NDS Contract Job Trends in England

NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring NDS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 527 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Contract jobs citing NDS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.007% 0.003% -
As % of the System Software category 0.059% 0.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £400 -
% change year-on-year +31.25% - -

All System Software Skills
England

NDS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,382 3,850 5,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.69% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,584 3,763
10th Percentile £214 £218 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £693 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 101 245
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%

NDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NDS in England

NDS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NDS

NDS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NDS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NDS

NDS
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 NDS within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 1 £500 -
NDS
UK

NDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) OpenText