LDAP Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing LDAP 9 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.33% 1.52% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.26% 6.88% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £361 £483
25th Percentile - £373 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £713
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -32.63% +21.79%
75th Percentile - £580 £750
90th Percentile - £588 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £581 £538
% change year-on-year -5.38% +8.14% -8.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

LDAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 124 160 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.34% 22.13% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 92 113
10th Percentile £365 £363 £306
25th Percentile £475 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £575
90th Percentile £688 £749 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -8.09% +18.92% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +300.00% -69.83%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LDAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

LDAP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LDAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LDAP

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LDAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LDAP

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Confluence
1 9 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (100.00%) Route 53
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) FTP
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) IMAP
1 9 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (100.00%) SMTP
1 9 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 9 (100.00%) VMS
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Change Management
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Groovy
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
1 9 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 9 (100.00%) Postfix
1 9 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Nessus
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (100.00%) ServiceNow