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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 368 366
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 +114
Contract jobs citing LDAP 250 118 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% 2.15% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 68 111
10th Percentile £434 £414 £290
25th Percentile £488 £500 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £711 £651 £625
90th Percentile £750 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £50.85 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £80.59 £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 £81.91 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.26% +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 7,932 5,480 7,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.75% 22.41% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 3,803 5,304
10th Percentile £360 £370 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 99 209
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.01 £21.63
25th Percentile £51.81 £51.25 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £82.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -2 111 £700 +16.67% 14
North of England -47 45 £573 -4.58% 1
South East -28 42 £500 -14.89% 14
Yorkshire -42 29 £513 -14.58% 1
Midlands -58 19 £395 -36.80%
West Midlands -53 18 £395 -36.80%
North West -25 15 £635 +26.90%
East of England -36 15 £478 -18.64% 4
South West -33 10 £540 -18.49% 3
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 (4.40%) Confluence
2 10 (4.00%) nginx
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) 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 9 (3.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 157 (62.80%) Azure
2 106 (42.40%) AWS
3 85 (34.00%) GCP
4 80 (32.00%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.00%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.00%) SaaS
6 10 (4.00%) Serverless
7 9 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.60%) Route 53
7 9 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.80%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.40%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 66 (26.40%) DNS
2 56 (22.40%) Kerberos
3 38 (15.20%) Firewall
4 33 (13.20%) DHCP
5 27 (10.80%) VPN
6 24 (9.60%) SSL
7 20 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 16 (6.40%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (6.00%) HTTP
10 13 (5.20%) Network Security
10 13 (5.20%) WAN
11 12 (4.80%) LAN
12 10 (4.00%) BIG-IP
12 10 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (4.00%) HTTPS
12 10 (4.00%) IPsec
13 9 (3.60%) OpenVPN
13 9 (3.60%) SMTP
13 9 (3.60%) Wireless
13 9 (3.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.60%) MySQL
4 4 (1.60%) Metadata
4 4 (1.60%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (16.80%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.80%) GitLab
2 27 (10.80%) JIRA
3 13 (5.20%) Selenium
4 12 (4.80%) REST Assured
5 11 (4.40%) Cucumber
5 11 (4.40%) Git
5 11 (4.40%) Postman
6 9 (3.60%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.20%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.00%) TestRail
9 4 (1.60%) Gatling
9 4 (1.60%) JMeter
9 4 (1.60%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.60%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.40%) JUnit
11 1 (0.40%) Maven
11 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.80%) Documentation Skills
3 38 (15.20%) Finance
4 24 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.00%) Banking
8 7 (2.80%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (32.00%) Architect
2 47 (18.80%) CyberArk Architect
3 16 (6.40%) Consultant
4 11 (4.40%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.60%) Administrator
5 9 (3.60%) Lead
5 9 (3.60%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (3.60%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.60%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.60%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.20%) Analyst
7 7 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (2.80%) Security Engineer
7 7 (2.80%) Technical Architect
8 6 (2.40%) Developer
8 6 (2.40%) IAM Specialist
8 6 (2.40%) Senior
9 5 (2.00%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (2.00%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.00%) SAML
2 70 (28.00%) OpenID
3 63 (25.20%) REST
4 49 (19.60%) OAuth
5 41 (16.40%) SOAP
6 34 (13.60%) SailPoint
7 13 (5.20%) OAuth2
8 11 (4.40%) J2EE
9 9 (3.60%) Middleware
10 8 (3.20%) .NET
10 8 (3.20%) Web Services
11 6 (2.40%) JDBC
12 5 (2.00%) JSON
13 4 (1.60%) Playwright
14 3 (1.20%) XML
15 2 (0.80%) EDI
16 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
16 1 (0.40%) LAMP
16 1 (0.40%) LAPP Stack
16 1 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.20%) Security Posture
2 40 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (13.60%) Replication
4 30 (12.00%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.60%) Cloud Native
5 19 (7.60%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.40%) PKI
7 9 (3.60%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.00%) CSOC
9 5 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.00%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.60%) Clustering
11 3 (1.20%) CMDB
11 3 (1.20%) SCADA
12 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) PACS
12 2 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.00%) Linux
2 34 (13.60%) Windows
3 18 (7.20%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.20%) CentOS
6 11 (4.40%) Ubuntu
7 9 (3.60%) Unix
8 5 (2.00%) CatOS
9 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (36.80%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (32.40%) SIEM
3 70 (28.00%) DevOps
4 65 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (23.20%) Privileged Access Management
6 56 (22.40%) CI/CD
7 55 (22.00%) Identity Access Management
7 55 (22.00%) ITSM
8 52 (20.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (20.00%) Task Automation
10 49 (19.60%) RBAC
11 41 (16.40%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (15.20%) Integration Patterns
13 34 (13.60%) Presales
14 29 (11.60%) High Availability
15 27 (10.80%) Migration
15 27 (10.80%) Roadmaps
16 22 (8.80%) Zero Trust
17 21 (8.40%) Agile
18 20 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 122 (48.80%) PowerShell
2 105 (42.00%) Python
3 37 (14.80%) Java
4 21 (8.40%) SQL
5 12 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.40%) Bash
7 10 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.60%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.60%) PHP
9 6 (2.40%) Groovy
10 4 (1.60%) Cypher
10 4 (1.60%) Scala
10 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.80%) 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
1 138 (55.20%) Security Cleared
2 131 (52.40%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.20%) CISSP
4 28 (11.20%) CISM
5 14 (5.60%) CompTIA Security+
6 13 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.00%) Degree
9 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.00%) MCSA
9 5 (2.00%) MCSE
10 4 (1.60%) APMG
10 4 (1.60%) GIAC
10 4 (1.60%) GSEC
10 4 (1.60%) SSCP
11 1 (0.40%) CCA
11 1 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.40%) OCP
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (22.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (20.40%) NIST
3 47 (18.80%) GDPR
4 24 (9.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (8.00%) NCSC
6 9 (3.60%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.60%) SLA
7 8 (3.20%) QA
8 4 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.80%) DICOM
9 2 (0.80%) HL7
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 168 (67.20%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.00%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.60%) Squid
5 7 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 5 (2.00%) Docker
7 4 (1.60%) Postfix
8 3 (1.20%) NFS
9 2 (0.80%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.80%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.80%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.40%) Ceph
10 1 (0.40%) iptables
10 1 (0.40%) KVM
10 1 (0.40%) Lustre
10 1 (0.40%) Samba
10 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (21.60%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (15.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (10.80%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.80%) Terraform
5 14 (5.60%) Ansible
6 11 (4.40%) Grafana
7 10 (4.00%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.60%) Check_MK
8 9 (3.60%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.60%) Podman
8 9 (3.60%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (2.80%) Consul
9 7 (2.80%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.00%) CASB
10 5 (2.00%) Nessus
11 4 (1.60%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.60%) PingFederate
12 3 (1.20%) SCOM
13 2 (0.80%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 86 (34.40%) CyberArk
2 71 (28.40%) Microsoft
3 55 (22.00%) BeyondTrust
4 36 (14.40%) Centrify
5 34 (13.60%) ServiceNow
6 28 (11.20%) VMware
7 18 (7.20%) Red Hat
7 18 (7.20%) Splunk
8 17 (6.80%) Cisco
9 16 (6.40%) Okta
10 11 (4.40%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.40%) F5
10 11 (4.40%) Palo Alto
11 10 (4.00%) Google
12 9 (3.60%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.20%) SAP
14 7 (2.80%) Atlassian
15 6 (2.40%) Workday
16 5 (2.00%) SolarWinds
16 5 (2.00%) Tenable