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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 386 329
Rank change year-on-year +14 -57 +183
Contract jobs citing LDAP 176 137 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.44% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 2.02% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 71 167
10th Percentile £371 £220 £363
25th Percentile £427 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +1.41% -1.39%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £671 £775 £700
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 £58.50 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -19.31% +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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 -1 60 £608 -1.14% 19
Midlands -12 47 £492 -15.35% 7
West Midlands -15 34 £545 -6.24% 7
North of England -15 25 £453 +24.97% 4
South East -6 22 £481 -12.66% 12
North West -10 18 £450 +24.14% 2
East Midlands - 13 £415 -
East of England -14 12 £680 +20.89% 4
South West -7 11 £475 -29.32%
Yorkshire - 7 £525 - 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 38 (21.59%) Confluence
2 15 (8.52%) WebSphere
3 14 (7.95%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (6.82%) nginx
5 10 (5.68%) Apache
5 10 (5.68%) IIS
5 10 (5.68%) iPlanet
5 10 (5.68%) JBoss
6 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.14%) CICS
8 2 (1.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.57%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (7.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.91%) AWS
2 57 (32.39%) Azure
3 36 (20.45%) GCP
4 20 (11.36%) Amazon S3
5 19 (10.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (10.80%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (9.66%) Entra ID
8 13 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (7.39%) Route 53
9 12 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
9 12 (6.82%) AWS KMS
9 12 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (6.25%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.11%) GitHub
11 9 (5.11%) Serverless
12 8 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.84%) SaaS
14 3 (1.70%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.89%) SSL
2 32 (18.18%) DNS
3 31 (17.61%) SMTP
4 26 (14.77%) Kerberos
5 24 (13.64%) Firewall
5 24 (13.64%) HTTP
6 20 (11.36%) FTP
6 20 (11.36%) SSH
7 17 (9.66%) OpenLDAP
8 14 (7.95%) Network Security
9 12 (6.82%) IMAP
10 10 (5.68%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.27%) DKIM
11 4 (2.27%) DMARC
11 4 (2.27%) Internet
11 4 (2.27%) VPN
12 3 (1.70%) DHCP
13 2 (1.14%) NAS
13 2 (1.14%) X.500
14 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.39%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.68%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.70%) Metadata
6 3 (1.70%) Power BI
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (21.59%) JIRA
2 30 (17.05%) Git
3 29 (16.48%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.82%) Vagrant
5 10 (5.68%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (5.68%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (5.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.98%) GitLab
8 3 (1.70%) Log4j
9 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 76 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.77%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.66%) Finance
6 16 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.98%) Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Aviation
9 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.14%) Electronics
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (12.50%) Architect
2 20 (11.36%) Consultant
3 19 (10.80%) Analyst
3 19 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.66%) Senior
5 15 (8.52%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Developer
8 10 (5.68%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow Architect
8 10 (5.68%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (4.55%) Senior Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Identity Management Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Management Consultant
11 5 (2.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (39.20%) SAML
2 52 (29.55%) OAuth
3 43 (24.43%) OpenID
4 29 (16.48%) REST
5 19 (10.80%) AngularJS
5 19 (10.80%) HTML
5 19 (10.80%) Web Services
6 16 (9.09%) JDBC
6 16 (9.09%) SOAP
7 14 (7.95%) HTML5
8 13 (7.39%) Apache Camel
8 13 (7.39%) jQuery
8 13 (7.39%) JSON
8 13 (7.39%) ODBC
8 13 (7.39%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (6.25%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.25%) SailPoint
10 8 (4.55%) Hibernate
10 8 (4.55%) Spring
11 7 (3.98%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.52%) Replication
3 14 (7.95%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.68%) Cyberattack
5 8 (4.55%) CSOC
5 8 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.41%) SCADA
7 5 (2.84%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.27%) PKI
8 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.41%) Linux
2 42 (23.86%) Windows
3 14 (7.95%) Ubuntu
3 14 (7.95%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.39%) Unix
4 13 (7.39%) VMS
5 12 (6.82%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (5.11%) Solaris
7 7 (3.98%) AIX
8 6 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (2.84%) CentOS
10 2 (1.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.57%) MVS
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (38.64%) DevOps
2 62 (35.23%) CI/CD
3 42 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (23.30%) Identity Access Management
5 38 (21.59%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (20.45%) RBAC
7 32 (18.18%) Agile
8 31 (17.61%) Privileged Access Management
9 29 (16.48%) SIEM
10 25 (14.20%) DevSecOps
11 22 (12.50%) Microservices
12 21 (11.93%) Scrum
13 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
13 19 (10.80%) Configuration Management
13 19 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.80%) Migration
14 18 (10.23%) Identity Management
14 18 (10.23%) Roadmaps
15 17 (9.66%) ITSM
15 17 (9.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.80%) Python
2 58 (32.95%) PowerShell
3 25 (14.20%) Groovy
3 25 (14.20%) SQL
4 21 (11.93%) Java
4 21 (11.93%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.68%) Bash
6 8 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.98%) Go
8 3 (1.70%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) BeanShell
9 2 (1.14%) C#
9 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.57%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.57%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 66 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.48%) CISSP
4 21 (11.93%) CISM
5 17 (9.66%) AWS Certification
6 13 (7.39%) Degree
7 10 (5.68%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.41%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.27%) MCSA
11 4 (2.27%) MCSE
12 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.14%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.57%) CISA
14 1 (0.57%) GIAC
14 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (27.84%) GDPR
2 37 (21.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (18.18%) NIST
4 13 (7.39%) HIPAA
5 10 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (4.55%) QA
7 6 (3.41%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 91 (51.70%) Active Directory
2 31 (17.61%) Docker
3 16 (9.09%) Postfix
4 12 (6.82%) Dovecot
4 12 (6.82%) Squid
5 10 (5.68%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.55%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.14%) KVM
8 2 (1.14%) OpenAM
8 2 (1.14%) OpenDJ
8 2 (1.14%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.57%) Firmware
9 1 (0.57%) SRDF
9 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.57%) Xen
9 1 (0.57%) XenApp
9 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (30.11%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (11.93%) Terraform
3 19 (10.80%) Kubernetes
4 17 (9.66%) Nessus
5 15 (8.52%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.82%) Grafana
7 10 (5.68%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.68%) CA Wily
7 10 (5.68%) Proxmox
8 9 (5.11%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.55%) Tivoli
9 8 (4.55%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 6 (3.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (3.41%) Ansible
10 6 (3.41%) PingFederate
11 4 (2.27%) CASB
11 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.70%) SCCM
13 2 (1.14%) Puppet
14 1 (0.57%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 49 (27.84%) CyberArk
2 47 (26.70%) Microsoft
3 35 (19.89%) ServiceNow
4 27 (15.34%) BeyondTrust
5 22 (12.50%) IBM
6 19 (10.80%) Splunk
7 17 (9.66%) Remedy
8 15 (8.52%) Oracle
9 14 (7.95%) HP
9 14 (7.95%) Ping Identity
10 13 (7.39%) BMC
10 13 (7.39%) Ivanti
11 12 (6.82%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (5.68%) AppDynamics
12 10 (5.68%) Broadcom
13 9 (5.11%) ForgeRock
13 9 (5.11%) Okta
14 7 (3.98%) SAP
15 5 (2.84%) Atlassian
15 5 (2.84%) VMware