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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 341 370
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 +78
Contract jobs citing LDAP 250 146 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.56% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.33% 2.49% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 79 110
10th Percentile £444 £396 £317
25th Percentile £488 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £738 £631 £668
90th Percentile £750 £742 £738
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £559
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.95% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £50.70 - £53.13
25th Percentile £53.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £78.50 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year +0.69% +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 7,506 5,873 7,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.93% 22.54% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,038 3,806 5,590
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 74 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £44.90
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% +13.64% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +7 101 £700 +16.67% 7
North of England -22 43 £533 -11.25% 8
South East -2 40 £496 -9.98% 5
Midlands -45 32 £540 -10.93% 2
West Midlands -41 31 £545 -10.10% 2
Yorkshire -36 26 £525 -12.50% 1
North West -17 17 £570 +61.13% 7
South West -16 16 £513 -2.38% 4
East of England -27 14 £478 -16.87% 7
East Midlands - 1 £525 -
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 15 (6.00%) Confluence
2 14 (5.60%) nginx
3 8 (3.20%) Apache
4 7 (2.80%) IIS
4 7 (2.80%) iPlanet
4 7 (2.80%) JBoss
4 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.80%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.80%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.80%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 145 (58.00%) Azure
2 107 (42.80%) AWS
3 80 (32.00%) GCP
4 64 (25.60%) Entra ID
5 20 (8.00%) OpenShift
6 15 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (5.60%) Route 53
8 13 (5.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (4.40%) SaaS
10 10 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.00%) Serverless
11 8 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.40%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (2.40%) AWS KMS
14 4 (1.60%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.20%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 68 (27.20%) Kerberos
2 62 (24.80%) DNS
3 34 (13.60%) Firewall
4 31 (12.40%) DHCP
5 23 (9.20%) VPN
6 18 (7.20%) HTTP
6 18 (7.20%) SSL
7 16 (6.40%) SMTP
8 14 (5.60%) Network Security
8 14 (5.60%) TCP/IP
9 12 (4.80%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (4.40%) FTP
10 11 (4.40%) SSH
11 8 (3.20%) LAN
11 8 (3.20%) WAN
12 7 (2.80%) OpenVPN
13 6 (2.40%) BIG-IP
13 6 (2.40%) IPsec
13 6 (2.40%) MPLS
13 6 (2.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.80%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.40%) MySQL
5 4 (1.60%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.20%) Metadata
6 3 (1.20%) Power BI
7 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (20.80%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.00%) JIRA
3 25 (10.00%) GitLab
4 24 (9.60%) Git
5 13 (5.20%) Selenium
6 12 (4.80%) REST Assured
7 11 (4.40%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.00%) Postman
9 8 (3.20%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (2.80%) CA Release Automation
10 7 (2.80%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.40%) Vagrant
12 5 (2.00%) TestRail
13 4 (1.60%) Gatling
13 4 (1.60%) JMeter
13 4 (1.60%) LoadRunner
13 4 (1.60%) NeoLoad
14 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 116 (46.40%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.20%) Documentation Skills
3 35 (14.00%) Finance
4 21 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.20%) Banking
9 5 (2.00%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.60%) Aviation
11 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (29.60%) Architect
2 47 (18.80%) CyberArk Architect
3 21 (8.40%) Consultant
4 10 (4.00%) Analyst
4 10 (4.00%) Lead
5 9 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (3.60%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.60%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.60%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.20%) Administrator
6 8 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (3.20%) Network Engineer
6 8 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (3.20%) Security Engineer
7 7 (2.80%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (2.80%) Senior
8 6 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (2.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (2.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (2.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.00%) SAML
2 68 (27.20%) OpenID
3 54 (21.60%) REST
4 51 (20.40%) OAuth
5 36 (14.40%) SOAP
6 25 (10.00%) SailPoint
7 8 (3.20%) Middleware
8 7 (2.80%) .NET
9 6 (2.40%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.60%) J2EE
10 4 (1.60%) Playwright
11 3 (1.20%) Web Services
12 2 (0.80%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.80%) HTML
12 2 (0.80%) RESTful
12 2 (0.80%) XML
13 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET Web API
13 1 (0.40%) Flake8
13 1 (0.40%) libvirt
13 1 (0.40%) mypy
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.00%) Security Posture
2 37 (14.80%) Replication
3 36 (14.40%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (12.40%) Onboarding
5 21 (8.40%) Cloud Native
6 15 (6.00%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.00%) PKI
8 7 (2.80%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.40%) SCADA
10 5 (2.00%) CSOC
10 5 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.00%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.20%) CMDB
13 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 49 (19.60%) Linux
2 46 (18.40%) Windows
3 27 (10.80%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.40%) Ubuntu
5 12 (4.80%) CentOS
5 12 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.80%) Unix
6 6 (2.40%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (2.40%) VMS
7 4 (1.60%) AIX
7 4 (1.60%) CatOS
7 4 (1.60%) Solaris
8 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.80%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (32.00%) SIEM
3 77 (30.80%) DevOps
4 72 (28.80%) CI/CD
5 65 (26.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 61 (24.40%) Cybersecurity
7 55 (22.00%) Identity Access Management
8 54 (21.60%) Task Automation
9 52 (20.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 50 (20.00%) ITSM
11 40 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (15.20%) RBAC
13 35 (14.00%) Integration Patterns
14 34 (13.60%) Presales
15 31 (12.40%) Migration
16 27 (10.80%) Roadmaps
17 26 (10.40%) Agile
18 25 (10.00%) DevSecOps
19 22 (8.80%) High Availability
20 21 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (49.20%) PowerShell
2 102 (40.80%) Python
3 26 (10.40%) SQL
4 23 (9.20%) Java
5 16 (6.40%) Groovy
6 13 (5.20%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.80%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.60%) Bash
8 9 (3.60%) PHP
9 7 (2.80%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.60%) Cypher
10 4 (1.60%) Scala
10 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.80%) C#
11 2 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.40%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 145 (58.00%) Security Cleared
2 140 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.20%) CISSP
4 27 (10.80%) CISM
5 11 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.80%) Degree
9 6 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.00%) GIAC
11 4 (1.60%) APMG
11 4 (1.60%) GSEC
11 4 (1.60%) SSCP
12 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.20%) MCSA
12 3 (1.20%) MCSE
13 1 (0.40%) CCA
13 1 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (22.00%) GDPR
3 53 (21.20%) NIST
4 20 (8.00%) NCSC
5 19 (7.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.20%) QA
7 7 (2.80%) SLA
8 5 (2.00%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 164 (65.60%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.40%) Docker
3 14 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.20%) Squid
5 10 (4.00%) Postfix
6 7 (2.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 7 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.40%) DFS Replication
7 6 (2.40%) Dovecot
7 6 (2.40%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (2.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.80%) NFS
8 2 (0.80%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.80%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.80%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.40%) Ceph
9 1 (0.40%) iptables
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Lustre
9 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (20.40%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (14.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 23 (9.20%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.60%) Terraform
5 14 (5.60%) Grafana
6 13 (5.20%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.80%) Ansible
8 9 (3.60%) Nessus
9 7 (2.80%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.80%) CA Wily
9 7 (2.80%) Check_MK
9 7 (2.80%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.80%) Podman
9 7 (2.80%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.40%) Consul
10 6 (2.40%) PingFederate
10 6 (2.40%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.40%) Tivoli
10 6 (2.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (37.20%) CyberArk
2 78 (31.20%) Microsoft
3 63 (25.20%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (13.60%) Centrify
5 28 (11.20%) ServiceNow
6 24 (9.60%) Splunk
7 21 (8.40%) VMware
8 18 (7.20%) Okta
9 14 (5.60%) Cisco
9 14 (5.60%) Red Hat
10 10 (4.00%) Oracle
11 9 (3.60%) Google
12 7 (2.80%) AppDynamics
12 7 (2.80%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.80%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.80%) F5
12 7 (2.80%) IBM
12 7 (2.80%) Ping Identity
13 6 (2.40%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.40%) SAP