NetIQ eDirectory (formerly Novell Directory Services NDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NDS over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 717 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NDS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.016% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,322 11,984 15,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.32% 11.99% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 9,447 10,129
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

NDS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NDS in the UK

NDS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NDS.

Salary trend for NDS in the UK

NDS
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NDS within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland - 1 £80,000 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £80,000 - 1

NDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) Ping Identity