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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 357 384
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +91
Contract jobs citing LDAP 252 127 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 2.34% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 79 103
10th Percentile £443 £375 £283
25th Percentile £488 £445 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £750 £638 £622
90th Percentile - £688 £699
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £51.15 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% - -
75th Percentile £81.15 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £84.17 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -4.79% - -

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 8,051 5,428 7,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.19% 22.54% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,310 3,752 5,401
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £635 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 106 239
10th Percentile £31.18 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.13 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +7 115 £700 +27.27% 11
South East -27 45 £525 -27.59% 24
North of England -51 44 £593 -1.25% 8
Yorkshire -34 28 £525 -12.50% 3
East of England -29 17 £480 -18.26% 4
South West -20 16 £545 -17.74% 4
North West -27 15 £635 +9.16% 5
Midlands -72 9 £320 -34.96% 3
West Midlands -63 8 £320 -45.53% 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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 10 (3.97%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (66.27%) Azure
2 116 (46.03%) AWS
3 86 (34.13%) Entra ID
4 84 (33.33%) GCP
5 16 (6.35%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.56%) SaaS
7 11 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.97%) Serverless
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.57%) Route 53
10 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.79%) GitHub
11 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 65 (25.79%) DNS
2 52 (20.63%) Kerberos
3 34 (13.49%) Firewall
4 32 (12.70%) DHCP
5 25 (9.92%) VPN
6 21 (8.33%) SSL
7 20 (7.94%) TCP/IP
8 13 (5.16%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (5.16%) Network Security
9 12 (4.76%) HTTP
10 9 (3.57%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.57%) WAN
11 8 (3.17%) IPsec
11 8 (3.17%) LAN
12 7 (2.78%) BGP
12 7 (2.78%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.78%) HTTPS
13 6 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.56%) 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%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.79%) 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%) Power BI
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.90%) GitLab
3 27 (10.71%) JIRA
4 13 (5.16%) Git
5 12 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 12 (4.76%) Selenium
6 11 (4.37%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.37%) Postman
7 9 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.17%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.98%) TestRail
10 4 (1.59%) Gatling
10 4 (1.59%) JMeter
10 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.40%) JUnit
11 1 (0.40%) Maven
11 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.24%) Documentation Skills
3 40 (15.87%) Finance
4 24 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.76%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.57%) Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (34.52%) Architect
2 49 (19.44%) CyberArk Architect
3 11 (4.37%) Administrator
3 11 (4.37%) Consultant
3 11 (4.37%) Lead
3 11 (4.37%) Linux Administrator
4 9 (3.57%) Technical Architect
5 8 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (3.17%) Network Engineer
5 8 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (3.17%) Test Engineer
6 7 (2.78%) Analyst
6 7 (2.78%) Developer
6 7 (2.78%) IAM Specialist
6 7 (2.78%) Security Engineer
6 7 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.38%) SailPoint Engineer
7 6 (2.38%) Senior
8 5 (1.98%) Automation Test Lead
8 5 (1.98%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (30.95%) OpenID
1 78 (30.95%) SAML
2 67 (26.59%) REST
3 54 (21.43%) OAuth
4 43 (17.06%) SOAP
5 41 (16.27%) SailPoint
6 19 (7.54%) OAuth2
7 14 (5.56%) Web Services
8 11 (4.37%) .NET
8 11 (4.37%) Middleware
9 9 (3.57%) J2EE
10 7 (2.78%) JSON
11 6 (2.38%) JDBC
12 4 (1.59%) Playwright
12 4 (1.59%) XML
13 2 (0.79%) EDI
13 2 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
14 1 (0.40%) HTML
14 1 (0.40%) React
14 1 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.06%) Enterprise Software
2 41 (16.27%) Security Posture
3 36 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 36 (14.29%) Replication
4 21 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 19 (7.54%) Cloud Native
6 13 (5.16%) PKI
7 11 (4.37%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.98%) Clustering
9 5 (1.98%) CSOC
9 5 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.98%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.98%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.19%) CMDB
11 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.86%) Linux
2 37 (14.68%) Windows
3 19 (7.54%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.76%) CentOS
6 10 (3.97%) Unix
7 8 (3.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.19%) CatOS
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.40%) SUSE
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (28.97%) SIEM
3 71 (28.17%) DevOps
4 57 (22.62%) Identity Access Management
4 57 (22.62%) ITSM
5 56 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 56 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 56 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 53 (21.03%) RBAC
7 52 (20.63%) Privileged Access Management
8 50 (19.84%) Task Automation
9 44 (17.46%) Technical Leadership
10 39 (15.48%) Integration Patterns
11 38 (15.08%) Presales
12 28 (11.11%) Agile
13 26 (10.32%) Migration
13 26 (10.32%) Roadmaps
14 25 (9.92%) High Availability
15 23 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (8.73%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 120 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 93 (36.90%) Python
3 40 (15.87%) Java
4 21 (8.33%) SQL
5 14 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.37%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.97%) Bash
9 9 (3.57%) PHP
10 5 (1.98%) Groovy
11 4 (1.59%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.59%) Cypher
11 4 (1.59%) Scala
11 4 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.79%) C++
13 1 (0.40%) C#
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 147 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 138 (54.76%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.30%) CISSP
4 21 (8.33%) CISM
5 14 (5.56%) Degree
5 14 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.98%) MCSA
8 5 (1.98%) MCSE
9 4 (1.59%) APMG
9 4 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.59%) GIAC
9 4 (1.59%) SSCP
10 3 (1.19%) CSPO
10 3 (1.19%) GSEC
11 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (17.06%) GDPR
2 43 (17.06%) NIST
3 23 (9.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (8.33%) NCSC
5 11 (4.37%) SLA
6 9 (3.57%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.17%) QA
8 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.79%) DICOM
10 2 (0.79%) HL7
11 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 170 (67.46%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.57%) Squid
4 8 (3.17%) Docker
5 7 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.98%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.19%) NFS
8 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (12.30%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.94%) Terraform
5 16 (6.35%) Ansible
6 12 (4.76%) Grafana
7 11 (4.37%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.37%) Podman
7 11 (4.37%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.57%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.78%) Consul
9 7 (2.78%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.38%) CASB
11 5 (1.98%) Nessus
12 4 (1.59%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.59%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.19%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.19%) SCOM
14 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (33.73%) CyberArk
2 71 (28.17%) Microsoft
3 47 (18.65%) BeyondTrust
4 38 (15.08%) ServiceNow
5 36 (14.29%) Centrify
6 27 (10.71%) VMware
7 21 (8.33%) Splunk
8 20 (7.94%) Okta
8 20 (7.94%) Red Hat
9 14 (5.56%) Cisco
10 11 (4.37%) Google
11 9 (3.57%) Dynatrace
12 8 (3.17%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.17%) Palo Alto
12 8 (3.17%) Ping Identity
12 8 (3.17%) SAP
13 7 (2.78%) Atlassian
13 7 (2.78%) F5
14 6 (2.38%) Oracle
14 6 (2.38%) Workday
54 LDAP jobs in England