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

 6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 369 383
Rank change year-on-year +22 +14 +99
Contract jobs citing LDAP 256 109 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.45% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.23% 2.00% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 64 111
10th Percentile £421 £413 £290
25th Percentile £488 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +8.64% -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £565
% change year-on-year -5.66% +3.19% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £50.85 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £78.50 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -10.26% - -

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 7,925 5,442 7,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.46% 22.33% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,762 5,362
10th Percentile £363 £368 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -0.86% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 104 226
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.15 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.00 £51.20 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 7 May 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 May 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 May 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 +3 111 £700 +17.15% 17
South East -4 46 £525 -25.00% 21
North of England -27 45 £573 -4.58% 7
Yorkshire -32 29 £513 -14.58% 5
Midlands -66 19 £395 -36.80% 6
West Midlands -51 18 £395 -36.80% 1
North West -28 15 £635 +9.16% 1
East of England -37 15 £478 -18.64% 10
South West -25 13 £539 -18.68% 7
North East - 1 - - 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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 10 (3.91%) nginx
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.17%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 163 (63.67%) Azure
2 113 (44.14%) AWS
3 89 (34.77%) GCP
4 82 (32.03%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.91%) SaaS
7 10 (3.91%) Serverless
8 9 (3.52%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.52%) Route 53
9 4 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.78%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.39%) GitHub
12 1 (0.39%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.95%) DNS
2 57 (22.27%) Kerberos
3 39 (15.23%) Firewall
4 33 (12.89%) DHCP
5 28 (10.94%) VPN
6 24 (9.38%) SSL
7 22 (8.59%) TCP/IP
8 16 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (5.86%) HTTP
10 14 (5.47%) Network Security
11 13 (5.08%) WAN
12 12 (4.69%) LAN
13 11 (4.30%) IPsec
14 10 (3.91%) BIG-IP
14 10 (3.91%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (3.91%) HTTPS
15 9 (3.52%) OpenVPN
15 9 (3.52%) SMTP
15 9 (3.52%) Wireless
15 9 (3.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.52%) MySQL
4 4 (1.56%) Metadata
4 4 (1.56%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (16.41%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.55%) GitLab
2 27 (10.55%) JIRA
3 13 (5.08%) Selenium
4 12 (4.69%) Git
4 12 (4.69%) REST Assured
5 11 (4.30%) Cucumber
5 11 (4.30%) Postman
6 9 (3.52%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.95%) TestRail
9 4 (1.56%) Gatling
9 4 (1.56%) JMeter
9 4 (1.56%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.56%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.39%) JUnit
11 1 (0.39%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (44.14%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.05%) Documentation Skills
3 38 (14.84%) Finance
4 25 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.91%) Banking
8 8 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.17%) Retail
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (31.25%) Architect
2 47 (18.36%) CyberArk Architect
3 13 (5.08%) Consultant
4 11 (4.30%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.52%) Administrator
5 9 (3.52%) Lead
5 9 (3.52%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (3.52%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.52%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.13%) Analyst
6 8 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (2.73%) Security Engineer
7 7 (2.73%) Technical Architect
8 6 (2.34%) Developer
8 6 (2.34%) IAM Specialist
8 6 (2.34%) Security Consultant
8 6 (2.34%) Senior
9 5 (1.95%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (1.95%) AWS Architect
9 5 (1.95%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (29.69%) SAML
2 70 (27.34%) OpenID
3 63 (24.61%) REST
4 49 (19.14%) OAuth
5 41 (16.02%) SOAP
6 35 (13.67%) SailPoint
7 13 (5.08%) OAuth2
8 11 (4.30%) J2EE
9 10 (3.91%) Web Services
10 9 (3.52%) Middleware
11 8 (3.13%) .NET
12 6 (2.34%) JDBC
13 5 (1.95%) JSON
14 4 (1.56%) Playwright
15 3 (1.17%) XML
16 2 (0.78%) EDI
16 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
17 1 (0.39%) LAPP Stack
17 1 (0.39%) libvirt
17 1 (0.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.80%) Security Posture
2 39 (15.23%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (13.28%) Replication
4 30 (11.72%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.42%) Cloud Native
5 19 (7.42%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.30%) PKI
7 9 (3.52%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.95%) CSOC
9 5 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.95%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.56%) Clustering
11 3 (1.17%) SCADA
12 2 (0.78%) CMDB
12 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) PACS
12 2 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.58%) Linux
2 34 (13.28%) Windows
3 18 (7.03%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.47%) CentOS
6 12 (4.69%) Ubuntu
7 11 (4.30%) Unix
8 5 (1.95%) CatOS
9 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.39%) Rocky
10 1 (0.39%) SUSE
10 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (37.89%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (32.81%) SIEM
3 75 (29.30%) DevOps
4 65 (25.39%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (22.66%) CI/CD
6 56 (21.88%) Privileged Access Management
7 55 (21.48%) ITSM
8 54 (21.09%) Identity Access Management
9 52 (20.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 50 (19.53%) Task Automation
11 47 (18.36%) RBAC
12 41 (16.02%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (14.84%) Integration Patterns
14 35 (13.67%) Presales
15 30 (11.72%) High Availability
16 27 (10.55%) Migration
17 25 (9.77%) Roadmaps
18 22 (8.59%) Agile
18 22 (8.59%) Zero Trust
19 21 (8.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 123 (48.05%) PowerShell
2 107 (41.80%) Python
3 37 (14.45%) Java
4 21 (8.20%) SQL
5 14 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.08%) Bash
7 10 (3.91%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.52%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.52%) PHP
9 6 (2.34%) Groovy
10 4 (1.56%) Cypher
10 4 (1.56%) Scala
10 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.39%) C#
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) Perl
12 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 143 (55.86%) Security Cleared
2 134 (52.34%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.89%) CISSP
4 28 (10.94%) CISM
5 12 (4.69%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.30%) Degree
6 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.95%) MCSA
7 5 (1.95%) MCSE
8 4 (1.56%) APMG
8 4 (1.56%) GIAC
8 4 (1.56%) GSEC
8 4 (1.56%) SSCP
9 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.39%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (22.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (20.70%) NIST
3 49 (19.14%) GDPR
4 24 (9.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (7.81%) NCSC
6 9 (3.52%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.52%) SLA
7 8 (3.13%) QA
8 4 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.78%) DICOM
9 2 (0.78%) HL7
10 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (66.80%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.91%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.52%) Squid
5 7 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.34%) Docker
7 5 (1.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.56%) NFS
8 4 (1.56%) Postfix
9 2 (0.78%) KVM
9 2 (0.78%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.78%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.78%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.39%) Ceph
10 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.39%) iptables
10 1 (0.39%) Lustre
10 1 (0.39%) Samba
10 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (22.27%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (14.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 28 (10.94%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.03%) Terraform
5 15 (5.86%) Ansible
6 12 (4.69%) Grafana
7 11 (4.30%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.52%) Check_MK
8 9 (3.52%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.52%) Podman
8 9 (3.52%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (2.73%) Consul
9 7 (2.73%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.34%) CASB
11 5 (1.95%) Nessus
12 4 (1.56%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.56%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.17%) SCOM
14 2 (0.78%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.39%) Argo
Vendors
1 89 (34.77%) CyberArk
2 68 (26.56%) Microsoft
3 57 (22.27%) BeyondTrust
4 37 (14.45%) ServiceNow
5 36 (14.06%) Centrify
6 29 (11.33%) VMware
7 20 (7.81%) Splunk
8 18 (7.03%) Red Hat
9 17 (6.64%) Cisco
10 16 (6.25%) Okta
11 11 (4.30%) CheckPoint
11 11 (4.30%) F5
11 11 (4.30%) Palo Alto
12 10 (3.91%) Google
13 9 (3.52%) Dynatrace
14 8 (3.13%) SAP
15 7 (2.73%) Atlassian
16 6 (2.34%) Workday
17 5 (1.95%) Oracle
17 5 (1.95%) SolarWinds
67 LDAP jobs in England