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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 378 310
Rank change year-on-year +12 -68 +189
Contract jobs citing LDAP 185 135 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.46% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 2.11% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 72 163
10th Percentile £404 £251 £363
25th Percentile £456 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £675
90th Percentile £676 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 6
10th Percentile £45.00 - £53.13
25th Percentile £47.63 £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 £84.50 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 6,941 6,399 8,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.82% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,632 4,087 6,018
10th Percentile £350 £357 £370
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £665 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 89 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 -10 60 £608 +1.33% 5
Midlands -15 42 £500 -11.19% 18
West Midlands -19 36 £540 -4.09% 11
North of England -9 31 £468 -6.40% 27
South East +2 23 £481 -12.66% 20
East of England -16 17 £680 +18.26% 26
Yorkshire - 16 £469 - 15
North West -8 15 £453 -9.40% 10
South West -10 11 £475 - 10
East Midlands - 6 £415 - 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 37 (20.00%) Confluence
2 12 (6.49%) nginx
2 12 (6.49%) WebSphere
3 11 (5.95%) Apache
3 11 (5.95%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (5.41%) IIS
4 10 (5.41%) iPlanet
4 10 (5.41%) JBoss
5 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.08%) CICS
7 2 (1.08%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.54%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.54%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (5.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (7.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.08%) AWS
2 72 (38.92%) Azure
3 42 (22.70%) GCP
4 27 (14.59%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.27%) Amazon S3
5 19 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (6.49%) Route 53
8 11 (5.95%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (5.95%) AWS KMS
8 11 (5.95%) SaaS
8 11 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (4.86%) GitHub
9 9 (4.86%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.32%) Serverless
11 5 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.62%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (23.24%) DNS
2 40 (21.62%) SSL
3 36 (19.46%) Kerberos
4 32 (17.30%) SMTP
5 29 (15.68%) HTTP
6 25 (13.51%) FTP
7 24 (12.97%) Firewall
8 18 (9.73%) Network Security
8 18 (9.73%) SSH
9 16 (8.65%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (5.95%) IMAP
11 8 (4.32%) TCP/IP
12 7 (3.78%) VPN
13 6 (3.24%) DHCP
14 5 (2.70%) LAN
14 5 (2.70%) WAN
15 4 (2.16%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (2.16%) DKIM
15 4 (2.16%) DMARC
15 4 (2.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.41%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.24%) MySQL
7 3 (1.62%) Metadata
7 3 (1.62%) Power BI
8 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (23.24%) JIRA
2 32 (17.30%) Jenkins
3 30 (16.22%) Git
4 12 (6.49%) GitLab
5 11 (5.95%) Vagrant
6 10 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (5.41%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (4.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (3.78%) Selenium
9 6 (3.24%) Postman
10 5 (2.70%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.70%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.70%) TestRail
11 2 (1.08%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.54%) JUnit
12 1 (0.54%) Maven
12 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 77 (41.62%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.14%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.19%) Finance
6 16 (8.65%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.78%) Banking
8 4 (2.16%) Aviation
9 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (13.51%) Architect
2 23 (12.43%) Consultant
3 22 (11.89%) Analyst
4 18 (9.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (9.19%) Senior
6 15 (8.11%) SOC Analyst
7 14 (7.57%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) ServiceNow Architect
10 9 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Developer
10 9 (4.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Senior Architect
12 7 (3.78%) Lead
12 7 (3.78%) Security Consultant
13 6 (3.24%) Management Consultant
14 5 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.92%) SAML
2 51 (27.57%) OAuth
3 49 (26.49%) OpenID
4 32 (17.30%) REST
5 19 (10.27%) SailPoint
6 17 (9.19%) SOAP
7 16 (8.65%) AngularJS
7 16 (8.65%) HTML
7 16 (8.65%) Web Services
8 14 (7.57%) HTML5
9 13 (7.03%) Apache Camel
9 13 (7.03%) JDBC
9 13 (7.03%) jQuery
9 13 (7.03%) JSON
9 13 (7.03%) ODBC
9 13 (7.03%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.32%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.78%) .NET
11 7 (3.78%) boto
11 7 (3.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.27%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.19%) Replication
3 15 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (8.11%) Cyberattack
3 15 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.03%) CSOC
4 13 (7.03%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (7.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (5.95%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.24%) SCADA
8 4 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.16%) PKI
8 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.08%) Clustering
10 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.95%) Linux
2 44 (23.78%) Windows
3 15 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.57%) Ubuntu
4 14 (7.57%) Unix
5 12 (6.49%) VMS
6 11 (5.95%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (4.86%) Solaris
8 7 (3.78%) AIX
9 6 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.70%) CentOS
11 2 (1.08%) CatOS
11 2 (1.08%) zOS
12 1 (0.54%) MVS
12 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.38%) DevOps
2 61 (32.97%) CI/CD
3 47 (25.41%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (22.16%) Identity Access Management
4 41 (22.16%) SIEM
5 37 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (16.76%) Agile
8 30 (16.22%) RBAC
9 27 (14.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (12.43%) DevSecOps
11 22 (11.89%) Identity Management
12 21 (11.35%) Incident Response
12 21 (11.35%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (10.81%) Information Security
13 20 (10.81%) Microservices
13 20 (10.81%) Roadmaps
14 19 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.27%) ITSM
15 18 (9.73%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.54%) Python
2 69 (37.30%) PowerShell
3 25 (13.51%) SQL
4 24 (12.97%) Groovy
5 22 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.81%) Java
7 9 (4.86%) Bash
8 8 (4.32%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.78%) Go
10 5 (2.70%) PHP
11 3 (1.62%) C++
12 2 (1.08%) BeanShell
12 2 (1.08%) C#
12 2 (1.08%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.54%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.54%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (43.78%) Security Cleared
2 78 (42.16%) SC Cleared
3 30 (16.22%) CISSP
4 22 (11.89%) CISM
5 17 (9.19%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.41%) Degree
6 10 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.16%) MCSA
9 4 (2.16%) MCSE
10 1 (0.54%) CCA
10 1 (0.54%) CISA
10 1 (0.54%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (24.86%) GDPR
2 39 (21.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (17.30%) NIST
4 11 (5.95%) QA
4 11 (5.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (5.41%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.70%) NCSC
6 5 (2.70%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 104 (56.22%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.97%) Docker
3 15 (8.11%) Postfix
4 11 (5.95%) Dovecot
4 11 (5.95%) Squid
5 10 (5.41%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.32%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (1.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.62%) KVM
8 3 (1.62%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.08%) NFS
9 2 (1.08%) OpenAM
9 2 (1.08%) OpenDJ
9 2 (1.08%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.54%) Firmware
10 1 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.54%) XenApp
10 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (26.49%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (10.81%) Terraform
3 16 (8.65%) Nessus
4 13 (7.03%) Kubernetes
5 12 (6.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (5.95%) Grafana
6 11 (5.95%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.41%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.41%) CA Wily
7 10 (5.41%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.86%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.32%) Tivoli
10 7 (3.78%) Ansible
11 6 (3.24%) PingFederate
12 5 (2.70%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (2.16%) CASB
13 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.62%) SCCM
15 2 (1.08%) Puppet
15 2 (1.08%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (30.27%) Microsoft
2 53 (28.65%) CyberArk
3 37 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 32 (17.30%) BeyondTrust
5 17 (9.19%) Remedy
5 17 (9.19%) Splunk
6 16 (8.65%) IBM
7 15 (8.11%) Oracle
8 14 (7.57%) HP
9 13 (7.03%) BMC
9 13 (7.03%) Ivanti
10 12 (6.49%) Ping Identity
11 11 (5.95%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (5.41%) AppDynamics
12 10 (5.41%) Broadcom
13 9 (4.86%) Okta
14 8 (4.32%) VMware
15 7 (3.78%) ForgeRock
15 7 (3.78%) SAP
16 6 (3.24%) F5