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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 368 397
Rank change year-on-year -85 +29 -35
Contract jobs citing LDAP 194 153 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 2.14% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 103 68
10th Percentile £311 £363 £218
25th Percentile £500 £411 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £568
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.89% +3.18%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 1
10th Percentile £70.38 - -
25th Percentile £76.22 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £63.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% -13.10% +28.55%
75th Percentile £89.58 £78.18 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £63.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +34.92% -13.10% +28.55%

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 9,867 7,166 8,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.57% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,489 4,845 5,302
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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
South East -6 59 £575 +15.00% 38
London -85 51 £575 -5.43% 59
South West -4 40 £525 +13.51% 13
East of England -16 20 £513 -24.63% 12
North of England -79 18 £570 +25.83% 10
Yorkshire -25 17 £570 +8.57% 4
West Midlands -64 4 £450 -18.18% 5
Midlands -93 4 £450 - 8
North West -67 1 - - 5
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 (5.67%) IIS
2 8 (4.12%) Confluence
3 5 (2.58%) Apache
4 4 (2.06%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.03%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (51.55%) Azure
2 74 (38.14%) AWS
3 66 (34.02%) Entra ID
4 48 (24.74%) GCP
5 22 (11.34%) SaaS
6 7 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.58%) GitHub
8 5 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.06%) IaaS
9 4 (2.06%) PaaS
9 4 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.03%) Route 53
10 2 (1.03%) Serverless
10 2 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.92%) Kerberos
2 24 (12.37%) DNS
3 15 (7.73%) DHCP
4 14 (7.22%) HTTP
5 12 (6.19%) Firewall
6 9 (4.64%) SSL
7 7 (3.61%) SSH
7 7 (3.61%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.09%) Network Security
9 5 (2.58%) NAS
9 5 (2.58%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (2.58%) SAN
9 5 (2.58%) VPN
10 4 (2.06%) FTP
10 4 (2.06%) HTTPS
10 4 (2.06%) IPsec
10 4 (2.06%) SMTP
10 4 (2.06%) WAN
11 3 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.55%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.06%) Db2
2 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.03%) Metadata
3 2 (1.03%) MySQL
3 2 (1.03%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.52%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.52%) Power BI
4 1 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (7.22%) JIRA
2 13 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.15%) Git
3 10 (5.15%) GitLab
4 4 (2.06%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.55%) JMeter
5 3 (1.55%) Postman
6 2 (1.03%) Gatling
6 2 (1.03%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.52%) Locust
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Newman
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.52%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 81 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.43%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.73%) Finance
6 12 (6.19%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.09%) Back Office
8 5 (2.58%) Banking
9 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Military
10 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Law
12 1 (0.52%) Legal
12 1 (0.52%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Publishing
12 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (26.29%) Architect
2 18 (9.28%) Consultant
3 13 (6.70%) Developer
3 13 (6.70%) IAM Specialist
4 9 (4.64%) CyberArk Consultant
5 8 (4.12%) Analyst
5 8 (4.12%) C Developer
5 8 (4.12%) CyberArk Architect
5 8 (4.12%) Lead
5 8 (4.12%) Linux Developer
5 8 (4.12%) SailPoint Engineer
5 8 (4.12%) Software Developer
6 7 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.61%) Security Engineer
6 7 (3.61%) Senior
6 7 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.09%) Security Architect
8 5 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (2.58%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.41%) SAML
2 51 (26.29%) OpenID
3 50 (25.77%) OAuth
4 39 (20.10%) SailPoint
5 34 (17.53%) REST
6 25 (12.89%) OAuth2
7 21 (10.82%) Web Services
8 20 (10.31%) Terraform
9 15 (7.73%) JSON
10 9 (4.64%) SOAP
11 8 (4.12%) JDBC
11 8 (4.12%) Middleware
11 8 (4.12%) OpenTofu
12 7 (3.61%) .NET
12 7 (3.61%) Regular Expression
13 6 (3.09%) pytest
14 3 (1.55%) Jakarta EE
15 2 (1.03%) Kafka
15 2 (1.03%) XML
15 2 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.62%) Onboarding
2 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (8.76%) PKI
4 13 (6.70%) Replication
5 11 (5.67%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native
6 10 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.06%) Mainframe
9 4 (2.06%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.55%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.55%) YARA
11 2 (1.03%) CSOC
11 2 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.71%) Linux
2 43 (22.16%) Windows
3 14 (7.22%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.64%) Unix
6 5 (2.58%) CentOS
6 5 (2.58%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.03%) Rocky
8 2 (1.03%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) CatOS
9 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.52%) SUSE
9 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.99%) SIEM
2 54 (27.84%) RBAC
3 50 (25.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (24.23%) Runbook
5 44 (22.68%) Identity Access Management
6 43 (22.16%) Privileged Access Management
6 43 (22.16%) Technical Leadership
7 42 (21.65%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (21.13%) ITSM
9 37 (19.07%) DevOps
10 34 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (17.53%) Security Architecture
11 33 (17.01%) CI/CD
11 33 (17.01%) DevSecOps
12 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (15.98%) Secrets Management
14 29 (14.95%) Mentoring
14 29 (14.95%) Migration
15 27 (13.92%) Analytics
15 27 (13.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.51%) PowerShell
2 55 (28.35%) Python
3 20 (10.31%) Java
4 15 (7.73%) Bash
5 11 (5.67%) BeanShell
5 11 (5.67%) SQL
6 8 (4.12%) C
7 5 (2.58%) Groovy
8 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.55%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.03%) C#
10 2 (1.03%) Cypher
10 2 (1.03%) Go
10 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.52%) R
11 1 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 85 (43.81%) Security Cleared
2 53 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 39 (20.10%) DV Cleared
4 26 (13.40%) Degree
5 22 (11.34%) CISSP
6 13 (6.70%) CISM
7 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.58%) CSPO
10 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.55%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.52%) CRISC
13 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (25.26%) NIST
3 20 (10.31%) GDPR
4 13 (6.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (4.12%) NCSC
6 6 (3.09%) Data Quality
6 6 (3.09%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.58%) GRC
8 2 (1.03%) ITGC
8 2 (1.03%) QA
8 2 (1.03%) SLA
9 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 156 (80.41%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.70%) NFS
3 11 (5.67%) Docker
3 11 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.64%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.55%) OpenAM
6 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.52%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.52%) KVM
7 1 (0.52%) Postfix
7 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.52%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (10.82%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (9.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 13 (6.70%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.15%) Ansible
5 7 (3.61%) Grafana
6 5 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.06%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.55%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.03%) Check_MK
9 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.03%) Podman
9 2 (1.03%) Puppet
9 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.52%) CASB
10 1 (0.52%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.52%) Salt
10 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 74 (38.14%) CyberArk
2 65 (33.51%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.40%) ServiceNow
4 16 (8.25%) VMware
5 14 (7.22%) Okta
6 10 (5.15%) ForgeRock
7 8 (4.12%) Google
7 8 (4.12%) SAP
8 7 (3.61%) Ping Identity
8 7 (3.61%) Splunk
9 6 (3.09%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.06%) F5
11 4 (2.06%) Greenplum
11 4 (2.06%) Oracle
11 4 (2.06%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.06%) Sybase
11 4 (2.06%) Workday
12 3 (1.55%) CheckPoint