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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 349 341
Rank change year-on-year +29 -8 +141
Contract jobs citing LDAP 236 140 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.29% 2.35% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 77 137
10th Percentile £420 £369 £344
25th Percentile £475 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +1.05%
75th Percentile £750 £645 £675
90th Percentile - £761 £739
UK median daily rate £537 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -7.25% +0.70% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £48.30 - £53.13
25th Percentile £50.81 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £77.63 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -8.97% +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 7,170 5,951 7,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.05% 22.26% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,804 3,796 5,699
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £543
% change year-on-year -4.21% -1.47% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 78 180
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.25 £26.87
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +26 100 £700 +16.67% 53
North of England -25 37 £471 +16.53% 37
Midlands -34 36 £539 -11.18% 14
West Midlands -37 35 £540 -10.93% 4
South East -10 32 £492 -10.71% 45
Yorkshire -33 26 £525 -12.50% 12
South West -18 14 £488 +2.63% 26
East of England -20 14 £478 -16.87% 24
North West -20 11 £450 +116.87% 24
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 10
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 20 (8.47%) Confluence
2 14 (5.93%) nginx
3 12 (5.08%) WebSphere
4 11 (4.66%) Apache
4 11 (4.66%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (4.24%) IIS
5 10 (4.24%) iPlanet
5 10 (4.24%) JBoss
6 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.85%) CICS
8 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.97%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.85%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 129 (54.66%) Azure
2 106 (44.92%) AWS
3 78 (33.05%) GCP
4 50 (21.19%) Entra ID
5 20 (8.47%) OpenShift
6 17 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (6.36%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.93%) Route 53
9 13 (5.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.66%) SaaS
11 9 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
12 8 (3.39%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.97%) Serverless
14 5 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.27%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.27%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (24.58%) Kerberos
2 53 (22.46%) DNS
3 26 (11.02%) Firewall
4 25 (10.59%) DHCP
5 20 (8.47%) HTTP
6 18 (7.63%) SMTP
6 18 (7.63%) SSL
6 18 (7.63%) VPN
7 16 (6.78%) SSH
8 13 (5.51%) FTP
9 10 (4.24%) Network Security
10 9 (3.81%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (3.81%) LAN
10 9 (3.81%) WAN
11 8 (3.39%) IMAP
11 8 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (3.39%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.97%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.54%) Ethereal
13 6 (2.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.24%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.54%) MySQL
6 4 (1.69%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.27%) Metadata
7 3 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.27%) Power BI
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.83%) JIRA
3 28 (11.86%) Git
4 24 (10.17%) GitLab
5 12 (5.08%) Selenium
6 10 (4.24%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (4.24%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (4.24%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.24%) Postman
6 10 (4.24%) REST Assured
7 9 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.39%) Vagrant
9 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.12%) TestRail
11 4 (1.69%) Gatling
11 4 (1.69%) JMeter
11 4 (1.69%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.69%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 111 (47.03%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.88%) Documentation Skills
3 30 (12.71%) Finance
4 19 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.97%) Banking
8 5 (2.12%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.69%) Aviation
10 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.85%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 68 (28.81%) Architect
2 46 (19.49%) CyberArk Architect
3 25 (10.59%) Consultant
4 12 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (4.24%) Analyst
6 10 (4.24%) Lead
7 9 (3.81%) Developer
7 9 (3.81%) Security Consultant
7 9 (3.81%) Test Automation Engineer
7 9 (3.81%) Test Engineer
8 8 (3.39%) Administrator
8 8 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (3.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 8 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (3.39%) Senior
9 7 (2.97%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (2.54%) Management Consultant
10 6 (2.54%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.75%) SAML
2 68 (28.81%) OpenID
3 57 (24.15%) OAuth
4 55 (23.31%) REST
5 38 (16.10%) SOAP
6 24 (10.17%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.24%) Middleware
8 7 (2.97%) .NET
9 6 (2.54%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.12%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.12%) HTML
10 5 (2.12%) Web Services
11 4 (1.69%) J2EE
11 4 (1.69%) Playwright
12 3 (1.27%) HTML5
12 3 (1.27%) JDBC
12 3 (1.27%) jQuery
12 3 (1.27%) JSON
12 3 (1.27%) ODBC
12 3 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.68%) Security Posture
2 36 (15.25%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (14.41%) Replication
4 28 (11.86%) Onboarding
5 19 (8.05%) Cloud Native
6 15 (6.36%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.81%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.97%) PKI
9 6 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.54%) SCADA
10 5 (2.12%) CSOC
10 5 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.12%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.85%) Clustering
11 2 (0.85%) CMDB
11 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.46%) Windows
2 50 (21.19%) Linux
3 30 (12.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.36%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.08%) CentOS
5 12 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.81%) Solaris
6 9 (3.81%) Unix
7 8 (3.39%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (3.39%) VMS
8 7 (2.97%) AIX
9 4 (1.69%) CatOS
10 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.85%) zOS
11 1 (0.42%) MVS
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.63%) DevOps
2 76 (32.20%) SIEM
3 71 (30.08%) CI/CD
4 70 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (29.24%) Privileged Access Management
6 54 (22.88%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (22.88%) Identity Access Management
6 54 (22.88%) Task Automation
7 53 (22.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 52 (22.03%) ITSM
9 41 (17.37%) RBAC
10 39 (16.53%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (15.68%) Integration Patterns
12 34 (14.41%) Presales
13 24 (10.17%) Migration
13 24 (10.17%) Roadmaps
14 23 (9.75%) Agile
14 23 (9.75%) High Availability
15 22 (9.32%) DevSecOps
16 20 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (46.61%) PowerShell
2 95 (40.25%) Python
3 28 (11.86%) SQL
4 25 (10.59%) Java
5 21 (8.90%) Groovy
6 15 (6.36%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.93%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.81%) Bash
9 7 (2.97%) MATLAB
10 6 (2.54%) PHP
11 4 (1.69%) Cypher
11 4 (1.69%) Scala
11 4 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.85%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.85%) C#
12 2 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.42%) Go
13 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (57.63%) Security Cleared
2 133 (56.36%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.86%) CISSP
4 24 (10.17%) CISM
5 15 (6.36%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.39%) Degree
7 6 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.85%) GIAC
10 2 (0.85%) GSEC
11 1 (0.42%) CCA
11 1 (0.42%) CISA
11 1 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.42%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.42%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (23.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (22.46%) GDPR
3 47 (19.92%) NIST
4 20 (8.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (8.05%) NCSC
6 8 (3.39%) QA
7 7 (2.97%) SLA
8 6 (2.54%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (2.12%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 155 (65.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.05%) Docker
3 13 (5.51%) Squid
3 13 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.08%) Postfix
5 8 (3.39%) DFS Replication
5 8 (3.39%) Dovecot
5 8 (3.39%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 7 (2.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (2.54%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.27%) KVM
10 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.85%) NFS
10 2 (0.85%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.85%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.85%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.42%) Firmware
11 1 (0.42%) SRDF
11 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (23.31%) Single Sign-On
2 31 (13.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.90%) Terraform
4 14 (5.93%) Grafana
5 13 (5.51%) Ansible
5 13 (5.51%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.24%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.24%) CA Wily
7 9 (3.81%) Progress Chef
8 8 (3.39%) Nessus
8 8 (3.39%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.39%) Tivoli
9 7 (2.97%) Check_MK
9 7 (2.97%) Podman
9 7 (2.97%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.54%) PingFederate
11 5 (2.12%) Consul
11 5 (2.12%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 90 (38.14%) CyberArk
2 75 (31.78%) Microsoft
3 64 (27.12%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (14.41%) Centrify
5 31 (13.14%) ServiceNow
6 23 (9.75%) Splunk
7 21 (8.90%) VMware
8 18 (7.63%) Okta
9 15 (6.36%) Oracle
10 13 (5.51%) Cisco
11 12 (5.08%) Red Hat
12 11 (4.66%) IBM
13 10 (4.24%) AppDynamics
13 10 (4.24%) Broadcom
14 9 (3.81%) F5
14 9 (3.81%) Google
15 8 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
16 7 (2.97%) Ping Identity
17 6 (2.54%) Palo Alto
17 6 (2.54%) SAP