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

 6 months to
15 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 354 390
Rank change year-on-year -114 +36 +22
Contract jobs citing LDAP 158 151 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 2.48% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 96 92
10th Percentile £275 £361 £228
25th Percentile £450 £408 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -6.89% +0.90%
75th Percentile £617 £639 £645
90th Percentile £700 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £84.70 -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -3.99% - -

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 8,496 6,100 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.04% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,553 4,172 5,028
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 157 226
10th Percentile £28.79 £31.25 £24.59
25th Percentile £46.53 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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
South East -18 54 £568 -18.93% 14
London -82 49 £525 -13.65% 63
North of England -65 24 £588 +17.55% 11
Yorkshire -33 18 £540 +8.00% 5
South West -38 16 £550 -9.80% 9
East of England -31 7 £483 -26.05% 3
Midlands -80 6 £375 -14.68% 5
North West -60 5 £657 +70.96% 6
West Midlands -61 5 £375 -28.57% 5
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 8 (5.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.90%) nginx
2 3 (1.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 103 (65.19%) Azure
2 71 (44.94%) AWS
3 67 (42.41%) Entra ID
4 44 (27.85%) GCP
5 19 (12.03%) SaaS
6 5 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.53%) IaaS
7 4 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.53%) PaaS
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.90%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.90%) Route 53
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 27 (17.09%) DNS
2 25 (15.82%) Kerberos
3 17 (10.76%) Firewall
4 12 (7.59%) DHCP
5 11 (6.96%) SSL
6 10 (6.33%) TCP/IP
7 9 (5.70%) VPN
8 7 (4.43%) NAS
8 7 (4.43%) SAN
9 5 (3.16%) HTTPS
9 5 (3.16%) IPsec
9 5 (3.16%) WAN
10 4 (2.53%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.53%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (2.53%) HTTP
10 4 (2.53%) LAN
11 3 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (1.90%) SSH
11 3 (1.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.53%) Db2
2 4 (2.53%) Metadata
2 4 (2.53%) MySQL
3 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Jenkins
1 12 (7.59%) JIRA
2 9 (5.70%) GitLab
3 7 (4.43%) Git
4 4 (2.53%) Postman
5 3 (1.90%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.27%) Gatling
6 2 (1.27%) JMeter
6 2 (1.27%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.63%) Maven
7 1 (0.63%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.99%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (12.66%) Finance
4 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.33%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.16%) Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Military
9 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.90%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (18.99%) Architect
2 15 (9.49%) Consultant
3 14 (8.86%) IAM Specialist
4 10 (6.33%) Developer
4 10 (6.33%) Senior
5 8 (5.06%) SailPoint Engineer
5 8 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.43%) Analyst
6 7 (4.43%) CyberArk Architect
6 7 (4.43%) Lead
7 5 (3.16%) CyberArk Consultant
7 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.16%) Support Engineer
7 5 (3.16%) Technical Architect
7 5 (3.16%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (2.53%) Active Directory Engineer
8 4 (2.53%) CyberArk Specialist
8 4 (2.53%) Linux Developer
8 4 (2.53%) Product Owner
8 4 (2.53%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (40.51%) SAML
2 59 (37.34%) OpenID
3 56 (35.44%) OAuth
4 38 (24.05%) SailPoint
5 28 (17.72%) OAuth2
6 24 (15.19%) REST
7 19 (12.03%) Web Services
8 10 (6.33%) .NET
9 9 (5.70%) JSON
10 8 (5.06%) Middleware
10 8 (5.06%) SOAP
11 7 (4.43%) Jakarta EE
11 7 (4.43%) JDBC
12 3 (1.90%) pytest
13 2 (1.27%) EDI
13 2 (1.27%) Playwright
13 2 (1.27%) XML
13 2 (1.27%) YAML
14 1 (0.63%) HTML
14 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.25%) Onboarding
2 17 (10.76%) PKI
3 15 (9.49%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.96%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.33%) Replication
6 8 (5.06%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.80%) Clustering
7 6 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.80%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.16%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.53%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.27%) IoT
11 2 (1.27%) PACS
11 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (22.15%) Linux
2 28 (17.72%) Windows
3 10 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.33%) Unix
4 8 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.80%) CentOS
6 4 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.63%) CatOS
8 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.63%) Rocky
8 1 (0.63%) SUSE
8 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.28%) RBAC
2 41 (25.95%) Identity Access Management
3 37 (23.42%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (23.42%) DevOps
3 37 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (18.99%) Privileged Access Management
5 28 (17.72%) SIEM
6 26 (16.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (15.82%) CI/CD
7 25 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (15.19%) Runbook
8 24 (15.19%) Zero Trust
9 21 (13.29%) Migration
10 19 (12.03%) Analytics
10 19 (12.03%) Roadmaps
11 16 (10.13%) API Integration
11 16 (10.13%) Computer Science
11 16 (10.13%) Information Security
11 16 (10.13%) ITSM
12 15 (9.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.54%) PowerShell
2 44 (27.85%) Python
3 29 (18.35%) Java
4 13 (8.23%) SQL
5 12 (7.59%) Bash
6 8 (5.06%) BeanShell
7 6 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.16%) Groovy
8 5 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.53%) C
9 4 (2.53%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.90%) C#
11 2 (1.27%) C++
11 2 (1.27%) Cypher
11 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.63%) R
12 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 30 (18.99%) CISSP
4 27 (17.09%) Degree
5 19 (12.03%) CISM
6 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (6.33%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (3.16%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.16%) CSPO
9 5 (3.16%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.27%) MCSA
12 2 (1.27%) MCSE
12 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (17.09%) NIST
3 26 (16.46%) GDPR
4 12 (7.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (5.70%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.43%) NCSC
7 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.53%) SLA
9 2 (1.27%) DICOM
9 2 (1.27%) GRC
9 2 (1.27%) HL7
9 2 (1.27%) ITGC
10 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.63%) QA
10 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 124 (78.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.06%) Docker
3 6 (3.80%) NFS
3 6 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.53%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.90%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) Squid
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.63%) KVM
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (19.62%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (14.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (11.39%) Terraform
4 12 (7.59%) Kubernetes
5 11 (6.96%) Ansible
6 8 (5.06%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.43%) Grafana
8 5 (3.16%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.53%) Check_MK
9 4 (2.53%) PingFederate
9 4 (2.53%) Podman
9 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.90%) CASB
10 3 (1.90%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.27%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.27%) Nessus
12 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.63%) Nagios
12 1 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (36.71%) Microsoft
2 44 (27.85%) CyberArk
3 26 (16.46%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.59%) VMware
5 11 (6.96%) Okta
5 11 (6.96%) Ping Identity
6 9 (5.70%) SAP
7 8 (5.06%) ForgeRock
8 7 (4.43%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (4.43%) Google
8 7 (4.43%) Oracle
8 7 (4.43%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.43%) Workday
9 6 (3.80%) Splunk
9 6 (3.80%) Sybase
10 5 (3.16%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.16%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.53%) Cisco
11 4 (2.53%) F5
11 4 (2.53%) Greenplum
108 LDAP jobs in England