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

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 363 393
Rank change year-on-year -70 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing LDAP 199 153 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.01% 2.14% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 75
10th Percentile £318 £363 £222
25th Percentile £480 £411 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -15.61% +7.73%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £674
90th Percentile £700 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 1
10th Percentile £70.38 £44.88 -
25th Percentile £76.22 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £64.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.81% -11.72% +28.55%
75th Percentile £89.58 £79.76 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £64.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +32.81% -11.72% +28.55%

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 9,900 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -16 58 £575 +15.00% 25
London -90 55 £525 -13.65% 65
South West -7 39 £525 +13.51% 9
East of England -24 22 £506 -25.55% 14
North of England -75 19 £570 +25.83% 6
Yorkshire -28 18 £570 +8.57% 3
West Midlands -69 4 £450 -18.18% 3
Midlands -89 4 £450 - 5
North West -61 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 (5.03%) Confluence
2 9 (4.52%) IIS
3 3 (1.51%) Apache
3 3 (1.51%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.01%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (52.76%) Azure
2 75 (37.69%) AWS
3 71 (35.68%) Entra ID
4 50 (25.13%) GCP
5 21 (10.55%) SaaS
6 7 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.01%) GitHub
8 4 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.01%) IaaS
8 4 (2.01%) PaaS
8 4 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.01%) Route 53
10 2 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.07%) Kerberos
2 26 (13.07%) DNS
3 17 (8.54%) DHCP
4 14 (7.04%) HTTP
5 13 (6.53%) SSL
6 12 (6.03%) Firewall
7 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.02%) Network Security
8 6 (3.02%) SSH
9 5 (2.51%) NAS
9 5 (2.51%) SAN
9 5 (2.51%) VPN
10 4 (2.01%) FTP
10 4 (2.01%) HTTPS
10 4 (2.01%) IPsec
10 4 (2.01%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (2.01%) SMTP
10 4 (2.01%) WAN
11 3 (1.51%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.51%) Metadata
3 4 (2.01%) Db2
4 3 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.01%) MySQL
5 2 (1.01%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.50%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (8.04%) JIRA
2 15 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.53%) Git
3 11 (5.53%) GitLab
4 4 (2.01%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.51%) JMeter
5 3 (1.51%) Postman
6 2 (1.01%) Gatling
6 2 (1.01%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.50%) Locust
7 1 (0.50%) Maven
7 1 (0.50%) Newman
7 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
7 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.50%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.08%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (9.05%) Finance
3 18 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.04%) Aerospace
6 6 (3.02%) Back Office
7 4 (2.01%) Banking
7 4 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.01%) Military
8 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.51%) Retail
9 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (25.63%) Architect
2 20 (10.05%) Consultant
3 14 (7.04%) IAM Specialist
4 11 (5.53%) Developer
5 9 (4.52%) Analyst
5 9 (4.52%) CyberArk Consultant
6 8 (4.02%) CyberArk Architect
6 8 (4.02%) Lead
6 8 (4.02%) SailPoint Engineer
6 8 (4.02%) Senior
7 7 (3.52%) C Developer
7 7 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.52%) Linux Developer
7 7 (3.52%) Security Engineer
7 7 (3.52%) Software Developer
7 7 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.02%) Security Architect
9 5 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.51%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (32.16%) SAML
2 56 (28.14%) OAuth
2 56 (28.14%) OpenID
3 42 (21.11%) SailPoint
4 32 (16.08%) REST
5 29 (14.57%) OAuth2
6 19 (9.55%) Web Services
7 18 (9.05%) Terraform
8 15 (7.54%) JSON
9 9 (4.52%) SOAP
10 8 (4.02%) JDBC
10 8 (4.02%) Middleware
11 7 (3.52%) .NET
11 7 (3.52%) OpenTofu
11 7 (3.52%) Regular Expression
12 5 (2.51%) pytest
13 4 (2.01%) Jakarta EE
14 3 (1.51%) XML
15 2 (1.01%) Kafka
15 2 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.60%) Onboarding
2 19 (9.55%) PKI
3 17 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (7.54%) Replication
5 13 (6.53%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.03%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (4.52%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.02%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.02%) Clustering
9 6 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.01%) Mainframe
11 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.51%) Cyberattack
12 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.51%) YARA
13 2 (1.01%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.61%) Linux
2 39 (19.60%) Windows
3 12 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (6.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.52%) Unix
5 7 (3.52%) CentOS
6 5 (2.51%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 2 (1.01%) VMS
9 1 (0.50%) CatOS
9 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) SUSE
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.16%) SIEM
2 55 (27.64%) RBAC
3 49 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (23.12%) Runbook
5 44 (22.11%) Cybersecurity
5 44 (22.11%) Identity Access Management
6 43 (21.61%) Technical Leadership
7 42 (21.11%) Privileged Access Management
8 41 (20.60%) ITSM
9 38 (19.10%) DevOps
10 34 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (17.09%) Security Architecture
11 33 (16.58%) DevSecOps
12 32 (16.08%) Migration
13 30 (15.08%) Secrets Management
14 29 (14.57%) CI/CD
14 29 (14.57%) Mentoring
14 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (14.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.66%) PowerShell
2 52 (26.13%) Python
3 26 (13.07%) Java
4 12 (6.03%) Bash
5 11 (5.53%) BeanShell
5 11 (5.53%) SQL
6 7 (3.52%) C
7 5 (2.51%) Groovy
7 5 (2.51%) MATLAB
7 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.01%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.51%) C#
10 2 (1.01%) Cypher
10 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.50%) Go
11 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (42.21%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 38 (19.10%) DV Cleared
4 26 (13.07%) Degree
5 24 (12.06%) CISSP
6 15 (7.54%) CISM
7 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.02%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.51%) CSPO
10 4 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.51%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.50%) CRISC
13 1 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (27.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (25.13%) NIST
3 25 (12.56%) GDPR
4 13 (6.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (4.02%) NCSC
6 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 6 (3.02%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.51%) GRC
8 4 (2.01%) SLA
9 2 (1.01%) ITGC
9 2 (1.01%) QA
10 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 161 (80.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.53%) NFS
3 12 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.03%) Docker
5 9 (4.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.51%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.51%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.50%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.50%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.50%) KVM
8 1 (0.50%) Postfix
8 1 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (13.57%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (11.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (5.53%) Ansible
4 10 (5.03%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.02%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.02%) Grafana
7 4 (2.01%) Check_MK
7 4 (2.01%) PingFederate
7 4 (2.01%) Podman
7 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.01%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.51%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.01%) Puppet
10 1 (0.50%) CASB
10 1 (0.50%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) Salt
10 1 (0.50%) systemd
Vendors
1 72 (36.18%) CyberArk
2 68 (34.17%) Microsoft
3 31 (15.58%) ServiceNow
4 18 (9.05%) VMware
5 15 (7.54%) Okta
6 11 (5.53%) Ping Identity
7 10 (5.03%) ForgeRock
8 8 (4.02%) Google
8 8 (4.02%) SAP
9 7 (3.52%) Splunk
10 6 (3.02%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.51%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (2.51%) Salesforce
12 4 (2.01%) F5
12 4 (2.01%) Greenplum
12 4 (2.01%) Oracle
12 4 (2.01%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.01%) Sybase
12 4 (2.01%) Workday
13 3 (1.51%) CheckPoint
122 LDAP jobs in England