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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 344 372
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +85
Contract jobs citing LDAP 243 136 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 2.47% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 80 118
10th Percentile £440 £412 £300
25th Percentile £488 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £711 £655 £645
90th Percentile £750 £762 £704
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £50.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.00 £80.34 £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 £82.10 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.38 £83.24 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.66% +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 7,964 5,510 7,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.93% 22.54% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 3,801 5,397
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 88 172
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +33.18% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -6 106 £700 +16.67% 11
South East -22 41 £500 -9.26% 9
North of England -41 40 £590 -1.67% 7
Yorkshire -45 25 £513 -14.58% 4
Midlands -63 21 £420 -32.80% 1
West Midlands -53 20 £420 -32.80% 1
North West -34 14 £635 +26.90% 3
East of England -37 14 £478 -20.33% 8
South West -26 11 £525 -25.00% 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 10 (4.12%) Confluence
1 10 (4.12%) nginx
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 146 (60.08%) Azure
2 99 (40.74%) AWS
3 83 (34.16%) GCP
4 65 (26.75%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.17%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.53%) Serverless
7 10 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.12%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.12%) Route 53
8 9 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.29%) SaaS
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.41%) GitHub
11 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.41%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 66 (27.16%) DNS
2 61 (25.10%) Kerberos
3 34 (13.99%) Firewall
4 32 (13.17%) DHCP
5 26 (10.70%) VPN
6 24 (9.88%) SSL
7 19 (7.82%) TCP/IP
8 13 (5.35%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (5.35%) Network Security
9 12 (4.94%) HTTP
10 9 (3.70%) LAN
10 9 (3.70%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.70%) SMTP
10 9 (3.70%) WAN
11 7 (2.88%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.88%) Ethereal
11 7 (2.88%) HTTPS
11 7 (2.88%) IPsec
11 7 (2.88%) Wireless
11 7 (2.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.70%) MySQL
4 4 (1.65%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.23%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.70%) JIRA
3 25 (10.29%) GitLab
4 13 (5.35%) Selenium
5 12 (4.94%) REST Assured
6 11 (4.53%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.53%) Postman
7 10 (4.12%) Git
8 9 (3.70%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.29%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.06%) TestRail
11 4 (1.65%) Gatling
11 4 (1.65%) JMeter
11 4 (1.65%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.65%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.41%) JUnit
13 1 (0.41%) Maven
13 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
General
1 108 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.87%) Documentation Skills
3 36 (14.81%) Finance
4 24 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.70%) Banking
8 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.06%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.65%) Aviation
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (31.28%) Architect
2 47 (19.34%) CyberArk Architect
3 22 (9.05%) Consultant
4 9 (3.70%) Lead
4 9 (3.70%) Network Engineer
4 9 (3.70%) Security Consultant
4 9 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (3.70%) Test Engineer
5 8 (3.29%) Administrator
6 7 (2.88%) Linux Administrator
6 7 (2.88%) Security Engineer
7 6 (2.47%) Analyst
7 6 (2.47%) Developer
7 6 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (2.47%) Technical Architect
8 5 (2.06%) Active Directory Consultant
8 5 (2.06%) AWS Architect
8 5 (2.06%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (2.06%) Test Architect
8 5 (2.06%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (27.57%) SAML
2 61 (25.10%) OpenID
3 57 (23.46%) REST
4 40 (16.46%) OAuth
5 38 (15.64%) SOAP
6 24 (9.88%) SailPoint
7 8 (3.29%) .NET
8 7 (2.88%) J2EE
8 7 (2.88%) Middleware
9 5 (2.06%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.65%) Playwright
11 3 (1.23%) RESTful
12 2 (0.82%) EDI
12 2 (0.82%) JDBC
12 2 (0.82%) JSON
12 2 (0.82%) Web Services
12 2 (0.82%) XML
13 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
13 1 (0.41%) LAMP
13 1 (0.41%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.28%) Security Posture
2 39 (16.05%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (13.58%) Replication
4 28 (11.52%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.82%) Cloud Native
6 15 (6.17%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.53%) PKI
8 7 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.06%) CSOC
10 5 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.06%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.23%) Clustering
12 3 (1.23%) CMDB
12 3 (1.23%) SCADA
13 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.82%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.70%) Linux
2 39 (16.05%) Windows
3 22 (9.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.94%) CentOS
6 11 (4.53%) Ubuntu
7 8 (3.29%) Unix
8 4 (1.65%) AIX
8 4 (1.65%) CatOS
8 4 (1.65%) Solaris
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (34.16%) SIEM
3 72 (29.63%) DevOps
4 64 (26.34%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (23.87%) CI/CD
5 58 (23.87%) Privileged Access Management
6 51 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (20.58%) ITSM
7 50 (20.58%) Task Automation
8 46 (18.93%) Identity Access Management
9 39 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
10 37 (15.23%) Integration Patterns
11 35 (14.40%) RBAC
12 34 (13.99%) Presales
13 31 (12.76%) Migration
14 27 (11.11%) High Availability
14 27 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 25 (10.29%) Agile
16 24 (9.88%) DevSecOps
17 19 (7.82%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 115 (47.33%) PowerShell
2 98 (40.33%) Python
3 33 (13.58%) Java
4 22 (9.05%) SQL
5 11 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.12%) Bash
7 9 (3.70%) PHP
8 8 (3.29%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.88%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.06%) Groovy
11 4 (1.65%) Cypher
11 4 (1.65%) Scala
11 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.82%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.82%) C++
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (58.02%) Security Cleared
2 134 (55.14%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.81%) CISSP
4 30 (12.35%) CISM
5 14 (5.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.06%) Degree
8 5 (2.06%) MCSA
8 5 (2.06%) MCSE
9 4 (1.65%) APMG
9 4 (1.65%) GIAC
9 4 (1.65%) GSEC
9 4 (1.65%) SSCP
10 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (22.63%) NIST
3 54 (22.22%) GDPR
4 20 (8.23%) NCSC
4 20 (8.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.29%) QA
6 7 (2.88%) SLA
7 3 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.82%) DICOM
8 2 (0.82%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 163 (67.08%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.70%) Squid
4 7 (2.88%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 7 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.88%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.65%) Docker
5 4 (1.65%) Postfix
6 3 (1.23%) NFS
7 2 (0.82%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.82%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.82%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.41%) Ceph
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) iptables
8 1 (0.41%) KVM
8 1 (0.41%) Lustre
8 1 (0.41%) Samba
8 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (21.40%) Single Sign-On
2 39 (16.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.29%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.58%) Terraform
5 14 (5.76%) Ansible
6 11 (4.53%) Grafana
7 10 (4.12%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.70%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.88%) Check_MK
9 7 (2.88%) Consul
9 7 (2.88%) PingFederate
9 7 (2.88%) Podman
9 7 (2.88%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.47%) vCenter Server
11 5 (2.06%) CASB
11 5 (2.06%) Nessus
12 3 (1.23%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.23%) SCOM
13 2 (0.82%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (37.86%) CyberArk
2 65 (26.75%) BeyondTrust
3 59 (24.28%) Microsoft
4 35 (14.40%) Centrify
5 28 (11.52%) ServiceNow
6 22 (9.05%) VMware
7 18 (7.41%) Splunk
8 16 (6.58%) Red Hat
9 15 (6.17%) Cisco
9 15 (6.17%) Okta
10 9 (3.70%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.70%) Google
11 8 (3.29%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.29%) F5
11 8 (3.29%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.29%) Ping Identity
12 7 (2.88%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.88%) Oracle
13 6 (2.47%) SAP
14 5 (2.06%) Remedy