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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 348 395
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 +70
Contract jobs citing LDAP 229 131 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.53% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.79% 2.33% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 85 95
10th Percentile £429 £364 £281
25th Percentile £490 £415 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £622
90th Percentile £775 £681 £689
UK median daily rate £569 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +8.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £61.88 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £87.48 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 8,216 5,618 7,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.59% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 3,899 5,517
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £537
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.22% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 261
10th Percentile £30.55 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.06 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -16 100 £636 +15.55% 7
South East -17 52 £525 -27.59% 21
North of England -53 35 £620 +24.00% 6
Yorkshire -51 19 £565 -5.83% 3
South West -13 17 £550 -16.98% 3
North West -30 15 £635 +65.23% 3
East of England -33 12 £480 -19.96% 5
Midlands -79 9 £320 -32.06% 3
West Midlands -68 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 12 (5.24%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) nginx
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.31%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.87%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 150 (65.50%) Azure
2 98 (42.79%) AWS
3 90 (39.30%) Entra ID
4 64 (27.95%) GCP
5 15 (6.55%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.37%) SaaS
7 10 (4.37%) Serverless
8 9 (3.93%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.93%) Route 53
9 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.87%) GitHub
11 2 (0.87%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.87%) Sentry
12 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (24.89%) DNS
2 51 (22.27%) Kerberos
3 34 (14.85%) Firewall
4 30 (13.10%) DHCP
5 25 (10.92%) VPN
6 20 (8.73%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.99%) SSL
8 13 (5.68%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (3.93%) OpenVPN
9 9 (3.93%) WAN
10 8 (3.49%) IPsec
10 8 (3.49%) LAN
10 8 (3.49%) Network Security
11 7 (3.06%) BGP
11 7 (3.06%) BIG-IP
11 7 (3.06%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (3.06%) HTTP
11 7 (3.06%) HTTPS
12 6 (2.62%) MPLS
12 6 (2.62%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.75%) Metadata
2 4 (1.75%) MySQL
2 4 (1.75%) Neo4j
3 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.44%) Power BI
4 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (15.72%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.61%) GitLab
3 21 (9.17%) JIRA
4 14 (6.11%) Git
5 9 (3.93%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.49%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.18%) Postman
7 5 (2.18%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.75%) Gatling
8 4 (1.75%) JMeter
8 4 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 87 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.71%) Documentation Skills
3 39 (17.03%) Finance
4 22 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.24%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.62%) Banking
9 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.31%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Military
10 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (31.88%) Architect
2 35 (15.28%) CyberArk Architect
3 11 (4.80%) Administrator
3 11 (4.80%) Linux Administrator
3 11 (4.80%) Technical Architect
4 10 (4.37%) Consultant
5 9 (3.93%) IAM Specialist
6 8 (3.49%) Developer
6 8 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (3.49%) Lead
6 8 (3.49%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.06%) SailPoint Engineer
7 7 (3.06%) Security Engineer
7 7 (3.06%) Senior
8 6 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.18%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.18%) Test Architect
9 5 (2.18%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (1.75%) CyberArk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (36.68%) SAML
2 77 (33.62%) OpenID
3 60 (26.20%) OAuth
4 47 (20.52%) REST
5 37 (16.16%) SailPoint
6 30 (13.10%) SOAP
7 23 (10.04%) OAuth2
8 17 (7.42%) Web Services
9 11 (4.80%) Middleware
10 9 (3.93%) J2EE
11 8 (3.49%) JSON
12 7 (3.06%) .NET
13 6 (2.62%) JDBC
14 4 (1.75%) Playwright
14 4 (1.75%) XML
15 2 (0.87%) EDI
16 1 (0.44%) FIDO
16 1 (0.44%) HTML
16 1 (0.44%) RESTful
16 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.16%) Onboarding
2 34 (14.85%) Replication
3 31 (13.54%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (12.23%) Security Posture
5 20 (8.73%) Cloud Native
6 18 (7.86%) Management Information System
7 14 (6.11%) PKI
8 11 (4.80%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.62%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.18%) Clustering
10 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.31%) CMDB
11 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.87%) IoT
12 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.87%) PACS
12 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.44%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.09%) Linux
2 36 (15.72%) Windows
3 19 (8.30%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.68%) CentOS
6 11 (4.80%) Unix
7 9 (3.93%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.31%) CatOS
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) Rocky
10 1 (0.44%) SUSE
10 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (29.26%) DevOps
3 55 (24.02%) RBAC
4 53 (23.14%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (23.14%) Identity Access Management
5 52 (22.71%) SIEM
6 49 (21.40%) CI/CD
7 45 (19.65%) ITSM
8 41 (17.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 38 (16.59%) Privileged Access Management
10 36 (15.72%) Task Automation
11 31 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (12.66%) Roadmaps
13 28 (12.23%) Integration Patterns
14 26 (11.35%) Agile
14 26 (11.35%) Migration
14 26 (11.35%) Presales
15 24 (10.48%) High Availability
15 24 (10.48%) Zero Trust
16 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 102 (44.54%) PowerShell
2 73 (31.88%) Python
3 34 (14.85%) Java
4 13 (5.68%) SQL
5 12 (5.24%) Shell Script
6 11 (4.80%) MATLAB
7 10 (4.37%) Bash
8 9 (3.93%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.18%) BeanShell
9 5 (2.18%) Groovy
10 4 (1.75%) Cypher
10 4 (1.75%) PHP
10 4 (1.75%) Scala
10 4 (1.75%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.87%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) C#
12 1 (0.44%) Korn
12 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 129 (56.33%) Security Cleared
2 121 (52.84%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.85%) CISSP
4 21 (9.17%) CISM
5 20 (8.73%) Degree
6 13 (5.68%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.93%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.62%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.18%) CSPO
10 5 (2.18%) GIAC
10 5 (2.18%) MCSA
10 5 (2.18%) MCSE
10 5 (2.18%) SSCP
11 4 (1.75%) APMG
11 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.31%) GSEC
12 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (20.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (19.21%) NIST
3 41 (17.90%) GDPR
4 22 (9.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (9.17%) NCSC
6 11 (4.80%) SLA
7 9 (3.93%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.31%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.31%) QA
10 2 (0.87%) DICOM
10 2 (0.87%) HL7
11 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.44%) GRC
11 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 159 (69.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.93%) Squid
4 8 (3.49%) Docker
5 7 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.06%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.31%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.44%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (23.14%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (19.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (13.54%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.61%) Terraform
5 17 (7.42%) Ansible
6 12 (5.24%) Grafana
7 11 (4.80%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.80%) Podman
7 11 (4.80%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.93%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.06%) Consul
9 7 (3.06%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.62%) CASB
11 5 (2.18%) Nessus
12 4 (1.75%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.75%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.31%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.31%) SCOM
14 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 70 (30.57%) CyberArk
3 33 (14.41%) BeyondTrust
4 31 (13.54%) ServiceNow
5 27 (11.79%) VMware
6 23 (10.04%) Centrify
6 23 (10.04%) Okta
7 21 (9.17%) Splunk
8 20 (8.73%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.11%) Cisco
10 11 (4.80%) Ping Identity
11 9 (3.93%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.93%) Google
12 8 (3.49%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.49%) Palo Alto
12 8 (3.49%) SAP
13 7 (3.06%) Atlassian
13 7 (3.06%) F5
13 7 (3.06%) ForgeRock
14 6 (2.62%) Oracle