LDAP Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LDAP 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.01% - 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.66% - 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £490 - £1,075
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £1,150
75th Percentile £606 - £1,225
90th Percentile £648 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £1,150

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 191 66 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 27.56% 18.75% 23.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 45 62
10th Percentile £358 £461 £389
25th Percentile £409 £500 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £690 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -16.81% +10.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in Sheffield

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing LDAP

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in Sheffield over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in Sheffield

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing LDAP

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (28.57%) CICS
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Kerberos
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) FCoE
3 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) Multicast
3 1 (14.29%) NAS
3 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix Expert
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) SAML
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) zOS
3 1 (14.29%) MVS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCA
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) KVM
4 1 (14.29%) NFS
4 1 (14.29%) SRDF
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (14.29%) Xen
4 1 (14.29%) XenApp
4 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) F5
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) EMC
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage
4 1 (14.29%) SAP