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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 365 412
Rank change year-on-year -63 +47 +41
Contract jobs citing LDAP 198 134 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.34% 2.21% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 84 97
10th Percentile £382 £363 £250
25th Percentile £488 £428 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -4.77% +0.69%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £622
90th Percentile £831 £685 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £81.01 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.58 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £84.90 -
UK median hourly rate £79.91 £81.01 -
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -

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 8,470 6,054 7,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.91% 22.25% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,575 4,164 5,358
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £747 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 134 251
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -57 74 £581 +1.09% 9
South East -6 61 £525 -27.59% 13
North of England -64 33 £620 +20.62% 3
Yorkshire -36 17 £515 -6.36% 1
South West -31 16 £550 -11.11% 3
North West -46 15 £635 +23.44% 2
Midlands -82 8 £375 -14.68%
West Midlands -67 7 £375 -30.23%
East of England -33 5 £483 -22.80% 2
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 14 (7.07%) Confluence
2 9 (4.55%) nginx
3 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (63.13%) Azure
2 87 (43.94%) Entra ID
3 77 (38.89%) AWS
4 40 (20.20%) GCP
5 17 (8.59%) SaaS
6 15 (7.58%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.05%) Serverless
9 9 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.55%) Route 53
10 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.02%) IaaS
10 4 (2.02%) PaaS
11 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.01%) GitHub
12 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 52 (26.26%) DNS
2 49 (24.75%) Kerberos
3 36 (18.18%) Firewall
4 28 (14.14%) DHCP
5 21 (10.61%) TCP/IP
6 19 (9.60%) VPN
7 13 (6.57%) SSL
8 9 (4.55%) NAS
8 9 (4.55%) OpenVPN
9 8 (4.04%) SAN
10 7 (3.54%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (3.03%) WAN
12 5 (2.53%) IPsec
12 5 (2.53%) LAN
12 5 (2.53%) Network Security
13 4 (2.02%) BGP
13 4 (2.02%) BIG-IP
13 4 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (2.02%) HTTP
13 4 (2.02%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.02%) Db2
3 4 (2.02%) Metadata
3 4 (2.02%) MySQL
4 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.01%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.51%) Power BI
5 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (12.63%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.59%) JIRA
3 10 (5.05%) GitLab
4 9 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.04%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.54%) Git
7 3 (1.52%) Postman
8 2 (1.01%) Gatling
8 2 (1.01%) JMeter
8 2 (1.01%) NeoLoad
8 2 (1.01%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.01%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 68 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 39 (19.70%) Finance
4 24 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 21 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.54%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.03%) Banking
9 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.52%) Military
9 3 (1.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (23.74%) Architect
2 15 (7.58%) CyberArk Architect
3 12 (6.06%) IAM Specialist
4 11 (5.56%) Senior
4 11 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 10 (5.05%) Developer
6 9 (4.55%) Consultant
7 8 (4.04%) SailPoint Engineer
7 8 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.03%) Lead
10 5 (2.53%) AWS Architect
10 5 (2.53%) Network Engineer
10 5 (2.53%) Senior Developer
10 5 (2.53%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.53%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (2.02%) Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (2.02%) CyberArk Specialist
11 4 (2.02%) Product Owner
11 4 (2.02%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (39.90%) SAML
2 76 (38.38%) OpenID
3 59 (29.80%) OAuth
4 35 (17.68%) SailPoint
5 26 (13.13%) OAuth2
6 24 (12.12%) REST
7 19 (9.60%) Web Services
8 9 (4.55%) .NET
8 9 (4.55%) SOAP
9 8 (4.04%) JSON
9 8 (4.04%) Middleware
10 7 (3.54%) J2EE
11 6 (3.03%) JDBC
12 2 (1.01%) EDI
12 2 (1.01%) Playwright
12 2 (1.01%) pytest
12 2 (1.01%) XML
13 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.51%) React
13 1 (0.51%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.71%) Onboarding
2 27 (13.64%) Replication
3 18 (9.09%) PKI
4 17 (8.59%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (5.05%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 8 (4.04%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.03%) Clustering
9 6 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.03%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.02%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.52%) CMDB
12 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.01%) IoT
13 2 (1.01%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 42 (21.21%) Linux
2 35 (17.68%) Windows
3 15 (7.58%) Unix
4 12 (6.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.03%) CentOS
6 6 (3.03%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.51%) CatOS
7 1 (0.51%) Rocky
7 1 (0.51%) SUSE
7 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.30%) DevOps
2 54 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (26.26%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (26.26%) RBAC
4 47 (23.74%) Identity Access Management
5 41 (20.71%) CI/CD
6 33 (16.67%) SIEM
7 29 (14.65%) Roadmaps
8 28 (14.14%) Migration
8 28 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (13.13%) ITIL
9 26 (13.13%) ITSM
10 25 (12.63%) Zero Trust
11 23 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (10.10%) Agile
12 20 (10.10%) Privileged Access Management
12 20 (10.10%) Runbook
12 20 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (9.09%) Architectural Design
13 18 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.39%) PowerShell
2 51 (25.76%) Python
3 27 (13.64%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) SQL
5 12 (6.06%) Bash
6 7 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.03%) BeanShell
8 5 (2.53%) Groovy
8 5 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.02%) C
9 4 (2.02%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.52%) C#
10 3 (1.52%) PHP
10 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.01%) C++
11 2 (1.01%) Cypher
11 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 93 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 84 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 33 (16.67%) CISSP
4 27 (13.64%) Degree
5 19 (9.60%) CISM
6 14 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.55%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.53%) CSPO
10 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.53%) MCSA
10 5 (2.53%) MCSE
11 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.02%) GIAC
11 4 (2.02%) SSCP
12 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (20.71%) NIST
3 33 (16.67%) GDPR
4 18 (9.09%) NCSC
5 16 (8.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.55%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.02%) SLA
9 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.52%) GRC
10 2 (1.01%) DICOM
10 2 (1.01%) HL7
11 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (69.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.55%) Docker
3 9 (4.55%) Squid
4 7 (3.54%) NFS
5 4 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.02%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.52%) OpenAM
7 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.51%) KVM
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (23.23%) Single Sign-On
2 39 (19.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (15.66%) Kubernetes
4 25 (12.63%) Terraform
5 14 (7.07%) Grafana
6 12 (6.06%) Ansible
7 11 (5.56%) Prometheus
8 9 (4.55%) FortiGate
9 8 (4.04%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.54%) Consul
11 6 (3.03%) CASB
12 5 (2.53%) Nessus
13 4 (2.02%) Check_MK
13 4 (2.02%) PingFederate
13 4 (2.02%) Podman
13 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (2.02%) vCenter Server
14 3 (1.52%) Kustomize
15 2 (1.01%) SCOM
16 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 53 (26.77%) CyberArk
3 29 (14.65%) ServiceNow
4 21 (10.61%) Splunk
5 17 (8.59%) Okta
6 16 (8.08%) VMware
7 13 (6.57%) Red Hat
8 11 (5.56%) Ping Identity
9 10 (5.05%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (4.55%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.04%) Cisco
11 8 (4.04%) SAP
12 7 (3.54%) Atlassian
12 7 (3.54%) ForgeRock
12 7 (3.54%) Google
12 7 (3.54%) Oracle
13 6 (3.03%) Sybase
13 6 (3.03%) Workday
14 5 (2.53%) CheckPoint
14 5 (2.53%) Remedy
26 LDAP jobs in England