NDS Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring NDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 748 - 743
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NDS 10 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.010% - 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% - 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £82,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £84,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - £86,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 - £84,000

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,503 5,312 7,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.32% 12.29% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,993 3,216 4,400
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

NDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NDS job vacancy trend in England

NDS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NDS

NDS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NDS within the England region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 10 £80,000 - 1
NDS
UK

NDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 10 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
1 10 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 10 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Workflow
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Runbook
3 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (70.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (70.00%) Technical Debt
4 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 4 (40.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 10 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 10 (100.00%) Okta
1 10 (100.00%) OpenText