LDAP Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 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
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	341	285	357
Rank change year-on-year	-56	+72
Contract jobs citing LDAP	294	459	324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.62%	0.85%	0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	4.55%	5.28%	4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	181	299	190
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£409
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+3.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£306	£256
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£588	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£390	£370
% change year-on-year	+5.12%	+5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	7	1
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£52.00	£29.17
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-23.07%	+78.26%
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 with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	6455	8694	8061
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.70%	16.19%	14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted	10117	13736	12668
Median daily rate	£400	£388	£355
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.09%	+9.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£208	£228	£206
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£563	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£380	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+4.10%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1010	1069	1117
Median hourly rate	£28.27	£28.50	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-0.82%	+24.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.25	£12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£48.00	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.50	£31.50	£23.00
% change year-on-year	-12.69%	+36.95%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LDAP as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing LDAP over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the UK over the 3 months to 29 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
England	-69	263	£450	+5.88%	47
UK excluding London	+6	158	£410	+5.12%	19
London	-80	130	£525	+11.11%	29
South East	-41	47	£350	-4.10%	5
North of England	+26	26	£410	+2.50%	5
Midlands	+35	25	£490	+22.34%	2
East of England	+4	21	£422	-12.08%	4
Northern Ireland	-27	18	£463	-	1
South West	+1	12	£388	-1.27%	2
Scotland	+13	7	£450	+40.18%

LDAP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 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 with a requirement for LDAP.

1	308 (53.38%)	Linux
2	197 (34.14%)	Active Directory
3	181 (31.37%)	Windows
3	181 (31.37%)	Java
4	165 (28.60%)	Oracle
5	155 (26.86%)	Unix
6	138 (23.92%)	SQL
7	127 (22.01%)	Agile Software Development
7	127 (22.01%)	DevOps
8	124 (21.49%)	VMware
9	114 (19.76%)	Finance
10	107 (18.54%)	Jenkins
11	106 (18.37%)	DNS
12	105 (18.20%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13	98 (16.98%)	Web Services

13	98 (16.98%)	Red Hat
14	94 (16.29%)	SQL Server
14	94 (16.29%)	Git (software)
15	93 (16.12%)	Firewall
16	92 (15.94%)	Continuous Integration
17	90 (15.60%)	Security Cleared
17	90 (15.60%)	JavaScript
18	88 (15.25%)	Bash Shell
19	84 (14.56%)	SC Cleared
20	80 (13.86%)	Perl
20	80 (13.86%)	XML
21	77 (13.34%)	Microsoft
22	76 (13.17%)	Python
22	76 (13.17%)	HTML
22	76 (13.17%)	MySQL

LDAP
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	53 (9.19%)	Apache
2	52 (9.01%)	Tomcat
3	50 (8.67%)	JBoss
4	33 (5.72%)	SharePoint
4	33 (5.72%)	WebLogic
5	30 (5.20%)	IIS
6	24 (4.16%)	Confluence
7	19 (3.29%)	WebSphere
8	17 (2.95%)	OpenStack
9	14 (2.43%)	MS Exchange
10	13 (2.25%)	BizTalk Server
10	13 (2.25%)	Liferay
11	10 (1.73%)	Apache Solr
11	10 (1.73%)	Elasticsearch
11	10 (1.73%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	10 (1.73%)	WebSphere Application Server
12	9 (1.56%)	MQSeries
12	9 (1.56%)	WildFly
13	8 (1.39%)	Skype for Business
14	6 (1.04%)	Apache Spark

Applications
1	11 (1.91%)	Microsoft Office
2	6 (1.04%)	Microsoft Project
3	4 (0.69%)	Microsoft Excel
4	2 (0.35%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.17%)	InfoPath
5	1 (0.17%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	9 (1.56%)	Oracle Utilities
2	6 (1.04%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	5 (0.87%)	Remedy ITSM
3	5 (0.87%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	3 (0.52%)	Staffware
5	1 (0.17%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
5	1 (0.17%)	Misys Midas
5	1 (0.17%)	Oracle BPM
5	1 (0.17%)	Remedy AR System
5	1 (0.17%)	SAP GRC
5	1 (0.17%)	Sentinel
5	1 (0.17%)	Temenos T24

Cloud Services
1	32 (5.55%)	Amazon AWS
2	22 (3.81%)	SaaS
3	16 (2.77%)	Microsoft Azure
4	14 (2.43%)	PaaS
5	12 (2.08%)	IaaS
6	11 (1.91%)	Cloud Computing
6	11 (1.91%)	OpenShift
7	9 (1.56%)	Office 365
8	4 (0.69%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	3 (0.52%)	G Suite
9	3 (0.52%)	Mimecast
10	2 (0.35%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	2 (0.35%)	BrowserStack
11	1 (0.17%)	Amazon EC2
11	1 (0.17%)	Amazon ELB
11	1 (0.17%)	AWS Lambda
11	1 (0.17%)	Azure Active Directory
11	1 (0.17%)	GitHub
11	1 (0.17%)	Route 53
11	1 (0.17%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	106 (18.37%)	DNS
2	93 (16.12%)	Firewall
3	71 (12.31%)	HTTP
4	57 (9.88%)	SSL
5	51 (8.84%)	Kerberos
6	45 (7.80%)	SAN
7	43 (7.45%)	TCP/IP
8	38 (6.59%)	DHCP
9	31 (5.37%)	SMTP
10	30 (5.20%)	VPN
11	25 (4.33%)	SSH
12	24 (4.16%)	WAN
13	23 (3.99%)	Internet
14	22 (3.81%)	LAN
14	22 (3.81%)	NAS
15	20 (3.47%)	Network Security
16	16 (2.77%)	Diameter Protocol
17	15 (2.60%)	VLAN
18	14 (2.43%)	IMAP
19	13 (2.25%)	X.509

Database & Business Intelligence
1	94 (16.29%)	SQL Server
2	76 (13.17%)	MySQL
3	38 (6.59%)	Relational Database
4	31 (5.37%)	Hadoop
5	28 (4.85%)	MariaDB
6	25 (4.33%)	Big Data
7	24 (4.16%)	Oracle Database
8	17 (2.95%)	MongoDB
8	17 (2.95%)	PostgreSQL
9	15 (2.60%)	DB2
10	13 (2.25%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	11 (1.91%)	NoSQL
12	10 (1.73%)	Apache Hive
12	10 (1.73%)	HBase
13	9 (1.56%)	SQL Server 2012
14	8 (1.39%)	Apache Cassandra
14	8 (1.39%)	SQL Server Integration Services
15	7 (1.21%)	Impala
16	6 (1.04%)	Data Warehouse
16	6 (1.04%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	107 (18.54%)	Jenkins
2	94 (16.29%)	Git (software)
3	40 (6.93%)	JIRA
4	31 (5.37%)	Sonatype Nexus
5	30 (5.20%)	Artifactory
5	30 (5.20%)	Maven
6	29 (5.03%)	TeamCity
7	25 (4.33%)	JUnit
8	21 (3.64%)	Mockito
9	17 (2.95%)	Vagrant
10	16 (2.77%)	Selenium
11	12 (2.08%)	Bitbucket
12	11 (1.91%)	Atlassian Bamboo
12	11 (1.91%)	Visual Studio
13	10 (1.73%)	Hudson
14	9 (1.56%)	AppScan
14	9 (1.56%)	Subversion
15	8 (1.39%)	Team Foundation Server
16	7 (1.21%)	Cucumber
16	7 (1.21%)	Fiddler

General
1	114 (19.76%)	Finance
2	57 (9.88%)	Banking
3	22 (3.81%)	Telecoms
4	11 (1.91%)	Back Office
5	7 (1.21%)	Legal
5	7 (1.21%)	Retail
6	6 (1.04%)	Manufacturing
7	5 (0.87%)	Investment Banking
8	4 (0.69%)	Electronics
8	4 (0.69%)	Local Government
8	4 (0.69%)	Marketing
9	2 (0.35%)	Advertising
9	2 (0.35%)	Publishing
9	2 (0.35%)	Retail Banking
10	1 (0.17%)	Financial Institution
10	1 (0.17%)	French Language
10	1 (0.17%)	Front Office
10	1 (0.17%)	Law

Job Titles
1	84 (14.56%)	Developer
2	80 (13.86%)	Architect
3	68 (11.79%)	Administrator
4	64 (11.09%)	Consultant
5	59 (10.23%)	DevOps Engineer
6	54 (9.36%)	Analyst
7	48 (8.32%)	Linux Administrator
8	43 (7.45%)	Linux Engineer
9	33 (5.72%)	Java Developer
9	33 (5.72%)	Linux Systems Administrator
10	32 (5.55%)	Systems Administrator
11	21 (3.64%)	Security Consultant
12	18 (3.12%)	Java Engineer
12	18 (3.12%)	ServiceNow Developer
13	16 (2.77%)	AWS DevOps
13	16 (2.77%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
13	16 (2.77%)	AWS Engineer
13	16 (2.77%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
14	14 (2.43%)	Infrastructure Engineer
14	14 (2.43%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	98 (16.98%)	Web Services
2	80 (13.86%)	XML
3	76 (13.17%)	HTML
4	68 (11.79%)	REST
5	59 (10.23%)	SOAP
6	45 (7.80%)	.NET
6	45 (7.80%)	Spring
7	42 (7.28%)	CSS
8	41 (7.11%)	SAML
9	30 (5.20%)	Hibernate
9	30 (5.20%)	Middleware
10	29 (5.03%)	Node.js
11	28 (4.85%)	J2EE
11	28 (4.85%)	Spring MVC
12	23 (3.99%)	JAAS
13	22 (3.81%)	Elastic Stack
13	22 (3.81%)	JAXB
14	21 (3.64%)	Kafka
15	20 (3.47%)	EclipseLink
15	20 (3.47%)	RESTful

Miscellaneous
1	55 (9.53%)	Data Centre
2	39 (6.76%)	Clustering
3	30 (5.20%)	Analytical Skills
4	28 (4.85%)	Computer Science
5	27 (4.68%)	Enterprise Software
6	24 (4.16%)	Linux Command Line
7	20 (3.47%)	PKI
8	18 (3.12%)	Management Information System
9	17 (2.95%)	Client/Server
9	17 (2.95%)	Replication
10	14 (2.43%)	Private Cloud
11	12 (2.08%)	YubiKey
12	10 (1.73%)	Virtual Team
13	8 (1.39%)	Enterprise Storage
13	8 (1.39%)	Mainframe
13	8 (1.39%)	User Experience
14	7 (1.21%)	CMDB
14	7 (1.21%)	DataPower
15	6 (1.04%)	Social Network
15	6 (1.04%)	Spread Betting

Operating Systems
1	308 (53.38%)	Linux
2	181 (31.37%)	Windows
3	155 (26.86%)	Unix
4	105 (18.20%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	75 (13.00%)	CentOS
6	54 (9.36%)	Windows Server
7	52 (9.01%)	Solaris
8	35 (6.07%)	AIX
9	34 (5.89%)	Ubuntu
9	34 (5.89%)	Windows Server 2012
10	31 (5.37%)	Windows Server 2008
11	20 (3.47%)	Mac OS X
12	14 (2.43%)	Windows Server 2003
13	13 (2.25%)	SUSE
14	11 (1.91%)	Data ONTAP
14	11 (1.91%)	HPUX
15	6 (1.04%)	Fedora
15	6 (1.04%)	Oracle Linux
16	5 (0.87%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16	5 (0.87%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	127 (22.01%)	Agile Software Development
1	127 (22.01%)	DevOps
2	92 (15.94%)	Continuous Integration
3	73 (12.65%)	Configuration Management
3	73 (12.65%)	ITIL
4	56 (9.71%)	Test Automation
5	52 (9.01%)	Workflow
6	50 (8.67%)	Migration
7	45 (7.80%)	Identity Management
8	42 (7.28%)	Scrum
9	39 (6.76%)	Change Management
9	39 (6.76%)	Identity Access Management
10	38 (6.59%)	Continuous Delivery
10	38 (6.59%)	Open Source
11	33 (5.72%)	MVC
11	33 (5.72%)	TDD
12	32 (5.55%)	Load Balancing
13	30 (5.20%)	OO
14	27 (4.68%)	Continuous Deployment
14	27 (4.68%)	Service Management

Programming Languages
1	181 (31.37%)	Java
2	138 (23.92%)	SQL
3	90 (15.60%)	JavaScript
4	88 (15.25%)	Bash Shell
5	80 (13.86%)	Perl
6	76 (13.17%)	Python
7	63 (10.92%)	Shell Script
8	53 (9.19%)	PowerShell
9	34 (5.89%)	Ruby
10	29 (5.03%)	PL/SQL
11	23 (3.99%)	C#
12	21 (3.64%)	PHP
13	16 (2.77%)	Korn
14	15 (2.60%)	Groovy
15	10 (1.73%)	C
16	8 (1.39%)	VB
17	5 (0.87%)	C++
17	5 (0.87%)	F#
17	5 (0.87%)	VB.NET
18	4 (0.69%)	C-shell

Qualifications
1	90 (15.60%)	Security Cleared
2	84 (14.56%)	SC Cleared
3	38 (6.59%)	Degree
4	11 (1.91%)	Computer Science Degree
4	11 (1.91%)	ISEB
5	9 (1.56%)	CISSP
6	6 (1.04%)	ITIL Certification
7	5 (0.87%)	JNCIA
7	5 (0.87%)	JNCIS
8	4 (0.69%)	CISA
8	4 (0.69%)	ISTQB
8	4 (0.69%)	RHCSA
9	3 (0.52%)	APMG
9	3 (0.52%)	GCIH
9	3 (0.52%)	GIAC
9	3 (0.52%)	RHCE
10	2 (0.35%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
10	2 (0.35%)	Microsoft Certification
10	2 (0.35%)	RHCSS
10	2 (0.35%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	19 (3.29%)	QA
2	7 (1.21%)	ISO/IEC 20000
3	6 (1.04%)	JSP 440
3	6 (1.04%)	PCI DSS
3	6 (1.04%)	SLA
4	5 (0.87%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	4 (0.69%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	1 (0.17%)	FATCA

System Software
1	197 (34.14%)	Active Directory
2	74 (12.82%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	53 (9.19%)	VMware ESXi
4	34 (5.89%)	Docker
5	26 (4.51%)	KVM
6	25 (4.33%)	NFS
7	21 (3.64%)	Virtual Machines
8	18 (3.12%)	vCloud
9	16 (2.77%)	Hyper-V
9	16 (2.77%)	Oracle RAC
10	11 (1.91%)	HDFS
10	11 (1.91%)	XenApp
11	10 (1.73%)	Veritas Volume Manager
12	9 (1.56%)	iptables
13	8 (1.39%)	vSphere
14	7 (1.21%)	Apache ZooKeeper
14	7 (1.21%)	Tivoli Directory Server
15	6 (1.04%)	Veritas Cluster Server
16	5 (0.87%)	Shibboleth
16	5 (0.87%)	Terminal Services

Systems Management
1	76 (13.17%)	Puppet
2	63 (10.92%)	Ansible
3	37 (6.41%)	Opscode Chef
4	24 (4.16%)	NetBackup
5	20 (3.47%)	Nagios
5	20 (3.47%)	yum
6	19 (3.29%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
7	18 (3.12%)	Kubernetes
8	17 (2.95%)	Tivoli
9	15 (2.60%)	OpenAM
9	15 (2.60%)	vRealize
9	15 (2.60%)	ZABBIX
10	12 (2.08%)	Red Hat Satellite
10	12 (2.08%)	SCCM
11	11 (1.91%)	OpenIDM
12	9 (1.56%)	Terraform
13	8 (1.39%)	Grafana
13	8 (1.39%)	Hadoop YARN
13	8 (1.39%)	Norton AntiVirus
13	8 (1.39%)	Oracle Identity Management

Vendors
1	165 (28.60%)	Oracle
2	124 (21.49%)	VMware
3	98 (16.98%)	Red Hat
4	77 (13.34%)	Microsoft
5	63 (10.92%)	IBM
6	57 (9.88%)	Cisco
7	48 (8.32%)	HP
8	45 (7.80%)	ServiceNow
9	33 (5.72%)	Citrix
10	29 (5.03%)	NetApp
10	29 (5.03%)	Veritas
11	27 (4.68%)	Sun
12	26 (4.51%)	F5
13	24 (4.16%)	Dell
13	24 (4.16%)	McAfee
14	19 (3.29%)	Juniper
14	19 (3.29%)	Symantec
15	15 (2.60%)	Atlassian
15	15 (2.60%)	Cloudera
15	15 (2.60%)	EMC