LDAP Contracts in the North of England

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 173 206
Rank change year-on-year +19 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing LDAP 20 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.56% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 1.20% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £381 - £356
25th Percentile £413 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £583
90th Percentile £607 - £631
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 700 916 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.60% 18.95% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 597 820
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £388 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -4.29% +1.94%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £717 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 29 6
10th Percentile £46.00 £13.87 £37.77
25th Percentile - £37.63 £39.89
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £48.09
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% -3.97% -28.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.50 £60.31
90th Percentile £94.63 £72.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for LDAP in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Yorkshire +9 11 £600 - 9
North West +14 9 £384 -23.20% 10
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) NAS
2 6 (30.00%) SSL
3 5 (25.00%) Kerberos
4 4 (20.00%) Firewall
4 4 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Log4j
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) LDAP Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) REST
2 6 (30.00%) Kafka
2 6 (30.00%) Middleware
3 5 (25.00%) SAML
4 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth
4 3 (15.00%) SOAP
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) JWT
5 2 (10.00%) OpenID
6 1 (5.00%) JDBC
6 1 (5.00%) JMS
6 1 (5.00%) JNDI
6 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Key Management
4 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) ITSM
5 3 (15.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
5 3 (15.00%) Time Management
5 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C++
1 3 (15.00%) Java
1 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (35.00%) Grafana
4 6 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.00%) SELinux
6 2 (10.00%) Ansible
6 2 (10.00%) Puppet
6 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (5.00%) Graylog
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Splunk
2 5 (25.00%) Confluent
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.00%) ForgeRock
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.00%) Centrify
6 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) Thycotic
6 1 (5.00%) TIBCO