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

 6 months to
22 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 373 393
Rank change year-on-year -97 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing LDAP 163 146 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 2.13% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 95 91
10th Percentile £275 £361 £250
25th Percentile £450 £408 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £523 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -7.52% +1.12%
75th Percentile £608 £641 £645
90th Percentile £700 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £72.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.01 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £84.90 -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £72.84 -
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -

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 9,865 6,864 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.88% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,717 5,610
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 165 197
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.36
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.22 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%

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 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 22 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 22 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 -17 55 £568 -18.93% 15
London -91 51 £525 -13.65% 49
North of England -64 23 £575 +27.78% 5
Yorkshire -24 19 £565 +13.00% 3
South West -27 18 £550 -9.80% 9
East of England -28 8 £483 -29.04% 7
Midlands -84 6 £375 -14.68% 4
West Midlands -64 5 £375 -28.57% 2
North West -61 3 £679 +62.71% 2
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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) nginx
2 3 (1.84%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.07%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (64.42%) Azure
2 73 (44.79%) AWS
3 69 (42.33%) Entra ID
4 48 (29.45%) GCP
5 19 (11.66%) SaaS
6 5 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) IaaS
7 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.45%) PaaS
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.84%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.84%) Route 53
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.23%) GitHub
9 2 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.56%) Kerberos
2 26 (15.95%) DNS
3 15 (9.20%) Firewall
4 13 (7.98%) DHCP
5 10 (6.13%) SSL
6 9 (5.52%) VPN
7 8 (4.91%) TCP/IP
8 7 (4.29%) NAS
8 7 (4.29%) SAN
9 5 (3.07%) HTTPS
9 5 (3.07%) IPsec
9 5 (3.07%) WAN
10 4 (2.45%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (2.45%) HTTP
10 4 (2.45%) LAN
11 3 (1.84%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (1.84%) SSH
11 3 (1.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.45%) Db2
2 4 (2.45%) Metadata
2 4 (2.45%) MySQL
3 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.23%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) JIRA
2 12 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.52%) GitLab
4 7 (4.29%) Git
5 4 (2.45%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.84%) Postman
7 2 (1.23%) Gatling
7 2 (1.23%) JMeter
7 2 (1.23%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.61%) Maven
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.02%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.04%) Finance
5 17 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.75%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.07%) Banking
8 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.45%) Military
9 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.84%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (20.25%) Architect
2 17 (10.43%) Consultant
3 14 (8.59%) IAM Specialist
4 9 (5.52%) Developer
4 9 (5.52%) Senior
5 8 (4.91%) Lead
5 8 (4.91%) SailPoint Engineer
5 8 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.29%) Analyst
6 7 (4.29%) CyberArk Architect
7 6 (3.68%) CyberArk Consultant
8 5 (3.07%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.07%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (2.45%) C Developer
9 4 (2.45%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (2.45%) Security Architect
9 4 (2.45%) Senior C Developer
9 4 (2.45%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (2.45%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (39.88%) SAML
2 60 (36.81%) OpenID
3 57 (34.97%) OAuth
4 39 (23.93%) SailPoint
5 28 (17.18%) OAuth2
6 27 (16.56%) REST
7 19 (11.66%) Web Services
8 17 (10.43%) Terraform
9 10 (6.13%) .NET
10 9 (5.52%) JSON
10 9 (5.52%) SOAP
11 8 (4.91%) JDBC
11 8 (4.91%) Middleware
12 7 (4.29%) Jakarta EE
13 5 (3.07%) OpenTofu
14 4 (2.45%) pytest
15 2 (1.23%) EDI
15 2 (1.23%) Kafka
15 2 (1.23%) Playwright
15 2 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.86%) Onboarding
2 18 (11.04%) PKI
3 16 (9.82%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.75%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.75%) Replication
5 8 (4.91%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.68%) Clustering
7 6 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.45%) Mainframe
9 4 (2.45%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.23%) IoT
11 2 (1.23%) PACS
11 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.61%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.47%) Linux
2 28 (17.18%) Windows
3 10 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (5.52%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.91%) Unix
6 6 (3.68%) CentOS
7 4 (2.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.61%) CatOS
9 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.61%) Rocky
9 1 (0.61%) SUSE
9 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.52%) RBAC
2 42 (25.77%) Identity Access Management
3 38 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (22.70%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (22.70%) DevOps
5 33 (20.25%) Privileged Access Management
6 31 (19.02%) SIEM
7 27 (16.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (15.95%) CI/CD
9 25 (15.34%) Runbook
10 24 (14.72%) Zero Trust
11 23 (14.11%) Migration
12 21 (12.88%) Roadmaps
13 20 (12.27%) Analytics
14 19 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (11.04%) ITSM
16 16 (9.82%) Attestation
16 16 (9.82%) Computer Science
16 16 (9.82%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.74%) PowerShell
2 45 (27.61%) Python
3 29 (17.79%) Java
4 13 (7.98%) SQL
5 12 (7.36%) Bash
6 9 (5.52%) BeanShell
7 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.45%) C
8 4 (2.45%) Groovy
8 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.45%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.45%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.84%) C#
10 2 (1.23%) C++
10 2 (1.23%) Cypher
10 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 47 (28.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.18%) CISSP
4 27 (16.56%) Degree
5 19 (11.66%) CISM
6 12 (7.36%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.07%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.07%) CSPO
8 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.61%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.61%) OCP
12 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (21.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (17.79%) NIST
3 27 (16.56%) GDPR
4 13 (7.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (5.52%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.29%) NCSC
7 6 (3.68%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.45%) SLA
9 3 (1.84%) GRC
10 2 (1.23%) DICOM
10 2 (1.23%) HL7
10 2 (1.23%) ITGC
11 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.61%) QA
11 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (77.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.91%) Docker
3 6 (3.68%) NFS
3 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.45%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.84%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.23%) Squid
7 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.61%) KVM
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (19.02%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (14.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (7.36%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.13%) Ansible
5 8 (4.91%) CA Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.29%) Grafana
7 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.45%) Check_MK
8 4 (2.45%) PingFederate
8 4 (2.45%) Podman
8 4 (2.45%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.84%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.61%) Argo
11 1 (0.61%) CASB
11 1 (0.61%) Consul
11 1 (0.61%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.61%) systemd
11 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 46 (28.22%) CyberArk
3 27 (16.56%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.36%) Okta
4 12 (7.36%) VMware
5 11 (6.75%) Ping Identity
6 10 (6.13%) SAP
7 9 (5.52%) Google
8 8 (4.91%) ForgeRock
8 8 (4.91%) Oracle
9 7 (4.29%) BeyondTrust
9 7 (4.29%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.29%) Workday
10 6 (3.68%) Sybase
11 5 (3.07%) CheckPoint
11 5 (3.07%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.07%) Splunk
12 4 (2.45%) Cisco
12 4 (2.45%) F5
12 4 (2.45%) Greenplum
88 LDAP jobs in England