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

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 351 377
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +106
Contract jobs citing LDAP 254 124 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 2.31% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 77 110
10th Percentile £418 £375 £289
25th Percentile £488 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £625
90th Percentile - £688 £700
UK median daily rate £568 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +3.27% -2.65% +4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £51.05 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% - -
75th Percentile £82.37 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £84.59 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £79.91 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -1.77% - -

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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 116 £700 +27.27% 4
North of England -45 44 £593 -1.25% 1
South East -15 43 £525 -27.59% 15
Yorkshire -36 28 £525 -12.50% 1
East of England -29 17 £480 -18.26% 3
South West -21 16 £545 -17.74% 2
North West -24 15 £635 +9.16%
Midlands -74 12 £320 -34.96% 1
West Midlands -64 11 £320 -48.80% 1
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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 10 (3.94%) nginx
3 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.54%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 166 (65.35%) Azure
2 115 (45.28%) AWS
3 86 (33.86%) Entra ID
4 84 (33.07%) GCP
5 16 (6.30%) OpenShift
6 13 (5.12%) SaaS
7 11 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.94%) Serverless
9 9 (3.54%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.54%) Route 53
10 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.79%) GitHub
11 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 68 (26.77%) DNS
2 53 (20.87%) Kerberos
3 37 (14.57%) Firewall
4 32 (12.60%) DHCP
5 28 (11.02%) VPN
6 24 (9.45%) SSL
7 20 (7.87%) TCP/IP
8 16 (6.30%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (5.91%) HTTP
10 13 (5.12%) Network Security
11 12 (4.72%) WAN
12 11 (4.33%) IPsec
12 11 (4.33%) LAN
13 10 (3.94%) BIG-IP
13 10 (3.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.94%) HTTPS
14 9 (3.54%) OpenVPN
14 9 (3.54%) Wireless
14 9 (3.54%) Wireshark
15 8 (3.15%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.54%) MySQL
4 4 (1.57%) Metadata
4 4 (1.57%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.79%) 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%) Power BI
6 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (17.72%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.81%) GitLab
3 27 (10.63%) JIRA
4 13 (5.12%) Git
5 12 (4.72%) REST Assured
5 12 (4.72%) Selenium
6 11 (4.33%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.33%) Postman
7 9 (3.54%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.15%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.97%) TestRail
10 4 (1.57%) Gatling
10 4 (1.57%) JMeter
10 4 (1.57%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.57%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.39%) JUnit
11 1 (0.39%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.08%) Documentation Skills
3 40 (15.75%) Finance
4 24 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.72%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.54%) Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.18%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (33.86%) Architect
2 49 (19.29%) CyberArk Architect
3 12 (4.72%) Consultant
4 11 (4.33%) Administrator
4 11 (4.33%) Lead
4 11 (4.33%) Linux Administrator
4 11 (4.33%) Network Engineer
5 8 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (3.15%) Technical Architect
5 8 (3.15%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (3.15%) Test Engineer
6 7 (2.76%) Analyst
6 7 (2.76%) Developer
6 7 (2.76%) Security Engineer
6 7 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.36%) IAM Specialist
7 6 (2.36%) SailPoint Engineer
7 6 (2.36%) Senior
8 5 (1.97%) Automation Test Lead
8 5 (1.97%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (31.10%) SAML
2 76 (29.92%) OpenID
3 66 (25.98%) REST
4 52 (20.47%) OAuth
5 42 (16.54%) SOAP
6 40 (15.75%) SailPoint
7 18 (7.09%) OAuth2
8 12 (4.72%) Web Services
9 11 (4.33%) Middleware
10 10 (3.94%) .NET
11 9 (3.54%) J2EE
12 6 (2.36%) JDBC
12 6 (2.36%) JSON
13 4 (1.57%) Playwright
13 4 (1.57%) XML
14 2 (0.79%) EDI
14 2 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
15 1 (0.39%) HTML
15 1 (0.39%) React
15 1 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.93%) Enterprise Software
2 42 (16.54%) Security Posture
3 36 (14.17%) Replication
4 35 (13.78%) Onboarding
5 20 (7.87%) Management Information System
6 19 (7.48%) Cloud Native
7 13 (5.12%) PKI
8 11 (4.33%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.97%) Clustering
10 5 (1.97%) CSOC
10 5 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.97%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.57%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.18%) CMDB
12 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.79%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.72%) Linux
2 37 (14.57%) Windows
3 19 (7.48%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.72%) CentOS
6 10 (3.94%) Unix
7 8 (3.15%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.97%) CatOS
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.39%) Rocky
10 1 (0.39%) SUSE
10 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (28.74%) SIEM
3 70 (27.56%) DevOps
4 59 (23.23%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (22.44%) Identity Access Management
6 56 (22.05%) ITSM
6 56 (22.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 55 (21.65%) CI/CD
8 53 (20.87%) Privileged Access Management
9 52 (20.47%) RBAC
10 50 (19.69%) Task Automation
11 43 (16.93%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (15.35%) Integration Patterns
13 38 (14.96%) Presales
14 27 (10.63%) Agile
15 26 (10.24%) High Availability
15 26 (10.24%) Migration
15 26 (10.24%) Roadmaps
16 23 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (9.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 119 (46.85%) PowerShell
2 92 (36.22%) Python
3 39 (15.35%) Java
4 21 (8.27%) SQL
5 14 (5.51%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.72%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.33%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.94%) Bash
9 9 (3.54%) PHP
10 5 (1.97%) Groovy
11 4 (1.57%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.57%) Cypher
11 4 (1.57%) Scala
11 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.79%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) C#
13 1 (0.39%) Korn
13 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 146 (57.48%) Security Cleared
2 137 (53.94%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.20%) CISSP
4 21 (8.27%) CISM
5 14 (5.51%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.12%) Degree
7 12 (4.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.97%) MCSA
9 5 (1.97%) MCSE
10 4 (1.57%) APMG
10 4 (1.57%) GIAC
10 4 (1.57%) SSCP
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.18%) CSPO
11 3 (1.18%) GSEC
12 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (16.54%) GDPR
2 42 (16.54%) NIST
3 23 (9.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 21 (8.27%) NCSC
5 11 (4.33%) SLA
6 9 (3.54%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.15%) QA
8 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.79%) DICOM
9 2 (0.79%) 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
1 172 (67.72%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.94%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.54%) Squid
5 8 (3.15%) Docker
6 7 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.39%) KVM
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (22.83%) Single Sign-On
2 41 (16.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (12.20%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.87%) Terraform
5 16 (6.30%) Ansible
6 12 (4.72%) Grafana
7 11 (4.33%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.33%) Podman
7 11 (4.33%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.33%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.54%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.76%) Consul
9 7 (2.76%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.36%) CASB
11 5 (1.97%) Nessus
12 4 (1.57%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.57%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.18%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.18%) SCOM
14 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (33.46%) CyberArk
2 73 (28.74%) Microsoft
3 47 (18.50%) BeyondTrust
4 38 (14.96%) ServiceNow
5 36 (14.17%) Centrify
6 30 (11.81%) VMware
7 21 (8.27%) Splunk
8 20 (7.87%) Okta
8 20 (7.87%) Red Hat
9 17 (6.69%) Cisco
10 11 (4.33%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.33%) Google
10 11 (4.33%) Palo Alto
11 10 (3.94%) F5
12 9 (3.54%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.15%) Ping Identity
13 8 (3.15%) SAP
14 7 (2.76%) Atlassian
15 6 (2.36%) Oracle
15 6 (2.36%) Workday
23 LDAP jobs in England