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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 372 323
Rank change year-on-year -6 -49 +179
Contract jobs citing LDAP 168 135 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.45% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 2.04% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 71 161
10th Percentile £363 £220 £363
25th Percentile £428 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £671 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -14.43% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £44.88 - £53.13
25th Percentile £45.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.00 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -13.10% +30.16% -23.70%

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 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 -17 56 £604 -1.79% 9
Midlands -9 42 £500 -11.19% 6
West Midlands -9 36 £540 -4.09% 6
North of England -18 26 £453 +24.97% 15
South East -15 22 £481 -12.66% 10
North West -1 18 £450 +24.14% 5
East of England -13 12 £680 +20.89% 11
South West -14 11 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £525 - 10
East Midlands - 6 £415 -
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 37 (22.02%) Confluence
2 12 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 11 (6.55%) Apache
3 11 (6.55%) nginx
3 11 (6.55%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (5.95%) IIS
4 10 (5.95%) iPlanet
4 10 (5.95%) JBoss
5 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.19%) CICS
7 2 (1.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.60%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.60%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.50%) AWS
2 54 (32.14%) Azure
3 29 (17.26%) GCP
4 21 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 19 (11.31%) Amazon S3
6 18 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (7.14%) Route 53
8 11 (6.55%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (6.55%) AWS KMS
8 11 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (5.36%) GitHub
10 8 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.76%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.76%) Serverless
11 5 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.98%) SaaS
12 3 (1.79%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (20.83%) DNS
1 35 (20.83%) SSL
2 31 (18.45%) Kerberos
3 30 (17.86%) SMTP
4 27 (16.07%) HTTP
5 24 (14.29%) Firewall
6 21 (12.50%) SSH
7 20 (11.90%) FTP
8 16 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
9 14 (8.33%) Network Security
10 11 (6.55%) IMAP
10 11 (6.55%) TCP/IP
11 7 (4.17%) VPN
12 5 (2.98%) LAN
12 5 (2.98%) WAN
13 4 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (2.38%) DHCP
13 4 (2.38%) DKIM
13 4 (2.38%) Internet
13 4 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.95%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.79%) Metadata
5 3 (1.79%) Power BI
6 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) MySQL
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (22.02%) JIRA
2 30 (17.86%) Git
3 25 (14.88%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.55%) Vagrant
5 10 (5.95%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (5.95%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.57%) GitLab
8 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
8 1 (0.60%) Subversion
8 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.48%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.52%) Finance
5 16 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.98%) Banking
7 4 (2.38%) Aviation
8 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.19%) Electronics
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (13.10%) Consultant
2 18 (10.71%) Architect
2 18 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (10.12%) Analyst
3 17 (10.12%) Senior
4 13 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (6.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (5.95%) Developer
6 10 (5.95%) ServiceNow Architect
6 10 (5.95%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.57%) Management Consultant
9 6 (3.57%) Security Consultant
10 5 (2.98%) Python Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (39.88%) SAML
2 47 (27.98%) OAuth
3 39 (23.21%) OpenID
4 25 (14.88%) REST
5 19 (11.31%) AngularJS
5 19 (11.31%) HTML
5 19 (11.31%) Web Services
6 16 (9.52%) SOAP
7 14 (8.33%) HTML5
8 13 (7.74%) Apache Camel
8 13 (7.74%) JDBC
8 13 (7.74%) jQuery
8 13 (7.74%) JSON
8 13 (7.74%) ODBC
8 13 (7.74%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (6.55%) SailPoint
10 8 (4.76%) OAuth2
11 7 (4.17%) boto
11 7 (4.17%) pytest
12 6 (3.57%) Flake8
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.93%) Replication
3 14 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.95%) Cyberattack
5 8 (4.76%) CSOC
5 8 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.57%) SCADA
6 6 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.79%) PKI
9 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.19%) Clustering
10 2 (1.19%) Digital Signage
10 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 47 (27.98%) Linux
2 42 (25.00%) Windows
3 14 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 14 (8.33%) Unix
3 14 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.14%) VMS
5 11 (6.55%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (5.36%) Solaris
7 7 (4.17%) AIX
8 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (2.98%) CentOS
10 2 (1.19%) CatOS
10 2 (1.19%) zOS
11 1 (0.60%) MVS
11 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.69%) DevOps
2 53 (31.55%) CI/CD
3 40 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (20.24%) Identity Access Management
5 33 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (18.45%) Agile
6 31 (18.45%) Privileged Access Management
7 29 (17.26%) RBAC
7 29 (17.26%) SIEM
8 22 (13.10%) DevSecOps
9 20 (11.90%) Identity Management
9 20 (11.90%) Microservices
10 19 (11.31%) Roadmaps
11 18 (10.71%) Configuration Management
11 18 (10.71%) Migration
12 17 (10.12%) Change Management
12 17 (10.12%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.12%) ITSM
12 17 (10.12%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (10.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.31%) Python
2 57 (33.93%) PowerShell
3 24 (14.29%) Groovy
4 20 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.90%) SQL
5 17 (10.12%) Java
6 9 (5.36%) Bash
7 8 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.17%) Go
9 3 (1.79%) C++
10 2 (1.19%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.19%) C#
10 2 (1.19%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.60%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.60%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.60%) Perl
11 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 67 (39.88%) Security Cleared
2 65 (38.69%) SC Cleared
3 29 (17.26%) CISSP
4 21 (12.50%) CISM
5 17 (10.12%) AWS Certification
6 13 (7.74%) Degree
7 10 (5.95%) Azure Certification
8 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.38%) MCSA
12 4 (2.38%) MCSE
13 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (26.79%) GDPR
2 37 (22.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (17.86%) NIST
4 11 (6.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (5.95%) HIPAA
6 6 (3.57%) QA
7 5 (2.98%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 93 (55.36%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.69%) Docker
3 15 (8.93%) Postfix
4 11 (6.55%) Dovecot
4 11 (6.55%) Squid
5 10 (5.95%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 6 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (1.79%) KVM
8 3 (1.79%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.19%) NFS
9 2 (1.19%) OpenAM
9 2 (1.19%) OpenDJ
9 2 (1.19%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.60%) Firmware
10 1 (0.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.60%) XenApp
10 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (29.17%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (11.90%) Terraform
3 16 (9.52%) Nessus
4 12 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 11 (6.55%) Grafana
5 11 (6.55%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.95%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (5.95%) CA Wily
6 10 (5.95%) Proxmox
7 9 (5.36%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (4.76%) Tivoli
9 7 (4.17%) Ansible
10 6 (3.57%) PingFederate
11 5 (2.98%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 4 (2.38%) CASB
12 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.79%) SCCM
14 2 (1.19%) HAProxy
14 2 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (29.76%) Microsoft
2 45 (26.79%) CyberArk
3 34 (20.24%) ServiceNow
4 27 (16.07%) BeyondTrust
5 17 (10.12%) Remedy
6 16 (9.52%) IBM
6 16 (9.52%) Splunk
7 15 (8.93%) Oracle
8 14 (8.33%) HP
9 13 (7.74%) BMC
9 13 (7.74%) Ivanti
10 12 (7.14%) Ping Identity
11 11 (6.55%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (5.95%) AppDynamics
12 10 (5.95%) Broadcom
13 8 (4.76%) Okta
13 8 (4.76%) VMware
14 7 (4.17%) ForgeRock
14 7 (4.17%) SAP
15 6 (3.57%) F5