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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 343 362
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +107
Contract jobs citing LDAP 252 133 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 2.42% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 77 121
10th Percentile £453 £411 £300
25th Percentile £488 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £761 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -8.67% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £52.15 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £80.34 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +54.95% -28.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.10 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £83.24 -
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.12% +54.95% -28.08%

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 7,975 5,487 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.51% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 3,797 5,356
10th Percentile £359 £363 £349
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 88 158
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.69
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.55
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.27 £72.88
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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -3 107 £700 +16.67% 11
North of England -46 44 £575 -4.17% 7
South East -32 41 £500 -9.26% 9
Yorkshire -35 28 £525 -12.50% 4
Midlands -65 21 £420 -32.80% 1
West Midlands -54 20 £420 -32.80% 1
East of England -34 16 £478 -18.64% 8
North West -32 15 £635 +26.90% 3
South West -20 13 £531 -24.11% 2
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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 10 (3.97%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 150 (59.52%) Azure
2 103 (40.87%) AWS
3 86 (34.13%) GCP
4 68 (26.98%) Entra ID
5 15 (5.95%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.37%) Serverless
7 10 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.97%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.97%) Route 53
8 9 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.57%) SaaS
8 9 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 66 (26.19%) DNS
2 62 (24.60%) Kerberos
3 34 (13.49%) Firewall
4 32 (12.70%) DHCP
5 26 (10.32%) VPN
6 25 (9.92%) SSL
7 19 (7.54%) TCP/IP
8 13 (5.16%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (5.16%) Network Security
9 12 (4.76%) HTTP
10 9 (3.57%) LAN
10 9 (3.57%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.57%) SMTP
10 9 (3.57%) WAN
11 7 (2.78%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.78%) Ethereal
11 7 (2.78%) HTTPS
11 7 (2.78%) IPsec
11 7 (2.78%) Wireless
11 7 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.57%) MySQL
4 4 (1.59%) Metadata
4 4 (1.59%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (16.27%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.71%) GitLab
2 27 (10.71%) JIRA
3 13 (5.16%) Selenium
4 12 (4.76%) Git
4 12 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 11 (4.37%) Cucumber
5 11 (4.37%) Postman
6 9 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.17%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.98%) TestRail
9 4 (1.59%) Gatling
9 4 (1.59%) JMeter
9 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.40%) JUnit
11 1 (0.40%) Maven
11 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 111 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.81%) Documentation Skills
3 38 (15.08%) Finance
4 26 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.97%) Banking
8 7 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Aviation
11 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.79%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (30.56%) Architect
2 47 (18.65%) CyberArk Architect
3 24 (9.52%) Consultant
4 10 (3.97%) Administrator
5 9 (3.57%) Lead
5 9 (3.57%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (3.57%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.57%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.57%) Test Engineer
6 7 (2.78%) Analyst
6 7 (2.78%) Security Engineer
7 6 (2.38%) Developer
7 6 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (2.38%) Technical Architect
8 5 (1.98%) Active Directory Consultant
8 5 (1.98%) AWS Architect
8 5 (1.98%) Senior
8 5 (1.98%) Test Architect
8 5 (1.98%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (28.17%) SAML
2 65 (25.79%) OpenID
3 59 (23.41%) REST
4 44 (17.46%) OAuth
5 38 (15.08%) SOAP
6 28 (11.11%) SailPoint
7 9 (3.57%) Middleware
8 8 (3.17%) .NET
8 8 (3.17%) J2EE
9 7 (2.78%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.59%) Playwright
11 3 (1.19%) JDBC
11 3 (1.19%) RESTful
11 3 (1.19%) XML
12 2 (0.79%) EDI
12 2 (0.79%) JSON
12 2 (0.79%) Web Services
13 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
13 1 (0.40%) LAMP
13 1 (0.40%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.06%) Security Posture
2 39 (15.48%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (13.10%) Replication
4 30 (11.90%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.54%) Cloud Native
6 17 (6.75%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.76%) PKI
8 9 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.98%) CSOC
10 5 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.98%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.98%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.59%) Clustering
12 3 (1.19%) CMDB
12 3 (1.19%) SCADA
13 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.79%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.25%) Linux
2 40 (15.87%) Windows
3 22 (8.73%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.56%) CentOS
6 11 (4.37%) Ubuntu
7 8 (3.17%) Unix
8 4 (1.59%) AIX
8 4 (1.59%) CatOS
8 4 (1.59%) Solaris
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (33.33%) SIEM
3 73 (28.97%) DevOps
4 67 (26.59%) Cybersecurity
5 60 (23.81%) Privileged Access Management
6 58 (23.02%) CI/CD
7 51 (20.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (19.84%) ITSM
8 50 (19.84%) Task Automation
9 49 (19.44%) Identity Access Management
10 41 (16.27%) RBAC
11 39 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (15.08%) Integration Patterns
13 34 (13.49%) Presales
14 32 (12.70%) Migration
15 29 (11.51%) Roadmaps
16 28 (11.11%) High Availability
17 25 (9.92%) Agile
18 24 (9.52%) DevSecOps
19 21 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 100 (39.68%) Python
3 35 (13.89%) Java
4 22 (8.73%) SQL
5 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.37%) Bash
7 10 (3.97%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.57%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.57%) PHP
9 5 (1.98%) Groovy
10 4 (1.59%) Cypher
10 4 (1.59%) Scala
10 4 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.79%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.40%) C#
12 1 (0.40%) Korn
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 143 (56.75%) Security Cleared
2 136 (53.97%) SC Cleared
3 35 (13.89%) CISSP
4 30 (11.90%) CISM
5 14 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.98%) Degree
8 5 (1.98%) MCSA
8 5 (1.98%) MCSE
9 4 (1.59%) APMG
9 4 (1.59%) GIAC
9 4 (1.59%) GSEC
9 4 (1.59%) SSCP
10 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (22.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (21.83%) NIST
3 54 (21.43%) GDPR
4 20 (7.94%) NCSC
4 20 (7.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.57%) SLA
6 8 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.17%) QA
7 4 (1.59%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.79%) DICOM
9 2 (0.79%) HL7
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 168 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.57%) Squid
4 7 (2.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 7 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.59%) Docker
5 4 (1.59%) Postfix
6 3 (1.19%) NFS
7 2 (0.79%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.79%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.79%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.40%) Ceph
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) iptables
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) Lustre
8 1 (0.40%) Samba
8 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (20.63%) Single Sign-On
2 40 (15.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (9.92%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.35%) Ansible
4 16 (6.35%) Terraform
5 11 (4.37%) Grafana
6 10 (3.97%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.57%) Check_MK
7 9 (3.57%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.57%) Podman
7 9 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (3.17%) PingFederate
9 7 (2.78%) Consul
10 6 (2.38%) vCenter Server
11 5 (1.98%) CASB
11 5 (1.98%) Nessus
12 4 (1.59%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.19%) SCOM
14 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 93 (36.90%) CyberArk
2 64 (25.40%) BeyondTrust
3 61 (24.21%) Microsoft
4 36 (14.29%) Centrify
5 31 (12.30%) ServiceNow
6 24 (9.52%) VMware
7 18 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 18 (7.14%) Splunk
8 16 (6.35%) Okta
9 15 (5.95%) Cisco
10 9 (3.57%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.57%) Google
10 9 (3.57%) Ping Identity
11 8 (3.17%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.17%) F5
11 8 (3.17%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.78%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.78%) Oracle
13 5 (1.98%) Remedy
13 5 (1.98%) SAP