LDAP Contracts in the North West

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 135 155
Rank change year-on-year +22 +20 +9
Contract jobs citing LDAP 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.073% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £263 - £328
25th Percentile £352 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £620 £350
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +77.14% -44.53%
75th Percentile £584 - £369
90th Percentile £635 - £373
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for LDAP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester - 4 £500 - 3
Cumbria - 3 - -
LDAP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) Intranet
4 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Blog
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) VMS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Information Management
3 1 (14.29%) Boundary Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) OWASP
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) SELinux
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (14.29%) Graylog
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft