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

 6 months to
7 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 325 370
Rank change year-on-year -25 +45 +70
Contract jobs citing LDAP 245 156 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.61% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 2.68% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 88 107
10th Percentile £427 £400 £308
25th Percentile £488 £494 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -1.35%
75th Percentile £731 £650 £662
90th Percentile £750 £765 £741
UK median daily rate £539 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -7.59% +6.00% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £50.70 £75.79 £52.28
25th Percentile £53.00 £80.34 £53.83
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.01 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% +43.64% -22.74%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.91 £67.20
90th Percentile £78.50 £83.05 £73.68
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £81.01 £56.40
% change year-on-year -9.89% +43.64% -22.74%

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 7,840 5,821 7,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.65% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 3,854 5,485
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 84 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.88 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +3 101 £700 +16.67% 9
South East -12 41 £500 -11.19% 12
North of England -36 41 £559 -6.83% 5
Yorkshire -42 26 £525 -12.50% 2
Midlands -68 23 £531 -12.41% 2
West Midlands -59 22 £537 -11.42% 2
South West -26 16 £513 -24.77% 1
North West -24 15 £620 +24.00% 3
East of England -34 14 £478 -16.87% 8
East Midlands - 1 £525 -
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 10 (4.08%) nginx
2 9 (3.67%) Confluence
3 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.63%) Apache
5 3 (1.22%) IIS
5 3 (1.22%) iPlanet
5 3 (1.22%) JBoss
5 3 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.22%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 143 (58.37%) Azure
2 98 (40.00%) AWS
3 80 (32.65%) GCP
4 64 (26.12%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.35%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.49%) SaaS
7 10 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.08%) Route 53
7 10 (4.08%) Serverless
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.22%) ShareGate
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.41%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 64 (26.12%) Kerberos
2 63 (25.71%) DNS
3 33 (13.47%) Firewall
4 31 (12.65%) DHCP
5 25 (10.20%) VPN
6 20 (8.16%) SSL
7 18 (7.35%) TCP/IP
8 13 (5.31%) HTTP
8 13 (5.31%) Network Security
9 12 (4.90%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (4.49%) SMTP
11 8 (3.27%) LAN
11 8 (3.27%) OpenVPN
11 8 (3.27%) WAN
12 6 (2.45%) BGP
12 6 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.45%) HTTPS
12 6 (2.45%) MPLS
12 6 (2.45%) TACACS
12 6 (2.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.27%) MySQL
4 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.22%) Metadata
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.22%) Power BI
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (17.55%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.20%) GitLab
2 25 (10.20%) JIRA
3 14 (5.71%) Git
4 13 (5.31%) Selenium
5 12 (4.90%) REST Assured
6 11 (4.49%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.49%) Postman
7 9 (3.67%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.27%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.04%) TestRail
10 4 (1.63%) Gatling
10 4 (1.63%) JMeter
10 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.63%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.22%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
General
1 114 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.49%) Documentation Skills
3 35 (14.29%) Finance
4 25 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.08%) Banking
8 8 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.04%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.63%) Aviation
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (30.20%) Architect
2 47 (19.18%) CyberArk Architect
3 23 (9.39%) Consultant
4 10 (4.08%) Lead
5 9 (3.67%) Analyst
5 9 (3.67%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.67%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.27%) Administrator
6 8 (3.27%) Developer
6 8 (3.27%) Network Engineer
6 8 (3.27%) Security Engineer
7 7 (2.86%) Linux Administrator
8 6 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.45%) Senior
8 6 (2.45%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.04%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (2.04%) Test Architect
9 5 (2.04%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (29.39%) SAML
2 66 (26.94%) OpenID
3 54 (22.04%) REST
4 46 (18.78%) OAuth
5 36 (14.69%) SOAP
6 25 (10.20%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.08%) .NET
8 8 (3.27%) Middleware
9 6 (2.45%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.63%) J2EE
10 4 (1.63%) Playwright
10 4 (1.63%) Web Services
11 3 (1.22%) RESTful
12 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.82%) EDI
12 2 (0.82%) HTML
12 2 (0.82%) XML
13 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
13 1 (0.41%) libvirt
13 1 (0.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.14%) Security Posture
2 37 (15.10%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (13.47%) Replication
4 29 (11.84%) Onboarding
5 21 (8.57%) Cloud Native
6 15 (6.12%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.49%) PKI
8 7 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.04%) CSOC
10 5 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.04%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.63%) SCADA
12 3 (1.22%) CMDB
13 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.82%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.37%) Linux
2 42 (17.14%) Windows
3 24 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.90%) CentOS
6 11 (4.49%) Ubuntu
6 11 (4.49%) Unix
7 4 (1.63%) AIX
7 4 (1.63%) CatOS
7 4 (1.63%) Solaris
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (33.06%) SIEM
3 71 (28.98%) DevOps
4 64 (26.12%) CI/CD
5 62 (25.31%) Cybersecurity
6 60 (24.49%) Privileged Access Management
7 52 (21.22%) Task Automation
8 51 (20.82%) Identity Access Management
8 51 (20.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (20.41%) ITSM
10 40 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
11 38 (15.51%) RBAC
12 35 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
13 34 (13.88%) Presales
14 31 (12.65%) Migration
15 28 (11.43%) Roadmaps
16 25 (10.20%) Agile
16 25 (10.20%) DevSecOps
17 24 (9.80%) High Availability
18 22 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (48.16%) PowerShell
2 96 (39.18%) Python
3 26 (10.61%) Java
4 24 (9.80%) SQL
5 13 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.49%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.67%) PHP
8 8 (3.27%) Bash
8 8 (3.27%) Groovy
9 7 (2.86%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.63%) C++
10 4 (1.63%) Cypher
10 4 (1.63%) Scala
10 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.22%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.82%) C#
13 1 (0.41%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 142 (57.96%) Security Cleared
2 135 (55.10%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.69%) CISSP
4 28 (11.43%) CISM
5 12 (4.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.45%) Degree
8 5 (2.04%) GIAC
8 5 (2.04%) MCSA
8 5 (2.04%) MCSE
9 4 (1.63%) APMG
9 4 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.63%) GSEC
9 4 (1.63%) SSCP
10 1 (0.41%) CISA
10 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (24.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (22.45%) GDPR
3 54 (22.04%) NIST
4 20 (8.16%) NCSC
5 18 (7.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.27%) QA
7 7 (2.86%) SLA
8 5 (2.04%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.82%) DICOM
10 2 (0.82%) HL7
11 1 (0.41%) GRC
11 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 165 (67.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.67%) Squid
4 8 (3.27%) Docker
5 7 (2.86%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 7 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.45%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.04%) Postfix
8 3 (1.22%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 2 (0.82%) NFS
9 2 (0.82%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.82%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.82%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.41%) Ceph
10 1 (0.41%) iptables
10 1 (0.41%) Lustre
10 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.41%) XenApp
10 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (21.63%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (14.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 24 (9.80%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.94%) Terraform
5 14 (5.71%) Ansible
6 11 (4.49%) Grafana
7 10 (4.08%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.27%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.86%) Check_MK
9 7 (2.86%) Consul
9 7 (2.86%) Podman
9 7 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.45%) Nessus
10 6 (2.45%) PingFederate
10 6 (2.45%) vCenter Server
11 5 (2.04%) CASB
12 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.22%) SCCM
13 3 (1.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 93 (37.96%) CyberArk
2 69 (28.16%) Microsoft
3 64 (26.12%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (13.88%) Centrify
5 24 (9.80%) ServiceNow
6 21 (8.57%) Splunk
6 21 (8.57%) VMware
7 17 (6.94%) Okta
8 15 (6.12%) Red Hat
9 14 (5.71%) Cisco
10 10 (4.08%) Oracle
11 9 (3.67%) Google
12 8 (3.27%) Dynatrace
13 7 (2.86%) Atlassian
13 7 (2.86%) F5
13 7 (2.86%) Ping Identity
13 7 (2.86%) SAP
14 6 (2.45%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.45%) Palo Alto
15 5 (2.04%) Tenable
33 LDAP jobs in England