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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 354 311
Rank change year-on-year +2 -43 +200
Contract jobs citing LDAP 191 142 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.49% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 2.25% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 74 164
10th Percentile £407 £252 £360
25th Percentile £463 £422 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -2.13%
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 7,007 6,315 8,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 21.86% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 4,045 5,913
10th Percentile £351 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 81 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.80 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +24.53% -19.70%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -7 65 £670 +8.94% 11
Midlands -15 41 £513 -10.87% 2
West Midlands -13 36 £540 -6.09% 2
North of England -15 34 £470 +31.01% 14
South East -22 23 £481 -12.66% 8
Yorkshire - 19 £500 - 10
East of England -16 17 £680 +18.26% 13
North West -10 15 £453 +26.27% 3
South West -7 10 £475 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £415 -
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 33 (17.28%) Confluence
2 12 (6.28%) nginx
2 12 (6.28%) WebSphere
3 11 (5.76%) Apache
3 11 (5.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (5.24%) IIS
4 10 (5.24%) iPlanet
4 10 (5.24%) JBoss
5 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.05%) CICS
7 2 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.52%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.52%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (5.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.03%) AWS
2 83 (43.46%) Azure
3 54 (28.27%) GCP
4 27 (14.14%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (9.95%) Amazon S3
7 18 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (9.42%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (6.28%) Route 53
9 11 (5.76%) Amazon ELB
9 11 (5.76%) AWS KMS
9 11 (5.76%) SaaS
9 11 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (4.71%) GitHub
10 9 (4.71%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.19%) Serverless
12 5 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.57%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (22.51%) DNS
2 36 (18.85%) Kerberos
2 36 (18.85%) SSL
3 32 (16.75%) SMTP
4 29 (15.18%) HTTP
5 25 (13.09%) FTP
6 24 (12.57%) Firewall
7 18 (9.42%) Network Security
7 18 (9.42%) SSH
8 16 (8.38%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (5.76%) IMAP
10 8 (4.19%) TCP/IP
11 7 (3.66%) VPN
12 6 (3.14%) DHCP
13 5 (2.62%) LAN
13 5 (2.62%) WAN
14 4 (2.09%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (2.09%) DKIM
14 4 (2.09%) DMARC
14 4 (2.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.24%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.14%) MySQL
7 3 (1.57%) Metadata
7 3 (1.57%) Power BI
8 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (21.47%) JIRA
2 34 (17.80%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.71%) Git
4 14 (7.33%) GitLab
5 11 (5.76%) Vagrant
6 10 (5.24%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (5.24%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (4.71%) Selenium
7 9 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (3.66%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.66%) REST Assured
9 6 (3.14%) Postman
10 5 (2.62%) TestRail
11 2 (1.05%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.52%) JUnit
12 1 (0.52%) Maven
12 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 87 (45.55%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.66%) Documentation Skills
3 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.04%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.95%) Finance
6 16 (8.38%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.19%) Banking
8 4 (2.09%) Aviation
9 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.05%) Electronics
10 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Law
11 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (16.23%) Architect
2 23 (12.04%) Consultant
3 21 (10.99%) Analyst
4 18 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (8.38%) CyberArk Architect
6 15 (7.85%) SOC Analyst
7 14 (7.33%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.33%) Senior
8 11 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Developer
9 9 (4.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Lead
11 7 (3.66%) Security Consultant
12 6 (3.14%) Management Consultant
12 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow Architect
12 6 (3.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (34.03%) SAML
2 49 (25.65%) OAuth
3 48 (25.13%) OpenID
4 39 (20.42%) REST
5 24 (12.57%) SOAP
6 20 (10.47%) SailPoint
7 12 (6.28%) AngularJS
7 12 (6.28%) HTML
7 12 (6.28%) Web Services
8 10 (5.24%) HTML5
9 9 (4.71%) Apache Camel
9 9 (4.71%) JDBC
9 9 (4.71%) jQuery
9 9 (4.71%) JSON
9 9 (4.71%) ODBC
9 9 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (3.66%) .NET
10 7 (3.66%) boto
10 7 (3.66%) pytest
11 6 (3.14%) Flake8
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.52%) Security Posture
2 19 (9.95%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (9.95%) Onboarding
3 17 (8.90%) Replication
4 15 (7.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (7.85%) Cyberattack
4 15 (7.85%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.81%) CSOC
5 13 (6.81%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.14%) SCADA
7 4 (2.09%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.09%) PKI
7 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.05%) Clustering
9 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.13%) Linux
2 44 (23.04%) Windows
3 15 (7.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.33%) Ubuntu
4 14 (7.33%) Unix
5 12 (6.28%) VMS
6 11 (5.76%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (4.71%) Solaris
8 7 (3.66%) AIX
9 6 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.62%) CentOS
11 2 (1.05%) CatOS
11 2 (1.05%) zOS
12 1 (0.52%) MVS
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.03%) DevOps
2 60 (31.41%) CI/CD
3 52 (27.23%) SIEM
4 48 (25.13%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (25.13%) Privileged Access Management
5 46 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (19.37%) Identity Access Management
7 34 (17.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (14.66%) Agile
8 28 (14.66%) RBAC
9 27 (14.14%) Task Automation
10 26 (13.61%) ITSM
11 24 (12.57%) Integration Patterns
12 22 (11.52%) DevSecOps
13 21 (10.99%) Incident Response
14 20 (10.47%) Identity Management
15 19 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (9.95%) Information Security
15 19 (9.95%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (9.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.03%) Python
2 80 (41.88%) PowerShell
3 27 (14.14%) SQL
4 24 (12.57%) Groovy
5 21 (10.99%) Java
6 18 (9.42%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.71%) Bash
8 8 (4.19%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.66%) Go
10 5 (2.62%) PHP
11 3 (1.57%) C++
12 2 (1.05%) BeanShell
12 2 (1.05%) C#
12 2 (1.05%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.52%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.52%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (46.60%) Security Cleared
2 86 (45.03%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.71%) CISSP
4 22 (11.52%) CISM
5 17 (8.90%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.24%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.24%) Degree
6 10 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.09%) MCSA
9 4 (2.09%) MCSE
10 1 (0.52%) CBAP
10 1 (0.52%) CCA
10 1 (0.52%) CISA
10 1 (0.52%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (23.56%) GDPR
2 38 (19.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (16.23%) NIST
4 11 (5.76%) QA
5 10 (5.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.71%) HIPAA
7 6 (3.14%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.62%) NCSC
8 5 (2.62%) PCI DSS
9 4 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 112 (58.64%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.04%) Docker
3 15 (7.85%) Postfix
4 11 (5.76%) Dovecot
4 11 (5.76%) Squid
5 10 (5.24%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.19%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (1.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.57%) KVM
8 3 (1.57%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.05%) NFS
9 2 (1.05%) OpenAM
9 2 (1.05%) OpenDJ
9 2 (1.05%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.52%) Firmware
10 1 (0.52%) Samba
10 1 (0.52%) Xen
10 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (22.51%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (10.47%) Terraform
3 16 (8.38%) Nessus
4 12 (6.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (6.28%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.76%) Grafana
5 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.24%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (5.24%) CA Wily
6 10 (5.24%) Proxmox
7 9 (4.71%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.19%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.66%) Ansible
10 6 (3.14%) PingFederate
11 4 (2.09%) CASB
11 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.09%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (1.57%) SCCM
13 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.05%) SELinux
Vendors
1 64 (33.51%) CyberArk
2 54 (28.27%) Microsoft
3 43 (22.51%) BeyondTrust
4 35 (18.32%) ServiceNow
5 17 (8.90%) Splunk
6 15 (7.85%) Centrify
6 15 (7.85%) IBM
6 15 (7.85%) Oracle
7 13 (6.81%) Remedy
8 11 (5.76%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (5.76%) Ping Identity
9 10 (5.24%) AppDynamics
9 10 (5.24%) Broadcom
9 10 (5.24%) HP
10 9 (4.71%) BMC
10 9 (4.71%) Ivanti
11 8 (4.19%) Okta
11 8 (4.19%) VMware
12 7 (3.66%) SAP
13 6 (3.14%) Cisco