LDAP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 50 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -1
Contract jobs citing LDAP 11 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.68% 0.22% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.92% 1.25% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 8
10th Percentile £305 - £516
25th Percentile £417 £505 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £503 £515 £571
90th Percentile £615 - £583
North West median daily rate £453 £500 £529
% change year-on-year -9.40% -5.44% -16.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 159 80 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.24% 17.74% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 57 30
10th Percentile £313 £303 £425
25th Percentile £358 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -7.64% +9.49%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £539
90th Percentile £686 £638 £568
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £36.58 - -
25th Percentile £46.44 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% - -
75th Percentile £81.44 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £90.93 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing LDAP

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in Cheshire

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Knutsford -11 11 £453 -11.18%
LDAP
North West

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (72.73%) Apache
1 8 (72.73%) IIS
1 8 (72.73%) iPlanet
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
1 8 (72.73%) WebSphere
1 8 (72.73%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Kerberos
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Bitbucket Server
1 8 (72.73%) CA Release Automation
1 8 (72.73%) Git
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) OAuth
1 9 (81.82%) SAML
2 8 (72.73%) OpenID
3 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) PMI
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Unix
3 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
1 7 (63.64%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
3 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Log Correlation
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Ticket Management
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Groovy
2 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (18.18%) MCSA
2 2 (18.18%) MCSE
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CBAP
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 7 (63.64%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) CA Single Sign-On
1 8 (72.73%) CA Wily
2 7 (63.64%) Progress Chef
2 7 (63.64%) Tivoli
3 4 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (18.18%) CASB
4 2 (18.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Splunk
2 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (72.73%) AppDynamics
3 8 (72.73%) Broadcom
3 8 (72.73%) IBM
3 8 (72.73%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
4 2 (18.18%) Remedy
4 2 (18.18%) Tenable
5 1 (9.09%) Okta
5 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow