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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 362 400
Rank change year-on-year -86 +38 +48
Contract jobs citing LDAP 171 146 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 2.40% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 93 95
10th Percentile £350 £363 £235
25th Percentile £480 £425 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £630
90th Percentile £700 £680 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.10 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £84.80 -
UK median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -

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 8,480 6,079 7,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.22% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,191 5,215
10th Percentile £363 £354 £357
25th Percentile £430 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £545
% change year-on-year +3.50% -6.93% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 138 240
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.98
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -1.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.30 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -10 57 £525 -27.59% 12
London -83 54 £528 -13.24% 12
North of England -57 32 £619 +20.33% 2
Yorkshire -38 17 £515 -6.36% 1
South West -31 15 £550 -11.11% 3
North West -44 14 £639 +24.32% 1
Midlands -79 7 £375 -13.74% 1
West Midlands -70 6 £375 -30.23% 1
East of England -33 5 £483 -26.05%
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 9 (5.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.34%) nginx
3 3 (1.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 114 (66.67%) Azure
2 76 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 73 (42.69%) AWS
4 42 (24.56%) GCP
5 17 (9.94%) SaaS
6 6 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.92%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.92%) Serverless
8 4 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.34%) IaaS
8 4 (2.34%) PaaS
8 4 (2.34%) Route 53
9 3 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.17%) GitHub
10 2 (1.17%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.05%) Kerberos
2 35 (20.47%) DNS
3 29 (16.96%) Firewall
4 16 (9.36%) DHCP
4 16 (9.36%) TCP/IP
5 14 (8.19%) VPN
6 13 (7.60%) SSL
7 8 (4.68%) NAS
8 7 (4.09%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (4.09%) SAN
9 5 (2.92%) IPsec
9 5 (2.92%) Network Security
9 5 (2.92%) WAN
10 4 (2.34%) BGP
10 4 (2.34%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (2.34%) HTTP
10 4 (2.34%) HTTPS
10 4 (2.34%) LAN
10 4 (2.34%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.34%) Db2
2 4 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.34%) Metadata
2 4 (2.34%) MySQL
3 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.17%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.58%) Power BI
4 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.02%) JIRA
3 9 (5.26%) GitLab
4 7 (4.09%) Git
5 3 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.75%) Postman
5 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.17%) Gatling
6 2 (1.17%) JMeter
6 2 (1.17%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.17%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 54 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.96%) Documentation Skills
2 29 (16.96%) Finance
3 23 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.09%) Aerospace
6 6 (3.51%) Banking
7 5 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.75%) Military
8 3 (1.75%) Retail
9 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (18.71%) Architect
2 12 (7.02%) IAM Specialist
3 11 (6.43%) Senior
4 10 (5.85%) Consultant
4 10 (5.85%) Developer
5 8 (4.68%) SailPoint Engineer
5 8 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.51%) CyberArk Architect
6 6 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (3.51%) Lead
6 6 (3.51%) Technical Architect
7 5 (2.92%) Network Engineer
7 5 (2.92%) Senior Developer
7 5 (2.92%) Support Engineer
7 5 (2.92%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (2.34%) Incident Manager
8 4 (2.34%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (2.34%) Security Engineer
8 4 (2.34%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (2.34%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (35.67%) SAML
2 60 (35.09%) OpenID
3 52 (30.41%) OAuth
4 36 (21.05%) SailPoint
5 26 (15.20%) OAuth2
6 24 (14.04%) REST
7 19 (11.11%) Web Services
8 9 (5.26%) .NET
9 8 (4.68%) JSON
9 8 (4.68%) Middleware
9 8 (4.68%) SOAP
10 7 (4.09%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (3.51%) JDBC
12 2 (1.17%) EDI
12 2 (1.17%) Playwright
12 2 (1.17%) pytest
12 2 (1.17%) XML
13 1 (0.58%) FIDO
13 1 (0.58%) Keycloak
13 1 (0.58%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.13%) Onboarding
2 18 (10.53%) PKI
3 15 (8.77%) Replication
4 13 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.85%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.26%) Security Posture
7 8 (4.68%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.51%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.51%) Clustering
8 6 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.34%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.17%) CMDB
12 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.17%) IoT
12 2 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.98%) Linux
2 27 (15.79%) Windows
3 15 (8.77%) Unix
4 9 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.51%) CentOS
5 6 (3.51%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.92%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.58%) CatOS
7 1 (0.58%) Rocky
7 1 (0.58%) SUSE
7 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.49%) Problem-Solving
1 47 (27.49%) RBAC
2 43 (25.15%) DevOps
3 42 (24.56%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (23.98%) Identity Access Management
5 30 (17.54%) CI/CD
6 24 (14.04%) ITIL
6 24 (14.04%) Migration
6 24 (14.04%) SIEM
6 24 (14.04%) Zero Trust
7 23 (13.45%) Roadmaps
8 22 (12.87%) Privileged Access Management
9 21 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (11.70%) Agile
11 19 (11.11%) Runbook
12 16 (9.36%) API Integration
12 16 (9.36%) Cloud Security
13 15 (8.77%) Computer Science
13 15 (8.77%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.01%) PowerShell
2 51 (29.82%) Python
3 28 (16.37%) Java
4 12 (7.02%) Bash
4 12 (7.02%) SQL
5 7 (4.09%) BeanShell
6 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.92%) Groovy
7 5 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.34%) C
8 4 (2.34%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.75%) C#
9 3 (1.75%) PHP
9 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.17%) C++
10 2 (1.17%) Cypher
10 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.58%) Korn
11 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (37.43%) Security Cleared
2 56 (32.75%) SC Cleared
3 33 (19.30%) CISSP
4 27 (15.79%) Degree
5 19 (11.11%) CISM
6 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (7.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (5.26%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.51%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.92%) CSPO
10 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.92%) MCSA
10 5 (2.92%) MCSE
11 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.34%) GIAC
11 4 (2.34%) SSCP
12 3 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.75%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (17.54%) NIST
3 28 (16.37%) GDPR
4 11 (6.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (5.26%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.09%) NCSC
7 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.34%) SLA
9 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.17%) DICOM
10 2 (1.17%) GRC
10 2 (1.17%) HL7
10 2 (1.17%) ITGC
11 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (74.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.68%) Docker
4 7 (4.09%) NFS
5 4 (2.34%) Squid
5 4 (2.34%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.75%) OpenAM
6 3 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.58%) KVM
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (19.30%) Single Sign-On
2 27 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (11.70%) Terraform
4 15 (8.77%) Kubernetes
5 12 (7.02%) Ansible
6 8 (4.68%) CA Single Sign-On
6 8 (4.68%) Grafana
7 6 (3.51%) CASB
7 6 (3.51%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.92%) Nessus
9 4 (2.34%) Check_MK
9 4 (2.34%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.34%) PingFederate
9 4 (2.34%) Podman
9 4 (2.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.34%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.75%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.17%) Consul
11 2 (1.17%) SCOM
12 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (33.92%) Microsoft
2 44 (25.73%) CyberArk
3 28 (16.37%) ServiceNow
4 15 (8.77%) VMware
5 11 (6.43%) Ping Identity
6 10 (5.85%) BeyondTrust
6 10 (5.85%) Okta
6 10 (5.85%) Splunk
7 9 (5.26%) SAP
8 8 (4.68%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.09%) Cisco
9 7 (4.09%) ForgeRock
9 7 (4.09%) Google
9 7 (4.09%) Oracle
9 7 (4.09%) Workday
10 6 (3.51%) Sybase
11 5 (2.92%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.92%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.92%) Remedy
11 5 (2.92%) Tenable