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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 334 393
Rank change year-on-year -24 +59 +69
Contract jobs citing LDAP 239 141 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 2.53% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 82 107
10th Percentile £439 £413 £300
25th Percentile £488 £500 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £719 £654 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £715
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £50.70 - -
25th Percentile £53.00 £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 £78.50 £83.24 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.26% +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 7,855 5,582 7,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.94% 22.63% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,807 5,359
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £793 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 182
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £20.87
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +1 100 £700 +16.67% 12
South East -27 41 £500 -9.26% 9
North of England -51 41 £610 +1.67% 6
Yorkshire -39 26 £525 -12.50% 4
Midlands -58 21 £420 -32.80% 2
West Midlands -67 20 £420 -32.80% 2
North West -20 14 £635 +26.90% 2
East of England -31 14 £478 -20.33% 7
South West -32 12 £525 -25.00% 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 10 (4.18%) nginx
2 7 (2.93%) Confluence
3 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 143 (59.83%) Azure
2 97 (40.59%) AWS
3 80 (33.47%) GCP
4 62 (25.94%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.28%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.60%) Serverless
7 10 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.18%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.18%) Route 53
8 9 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.77%) SaaS
8 9 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.42%) ShareGate
11 1 (0.42%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 64 (26.78%) DNS
2 59 (24.69%) Kerberos
3 34 (14.23%) Firewall
4 30 (12.55%) DHCP
5 25 (10.46%) VPN
6 21 (8.79%) SSL
7 19 (7.95%) TCP/IP
8 13 (5.44%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (5.44%) HTTP
8 13 (5.44%) Network Security
9 10 (4.18%) SMTP
10 9 (3.77%) LAN
10 9 (3.77%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.77%) WAN
11 7 (2.93%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.93%) Ethereal
11 7 (2.93%) HTTPS
11 7 (2.93%) IPsec
11 7 (2.93%) Wireless
11 7 (2.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.35%) MySQL
4 4 (1.67%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.42%) Metadata
6 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (16.32%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.46%) GitLab
3 23 (9.62%) JIRA
4 13 (5.44%) Selenium
5 12 (5.02%) REST Assured
6 11 (4.60%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.60%) Postman
7 10 (4.18%) Git
8 9 (3.77%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.35%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.09%) TestRail
11 4 (1.67%) Gatling
11 4 (1.67%) JMeter
11 4 (1.67%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.67%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.84%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.42%) JUnit
13 1 (0.42%) Maven
13 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 110 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 59 (24.69%) Documentation Skills
3 33 (13.81%) Finance
4 24 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.77%) Banking
8 7 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.67%) Aviation
11 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Electronics
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (32.22%) Architect
2 47 (19.67%) CyberArk Architect
3 21 (8.79%) Consultant
4 10 (4.18%) Lead
5 9 (3.77%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.77%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.77%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.35%) Administrator
7 7 (2.93%) Analyst
7 7 (2.93%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (2.93%) Security Engineer
8 6 (2.51%) Developer
8 6 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.51%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.09%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (2.09%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.09%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.09%) Test Architect
9 5 (2.09%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (27.62%) SAML
2 59 (24.69%) OpenID
3 57 (23.85%) REST
4 39 (16.32%) OAuth
5 38 (15.90%) SOAP
6 25 (10.46%) SailPoint
7 8 (3.35%) .NET
8 7 (2.93%) J2EE
8 7 (2.93%) Middleware
9 4 (1.67%) Playwright
10 3 (1.26%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.26%) RESTful
11 2 (0.84%) EDI
11 2 (0.84%) JDBC
11 2 (0.84%) JSON
11 2 (0.84%) Web Services
11 2 (0.84%) XML
12 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (0.42%) LAMP
12 1 (0.42%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.57%) Security Posture
2 39 (16.32%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (12.97%) Replication
4 28 (11.72%) Onboarding
5 19 (7.95%) Cloud Native
6 15 (6.28%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.60%) PKI
8 7 (2.93%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.09%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.09%) CSOC
10 5 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.09%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.26%) CMDB
12 3 (1.26%) SCADA
13 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.84%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.57%) Linux
2 39 (16.32%) Windows
3 21 (8.79%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.02%) CentOS
6 10 (4.18%) Ubuntu
7 8 (3.35%) Unix
8 4 (1.67%) AIX
8 4 (1.67%) CatOS
8 4 (1.67%) Solaris
9 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.24%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (34.73%) SIEM
3 69 (28.87%) DevOps
4 64 (26.78%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (24.27%) CI/CD
6 57 (23.85%) Privileged Access Management
7 50 (20.92%) ITSM
8 49 (20.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 49 (20.50%) Task Automation
9 48 (20.08%) Identity Access Management
10 39 (16.32%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (15.48%) Integration Patterns
12 36 (15.06%) RBAC
13 34 (14.23%) Presales
14 30 (12.55%) Migration
15 27 (11.30%) Roadmaps
16 25 (10.46%) Agile
16 25 (10.46%) DevSecOps
17 24 (10.04%) High Availability
18 19 (7.95%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 116 (48.54%) PowerShell
2 99 (41.42%) Python
3 30 (12.55%) Java
4 22 (9.21%) SQL
5 12 (5.02%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.18%) Bash
7 9 (3.77%) PHP
8 8 (3.35%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.93%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.09%) Groovy
11 4 (1.67%) Cypher
11 4 (1.67%) Scala
11 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.84%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.84%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) Korn
13 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (59.00%) Security Cleared
2 134 (56.07%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.64%) CISSP
4 29 (12.13%) CISM
5 12 (5.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.09%) Degree
8 5 (2.09%) MCSA
8 5 (2.09%) MCSE
9 4 (1.67%) APMG
9 4 (1.67%) GIAC
9 4 (1.67%) GSEC
9 4 (1.67%) SSCP
10 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (22.59%) NIST
3 52 (21.76%) GDPR
4 20 (8.37%) NCSC
4 20 (8.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.35%) QA
6 7 (2.93%) SLA
7 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.84%) DICOM
8 2 (0.84%) HL7
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 158 (66.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.77%) Squid
4 7 (2.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 7 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.93%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.67%) Docker
5 4 (1.67%) Postfix
6 2 (0.84%) NFS
6 2 (0.84%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.84%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.84%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.42%) Ceph
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) iptables
7 1 (0.42%) KVM
7 1 (0.42%) Lustre
7 1 (0.42%) Samba
7 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (20.08%) Single Sign-On
2 37 (15.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.46%) Kubernetes
4 17 (7.11%) Terraform
5 14 (5.86%) Ansible
6 11 (4.60%) Grafana
7 10 (4.18%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.77%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.93%) Check_MK
9 7 (2.93%) Consul
9 7 (2.93%) Podman
9 7 (2.93%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.51%) vCenter Server
11 5 (2.09%) CASB
11 5 (2.09%) Nessus
12 4 (1.67%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.26%) SCOM
14 2 (0.84%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.42%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 92 (38.49%) CyberArk
2 65 (27.20%) BeyondTrust
3 59 (24.69%) Microsoft
4 35 (14.64%) Centrify
5 25 (10.46%) ServiceNow
6 22 (9.21%) VMware
7 18 (7.53%) Splunk
8 16 (6.69%) Red Hat
9 15 (6.28%) Cisco
9 15 (6.28%) Okta
10 9 (3.77%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.77%) Google
11 8 (3.35%) F5
12 7 (2.93%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.93%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.93%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.93%) SAP
13 6 (2.51%) Oracle
14 5 (2.09%) Ping Identity
14 5 (2.09%) Remedy