 (2.25%)	SUSE
14	11 (2.06%)	Data ONTAP
15	10 (1.88%)	HPUX
16	6 (1.13%)	Fedora
16	6 (1.13%)	Oracle Linux
17	5 (0.94%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17	5 (0.94%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	120 (22.51%)	Agile Software Development
2	116 (21.76%)	DevOps
3	72 (13.51%)	ITIL
4	67 (12.57%)	Configuration Management
4	67 (12.57%)	Continuous Integration
5	52 (9.76%)	Test Automation
6	51 (9.57%)	Workflow
7	47 (8.82%)	Migration
8	43 (8.07%)	Identity Management
9	42 (7.88%)	Scrum
10	39 (7.32%)	Change Management
11	37 (6.94%)	Open Source
12	36 (6.75%)	Identity Access Management
13	35 (6.57%)	Continuous Delivery
14	31 (5.82%)	Load Balancing
15	30 (5.63%)	MVC
15	30 (5.63%)	Service Management
15	30 (5.63%)	TDD
16	25 (4.69%)	ITSM
17	24 (4.50%)	OO

Programming Languages
1	155 (29.08%)	Java
2	112 (21.01%)	SQL
3	87 (16.32%)	Bash Shell
4	76 (14.26%)	Perl
5	73 (13.70%)	Python
6	69 (12.95%)	JavaScript
7	55 (10.32%)	Shell Script
8	51 (9.57%)	PowerShell
9	33 (6.19%)	Ruby
10	26 (4.88%)	PL/SQL
11	23 (4.32%)	PHP
12	17 (3.19%)	C#
13	15 (2.81%)	Groovy
13	15 (2.81%)	Korn
14	10 (1.88%)	C
15	8 (1.50%)	VB
16	5 (0.94%)	C++
16	5 (0.94%)	F#
16	5 (0.94%)	VB.NET
17	3 (0.56%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	89 (16.70%)	Security Cleared
2	83 (15.57%)	SC Cleared
3	32 (6.00%)	Degree
4	11 (2.06%)	Computer Science Degree
4	11 (2.06%)	ISEB
5	9 (1.69%)	CISSP
6	6 (1.13%)	ITIL Certification
7	5 (0.94%)	JNCIA
7	5 (0.94%)	JNCIS
8	4 (0.75%)	CISA
8	4 (0.75%)	ISTQB
8	4 (0.75%)	RHCSA
9	3 (0.56%)	APMG
9	3 (0.56%)	GCIH
9	3 (0.56%)	GIAC
9	3 (0.56%)	RHCE
10	2 (0.38%)	DV Cleared
10	2 (0.38%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
10	2 (0.38%)	RHCSS
10	2 (0.38%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	19 (3.56%)	QA
2	8 (1.50%)	ISO/IEC 20000
3	6 (1.13%)	JSP 440
3	6 (1.13%)	PCI DSS
3	6 (1.13%)	SLA
4	5 (0.94%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	4 (0.75%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	1 (0.19%)	FATCA

System Software
1	176 (33.02%)	Active Directory
2	71 (13.32%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	53 (9.94%)	VMware ESXi
4	25 (4.69%)	Docker
4	25 (4.69%)	KVM
5	23 (4.32%)	NFS
6	20 (3.75%)	Virtual Machines
7	18 (3.38%)	vCloud
8	15 (2.81%)	Hyper-V
8	15 (2.81%)	Oracle RAC
9	11 (2.06%)	XenApp
10	10 (1.88%)	HDFS
11	9 (1.69%)	iptables
11	9 (1.69%)	Veritas Volume Manager
12	8 (1.50%)	vSphere
13	7 (1.31%)	Apache ZooKeeper
14	6 (1.13%)	Veritas Cluster Server
15	5 (0.94%)	Postfix
15	5 (0.94%)	Shibboleth
15	5 (0.94%)	Varnish

Systems Management
1	74 (13.88%)	Puppet
2	60 (11.26%)	Ansible
3	28 (5.25%)	Opscode Chef
4	24 (4.50%)	NetBackup
5	22 (4.13%)	Nagios
6	20 (3.75%)	yum
7	17 (3.19%)	Kubernetes
8	15 (2.81%)	OpenAM
8	15 (2.81%)	ZABBIX
9	14 (2.63%)	vRealize
10	12 (2.25%)	Red Hat Satellite
10	12 (2.25%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
11	11 (2.06%)	OpenIDM
11	11 (2.06%)	SCCM
12	9 (1.69%)	Terraform
12	9 (1.69%)	Tivoli
13	8 (1.50%)	Grafana
13	8 (1.50%)	Hadoop YARN
13	8 (1.50%)	Norton AntiVirus
13	8 (1.50%)	Oracle Identity Management

Vendors
1	140 (26.27%)	Oracle
2	120 (22.51%)	VMware
3	95 (17.82%)	Red Hat
4	74 (13.88%)	Microsoft
5	55 (10.32%)	Cisco
5	55 (10.32%)	IBM
6	47 (8.82%)	HP
7	43 (8.07%)	ServiceNow
8	32 (6.00%)	Citrix
9	29 (5.44%)	NetApp
10	28 (5.25%)	Veritas
11	26 (4.88%)	Sun
12	25 (4.69%)	F5
13	24 (4.50%)	Dell
13	24 (4.50%)	McAfee
14	19 (3.56%)	Symantec
15	18 (3.38%)	Juniper
16	15 (2.81%)	Atlassian
16	15 (2.81%)	EMC
17	14 (2.63%)	Cloudera