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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 363 399
Rank change year-on-year -119 +36 +33
Contract jobs citing LDAP 152 148 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 2.42% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 96 93
10th Percentile £298 £365 £230
25th Percentile £459 £428 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +2.05%
75th Percentile £632 £639 £638
90th Percentile £700 £680 £699
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.90% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - -
75th Percentile £86.62 £82.10 -
90th Percentile £87.24 £84.80 -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -3.99% - -

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 8,492 6,113 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.21% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,562 4,223 5,101
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 145 233
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.48 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -74 52 £525 -13.65% 12
South East -17 50 £575 -20.69% 11
North of England -70 25 £620 +20.62% 3
Yorkshire -45 16 £540 -1.82% 1
South West -33 13 £550 -4.35% 2
North West -60 8 £643 +25.10% 2
Midlands -81 6 £375 -13.74% 1
East of England -33 5 £483 -26.05% 2
West Midlands -72 5 £375 -30.23% 1
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 9 (5.92%) Confluence
2 5 (3.29%) nginx
3 3 (1.97%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (65.13%) Azure
2 71 (46.71%) AWS
3 63 (41.45%) Entra ID
4 40 (26.32%) GCP
5 18 (11.84%) SaaS
6 7 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.29%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.29%) Route 53
7 5 (3.29%) Serverless
8 4 (2.63%) IaaS
8 4 (2.63%) PaaS
9 3 (1.97%) GitHub
9 3 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.97%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.32%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.74%) DNS
2 22 (14.47%) Firewall
2 22 (14.47%) Kerberos
3 15 (9.87%) TCP/IP
4 14 (9.21%) SSL
5 12 (7.89%) VPN
6 10 (6.58%) DHCP
7 7 (4.61%) NAS
7 7 (4.61%) SAN
8 5 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (3.29%) HTTPS
8 5 (3.29%) IPsec
8 5 (3.29%) WAN
9 4 (2.63%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.63%) HTTP
9 4 (2.63%) LAN
9 4 (2.63%) OpenVPN
10 3 (1.97%) Network Security
10 3 (1.97%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.63%) Db2
2 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.63%) Metadata
2 4 (2.63%) MySQL
3 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.32%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.66%) Power BI
4 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.89%) JIRA
3 10 (6.58%) GitLab
4 8 (5.26%) Git
5 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.97%) Postman
5 3 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.32%) Gatling
6 2 (1.32%) JMeter
6 2 (1.32%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.32%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.66%) Maven
7 1 (0.66%) Selenium
7 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.11%) Documentation Skills
3 25 (16.45%) Finance
4 20 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 19 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.61%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.29%) Banking
8 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Military
9 3 (1.97%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (17.76%) Architect
2 13 (8.55%) IAM Specialist
3 11 (7.24%) Consultant
3 11 (7.24%) Senior
4 10 (6.58%) Developer
5 8 (5.26%) SailPoint Engineer
5 8 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.95%) Lead
6 6 (3.95%) Technical Architect
7 5 (3.29%) CyberArk Architect
7 5 (3.29%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.29%) Support Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (2.63%) Administrator
8 4 (2.63%) C Developer
8 4 (2.63%) Incident Manager
8 4 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (2.63%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (2.63%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (40.13%) SAML
2 60 (39.47%) OpenID
3 53 (34.87%) OAuth
4 36 (23.68%) SailPoint
5 27 (17.76%) OAuth2
6 22 (14.47%) REST
7 19 (12.50%) Web Services
8 9 (5.92%) .NET
9 8 (5.26%) JSON
9 8 (5.26%) Middleware
10 7 (4.61%) Jakarta EE
10 7 (4.61%) SOAP
11 6 (3.95%) JDBC
12 2 (1.32%) EDI
12 2 (1.32%) Playwright
12 2 (1.32%) pytest
12 2 (1.32%) XML
12 2 (1.32%) YAML
13 1 (0.66%) FIDO
13 1 (0.66%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.08%) Onboarding
2 16 (10.53%) PKI
3 13 (8.55%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (7.24%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.92%) Security Posture
6 8 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.26%) Replication
7 6 (3.95%) Clustering
7 6 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.29%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.63%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.32%) IoT
11 2 (1.32%) PACS
11 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.66%) Linux
2 27 (17.76%) Windows
3 15 (9.87%) Unix
4 10 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.95%) CentOS
6 5 (3.29%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.66%) CatOS
7 1 (0.66%) Rocky
7 1 (0.66%) SUSE
7 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.92%) RBAC
2 40 (26.32%) DevOps
3 38 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (24.34%) Identity Access Management
5 36 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (17.76%) CI/CD
7 24 (15.79%) Zero Trust
8 23 (15.13%) Privileged Access Management
9 21 (13.82%) SIEM
9 21 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (13.16%) Roadmaps
10 20 (13.16%) Runbook
11 18 (11.84%) ITIL
11 18 (11.84%) Migration
12 17 (11.18%) Agile
13 16 (10.53%) Analytics
13 16 (10.53%) Cloud Security
13 16 (10.53%) Computer Science
13 16 (10.53%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.89%) PowerShell
2 45 (29.61%) Python
3 28 (18.42%) Java
4 13 (8.55%) Bash
5 12 (7.89%) SQL
6 7 (4.61%) BeanShell
7 6 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.95%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.29%) Groovy
9 4 (2.63%) C
9 4 (2.63%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.97%) C#
10 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.32%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) Cypher
11 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.66%) R
12 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (34.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (30.92%) SC Cleared
3 30 (19.74%) CISSP
4 28 (18.42%) Degree
5 16 (10.53%) CISM
6 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (6.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (4.61%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.95%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (3.29%) CSPO
10 5 (3.29%) Master's Degree
10 5 (3.29%) MCSA
10 5 (3.29%) MCSE
11 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.32%) GIAC
13 2 (1.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (20.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (16.45%) GDPR
2 25 (16.45%) NIST
3 11 (7.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (5.92%) HIPAA
5 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.95%) NCSC
6 4 (2.63%) SLA
7 2 (1.32%) DICOM
7 2 (1.32%) GRC
7 2 (1.32%) HL7
7 2 (1.32%) ITGC
8 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (74.34%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.92%) Docker
3 7 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.95%) NFS
5 4 (2.63%) Squid
5 4 (2.63%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.97%) OpenAM
7 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.66%) KVM
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (21.71%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (13.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (13.82%) Terraform
3 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
4 12 (7.89%) Ansible
5 9 (5.92%) Grafana
6 8 (5.26%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.61%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.95%) CASB
9 5 (3.29%) Nessus
10 4 (2.63%) Check_MK
10 4 (2.63%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.63%) PingFederate
10 4 (2.63%) Podman
10 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.97%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.32%) Consul
12 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.66%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (33.55%) Microsoft
2 41 (26.97%) CyberArk
3 26 (17.11%) ServiceNow
4 13 (8.55%) VMware
5 11 (7.24%) Ping Identity
6 9 (5.92%) Okta
6 9 (5.92%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.92%) Splunk
7 8 (5.26%) SAP
8 7 (4.61%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (4.61%) ForgeRock
8 7 (4.61%) Google
8 7 (4.61%) Oracle
8 7 (4.61%) Workday
9 6 (3.95%) Sybase
10 5 (3.29%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.29%) Cisco
10 5 (3.29%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.29%) Remedy
10 5 (3.29%) Tenable