LDAP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 155 186
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 +50
Contract jobs citing LDAP 4 22 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 3.20% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 13
10th Percentile £458 £203 £208
25th Percentile £474 £332 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £485
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +18.56% -6.73%
75th Percentile £631 £674 £515
90th Percentile £710 £698 £572
England median daily rate £500 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £56.40
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £72.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -13.10% +28.55% -17.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 588 688 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.55% 16.12% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 445 559
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £665 £680
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 44
10th Percentile £18.97 £41.19 £50.00
25th Percentile £47.19 £61.60 £54.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £77.85
England median hourly rate £54.35 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.38% +13.04% -11.54%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the South East

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LDAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LDAP

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in the South East over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the South East

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LDAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LDAP

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Hampshire -7 3 £474 -22.54% 4
Surrey +5 1 £750 +265.85%
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) VMware