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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 353 382
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 +101
Contract jobs citing LDAP 253 114 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.19% 2.13% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 71 108
10th Percentile £414 £375 £287
25th Percentile £488 £460 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £625
90th Percentile - £688 £704
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £51.05 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% - -
75th Percentile £82.37 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £84.59 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £79.96 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -1.71% - -

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 7,929 5,342 7,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.20% 22.28% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,693 5,334
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 97 232
10th Percentile £30.61 £32.05 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.34
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.65 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +14 114 £700 +27.27% 10
North of England -41 45 £573 -4.58% 1
South East -21 42 £525 -27.59% 14
Yorkshire -33 29 £513 -14.58%
East of England -29 17 £480 -18.26% 2
North West -34 15 £635 +9.16% 1
Midlands -71 15 £340 -35.24% 1
West Midlands -53 14 £340 -42.13% 1
South West -21 13 £539 -18.68% 5
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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 10 (3.95%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 164 (64.82%) Azure
2 112 (44.27%) AWS
3 86 (33.99%) Entra ID
4 83 (32.81%) GCP
5 16 (6.32%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.95%) SaaS
7 10 (3.95%) Serverless
8 9 (3.56%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.56%) Route 53
9 5 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.40%) GitHub
12 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.40%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 68 (26.88%) DNS
2 58 (22.92%) Kerberos
3 38 (15.02%) Firewall
4 33 (13.04%) DHCP
5 28 (11.07%) VPN
6 24 (9.49%) SSL
7 21 (8.30%) TCP/IP
8 16 (6.32%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (5.93%) HTTP
10 13 (5.14%) Network Security
10 13 (5.14%) WAN
11 12 (4.74%) LAN
12 11 (4.35%) IPsec
13 10 (3.95%) BIG-IP
13 10 (3.95%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.95%) HTTPS
14 9 (3.56%) OpenVPN
14 9 (3.56%) Wireless
14 9 (3.56%) Wireshark
15 8 (3.16%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.95%) MySQL
3 4 (1.58%) Metadata
3 4 (1.58%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
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 44 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 29 (11.46%) GitLab
3 27 (10.67%) JIRA
4 14 (5.53%) Git
5 13 (5.14%) Selenium
6 12 (4.74%) REST Assured
7 11 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 11 (4.35%) Postman
8 9 (3.56%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.16%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.98%) TestRail
11 4 (1.58%) Gatling
11 4 (1.58%) JMeter
11 4 (1.58%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.58%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.40%) JUnit
13 1 (0.40%) Maven
13 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.16%) Documentation Skills
3 39 (15.42%) Finance
4 25 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.32%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.74%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.56%) Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (33.60%) Architect
2 49 (19.37%) CyberArk Architect
3 14 (5.53%) Consultant
4 12 (4.74%) Lead
5 11 (4.35%) Administrator
5 11 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
5 11 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 9 (3.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (3.56%) Test Engineer
7 8 (3.16%) Analyst
7 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.16%) Technical Architect
8 7 (2.77%) Developer
8 7 (2.77%) Security Engineer
8 7 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.37%) IAM Specialist
9 6 (2.37%) Security Consultant
10 5 (1.98%) AWS Architect
10 5 (1.98%) Senior
10 5 (1.98%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (32.02%) SAML
2 75 (29.64%) OpenID
3 66 (26.09%) REST
4 54 (21.34%) OAuth
5 42 (16.60%) SOAP
6 38 (15.02%) SailPoint
7 16 (6.32%) OAuth2
8 12 (4.74%) Web Services
9 11 (4.35%) Middleware
10 10 (3.95%) .NET
11 9 (3.56%) J2EE
12 6 (2.37%) JDBC
12 6 (2.37%) JSON
13 4 (1.58%) Playwright
13 4 (1.58%) XML
14 2 (0.79%) EDI
14 2 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
15 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
15 1 (0.40%) LAPP Stack
15 1 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.00%) Security Posture
2 41 (16.21%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (13.44%) Replication
4 32 (12.65%) Onboarding
5 20 (7.91%) Management Information System
6 19 (7.51%) Cloud Native
7 11 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 11 (4.35%) PKI
8 6 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.98%) CSOC
9 5 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.98%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.98%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.58%) Clustering
10 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.79%) CMDB
11 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) PACS
11 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.39%) Linux
2 36 (14.23%) Windows
3 18 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.74%) CentOS
6 11 (4.35%) Unix
7 8 (3.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.98%) CatOS
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.40%) SUSE
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (28.85%) SIEM
3 68 (26.88%) DevOps
4 60 (23.72%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (22.53%) Identity Access Management
6 56 (22.13%) ITSM
7 55 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 53 (20.95%) CI/CD
9 52 (20.55%) Privileged Access Management
10 50 (19.76%) Task Automation
11 47 (18.58%) RBAC
12 42 (16.60%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (15.42%) Integration Patterns
14 37 (14.62%) Presales
15 29 (11.46%) Roadmaps
16 28 (11.07%) Agile
16 28 (11.07%) Migration
17 25 (9.88%) High Availability
18 23 (9.09%) Zero Trust
19 21 (8.30%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 117 (46.25%) PowerShell
2 94 (37.15%) Python
3 37 (14.62%) Java
4 21 (8.30%) SQL
5 14 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.74%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.35%) Bash
7 11 (4.35%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.56%) PHP
9 4 (1.58%) Cypher
9 4 (1.58%) Groovy
9 4 (1.58%) Scala
9 4 (1.58%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.79%) 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
1 143 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 134 (52.96%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.46%) CISSP
4 21 (8.30%) CISM
5 13 (5.14%) Degree
5 13 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.74%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.98%) MCSA
7 5 (1.98%) MCSE
8 4 (1.58%) APMG
8 4 (1.58%) GIAC
8 4 (1.58%) GSEC
8 4 (1.58%) SSCP
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.19%) CSPO
10 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (17.00%) NIST
3 42 (16.60%) GDPR
4 24 (9.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 22 (8.70%) NCSC
6 11 (4.35%) SLA
7 9 (3.56%) HIPAA
8 8 (3.16%) QA
9 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.79%) DICOM
10 2 (0.79%) HL7
11 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (67.59%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.95%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.56%) Squid
5 7 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.37%) Docker
7 5 (1.98%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.58%) NFS
9 2 (0.79%) KVM
10 1 (0.40%) Ceph
10 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.40%) iptables
10 1 (0.40%) Lustre
10 1 (0.40%) Samba
10 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (22.53%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (16.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 29 (11.46%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.11%) Terraform
5 17 (6.72%) Ansible
6 12 (4.74%) Grafana
7 11 (4.35%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.35%) Podman
7 11 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.56%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.77%) Consul
9 7 (2.77%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.37%) CASB
11 5 (1.98%) Nessus
12 4 (1.58%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.58%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.19%) SCOM
14 2 (0.79%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (32.41%) CyberArk
2 73 (28.85%) Microsoft
3 47 (18.58%) BeyondTrust
4 38 (15.02%) ServiceNow
5 36 (14.23%) Centrify
6 30 (11.86%) VMware
7 20 (7.91%) Red Hat
7 20 (7.91%) Splunk
8 19 (7.51%) Okta
9 17 (6.72%) Cisco
10 11 (4.35%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.35%) Google
10 11 (4.35%) Palo Alto
11 10 (3.95%) F5
12 9 (3.56%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.16%) SAP
14 7 (2.77%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.77%) Ping Identity
15 6 (2.37%) Oracle
15 6 (2.37%) Workday