NDS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NDS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NDS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £400 -
% change year-on-year +31.25% - -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,973 2,246 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.78% 12.52% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,501 2,138
10th Percentile £200 £190 £172
25th Percentile £305 £340 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 92 206
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.07 £14.77
25th Percentile £17.38 £15.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.91% -31.25% +100.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £65.23 £69.62
90th Percentile £91.50 £79.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.27% -51.00% +127.27%

NDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NDS in the UK excluding London

NDS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NDS

NDS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NDS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NDS

NDS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NDS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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 the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle