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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 353 324
Rank change year-on-year +19 -29 +166
Contract jobs citing LDAP 208 141 236
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.01% 2.39% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 78 135
10th Percentile £413 £300 £357
25th Percentile £468 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +3.25%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £681
90th Percentile - £765 £748
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.37% +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile £45.00 - £53.13
25th Percentile £47.63 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £83.75 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -9.66% +30.16% -23.70%

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 6,907 5,900 7,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.19% 21.90% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,609 3,777 5,607
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £757
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 68 164
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.87
25th Percentile £44.75 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +14 88 £700 +16.67% 51
Midlands -25 35 £540 -7.10% 7
West Midlands -17 33 £550 -5.38% 1
North of England -8 32 £468 +125.54% 30
South East -5 24 £481 -12.58% 36
Yorkshire - 21 £525 - 17
East of England -18 17 £492 -14.43% 22
North West -15 11 £448 +115.90% 12
South West -19 10 £475 - 21
East Midlands - 2 £455 - 6
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 27 (12.98%) Confluence
2 12 (5.77%) WebSphere
3 11 (5.29%) Apache
3 11 (5.29%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (4.81%) IIS
4 10 (4.81%) iPlanet
4 10 (4.81%) JBoss
4 10 (4.81%) nginx
5 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.96%) CICS
7 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.48%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.48%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.96%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 105 (50.48%) Azure
2 101 (48.56%) AWS
3 72 (34.62%) GCP
4 28 (13.46%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (8.17%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (5.29%) SaaS
9 10 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.81%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.81%) Route 53
10 9 (4.33%) Amazon ELB
10 9 (4.33%) AWS KMS
10 9 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.85%) Serverless
12 7 (3.37%) GitHub
13 5 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.44%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (19.23%) Kerberos
2 36 (17.31%) DNS
3 27 (12.98%) SSL
4 25 (12.02%) SMTP
5 23 (11.06%) HTTP
6 20 (9.62%) Firewall
7 19 (9.13%) FTP
8 17 (8.17%) SSH
9 14 (6.73%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (5.77%) Network Security
11 9 (4.33%) IMAP
12 8 (3.85%) DHCP
13 7 (3.37%) VPN
14 5 (2.40%) LAN
14 5 (2.40%) TCP/IP
14 5 (2.40%) WAN
15 4 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.92%) DKIM
15 4 (1.92%) DMARC
15 4 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.81%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.88%) MySQL
5 3 (1.44%) Metadata
5 3 (1.44%) Power BI
6 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.79%) JIRA
3 33 (15.87%) Git
4 21 (10.10%) GitLab
5 11 (5.29%) Selenium
6 10 (4.81%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (4.81%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (4.33%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.33%) REST Assured
7 9 (4.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (4.33%) Vagrant
8 6 (2.88%) Postman
9 5 (2.40%) TestRail
10 2 (0.96%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.48%) JUnit
11 1 (0.48%) Maven
11 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 99 (47.60%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.13%) Finance
6 15 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Banking
8 5 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.92%) Aviation
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.96%) Electronics
11 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.96%) Marketing
12 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (25.48%) Architect
2 36 (17.31%) CyberArk Architect
3 25 (12.02%) Consultant
4 16 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.21%) Analyst
6 12 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (5.77%) Senior
7 11 (5.29%) Developer
8 10 (4.81%) SOC Analyst
9 9 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.85%) Lead
11 7 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (29.81%) SAML
2 59 (28.37%) REST
3 48 (23.08%) OpenID
4 46 (22.12%) OAuth
5 42 (20.19%) SOAP
6 19 (9.13%) SailPoint
7 11 (5.29%) AngularJS
7 11 (5.29%) HTML
7 11 (5.29%) Web Services
8 9 (4.33%) HTML5
9 8 (3.85%) Apache Camel
9 8 (3.85%) JDBC
9 8 (3.85%) jQuery
9 8 (3.85%) JSON
9 8 (3.85%) Middleware
9 8 (3.85%) ODBC
9 8 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (3.37%) .NET
10 7 (3.37%) boto
10 7 (3.37%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.27%) Security Posture
2 36 (17.31%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (9.62%) Onboarding
4 18 (8.65%) Replication
5 17 (8.17%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (4.81%) CSOC
7 10 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (4.81%) Cyberattack
7 10 (4.81%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (3.37%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.88%) SCADA
10 5 (2.40%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.92%) PKI
12 2 (0.96%) Clustering
12 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.48%) CMDB
13 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (23.08%) Linux
2 43 (20.67%) Windows
3 18 (8.65%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 11 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.29%) Unix
6 10 (4.81%) CentOS
6 10 (4.81%) VMS
7 9 (4.33%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (4.33%) Solaris
8 7 (3.37%) AIX
9 2 (0.96%) CatOS
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.96%) zOS
10 1 (0.48%) MVS
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (32.69%) SIEM
2 67 (32.21%) Privileged Access Management
3 64 (30.77%) DevOps
3 64 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (28.37%) CI/CD
5 52 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 47 (22.60%) Task Automation
7 45 (21.63%) ITSM
8 42 (20.19%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (20.19%) Integration Patterns
9 38 (18.27%) Identity Access Management
10 37 (17.79%) Technical Leadership
11 34 (16.35%) Presales
12 26 (12.50%) Agile
12 26 (12.50%) RBAC
13 21 (10.10%) Migration
14 20 (9.62%) DevSecOps
15 18 (8.65%) Incident Response
15 18 (8.65%) Roadmaps
16 16 (7.69%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (48.08%) Python
2 96 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.98%) SQL
4 22 (10.58%) Groovy
5 21 (10.10%) Java
6 19 (9.13%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.33%) Bash
9 7 (3.37%) Go
10 5 (2.40%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.40%) PHP
11 3 (1.44%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.96%) C#
12 2 (0.96%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.48%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.48%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 110 (52.88%) Security Cleared
2 107 (51.44%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.98%) CISSP
4 22 (10.58%) CISM
5 16 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.33%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.33%) Degree
7 8 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.48%) GIAC
10 1 (0.48%) GSEC
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (19.23%) GDPR
2 39 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (15.38%) NIST
4 11 (5.29%) QA
5 8 (3.85%) NCSC
5 8 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (2.88%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.40%) SLA
8 4 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 137 (65.87%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.13%) Docker
3 13 (6.25%) Postfix
4 9 (4.33%) DFS Replication
4 9 (4.33%) Dovecot
4 9 (4.33%) Squid
5 8 (3.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.44%) KVM
7 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.96%) NFS
8 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.48%) Firmware
9 1 (0.48%) Samba
9 1 (0.48%) Xen
9 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 40 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (8.17%) Terraform
3 14 (6.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (5.29%) Ansible
4 11 (5.29%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.29%) Nessus
5 10 (4.81%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (4.81%) CA Wily
6 9 (4.33%) Grafana
6 9 (4.33%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.33%) Proxmox
7 8 (3.85%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.88%) PingFederate
9 5 (2.40%) Check_MK
9 5 (2.40%) Podman
9 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.44%) SCCM
12 2 (0.96%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 79 (37.98%) CyberArk
2 62 (29.81%) BeyondTrust
3 55 (26.44%) Microsoft
4 34 (16.35%) Centrify
5 33 (15.87%) ServiceNow
6 15 (7.21%) Oracle
6 15 (7.21%) Splunk
7 13 (6.25%) VMware
8 12 (5.77%) IBM
9 10 (4.81%) AppDynamics
9 10 (4.81%) Broadcom
10 9 (4.33%) HP
10 9 (4.33%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (4.33%) Remedy
11 8 (3.85%) BMC
11 8 (3.85%) Ivanti
11 8 (3.85%) Ping Identity
12 7 (3.37%) SAP
13 6 (2.88%) Cisco
13 6 (2.88%) Red Hat