LDAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring LDAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LDAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 341 371
Rank change year-on-year +69 +30 +23
Contract jobs citing LDAP 64 58 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 1.76% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 66
10th Percentile £415 £296 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +7.73% +9.45%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £676
90th Percentile £638 £635 £731
UK median daily rate £595 £558 £550
% change year-on-year +6.73% +1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 £51.25 £71.50
Median hourly rate £81.35 £52.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.95% -28.08% -
75th Percentile £81.91 £53.75 £74.88
90th Percentile £83.05 - £75.55
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £52.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +54.95% -28.08% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in the UK excluding London

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LDAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for LDAP in the UK excluding London

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK excluding London

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LDAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in the UK excluding London

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England +43 19 £588 +102.59% 28
North of England +25 17 £600 - 19
West Midlands +20 11 £625 +35.14% 9
Midlands +11 11 £625 +4.17% 19
Yorkshire +10 10 £600 +6.67% 10
South East +46 8 £588 +4.68% 48
South West +52 7 £663 +35.90% 11
North West +22 7 £500 -19.35% 7
Scotland +7 5 £563 - 8
LDAP
UK

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.81%) Apache
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) Camunda
3 2 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (1.56%) IIS
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Azure
1 11 (17.19%) Entra ID
2 8 (12.50%) AWS
3 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.94%) DNS
2 22 (34.38%) SSL
3 19 (29.69%) FTP
3 19 (29.69%) HTTP
3 19 (29.69%) SMTP
4 14 (21.88%) Network Security
5 11 (17.19%) NAS
6 10 (15.63%) SAN
7 7 (10.94%) DHCP
7 7 (10.94%) Firewall
8 5 (7.81%) Kerberos
9 4 (6.25%) LAN
9 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
9 4 (6.25%) tcpdump
9 4 (6.25%) Telnet
9 4 (6.25%) WAN
10 2 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (3.13%) VLAN
11 1 (1.56%) Intranet
11 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Git
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Eclipse
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) Maven
3 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.25%) Law
6 3 (4.69%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.56%) Aviation
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Analyst
2 14 (21.88%) Administrator
3 13 (20.31%) SOC Analyst
4 9 (14.06%) Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) Lead
8 4 (6.25%) Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) DevOps Administrator
8 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 3 (4.69%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Manager
10 2 (3.13%) Applications Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
10 2 (3.13%) Security Analyst
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
10 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) SAML
2 6 (9.38%) Middleware
3 5 (7.81%) Kafka
3 5 (7.81%) REST
4 4 (6.25%) Ajax
4 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.25%) CSS
4 4 (6.25%) HTML
4 4 (6.25%) OAuth
4 4 (6.25%) Web Services
5 3 (4.69%) X-Windows
6 2 (3.13%) JWT
6 2 (3.13%) OpenID
6 2 (3.13%) RESTful
6 2 (3.13%) Spring
6 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.13%) YAML
7 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.56%) SOAP
7 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Cyberattack
2 11 (17.19%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (17.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (12.50%) CSOC
5 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
6 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
6 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
6 5 (7.81%) Security Posture
6 5 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (6.25%) Clustering
7 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (3.13%) PKI
8 2 (3.13%) Replication
8 2 (3.13%) YARA
9 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Linux
2 17 (26.56%) Windows
3 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (10.94%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.38%) Ubuntu
5 5 (7.81%) Unix
6 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.13%) CentOS
7 2 (3.13%) Debian
7 2 (3.13%) VMS
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (20.31%) Information Security
2 13 (20.31%) Threat Detection
3 12 (18.75%) Information Management
4 11 (17.19%) Identity Access Management
4 11 (17.19%) Network Packet Capture
4 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.63%) ITIL
5 10 (15.63%) Security Operations
6 9 (14.06%) Agile
6 9 (14.06%) DevOps
6 9 (14.06%) Incident Response
6 9 (14.06%) SIEM
7 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 8 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (12.50%) ITSM
7 8 (12.50%) Migration
7 8 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (10.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.81%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.25%) SQL
4 3 (4.69%) C++
4 3 (4.69%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) CISM
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) NIST
2 4 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.13%) PMO
5 1 (1.56%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.38%) Docker
3 5 (7.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.25%) NFS
4 4 (6.25%) Samba
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.94%) Grafana
4 5 (7.81%) Ansible
4 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.25%) Puppet
5 4 (6.25%) yum
6 3 (4.69%) SELinux
7 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.13%) Nessus
7 2 (3.13%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.56%) Graylog
8 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Red Hat
1 11 (17.19%) Splunk
2 9 (14.06%) Oracle
3 8 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.50%) VMware
4 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.38%) CyberArk
6 5 (7.81%) Confluent
7 4 (6.25%) NetApp
8 3 (4.69%) HP
9 2 (3.13%) Darktrace
9 2 (3.13%) FireEye
9 2 (3.13%) ForgeRock
9 2 (3.13%) IronPort
9 2 (3.13%) LogRhythm
9 2 (3.13%) Sophos
9 2 (3.13%) Symantec
10 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.56%) Thycotic
10 1 (1.56%) Twitter