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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 351 336
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 +140
Contract jobs citing LDAP 216 141 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 2.40% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 78 139
10th Percentile £413 £372 £350
25th Percentile £468 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £581 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +1.09% +1.05%
75th Percentile £738 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -9.95% +1.39% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £44.75 - £53.13
25th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £76.75 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -9.66% +30.16% -23.70%

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 7,045 5,868 7,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.05% 22.16% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,713 3,749 5,660
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £670
90th Percentile £737 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 175
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.05
25th Percentile £45.50 £43.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.85 £74.65 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.09% -15.72%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -5 86 £700 +16.67% 51
North of England -19 37 £470 +16.41% 25
Midlands -28 36 £539 -11.18% 10
West Midlands -20 35 £540 -10.93% 4
South East -16 26 £481 -12.66% 37
Yorkshire -25 26 £525 -12.50% 9
East of England -21 15 £478 -16.87% 21
South West -7 13 £488 +2.63% 23
North West -14 11 £448 +115.90% 16
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 6
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 16 (7.41%) Confluence
2 12 (5.56%) WebSphere
3 11 (5.09%) Apache
3 11 (5.09%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (4.63%) IIS
4 10 (4.63%) iPlanet
4 10 (4.63%) JBoss
4 10 (4.63%) nginx
5 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.93%) CICS
7 2 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (3.24%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.93%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 120 (55.56%) Azure
2 101 (46.76%) AWS
3 78 (36.11%) GCP
4 41 (18.98%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.56%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.09%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.09%) SaaS
8 10 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.63%) Route 53
9 9 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (4.17%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.39%) ShareGate
11 2 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.93%) GitHub
11 2 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (22.69%) Kerberos
2 43 (19.91%) DNS
3 22 (10.19%) Firewall
3 22 (10.19%) HTTP
4 21 (9.72%) SMTP
5 20 (9.26%) SSL
6 17 (7.87%) DHCP
6 17 (7.87%) SSH
7 15 (6.94%) FTP
8 13 (6.02%) VPN
9 11 (5.09%) Network Security
10 9 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (4.17%) IMAP
10 9 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (3.70%) LAN
11 8 (3.70%) WAN
12 7 (3.24%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (3.24%) Wireless
13 6 (2.78%) HTTPS
13 6 (2.78%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.78%) MySQL
5 4 (1.85%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.39%) Metadata
6 3 (1.39%) Power BI
7 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.35%) JIRA
3 29 (13.43%) Git
4 23 (10.65%) GitLab
5 12 (5.56%) Selenium
6 10 (4.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (4.63%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (4.63%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.63%) Postman
6 10 (4.63%) REST Assured
7 9 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (4.17%) Vagrant
8 5 (2.31%) TestRail
9 4 (1.85%) Gatling
9 4 (1.85%) JMeter
9 4 (1.85%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.85%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.98%) Documentation Skills
3 21 (9.72%) Finance
3 21 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.24%) Banking
7 5 (2.31%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.85%) Aviation
8 4 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.93%) Electronics
10 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (24.54%) Architect
2 38 (17.59%) CyberArk Architect
3 25 (11.57%) Consultant
4 13 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (5.09%) Analyst
7 10 (4.63%) Developer
7 10 (4.63%) Lead
8 9 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.17%) Security Consultant
8 9 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
8 9 (4.17%) Test Engineer
9 8 (3.70%) Administrator
9 8 (3.70%) Senior
10 7 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.24%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.24%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (32.41%) SAML
2 54 (25.00%) OAuth
2 54 (25.00%) OpenID
2 54 (25.00%) REST
3 37 (17.13%) SOAP
4 24 (11.11%) SailPoint
5 10 (4.63%) Middleware
6 7 (3.24%) .NET
7 6 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.78%) HTML
7 6 (2.78%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.78%) Web Services
8 4 (1.85%) HTML5
8 4 (1.85%) J2EE
8 4 (1.85%) Playwright
9 3 (1.39%) JDBC
9 3 (1.39%) jQuery
9 3 (1.39%) JSON
9 3 (1.39%) ODBC
9 3 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.13%) Security Posture
2 36 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (12.50%) Replication
4 20 (9.26%) Onboarding
5 17 (7.87%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.63%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (3.24%) PKI
10 6 (2.78%) CSOC
10 6 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (2.78%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.78%) SCADA
10 6 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.93%) Clustering
11 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.46%) CMDB
12 1 (0.46%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 52 (24.07%) Linux
2 51 (23.61%) Windows
3 27 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 16 (7.41%) Ubuntu
5 13 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (5.56%) CentOS
7 10 (4.63%) Unix
7 10 (4.63%) VMS
8 9 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (4.17%) Solaris
9 7 (3.24%) AIX
10 4 (1.85%) CatOS
11 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.93%) zOS
12 1 (0.46%) MVS
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.94%) Privileged Access Management
2 68 (31.48%) SIEM
3 64 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 63 (29.17%) DevOps
5 53 (24.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 51 (23.61%) Identity Access Management
6 51 (23.61%) Task Automation
7 48 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (19.44%) ITSM
9 38 (17.59%) RBAC
9 38 (17.59%) Technical Leadership
10 37 (17.13%) Integration Patterns
11 34 (15.74%) Presales
12 23 (10.65%) Agile
13 22 (10.19%) DevSecOps
14 20 (9.26%) High Availability
15 18 (8.33%) Migration
15 18 (8.33%) Roadmaps
16 17 (7.87%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.69%) PowerShell
2 97 (44.91%) Python
3 28 (12.96%) SQL
4 25 (11.57%) Java
5 22 (10.19%) Groovy
6 15 (6.94%) Shell Script
7 14 (6.48%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.17%) Bash
9 7 (3.24%) MATLAB
10 6 (2.78%) PHP
11 4 (1.85%) Cypher
11 4 (1.85%) Scala
11 4 (1.85%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.39%) C++
13 2 (0.93%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.93%) C#
13 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.46%) Go
14 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 117 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 114 (52.78%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.96%) CISSP
4 24 (11.11%) CISM
5 16 (7.41%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.17%) Degree
7 7 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.93%) GIAC
11 2 (0.93%) GSEC
12 1 (0.46%) CCA
12 1 (0.46%) CISA
12 1 (0.46%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.46%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (23.15%) GDPR
2 46 (21.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (18.06%) NIST
4 17 (7.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (4.63%) NCSC
6 8 (3.70%) QA
7 7 (3.24%) SLA
8 6 (2.78%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (2.31%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
System Software
1 147 (68.06%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.80%) Docker
3 13 (6.02%) Postfix
4 12 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.17%) DFS Replication
5 9 (4.17%) Dovecot
5 9 (4.17%) Squid
6 8 (3.70%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 7 (3.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (2.78%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.39%) KVM
9 3 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.93%) NFS
10 2 (0.93%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.93%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.93%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.46%) Firmware
11 1 (0.46%) SRDF
11 1 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 47 (21.76%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (10.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (7.87%) Terraform
4 13 (6.02%) Ansible
5 10 (4.63%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (4.63%) CA Wily
5 10 (4.63%) Nessus
6 9 (4.17%) Grafana
6 9 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.17%) Proxmox
7 8 (3.70%) Tivoli
8 7 (3.24%) Check_MK
8 7 (3.24%) Kubernetes
8 7 (3.24%) Podman
8 7 (3.24%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (2.78%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.39%) SCCM
11 3 (1.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (37.96%) CyberArk
2 66 (30.56%) Microsoft
3 64 (29.63%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (15.74%) Centrify
5 33 (15.28%) ServiceNow
6 21 (9.72%) VMware
7 16 (7.41%) Splunk
8 15 (6.94%) Okta
8 15 (6.94%) Oracle
9 12 (5.56%) Cisco
10 11 (5.09%) IBM
11 10 (4.63%) AppDynamics
11 10 (4.63%) Broadcom
12 9 (4.17%) F5
12 9 (4.17%) Google
12 9 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (3.70%) Red Hat
14 7 (3.24%) Ping Identity
15 6 (2.78%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.78%) Palo Alto
130 LDAP jobs in England