LDAP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 112 124 139
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing LDAP 10 13 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.51% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.32% 3.02% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile £413 - £650
25th Percentile £438 £463 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -29.63% +68.75%
75th Percentile £506 £672 -
90th Percentile £538 £674 -
England median daily rate £500 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
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 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 301 430 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.25% 17.10% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 231 409
10th Percentile £335 £353 £360
25th Percentile £413 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 46 51
10th Percentile £61.65 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile - £66.69 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.22 £78.00
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 West

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the South West

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the South West

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Gloucestershire +13 6 £475 - 2
Somerset - 4 £425 - 2
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) ShareGate
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Aviation
1 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) IAM Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) SAML
2 8 (80.00%) OpenID
3 5 (50.00%) OAuth
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) JDBC
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (10.00%) ODBC
5 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) RBAC
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Data Discovery
3 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Information Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (30.00%) Runbook
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Discovery
3 3 (30.00%) Web SSO
4 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CISM
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) GDPR
1 9 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) NIST
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (50.00%) PingFederate
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (30.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Ping Identity
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) Ivanti
4 1 (10.00%) Okta
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow