NDS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring NDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NDS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.014% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.84 - -
England median hourly rate £25.84 - -

All System Software Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 884 513 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.24% 13.14% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 332 333
10th Percentile £193 £200 £190
25th Percentile £350 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -5.89% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £586
90th Percentile £638 £612 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 33
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £27.33 £76.25 £14.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.50 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +464.10% -23.03%
75th Percentile £83.38 £88.75 £19.18
90th Percentile £178.75 - £27.40
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £22.28
% change year-on-year +54.61% +59.70% -44.31%

NDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

NDS job vacancy trend in the North of England

NDS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NDS

NDS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NDS

NDS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 1 - -
NDS
England

NDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ECDL
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware