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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 348 376
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 +87
Contract jobs citing LDAP 242 124 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 2.25% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 72 112
10th Percentile £442 £413 £300
25th Percentile £488 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £598 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +5.01% +3.45%
75th Percentile £734 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £699 £711
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £570
% change year-on-year -6.02% +2.68% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £52.15 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £80.59 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +54.95% -28.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.91 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £83.05 -
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.12% +54.95% -28.08%

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 7,927 5,503 7,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.00% 22.43% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,296 3,813 5,297
10th Percentile £360 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 93 190
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.31 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £82.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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
London +10 110 £700 +16.67% 19
North of England -39 46 £573 -4.58% 2
South East -27 36 £500 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire -35 30 £513 -14.58% 1
Midlands -59 17 £340 -45.60%
West Midlands -52 16 £340 -45.60%
North West -34 15 £635 +26.90% 1
East of England -36 15 £478 -18.64% 3
South West -34 10 £540 -18.49% 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 11 (4.55%) Confluence
2 10 (4.13%) nginx
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 153 (63.22%) Azure
2 104 (42.98%) AWS
3 85 (35.12%) GCP
4 74 (30.58%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.20%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.13%) Serverless
7 9 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.72%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.72%) Route 53
7 9 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.31%) SaaS
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.83%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.41%) GitHub
11 1 (0.41%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.41%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 66 (27.27%) DNS
2 57 (23.55%) Kerberos
3 36 (14.88%) Firewall
4 32 (13.22%) DHCP
5 26 (10.74%) VPN
6 23 (9.50%) SSL
7 20 (8.26%) TCP/IP
8 14 (5.79%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (5.37%) HTTP
9 13 (5.37%) Network Security
10 11 (4.55%) WAN
11 10 (4.13%) LAN
12 9 (3.72%) OpenVPN
12 9 (3.72%) SMTP
13 8 (3.31%) BIG-IP
13 8 (3.31%) Ethereal
13 8 (3.31%) HTTPS
13 8 (3.31%) IPsec
13 8 (3.31%) Wireless
13 8 (3.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.37%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.72%) MySQL
4 4 (1.65%) Metadata
4 4 (1.65%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (16.53%) Jenkins
2 27 (11.16%) GitLab
2 27 (11.16%) JIRA
3 13 (5.37%) Selenium
4 12 (4.96%) REST Assured
5 11 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 11 (4.55%) Git
5 11 (4.55%) Postman
6 9 (3.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.31%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.07%) TestRail
9 4 (1.65%) Gatling
9 4 (1.65%) JMeter
9 4 (1.65%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.65%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.83%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.41%) JUnit
11 1 (0.41%) Maven
11 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 109 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.31%) Documentation Skills
3 38 (15.70%) Finance
4 23 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.13%) Banking
8 7 (2.89%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.24%) Retail
10 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (33.06%) Architect
2 47 (19.42%) CyberArk Architect
3 16 (6.61%) Consultant
4 10 (4.13%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.72%) Administrator
5 9 (3.72%) Lead
5 9 (3.72%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (3.72%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.72%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.72%) Test Engineer
6 7 (2.89%) Analyst
6 7 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (2.89%) Security Engineer
7 6 (2.48%) Developer
7 6 (2.48%) Technical Architect
8 5 (2.07%) Active Directory Consultant
8 5 (2.07%) Senior
8 5 (2.07%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (2.07%) Test Architect
8 5 (2.07%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.10%) SAML
2 65 (26.86%) OpenID
3 63 (26.03%) REST
4 44 (18.18%) OAuth
5 41 (16.94%) SOAP
6 29 (11.98%) SailPoint
7 11 (4.55%) J2EE
8 9 (3.72%) Middleware
9 8 (3.31%) .NET
10 7 (2.89%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.48%) JDBC
12 5 (2.07%) JSON
13 4 (1.65%) Playwright
14 3 (1.24%) Web Services
14 3 (1.24%) XML
15 2 (0.83%) EDI
16 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
16 1 (0.41%) LAMP
16 1 (0.41%) libvirt
16 1 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.77%) Security Posture
2 40 (16.53%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (13.64%) Replication
4 28 (11.57%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.85%) Cloud Native
6 18 (7.44%) Management Information System
7 13 (5.37%) PKI
8 9 (3.72%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.07%) CSOC
10 5 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.07%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.65%) Clustering
12 3 (1.24%) CMDB
12 3 (1.24%) SCADA
13 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.83%) PACS
13 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.53%) Linux
2 34 (14.05%) Windows
3 18 (7.44%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.37%) CentOS
6 11 (4.55%) Ubuntu
7 9 (3.72%) Unix
8 4 (1.65%) CatOS
9 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.60%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (33.47%) SIEM
3 68 (28.10%) DevOps
4 64 (26.45%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (23.97%) Privileged Access Management
6 54 (22.31%) CI/CD
7 52 (21.49%) Identity Access Management
7 52 (21.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (20.66%) ITSM
9 49 (20.25%) Task Automation
10 42 (17.36%) RBAC
11 39 (16.12%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (15.70%) Integration Patterns
13 34 (14.05%) Presales
14 27 (11.16%) High Availability
14 27 (11.16%) Migration
15 26 (10.74%) Roadmaps
16 22 (9.09%) Zero Trust
17 21 (8.68%) Agile
18 20 (8.26%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 116 (47.93%) PowerShell
2 98 (40.50%) Python
3 37 (15.29%) Java
4 22 (9.09%) SQL
5 12 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.55%) Bash
7 10 (4.13%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.72%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.72%) PHP
9 4 (1.65%) Cypher
9 4 (1.65%) Groovy
9 4 (1.65%) Scala
9 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.83%) C++
11 1 (0.41%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.41%) C#
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 133 (54.96%) Security Cleared
2 126 (52.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.64%) CISSP
4 28 (11.57%) CISM
5 14 (5.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.07%) Degree
8 5 (2.07%) MCSA
8 5 (2.07%) MCSE
9 4 (1.65%) APMG
9 4 (1.65%) GIAC
9 4 (1.65%) GSEC
9 4 (1.65%) SSCP
10 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CCA
11 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) OCP
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (19.83%) GDPR
1 48 (19.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (18.18%) NIST
3 25 (10.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 20 (8.26%) NCSC
5 9 (3.72%) HIPAA
5 9 (3.72%) SLA
6 8 (3.31%) QA
7 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.83%) DICOM
8 2 (0.83%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (66.94%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.72%) Squid
4 8 (3.31%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 7 (2.89%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.65%) Postfix
7 3 (1.24%) Docker
7 3 (1.24%) NFS
8 2 (0.83%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.83%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.83%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.41%) Ceph
9 1 (0.41%) iptables
9 1 (0.41%) KVM
9 1 (0.41%) Lustre
9 1 (0.41%) Samba
9 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 49 (20.25%) Single Sign-On
2 40 (16.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.33%) Kubernetes
4 15 (6.20%) Terraform
5 14 (5.79%) Ansible
6 11 (4.55%) Grafana
7 10 (4.13%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.72%) Check_MK
8 9 (3.72%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.72%) Podman
8 9 (3.72%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (2.89%) Consul
9 7 (2.89%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.07%) CASB
10 5 (2.07%) Nessus
11 4 (1.65%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.65%) PingFederate
12 3 (1.24%) SCOM
13 1 (0.41%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (35.95%) CyberArk
2 65 (26.86%) Microsoft
3 55 (22.73%) BeyondTrust
4 36 (14.88%) Centrify
5 35 (14.46%) ServiceNow
6 26 (10.74%) VMware
7 18 (7.44%) Red Hat
7 18 (7.44%) Splunk
8 16 (6.61%) Okta
9 15 (6.20%) Cisco
10 10 (4.13%) Google
11 9 (3.72%) CheckPoint
11 9 (3.72%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.72%) F5
11 9 (3.72%) Palo Alto
12 8 (3.31%) SAP
13 7 (2.89%) Atlassian
14 6 (2.48%) Oracle
14 6 (2.48%) Workday
15 5 (2.07%) Tenable