LDAP Contracts in England

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring LDAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LDAP over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 377 493
Rank change year-on-year +4 +116 +52
Contract jobs citing LDAP 109 160 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 2.13% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 109 114
10th Percentile £410 £288 £400
25th Percentile £475 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £672
90th Percentile £695 £718 £731
UK median daily rate £575 £565 £541
% change year-on-year +1.77% +4.39% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - £71.50
Median hourly rate £81.35 - £73.00
75th Percentile £81.91 - £74.50
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 - £73.00

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 5,453 7,518 11,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.27% 20.63% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 5,341 8,181
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £799 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 230 129
10th Percentile £32.65 £22.42 £25.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.95 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in England

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LDAP in England.

Daily rate trend for LDAP in England

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LDAP in England.

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in England

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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 18 May 2025. 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 -21 40 £575 +4.55% 50
East of England +39 19 £588 +102.59% 16
North of England +28 16 £600 -1.64% 2
Midlands +10 14 £538 -11.89% 7
Yorkshire +21 10 £600 - 2
West Midlands +11 10 £625 +56.25% 4
South West +45 7 £663 +35.90% 2
South East +39 7 £725 +22.36% 21
North West +15 6 £581 -6.25%
East Midlands -1 4 £407 -34.31% 3
LDAP
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LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.01%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) CMS
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.75%) JBoss
3 3 (2.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.92%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.92%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.36%) Azure
2 22 (20.18%) AWS
3 16 (14.68%) Entra ID
4 12 (11.01%) GCP
5 8 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.67%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.67%) SaaS
6 4 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.75%) GitHub
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.83%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.83%) IaaS
8 2 (1.83%) PaaS
8 2 (1.83%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.83%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (26.61%) HTTP
2 28 (25.69%) SMTP
3 27 (24.77%) DNS
3 27 (24.77%) SSL
4 18 (16.51%) FTP
5 14 (12.84%) Network Security
6 13 (11.93%) Kerberos
7 12 (11.01%) Firewall
7 12 (11.01%) NAS
8 11 (10.09%) SAN
9 9 (8.26%) TCP/IP
10 8 (7.34%) DHCP
10 8 (7.34%) POP3
11 4 (3.67%) LAN
11 4 (3.67%) WAN
12 3 (2.75%) HTTPS
12 3 (2.75%) VLAN
13 2 (1.83%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (1.83%) SSH
13 2 (1.83%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.67%) Power BI
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.75%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.83%) MySQL
6 2 (1.83%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.92%) Metadata
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) JIRA
2 8 (7.34%) Git
3 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.75%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.75%) JUnit
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (2.75%) Selenium
5 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.75%) Subversion
6 2 (1.83%) Maven
6 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) GitLab
7 1 (0.92%) Serena SBM
General
1 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.60%) Finance
4 10 (9.17%) Banking
5 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.67%) Law
7 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.83%) International Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.92%) Aviation
9 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Architect
2 15 (13.76%) Analyst
3 13 (11.93%) Administrator
3 13 (11.93%) Developer
3 13 (11.93%) SOC Analyst
4 9 (8.26%) Lead
4 9 (8.26%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Senior
5 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow Developer
6 4 (3.67%) Consultant
6 4 (3.67%) DevOps Administrator
6 4 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.67%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow Administrator
6 4 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.67%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.75%) Java Developer
7 3 (2.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.85%) SAML
2 24 (22.02%) REST
3 18 (16.51%) OAuth
3 18 (16.51%) Web Services
4 17 (15.60%) AngularJS
5 13 (11.93%) OpenID
5 13 (11.93%) SOAP
6 12 (11.01%) CSS
7 11 (10.09%) HTML
8 10 (9.17%) Bootstrap
8 10 (9.17%) JSON
9 8 (7.34%) CSS3
10 7 (6.42%) SailPoint
10 7 (6.42%) XML
11 6 (5.50%) Ajax
11 6 (5.50%) Middleware
12 5 (4.59%) JWT
12 5 (4.59%) Kafka
13 4 (3.67%) Hibernate
13 4 (3.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Cyberattack
2 11 (10.09%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (10.09%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (9.17%) Onboarding
4 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (7.34%) Clustering
5 8 (7.34%) CSOC
6 6 (5.50%) Security Posture
7 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.59%) PKI
7 5 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.67%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.67%) Replication
9 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.83%) CMDB
10 2 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.83%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.44%) Linux
2 21 (19.27%) Windows
3 11 (10.09%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.50%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.59%) Unix
7 4 (3.67%) Solaris
8 2 (1.83%) CentOS
8 2 (1.83%) Debian
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.83%) VMS
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.02%) Agile
2 22 (20.18%) DevOps
2 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (17.43%) Identity Access Management
5 14 (12.84%) Analytics
5 14 (12.84%) RBAC
5 14 (12.84%) Threat Detection
6 13 (11.93%) Information Security
6 13 (11.93%) Migration
6 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
7 12 (11.01%) Information Management
7 12 (11.01%) Scrum
8 11 (10.09%) Incident Response
8 11 (10.09%) ITIL
8 11 (10.09%) Network Packet Capture
9 10 (9.17%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (9.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 10 (9.17%) Security Operations
9 10 (9.17%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Python
2 18 (16.51%) Java
2 18 (16.51%) PowerShell
3 16 (14.68%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.26%) SQL
5 8 (7.34%) Bash
6 5 (4.59%) C#
7 4 (3.67%) Groovy
7 4 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.75%) C++
8 3 (2.75%) Perl
9 2 (1.83%) Ruby
9 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.02%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.84%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.67%) CISSP
5 4 (3.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.92%) CISM
8 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) GDPR
2 8 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.34%) NIST
3 7 (6.42%) HIPAA
4 6 (5.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.83%) NCSC
5 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.83%) PMO
6 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (38.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.42%) Docker
3 5 (4.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (4.59%) NFS
3 5 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.75%) OpenAM
4 3 (2.75%) OpenDJ
4 3 (2.75%) OpenIDM
5 2 (1.83%) Samba
5 2 (1.83%) Veritas File System
5 2 (1.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (33.03%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (12.84%) Ansible
2 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.42%) Grafana
4 6 (5.50%) Puppet
4 6 (5.50%) Terraform
5 5 (4.59%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.59%) SELinux
6 4 (3.67%) Tivoli
6 4 (3.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 3 (2.75%) Control-M
7 3 (2.75%) Netcool
7 3 (2.75%) QRadar
7 3 (2.75%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.83%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.83%) Nessus
8 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (1.83%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) ServiceNow
2 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.76%) Splunk
4 14 (12.84%) Oracle
5 13 (11.93%) CyberArk
6 12 (11.01%) Red Hat
7 10 (9.17%) VMware
8 9 (8.26%) ForgeRock
9 8 (7.34%) IBM
10 6 (5.50%) Ping Identity
10 6 (5.50%) SAP
11 5 (4.59%) Confluent
11 5 (4.59%) Okta
12 4 (3.67%) NetApp
12 4 (3.67%) OpenText
12 4 (3.67%) Qualtrics
12 4 (3.67%) Qualys
13 3 (2.75%) BMC
13 3 (2.75%) Google
13 3 (2.75%) Sybase