X.500 Contract Job Trends

X.500
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring X.500 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 - 624
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs citing X.500 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.051% - 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £55.70
90th Percentile - - £56.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

X.500 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,897 4,451 6,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 12.10% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 2,562 4,057
10th Percentile £209 £223 £213
25th Percentile £356 £368 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £475 £471
% change year-on-year -4.53% +0.85% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 164 336
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.31 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.42 £26.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £36.25 £48.03 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -12.67% +37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.00% -11.49% +25.53%

X.500
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing X.500 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

X.500 job vacancy trend in the UK

X.500
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing X.500.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing X.500

X.500
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing X.500.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing X.500

X.500
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing X.500 within the UK over the 6 months to 29 October 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
London - 2 £519 - 1
England - 2 £519 - 3
Work from Home - 2 £519 - 1

X.500
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services