LDAP Contracts in England

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring LDAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LDAP over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 415 459
Rank change year-on-year +44 +44 +72
Contract jobs citing LDAP 125 144 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 1.82% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 95 135
10th Percentile £363 £281 £400
25th Percentile £413 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £622 £644
90th Percentile £688 £699 £729
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -6.55% +0.92% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 - -

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 5,917 7,929 10,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.46% 21.23% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,078 5,531 7,979
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 264 139
10th Percentile £30.50 £23.80 £30.60
25th Percentile £43.44 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LDAP in England.

Daily rate trend for LDAP in England

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LDAP in England.

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in England

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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 4 July 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
London -12 44 £563 +8.99% 123
Midlands +19 33 £440 -29.23% 22
North of England +18 21 £500 - 19
East Midlands +9 18 £410 -34.08% 12
West Midlands +17 15 £550 +4.76% 10
East of England +26 11 £515 +77.59% 31
Yorkshire +9 11 £600 - 6
North West +10 10 £442 -11.60% 12
South West +42 8 £619 -8.13% 13
South East +29 3 £725 +21.34% 28
LDAP
UK

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (12.80%) Confluence
2 3 (2.40%) JBoss
2 3 (2.40%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.40%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.40%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.60%) nginx
3 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) Apache
4 1 (0.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.80%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.60%) AWS
2 34 (27.20%) Azure
3 27 (21.60%) GCP
4 14 (11.20%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.60%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.20%) GitHub
7 4 (3.20%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.40%) IBM Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.60%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.60%) Route 53
9 2 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.40%) SSL
2 22 (17.60%) HTTP
3 20 (16.00%) SMTP
4 18 (14.40%) DNS
5 15 (12.00%) Firewall
6 13 (10.40%) Kerberos
7 10 (8.00%) FTP
7 10 (8.00%) NAS
7 10 (8.00%) Network Security
7 10 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 9 (7.20%) SAN
9 5 (4.00%) DHCP
9 5 (4.00%) Internet
9 5 (4.00%) SSH
10 4 (3.20%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (3.20%) POP3
11 3 (2.40%) VLAN
12 2 (1.60%) IMAP
12 2 (1.60%) LAN
12 2 (1.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.60%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.40%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.60%) Power BI
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.80%) Metadata
5 1 (0.80%) Redis
5 1 (0.80%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (15.20%) JIRA
2 11 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.00%) Git
4 3 (2.40%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.40%) JUnit
4 3 (2.40%) Log4j
4 3 (2.40%) Selenium
4 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.40%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.60%) Maven
5 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.60%) Subversion
5 2 (1.60%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.80%) GitLab
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 53 (42.40%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.00%) Finance
4 8 (6.40%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.40%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Law
6 3 (2.40%) Retail
7 2 (1.60%) International Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.80%) Aviation
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (20.80%) Architect
2 14 (11.20%) Analyst
3 10 (8.00%) Administrator
3 10 (8.00%) Developer
4 9 (7.20%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Lead
6 7 (5.60%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (4.80%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Identity Management Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Senior
8 5 (4.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Consultant
8 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
9 4 (3.20%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (2.40%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (2.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.00%) SAML
2 35 (28.00%) REST
3 30 (24.00%) OAuth
4 23 (18.40%) OpenID
5 19 (15.20%) Web Services
6 18 (14.40%) AngularJS
7 16 (12.80%) SOAP
8 14 (11.20%) HTML
9 12 (9.60%) Hibernate
9 12 (9.60%) Spring
10 11 (8.80%) CSS
10 11 (8.80%) JDBC
10 11 (8.80%) JSON
11 8 (6.40%) OAuth2
11 8 (6.40%) ODBC
12 7 (5.60%) Kafka
12 7 (5.60%) SailPoint
12 7 (5.60%) XML
13 6 (4.80%) Middleware
14 5 (4.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.20%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (7.20%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.40%) Cyberattack
4 7 (5.60%) Clustering
4 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.60%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (4.80%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (4.80%) PKI
6 5 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (4.00%) CSOC
6 5 (4.00%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.40%) Digital Signage
7 3 (2.40%) Replication
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.80%) Linux
2 14 (11.20%) Windows
3 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.00%) Unix
5 4 (3.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.20%) VMS
6 3 (2.40%) Solaris
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.60%) CentOS
7 2 (1.60%) Debian
7 2 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.40%) Agile
2 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (25.60%) Identity Access Management
4 27 (21.60%) DevOps
5 23 (18.40%) Scrum
6 22 (17.60%) RBAC
7 21 (16.80%) CI/CD
8 19 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (14.40%) Containerisation
10 15 (12.00%) Migration
10 15 (12.00%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.20%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 12 (9.60%) Analytics
12 12 (9.60%) Identity Management
12 12 (9.60%) ITSM
13 11 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.80%) Privileged Access Management
14 10 (8.00%) Configuration Management
14 10 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (8.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.60%) Java
2 22 (17.60%) Python
3 19 (15.20%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (12.00%) SQL
5 9 (7.20%) Bash
6 5 (4.00%) Groovy
7 4 (3.20%) C#
8 3 (2.40%) C++
8 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.60%) Perl
9 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.80%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.80%) Ruby
10 1 (0.80%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Degree
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) CISSP
6 2 (1.60%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CBAP
7 1 (0.80%) CISM
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.80%) GDPR
2 15 (12.00%) HIPAA
3 12 (9.60%) NIST
4 8 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (6.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (3.20%) QA
6 2 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.60%) NCSC
6 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.60%) PMO
6 2 (1.60%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (33.60%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.40%) Docker
3 5 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.40%) NFS
6 2 (1.60%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.60%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.60%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.60%) OpenIDM
6 2 (1.60%) Postfix
6 2 (1.60%) Squid
6 2 (1.60%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (36.80%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (18.40%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.60%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 11 (8.80%) Ansible
5 10 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.20%) Grafana
6 9 (7.20%) Terraform
7 5 (4.00%) Puppet
7 5 (4.00%) SELinux
8 4 (3.20%) Nessus
9 3 (2.40%) Netcool
9 3 (2.40%) Tivoli
10 2 (1.60%) Control-M
10 2 (1.60%) QRadar
10 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.60%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.80%) Argo
11 1 (0.80%) Graylog
11 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.60%) ServiceNow
3 18 (14.40%) IBM
4 16 (12.80%) CyberArk
4 16 (12.80%) Splunk
5 12 (9.60%) Ping Identity
6 11 (8.80%) ForgeRock
7 10 (8.00%) Oracle
7 10 (8.00%) Red Hat
8 7 (5.60%) Okta
8 7 (5.60%) VMware
9 6 (4.80%) BMC
10 5 (4.00%) Confluent
10 5 (4.00%) SAP
11 4 (3.20%) HP
11 4 (3.20%) Ivanti
11 4 (3.20%) OpenText
11 4 (3.20%) Qualtrics
11 4 (3.20%) Remedy
12 3 (2.40%) Qualys