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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 364 389
Rank change year-on-year -91 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing LDAP 168 145 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.52% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 2.10% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 92 90
10th Percentile £275 £360 £248
25th Percentile £450 £407 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £506 £594
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -14.74% +7.95%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £653
90th Percentile £700 £680 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £593
% change year-on-year -2.44% -13.50% +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 0
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £72.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.01 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £84.90 -
UK median hourly rate £77.46 £72.84 -
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -

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 9,819 6,909 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.39% 24.90% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,469 4,744 5,564
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 166 183
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.43 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -14 56 £568 -18.93% 16
London -87 52 £525 -13.08% 62
North of England -67 23 £575 +32.18% 8
South West -21 21 £550 -1.26% 9
Yorkshire -30 19 £565 +10.24% 5
East of England -29 9 £483 -29.04% 17
Midlands -83 6 £375 -14.68% 5
West Midlands -56 5 £375 -28.57% 3
North West -71 3 £679 +68.78% 3
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 8 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) nginx
2 3 (1.79%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (63.69%) Azure
2 75 (44.64%) AWS
3 71 (42.26%) Entra ID
4 50 (29.76%) GCP
5 19 (11.31%) SaaS
6 6 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.38%) IaaS
8 4 (2.38%) PaaS
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.79%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.79%) Route 53
10 2 (1.19%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.19%) GitHub
10 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.19%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 27 (16.07%) DNS
3 15 (8.93%) Firewall
4 14 (8.33%) DHCP
5 10 (5.95%) SSL
6 8 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.76%) VPN
7 6 (3.57%) NAS
7 6 (3.57%) SAN
8 5 (2.98%) HTTP
8 5 (2.98%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.98%) IPsec
8 5 (2.98%) WAN
9 4 (2.38%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.38%) LAN
9 4 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (2.38%) SSH
10 3 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.38%) Db2
2 4 (2.38%) Metadata
3 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.19%) MySQL
4 2 (1.19%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Jenkins
1 13 (7.74%) JIRA
2 9 (5.36%) GitLab
3 8 (4.76%) Git
4 4 (2.38%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.79%) Postman
6 2 (1.19%) Gatling
6 2 (1.19%) JMeter
6 2 (1.19%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.60%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (10.71%) Finance
3 18 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.55%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.98%) Banking
7 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.38%) Military
8 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.79%) Retail
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.43%) Architect
2 18 (10.71%) Consultant
3 14 (8.33%) IAM Specialist
4 9 (5.36%) Developer
4 9 (5.36%) Senior
5 8 (4.76%) Lead
5 8 (4.76%) SailPoint Engineer
6 7 (4.17%) Analyst
6 7 (4.17%) CyberArk Architect
6 7 (4.17%) CyberArk Consultant
6 7 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.98%) Support Engineer
7 5 (2.98%) Technical Architect
7 5 (2.98%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (2.38%) Administrator
8 4 (2.38%) Incident Manager
8 4 (2.38%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (2.38%) Security Architect
8 4 (2.38%) Technical Support
8 4 (2.38%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (37.50%) SAML
2 59 (35.12%) OpenID
3 57 (33.93%) OAuth
4 40 (23.81%) SailPoint
5 29 (17.26%) REST
6 28 (16.67%) OAuth2
7 19 (11.31%) Web Services
8 17 (10.12%) Terraform
9 10 (5.95%) SOAP
10 9 (5.36%) .NET
10 9 (5.36%) JDBC
10 9 (5.36%) JSON
11 8 (4.76%) Middleware
12 7 (4.17%) Jakarta EE
13 5 (2.98%) OpenTofu
14 4 (2.38%) pytest
15 2 (1.19%) Kafka
15 2 (1.19%) Playwright
15 2 (1.19%) XML
15 2 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.24%) Onboarding
2 19 (11.31%) PKI
3 17 (10.12%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (7.74%) Replication
5 11 (6.55%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.76%) Data Centre
7 7 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.57%) Clustering
8 6 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.38%) Mainframe
10 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.19%) IoT
12 2 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.60%) CMDB
13 1 (0.60%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.43%) Linux
2 29 (17.26%) Windows
3 11 (6.55%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.76%) Unix
6 6 (3.57%) CentOS
7 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
8 4 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.60%) CatOS
10 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.60%) Rocky
10 1 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.14%) RBAC
2 42 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 37 (22.02%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (22.02%) DevOps
3 37 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
4 36 (21.43%) SIEM
5 31 (18.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (16.67%) Runbook
6 28 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (16.07%) CI/CD
8 25 (14.88%) Migration
9 24 (14.29%) Zero Trust
10 23 (13.69%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (13.10%) Analytics
11 22 (13.10%) ITSM
12 21 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.71%) DevSecOps
14 17 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (9.52%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.52%) PowerShell
2 46 (27.38%) Python
3 29 (17.26%) Java
4 13 (7.74%) SQL
5 12 (7.14%) Bash
6 10 (5.95%) BeanShell
7 6 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.98%) Groovy
9 4 (2.38%) C
9 4 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.38%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.38%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.79%) C#
11 2 (1.19%) Cypher
11 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.60%) R
12 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.67%) CISSP
4 27 (16.07%) Degree
5 19 (11.31%) CISM
6 15 (8.93%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.98%) CSPO
9 5 (2.98%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.60%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (0.60%) CRISC
13 1 (0.60%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (23.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (19.64%) NIST
3 28 (16.67%) GDPR
4 14 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (5.36%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.17%) NCSC
7 6 (3.57%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.38%) SLA
9 3 (1.79%) GRC
10 2 (1.19%) ITGC
11 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.60%) DICOM
11 1 (0.60%) HL7
11 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.60%) QA
11 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.36%) Docker
3 6 (3.57%) NFS
3 6 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.79%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.19%) Squid
7 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.60%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.60%) KVM
7 1 (0.60%) Postfix
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (6.55%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.95%) Ansible
5 8 (4.76%) CA Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.17%) Grafana
7 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.38%) Check_MK
8 4 (2.38%) PingFederate
8 4 (2.38%) Podman
8 4 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.79%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.60%) CASB
10 1 (0.60%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.60%) Nagios
10 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.76%) CyberArk
3 30 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 13 (7.74%) Okta
5 12 (7.14%) VMware
6 11 (6.55%) Ping Identity
6 11 (6.55%) SAP
7 9 (5.36%) ForgeRock
7 9 (5.36%) Google
8 7 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (4.17%) Workday
9 6 (3.57%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.98%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.98%) Oracle
10 5 (2.98%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.98%) Splunk
11 4 (2.38%) Cisco
11 4 (2.38%) F5
11 4 (2.38%) Greenplum
11 4 (2.38%) Sybase