Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

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 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 498 543
Rank change year-on-year +113 +45 -81
Contract jobs citing LDAP 200 201 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 1.49% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 143 214
10th Percentile £294 £413 £408
25th Percentile £400 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £728 £730 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £598 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +8.64% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £73.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LDAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,877 13,508 23,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.76% 23.22% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,151 9,845 17,469
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 156 240
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.38 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £74.95 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +28.00% +11.11%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Daily rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 15 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 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
England +95 160 £550 - 29
London +116 108 £550 +1.34% 11
Work from Home +94 74 £613 +11.36% 10
UK excluding London +38 55 £598 +8.64% 19
Midlands +39 21 £610 -9.63% 1
East Midlands +40 17 £620 +18.10%
Scotland +53 11 - - 2
North of England +27 10 £610 +10.91% 3
South East +1 8 £561 +7.93% 8
Yorkshire +23 6 - - 1
East of England -14 5 £290 -38.95% 1
West Midlands +13 4 £400 -40.74% 1
North West +26 3 £620 +77.14% 2
North East +13 1 £600 -11.11%
South West +6 1 £488 -30.36% 4

LDAP
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 24 (12.00%) Confluence
2 12 (6.00%) Apache
3 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.00%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.00%) IIS
5 4 (2.00%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.50%) CMS
6 3 (1.50%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.50%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.00%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.50%) SAS
8 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.50%) Maximo
1 1 (0.50%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.50%) Azure
2 58 (29.00%) AWS
3 38 (19.00%) PaaS
4 29 (14.50%) GCP
5 28 (14.00%) GitHub
6 22 (11.00%) Entra ID
7 15 (7.50%) SaaS
8 14 (7.00%) IaaS
9 12 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.00%) Nutanix
10 8 (4.00%) Rubrik
11 6 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.00%) WhatsApp
12 5 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.50%) Serverless
13 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.50%) Firewall
2 32 (16.00%) DNS
3 25 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 24 (12.00%) DHCP
5 23 (11.50%) FTP
6 20 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 19 (9.50%) VPN
8 18 (9.00%) HTTP
9 13 (6.50%) Network Security
10 10 (5.00%) NAS
10 10 (5.00%) SAN
10 10 (5.00%) VLAN
11 9 (4.50%) SMTP
12 8 (4.00%) IPsec
12 8 (4.00%) LAN
12 8 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
12 8 (4.00%) SSL
13 7 (3.50%) SSH
13 7 (3.50%) tcpdump
13 7 (3.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.50%) MySQL
2 32 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 27 (13.50%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (9.00%) Hadoop
5 13 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.00%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.50%) DB2
9 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.00%) Redis
11 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.50%) Metadata
11 1 (0.50%) Power BI
11 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (14.50%) JIRA
2 20 (10.00%) Git
3 16 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.00%) JMeter
5 8 (4.00%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 51 (25.50%) Finance
2 33 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 11 (5.50%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.50%) Banking
7 8 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.50%) Marketing
9 6 (3.00%) Electronics
9 6 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Advertising
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (21.50%) Architect
2 31 (15.50%) Developer
3 24 (12.00%) Senior
4 20 (10.00%) Consultant
5 16 (8.00%) Implementation Specialist
5 16 (8.00%) SailPoint Developer
6 13 (6.50%) SailPoint Architect
7 12 (6.00%) ForgeRock Architect
7 12 (6.00%) SailPoint Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) Analyst
8 10 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.50%) IAM Consultant
11 5 (2.50%) Performance Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Performance Test Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) SailPoint Consultant
11 5 (2.50%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.50%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.00%) SailPoint
2 50 (25.00%) XML
3 46 (23.00%) Web Services
4 45 (22.50%) HTML
5 43 (21.50%) JSP
5 43 (21.50%) Servlets
6 41 (20.50%) SOAP
7 40 (20.00%) SPML
8 35 (17.50%) SAML
9 33 (16.50%) OpenID
10 26 (13.00%) JDBC
10 26 (13.00%) OAuth
11 12 (6.00%) JSON
12 11 (5.50%) Node.js
13 8 (4.00%) REST
14 7 (3.50%) .NET
14 7 (3.50%) RESTful
15 6 (3.00%) AngularJS
15 6 (3.00%) CSS
16 5 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 29 (14.50%) Replication
3 20 (10.00%) Clustering
4 14 (7.00%) Data Centre
5 13 (6.50%) Mainframe
5 13 (6.50%) PKI
6 10 (5.00%) CMDB
7 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.50%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.50%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 54 (27.00%) Linux
2 46 (23.00%) Windows
3 24 (12.00%) Unix
4 18 (9.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.50%) Solaris
7 8 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.50%) AIX
10 1 (0.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.00%) RBAC
2 38 (19.00%) Migration
3 37 (18.50%) DevOps
4 35 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
5 27 (13.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (12.00%) Identity Management
7 23 (11.50%) Agile
8 22 (11.00%) High Availability
8 22 (11.00%) Test Automation
9 20 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (9.00%) Capacity Management
12 17 (8.50%) Software Engineering
13 16 (8.00%) ITIL
14 14 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.00%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (7.00%) Data Modelling
14 14 (7.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (7.00%) Technical Architecture
15 13 (6.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.50%) Java
2 62 (31.00%) SQL
3 55 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 45 (22.50%) Python
5 36 (18.00%) PowerShell
6 15 (7.50%) Bash
7 14 (7.00%) Go
8 10 (5.00%) C
9 6 (3.00%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.50%) Perl
11 4 (2.00%) C#
11 4 (2.00%) PHP
12 2 (1.00%) Groovy
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
12 2 (1.00%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) ABAP
13 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) Degree
4 8 (4.00%) CISSP
5 6 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.50%) SANS
7 2 (1.00%) MCSE
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) CISM
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) QA
2 9 (4.50%) GDPR
2 9 (4.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.50%) GRC
4 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (57.00%) Active Directory
2 42 (21.00%) IAG
3 38 (19.00%) ACF2
3 38 (19.00%) RACF
4 22 (11.00%) NFS
5 18 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (8.00%) HDFS
7 13 (6.50%) Docker
8 10 (5.00%) Hyper-V
9 7 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (3.00%) BitLocker
10 6 (3.00%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (3.00%) Terminal Services
10 6 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (2.50%) Samba
11 5 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (1.00%) PowerDNS
13 1 (0.50%) Lustre
13 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 33 (16.50%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.50%) Ansible
4 17 (8.50%) Terraform
5 8 (4.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (4.00%) Netcool
5 8 (4.00%) Tivoli
5 8 (4.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 7 (3.50%) Grafana
6 7 (3.50%) PingFederate
7 6 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.00%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.00%) vMotion
8 4 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.50%) Puppet
10 2 (1.00%) Backup Exec
10 2 (1.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 62 (31.00%) ServiceNow
2 43 (21.50%) Oracle
3 33 (16.50%) Microsoft
4 30 (15.00%) CyberArk
4 30 (15.00%) VMware
5 28 (14.00%) Sybase
6 24 (12.00%) Isilon
7 15 (7.50%) Dell
7 15 (7.50%) ForgeRock
7 15 (7.50%) SAP
8 14 (7.00%) BeyondTrust
9 13 (6.50%) Cisco
9 13 (6.50%) Splunk
10 11 (5.50%) HP
11 9 (4.50%) Citrix
11 9 (4.50%) IBM
12 8 (4.00%) EMC
12 8 (4.00%) Ping Identity
12 8 (4.00%) Qualys
12 8 (4.00%) Serena