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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 368 376
Rank change year-on-year -78 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing LDAP 198 152 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.55% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 2.15% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 101 89
10th Percentile £324 £363 £245
25th Percentile £483 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £598
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.32% +8.64%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £672
90th Percentile £695 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £596
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.14% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 1
10th Percentile £70.38 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £76.22 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +9.02%
75th Percentile £89.58 £81.35 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +9.02%

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 9,906 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,513 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 169 179
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -5 58 £575 +15.00% 26
London -86 55 £525 -13.65% 71
South West -3 38 £525 +13.51% 5
East of England -15 22 £506 -25.55% 21
North of England -77 19 £570 +25.83% 5
Yorkshire -26 18 £570 +11.22% 1
West Midlands -73 4 £450 -18.18% 5
Midlands -93 4 £450 - 6
North West -72 1 - - 3
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 (5.05%) Confluence
2 8 (4.04%) IIS
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) nginx
3 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (53.54%) Azure
2 77 (38.89%) AWS
3 71 (35.86%) Entra ID
4 50 (25.25%) GCP
5 21 (10.61%) SaaS
6 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.02%) GitHub
9 4 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.02%) IaaS
9 4 (2.02%) PaaS
10 3 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.52%) Route 53
11 2 (1.01%) AWS KMS
11 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.64%) DNS
1 27 (13.64%) Kerberos
2 16 (8.08%) DHCP
3 14 (7.07%) Firewall
3 14 (7.07%) HTTP
4 13 (6.57%) SSL
5 9 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.54%) VPN
7 5 (2.53%) NAS
7 5 (2.53%) Network Security
7 5 (2.53%) SAN
7 5 (2.53%) SSH
8 4 (2.02%) FTP
8 4 (2.02%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.02%) IPsec
8 4 (2.02%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (2.02%) SMTP
8 4 (2.02%) WAN
9 3 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.53%) Metadata
3 4 (2.02%) Db2
3 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.52%) MySQL
5 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.01%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) Power BI
6 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (8.08%) JIRA
2 15 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.56%) Git
3 11 (5.56%) GitLab
4 4 (2.02%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.52%) JMeter
5 3 (1.52%) Postman
6 2 (1.01%) Gatling
6 2 (1.01%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.51%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.51%) Locust
7 1 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) Newman
7 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.51%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.51%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (9.09%) Finance
3 18 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.57%) Aerospace
6 6 (3.03%) Back Office
7 4 (2.02%) Banking
7 4 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.02%) Military
8 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (26.26%) Architect
2 20 (10.10%) Consultant
3 14 (7.07%) IAM Specialist
4 11 (5.56%) Developer
5 9 (4.55%) Analyst
5 9 (4.55%) CyberArk Consultant
6 8 (4.04%) Lead
6 8 (4.04%) SailPoint Engineer
6 8 (4.04%) Senior
7 7 (3.54%) C Developer
7 7 (3.54%) CyberArk Architect
7 7 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.54%) Linux Developer
7 7 (3.54%) Security Engineer
7 7 (3.54%) Software Developer
7 7 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.53%) Support Engineer
8 5 (2.53%) Technical Architect
8 5 (2.53%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (31.82%) SAML
2 58 (29.29%) OpenID
3 56 (28.28%) OAuth
4 40 (20.20%) SailPoint
5 33 (16.67%) REST
6 28 (14.14%) OAuth2
7 19 (9.60%) Web Services
8 18 (9.09%) Terraform
9 17 (8.59%) JSON
10 11 (5.56%) SOAP
11 10 (5.05%) JDBC
12 8 (4.04%) Middleware
13 7 (3.54%) .NET
13 7 (3.54%) OpenTofu
13 7 (3.54%) Regular Expression
14 6 (3.03%) Jakarta EE
15 5 (2.53%) pytest
16 3 (1.52%) XML
17 2 (1.01%) Playwright
17 2 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.70%) Onboarding
2 18 (9.09%) PKI
3 17 (8.59%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.57%) Replication
6 10 (5.05%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (4.04%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.04%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.03%) Clustering
8 6 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.53%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.02%) Mainframe
10 4 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.52%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.52%) YARA
12 2 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.72%) Linux
2 39 (19.70%) Windows
3 13 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (6.57%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.04%) Unix
5 7 (3.54%) CentOS
6 6 (3.03%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 2 (1.01%) VMS
9 1 (0.51%) CatOS
9 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.51%) SUSE
9 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.82%) SIEM
2 55 (27.78%) RBAC
3 49 (24.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (23.23%) Runbook
5 44 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 44 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
6 41 (20.71%) Technical Leadership
7 40 (20.20%) ITSM
7 40 (20.20%) Privileged Access Management
8 38 (19.19%) DevOps
9 36 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (16.67%) DevSecOps
12 32 (16.16%) Migration
12 32 (16.16%) Security Architecture
13 30 (15.15%) Mentoring
14 29 (14.65%) Secrets Management
14 29 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (14.14%) CI/CD
15 28 (14.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.83%) PowerShell
2 53 (26.77%) Python
3 28 (14.14%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) SQL
5 12 (6.06%) Bash
6 11 (5.56%) BeanShell
7 7 (3.54%) C
8 5 (2.53%) Groovy
8 5 (2.53%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.02%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.52%) C#
11 2 (1.01%) Cypher
11 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.51%) Go
12 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (41.92%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.26%) SC Cleared
3 37 (18.69%) DV Cleared
4 26 (13.13%) CISSP
4 26 (13.13%) Degree
5 17 (8.59%) CISM
6 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.03%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.53%) CSPO
9 4 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.02%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.52%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.51%) CRISC
12 1 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (25.25%) NIST
3 27 (13.64%) GDPR
4 14 (7.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (4.04%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.54%) NCSC
7 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.53%) GRC
9 4 (2.02%) SLA
10 2 (1.01%) ITGC
10 2 (1.01%) QA
11 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 158 (79.80%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.07%) NFS
3 12 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.05%) Docker
5 9 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.52%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.52%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.01%) Squid
9 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.51%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.51%) KVM
9 1 (0.51%) Postfix
9 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (10.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.05%) Ansible
5 8 (4.04%) CA Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.54%) Grafana
7 5 (2.53%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.02%) Check_MK
8 4 (2.02%) PingFederate
8 4 (2.02%) Podman
8 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.52%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.01%) Puppet
11 1 (0.51%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.51%) Nagios
11 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 70 (35.35%) CyberArk
2 63 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 32 (16.16%) ServiceNow
4 18 (9.09%) VMware
5 14 (7.07%) Okta
6 11 (5.56%) Ping Identity
7 10 (5.05%) ForgeRock
7 10 (5.05%) SAP
8 8 (4.04%) Google
9 7 (3.54%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.03%) Splunk
10 6 (3.03%) Workday
11 5 (2.53%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (2.53%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.53%) Salesforce
12 4 (2.02%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.02%) F5
12 4 (2.02%) Greenplum
12 4 (2.02%) Oracle
12 4 (2.02%) Sybase