LDAP Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 115
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing LDAP 1 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.045% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 1.47% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% +3.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 423 408 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.91% 23.65% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 261 295
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -3.65%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £556
90th Percentile £646 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile - - £36.10
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%
75th Percentile £64.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% +3.18% -14.06%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LDAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

LDAP job vacancy trend in Scotland

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing LDAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing LDAP

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing LDAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing LDAP

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh -8 1 £450 -14.29% 2
LDAP
UK

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat