LDAP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 119 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +43
Contract jobs citing LDAP 8 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.43% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.32% 1.68% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £474 £386 £354
25th Percentile £481 £395 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £438 £485
Median % change year-on-year +12.46% -9.79% +2.11%
75th Percentile £497 £541 £509
90th Percentile £500 £659 £513
South East median daily rate £492 £563 £350
% change year-on-year -12.61% +60.86% -26.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 345 416 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.49% 19.43% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 280 260
10th Percentile £322 £380 £308
25th Percentile £407 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £620
90th Percentile £625 £659 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £42.20 £46.68
25th Percentile £13.25 £57.89 £50.00
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +17.83% -18.86%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £81.70
90th Percentile - £68.23 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LDAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LDAP

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LDAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LDAP

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Berkshire +7 8 £492 +23.00% 11
LDAP
South East

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 8 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) CISM
1 8 (100.00%) CISSP
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) GDPR
1 8 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 8 (100.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft