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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 363 407
Rank change year-on-year -29 +44 +64
Contract jobs citing LDAP 228 126 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 2.21% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 81 96
10th Percentile £399 £363 £281
25th Percentile £488 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £663 £638 £622
90th Percentile £775 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £61.88 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £87.48 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 8,278 5,701 7,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.62% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,466 3,955 5,502
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 118 263
10th Percentile £30.45 £30.95 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -18 93 £600 +9.09% 6
South East -6 56 £525 -27.59% 15
North of England -49 37 £619 +23.70% 5
Yorkshire -37 21 £553 -7.92% 3
South West -23 18 £550 -11.11% 3
North West -37 15 £635 +65.23% 2
East of England -29 12 £480 +11.69% 3
Midlands -86 9 £320 -27.19% 3
West Midlands -65 8 £320 -41.82% 3
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 13 (5.70%) Confluence
2 9 (3.95%) nginx
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.32%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.07%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 143 (62.72%) Azure
2 93 (40.79%) Entra ID
3 90 (39.47%) AWS
4 56 (24.56%) GCP
5 15 (6.58%) OpenShift
6 12 (5.26%) SaaS
7 11 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.39%) Serverless
9 9 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.95%) Route 53
10 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.88%) GitHub
12 2 (0.88%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.88%) Sentry
13 1 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (25.44%) DNS
2 52 (22.81%) Kerberos
3 35 (15.35%) Firewall
4 31 (13.60%) DHCP
5 25 (10.96%) VPN
6 20 (8.77%) TCP/IP
7 16 (7.02%) SSL
8 13 (5.70%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (3.95%) OpenVPN
9 9 (3.95%) WAN
10 8 (3.51%) IPsec
10 8 (3.51%) LAN
10 8 (3.51%) Network Security
11 7 (3.07%) BGP
11 7 (3.07%) BIG-IP
11 7 (3.07%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (3.07%) HTTP
11 7 (3.07%) HTTPS
12 6 (2.63%) NAS
12 6 (2.63%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.19%) Neo4j
4 4 (1.75%) Metadata
4 4 (1.75%) MySQL
5 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.44%) Db2
6 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.44%) Power BI
6 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.09%) GitLab
2 23 (10.09%) JIRA
3 14 (6.14%) Git
4 9 (3.95%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.51%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.63%) Postman
7 5 (2.19%) Gatling
7 5 (2.19%) JMeter
7 5 (2.19%) NeoLoad
7 5 (2.19%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.75%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.81%) Documentation Skills
3 40 (17.54%) Finance
4 22 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.26%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.63%) Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.32%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (27.63%) Architect
2 25 (10.96%) CyberArk Architect
3 11 (4.82%) Administrator
3 11 (4.82%) Linux Administrator
3 11 (4.82%) Technical Architect
4 10 (4.39%) Developer
5 9 (3.95%) Consultant
5 9 (3.95%) IAM Specialist
5 9 (3.95%) Senior
6 8 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (3.51%) Lead
6 8 (3.51%) Network Engineer
6 8 (3.51%) SailPoint Engineer
7 7 (3.07%) Security Engineer
8 6 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.19%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.19%) Test Architect
9 5 (2.19%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (1.75%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (37.72%) SAML
2 80 (35.09%) OpenID
3 62 (27.19%) OAuth
4 40 (17.54%) REST
5 38 (16.67%) SailPoint
6 23 (10.09%) OAuth2
7 20 (8.77%) SOAP
8 17 (7.46%) Web Services
9 12 (5.26%) Middleware
10 9 (3.95%) J2EE
11 8 (3.51%) .NET
11 8 (3.51%) JSON
12 6 (2.63%) JDBC
13 5 (2.19%) Playwright
14 4 (1.75%) XML
15 2 (0.88%) EDI
16 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
16 1 (0.44%) pytest
16 1 (0.44%) React
16 1 (0.44%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.54%) Onboarding
2 34 (14.91%) Replication
3 22 (9.65%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (9.21%) Cloud Native
5 20 (8.77%) Security Posture
6 18 (7.89%) Management Information System
7 17 (7.46%) PKI
8 12 (5.26%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.19%) Clustering
11 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.32%) CMDB
12 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.88%) IoT
13 2 (0.88%) PACS
13 2 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.49%) Linux
2 38 (16.67%) Windows
3 19 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.70%) CentOS
6 12 (5.26%) Unix
7 9 (3.95%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.32%) CatOS
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) Rocky
10 1 (0.44%) SUSE
10 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.82%) DevOps
2 65 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (25.00%) RBAC
4 56 (24.56%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (24.56%) Identity Access Management
5 50 (21.93%) CI/CD
6 44 (19.30%) SIEM
7 35 (15.35%) ITSM
8 33 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 30 (13.16%) Privileged Access Management
9 30 (13.16%) Roadmaps
10 28 (12.28%) Migration
11 26 (11.40%) Agile
11 26 (11.40%) Task Automation
11 26 (11.40%) Zero Trust
12 24 (10.53%) High Availability
13 23 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (10.09%) ITIL
13 23 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 93 (40.79%) PowerShell
2 64 (28.07%) Python
3 35 (15.35%) Java
4 14 (6.14%) SQL
5 12 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 11 (4.82%) MATLAB
7 10 (4.39%) Bash
8 9 (3.95%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.63%) BeanShell
10 5 (2.19%) Cypher
10 5 (2.19%) Groovy
10 5 (2.19%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.75%) PHP
11 4 (1.75%) Scala
12 3 (1.32%) C
13 2 (0.88%) C#
13 2 (0.88%) C++
14 1 (0.44%) Korn
14 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 120 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 111 (48.68%) SC Cleared
3 35 (15.35%) CISSP
4 23 (10.09%) Degree
5 21 (9.21%) CISM
6 13 (5.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.19%) CSPO
10 5 (2.19%) GIAC
10 5 (2.19%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.19%) MCSA
10 5 (2.19%) MCSE
10 5 (2.19%) SSCP
11 4 (1.75%) APMG
11 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (19.30%) NIST
3 41 (17.98%) GDPR
4 22 (9.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (8.77%) NCSC
6 11 (4.82%) SLA
7 9 (3.95%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.32%) GRC
9 3 (1.32%) QA
10 2 (0.88%) DICOM
10 2 (0.88%) HL7
11 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 156 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.95%) Squid
4 8 (3.51%) Docker
5 7 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.07%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (1.75%) NFS
8 3 (1.32%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.44%) KVM
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (23.25%) Single Sign-On
2 46 (20.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (13.60%) Kubernetes
4 24 (10.53%) Terraform
5 17 (7.46%) Ansible
6 13 (5.70%) Grafana
7 11 (4.82%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.82%) Podman
7 11 (4.82%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.82%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.95%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.07%) Consul
9 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.63%) CASB
11 5 (2.19%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.19%) Nessus
12 4 (1.75%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.32%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.32%) SCOM
14 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (33.77%) Microsoft
2 63 (27.63%) CyberArk
3 34 (14.91%) ServiceNow
4 27 (11.84%) VMware
5 23 (10.09%) BeyondTrust
5 23 (10.09%) Okta
6 21 (9.21%) Splunk
7 20 (8.77%) Red Hat
8 14 (6.14%) Cisco
9 13 (5.70%) Centrify
10 11 (4.82%) Ping Identity
11 10 (4.39%) Google
12 9 (3.95%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.51%) CheckPoint
13 8 (3.51%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.51%) SAP
14 7 (3.07%) Atlassian
14 7 (3.07%) F5
14 7 (3.07%) ForgeRock
15 6 (2.63%) Workday