LDAP Contract Job Trends in England

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 349 361
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +118
Contract jobs citing LDAP 250 131 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.54% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 2.39% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 78 119
10th Percentile £434 £411 £300
25th Percentile £488 £500 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £573
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +4.28% +4.18%
75th Percentile £688 £654 £650
90th Percentile £750 £753 £703
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £570
% change year-on-year -6.38% +3.07% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £52.15 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £80.34 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +54.95% -28.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.10 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £83.24 -
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.12% +54.95% -28.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,023 5,490 7,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.43% 22.52% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,809 5,349
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 90 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.46 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in England

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LDAP

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in England over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in England

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LDAP

LDAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LDAP in England over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the England region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 107 £700 +16.67% 12
North of England -40 46 £573 -4.58% 2
South East -27 41 £500 -9.26% 8
Yorkshire -39 30 £513 -14.58% 1
Midlands -63 20 £340 -45.60%
West Midlands -65 19 £340 -45.60%
North West -30 15 £635 +26.90% 1
East of England -43 15 £478 -16.87% 5
South West -28 11 £539 -23.04% 4
North East - 1 - -
LDAP
UK

LDAP
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.40%) Confluence
2 10 (4.00%) nginx
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 153 (61.20%) Azure
2 105 (42.00%) AWS
3 89 (35.60%) GCP
4 69 (27.60%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.00%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.00%) Serverless
7 9 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.60%) Route 53
7 9 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.20%) SaaS
9 4 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.40%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 65 (26.00%) DNS
2 61 (24.40%) Kerberos
3 34 (13.60%) Firewall
4 32 (12.80%) DHCP
5 25 (10.00%) SSL
5 25 (10.00%) VPN
6 19 (7.60%) TCP/IP
7 13 (5.20%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (5.20%) Network Security
8 12 (4.80%) HTTP
9 9 (3.60%) LAN
9 9 (3.60%) OpenVPN
9 9 (3.60%) SMTP
9 9 (3.60%) WAN
10 7 (2.80%) BIG-IP
10 7 (2.80%) Ethereal
10 7 (2.80%) HTTPS
10 7 (2.80%) IPsec
10 7 (2.80%) Wireless
10 7 (2.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.60%) MySQL
4 4 (1.60%) Metadata
4 4 (1.60%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.80%) JIRA
3 26 (10.40%) GitLab
4 13 (5.20%) Selenium
5 12 (4.80%) REST Assured
6 11 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.40%) Git
6 11 (4.40%) Postman
7 9 (3.60%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.20%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.00%) TestRail
10 4 (1.60%) Gatling
10 4 (1.60%) JMeter
10 4 (1.60%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.60%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.40%) JUnit
12 1 (0.40%) Maven
12 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (44.80%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.40%) Documentation Skills
3 38 (15.20%) Finance
4 27 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (5.20%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.00%) Banking
8 7 (2.80%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (30.80%) Architect
2 47 (18.80%) CyberArk Architect
3 23 (9.20%) Consultant
4 10 (4.00%) Administrator
5 9 (3.60%) Lead
5 9 (3.60%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (3.60%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.60%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.60%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.60%) Test Engineer
6 7 (2.80%) Analyst
6 7 (2.80%) Security Engineer
7 6 (2.40%) Developer
7 6 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (2.40%) Technical Architect
8 5 (2.00%) Active Directory Consultant
8 5 (2.00%) AWS Architect
8 5 (2.00%) Senior
8 5 (2.00%) Test Architect
8 5 (2.00%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (27.20%) SAML
2 62 (24.80%) OpenID
3 59 (23.60%) REST
4 44 (17.60%) OAuth
5 38 (15.20%) SOAP
6 29 (11.60%) SailPoint
7 9 (3.60%) Middleware
8 8 (3.20%) .NET
8 8 (3.20%) J2EE
9 6 (2.40%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.60%) Playwright
11 3 (1.20%) JDBC
11 3 (1.20%) XML
12 2 (0.80%) EDI
12 2 (0.80%) JSON
12 2 (0.80%) Web Services
13 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
13 1 (0.40%) LAMP
13 1 (0.40%) LAPP Stack
13 1 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.20%) Security Posture
2 39 (15.60%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (13.20%) Replication
4 28 (11.20%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.60%) Cloud Native
6 17 (6.80%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.80%) PKI
8 9 (3.60%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.00%) CSOC
10 5 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.00%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.60%) Clustering
12 3 (1.20%) CMDB
12 3 (1.20%) SCADA
13 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.80%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.60%) Linux
2 41 (16.40%) Windows
3 21 (8.40%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.60%) CentOS
6 11 (4.40%) Ubuntu
7 8 (3.20%) Unix
8 4 (1.60%) AIX
8 4 (1.60%) CatOS
8 4 (1.60%) Solaris
9 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.60%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (34.40%) SIEM
3 72 (28.80%) DevOps
4 68 (27.20%) Cybersecurity
5 62 (24.80%) Privileged Access Management
6 58 (23.20%) CI/CD
7 52 (20.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (20.00%) ITSM
9 49 (19.60%) Identity Access Management
9 49 (19.60%) Task Automation
10 43 (17.20%) RBAC
11 39 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (15.20%) Integration Patterns
13 34 (13.60%) Presales
14 30 (12.00%) Roadmaps
15 29 (11.60%) Migration
16 28 (11.20%) High Availability
17 24 (9.60%) Agile
17 24 (9.60%) DevSecOps
18 20 (8.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 119 (47.60%) PowerShell
2 101 (40.40%) Python
3 34 (13.60%) Java
4 22 (8.80%) SQL
5 13 (5.20%) Bash
6 11 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.60%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.60%) PHP
9 4 (1.60%) Cypher
9 4 (1.60%) Groovy
9 4 (1.60%) Scala
9 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.80%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.40%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) Korn
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 139 (55.60%) Security Cleared
2 133 (53.20%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.00%) CISSP
4 30 (12.00%) CISM
5 14 (5.60%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.00%) Degree
8 5 (2.00%) MCSA
8 5 (2.00%) MCSE
9 4 (1.60%) APMG
9 4 (1.60%) GIAC
9 4 (1.60%) GSEC
9 4 (1.60%) SSCP
10 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCA
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) OCP
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (22.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (20.80%) NIST
3 51 (20.40%) GDPR
4 22 (8.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (8.00%) NCSC
6 9 (3.60%) SLA
7 8 (3.20%) QA
8 6 (2.40%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.80%) DICOM
11 2 (0.80%) HL7
12 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.40%) GRC
12 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 168 (67.20%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.60%) Squid
4 7 (2.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 7 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.80%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.60%) Postfix
6 3 (1.20%) Docker
6 3 (1.20%) NFS
7 2 (0.80%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.80%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.80%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.40%) Ceph
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) iptables
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) Lustre
8 1 (0.40%) Samba
8 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (19.20%) Single Sign-On
2 40 (16.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.60%) Ansible
4 14 (5.60%) Terraform
5 11 (4.40%) Grafana
6 10 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.60%) Check_MK
7 9 (3.60%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.60%) Podman
7 9 (3.60%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (2.80%) Consul
9 6 (2.40%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.00%) CASB
10 5 (2.00%) Nessus
10 5 (2.00%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.60%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.20%) SCOM
13 2 (0.80%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 96 (38.40%) CyberArk
2 64 (25.60%) BeyondTrust
3 61 (24.40%) Microsoft
4 36 (14.40%) Centrify
5 31 (12.40%) ServiceNow
6 24 (9.60%) VMware
7 18 (7.20%) Red Hat
7 18 (7.20%) Splunk
8 16 (6.40%) Okta
9 15 (6.00%) Cisco
10 9 (3.60%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.60%) Google
11 8 (3.20%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.20%) F5
11 8 (3.20%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.80%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.80%) Oracle
13 5 (2.00%) Ping Identity
13 5 (2.00%) Remedy
13 5 (2.00%) SAP