LDAP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 277 278
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +128
Contract jobs citing LDAP 126 71 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.49% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.79% 2.72% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 42 66
10th Percentile £380 £212 £319
25th Percentile £450 £415 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £551 £543
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +1.57% -1.36%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £675
90th Percentile £652 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.37% +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 6
10th Percentile £45.00 - £53.13
25th Percentile £52.63 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £84.38 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.00 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%

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 3,328 2,608 3,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.17% 17.92% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 1,628 2,319
10th Percentile £345 £340 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £680
UK median daily rate £508 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 58 135
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.44 £38.53
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.81 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LDAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LDAP

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK excluding London

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LDAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LDAP

LDAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LDAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 January 2026. 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
Midlands -20 37 £539 -7.35% 7
West Midlands -16 35 £545 -6.24% 7
North of England -23 33 £469 +30.73% 14
South East -12 23 £481 -12.66% 9
East of England -13 20 £496 -13.74% 16
Yorkshire - 19 £500 - 12
North West -14 14 £453 +26.27% 2
South West -11 10 £475 - 2
Wales - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £455 -
Scotland +10 1 - -
LDAP
UK

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (10.32%) Confluence
2 12 (9.52%) WebSphere
3 11 (8.73%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (7.94%) Apache
4 10 (7.94%) IIS
4 10 (7.94%) iPlanet
4 10 (7.94%) JBoss
4 10 (7.94%) nginx
5 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.59%) CICS
6 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.24%) AWS
2 53 (42.06%) Azure
3 34 (26.98%) GCP
4 18 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.32%) Entra ID
6 11 (8.73%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (8.73%) Amazon S3
6 11 (8.73%) Route 53
7 10 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (7.94%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (7.94%) AWS KMS
7 10 (7.94%) SaaS
7 10 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (6.35%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.38%) ShareGate
10 2 (1.59%) GitHub
11 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.79%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 35 (27.78%) DNS
2 29 (23.02%) HTTP
2 29 (23.02%) SMTP
3 26 (20.63%) Kerberos
4 25 (19.84%) FTP
5 24 (19.05%) SSL
6 22 (17.46%) Firewall
7 18 (14.29%) Network Security
8 17 (13.49%) SSH
9 10 (7.94%) IMAP
9 10 (7.94%) OpenLDAP
10 7 (5.56%) VPN
11 6 (4.76%) LAN
11 6 (4.76%) WAN
12 4 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (3.17%) DKIM
12 4 (3.17%) DMARC
12 4 (3.17%) HTTPS
12 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
13 3 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.73%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (7.94%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.97%) MySQL
6 3 (2.38%) Metadata
6 3 (2.38%) Power BI
7 2 (1.59%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.84%) Git
3 23 (18.25%) JIRA
4 11 (8.73%) GitLab
5 10 (7.94%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (7.94%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (7.94%) Vagrant
6 9 (7.14%) Selenium
6 9 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.56%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.76%) Postman
9 5 (3.97%) TestRail
10 2 (1.59%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.79%) JUnit
11 1 (0.79%) Maven
11 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 60 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (11.11%) Finance
7 5 (3.97%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.97%) Banking
8 4 (3.17%) Aviation
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (15.87%) Analyst
2 15 (11.90%) SOC Analyst
3 14 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Consultant
5 12 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.35%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.35%) Lead
8 7 (5.56%) Senior
9 6 (4.76%) Management Consultant
9 6 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) Administrator
10 4 (3.17%) Architect
10 4 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.38%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.13%) SAML
2 36 (28.57%) OAuth
3 35 (27.78%) OpenID
4 12 (9.52%) SailPoint
5 10 (7.94%) REST
6 5 (3.97%) .NET
6 5 (3.97%) Middleware
7 3 (2.38%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.59%) RESTful
8 2 (1.59%) SOAP
9 1 (0.79%) HTML
9 1 (0.79%) HTML5
9 1 (0.79%) JDBC
9 1 (0.79%) jQuery
9 1 (0.79%) JSON
9 1 (0.79%) ODBC
9 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.79%) Spring
9 1 (0.79%) WCF
9 1 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Management Information System
2 15 (11.90%) Cyberattack
2 15 (11.90%) Onboarding
3 14 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (10.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (10.32%) CSOC
4 13 (10.32%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (10.32%) Replication
5 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.76%) SCADA
6 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.59%) Clustering
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.79%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (38.10%) Linux
2 38 (30.16%) Windows
3 14 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 13 (10.32%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (8.73%) Unix
6 10 (7.94%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (7.94%) VMS
7 9 (7.14%) Solaris
8 8 (6.35%) CentOS
9 7 (5.56%) AIX
10 2 (1.59%) CatOS
10 2 (1.59%) zOS
11 1 (0.79%) MVS
11 1 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.51%) CI/CD
1 46 (36.51%) DevOps
2 43 (34.13%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (29.37%) SIEM
4 25 (19.84%) Identity Access Management
4 25 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (19.05%) Privileged Access Management
6 19 (15.08%) Root Cause Analysis
7 18 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 17 (13.49%) Runbook
9 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (12.70%) Information Management
9 16 (12.70%) Information Security
9 16 (12.70%) Threat Detection
10 15 (11.90%) Incident Response
10 15 (11.90%) Network Packet Capture
10 15 (11.90%) Security Operations
11 14 (11.11%) Analytics
11 14 (11.11%) Cloud Security
11 14 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.83%) Python
2 54 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 23 (18.25%) SQL
4 22 (17.46%) Groovy
5 15 (11.90%) Java
6 11 (8.73%) Shell Script
7 9 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.35%) Bash
9 5 (3.97%) PHP
10 3 (2.38%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 54 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 51 (40.48%) SC Cleared
3 24 (19.05%) CISSP
4 20 (15.87%) CISM
5 17 (13.49%) AWS Certification
6 12 (9.52%) DV Cleared
7 10 (7.94%) Azure Certification
7 10 (7.94%) Degree
8 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.38%) MCSA
9 3 (2.38%) MCSE
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.79%) CCA
10 1 (0.79%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (27.78%) GDPR
3 30 (23.81%) NIST
4 6 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (4.76%) SOC 2
5 5 (3.97%) QA
6 4 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (3.17%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.38%) SLA
8 2 (1.59%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.08%) Docker
3 14 (11.11%) Postfix
4 10 (7.94%) DFS Replication
4 10 (7.94%) Dovecot
4 10 (7.94%) Squid
5 8 (6.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 6 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.59%) KVM
8 2 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.79%) Firmware
9 1 (0.79%) NFS
9 1 (0.79%) SRDF
9 1 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.79%) Xen
9 1 (0.79%) XenApp
9 1 (0.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (15.87%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (12.70%) Terraform
3 15 (11.90%) Nessus
4 10 (7.94%) CA Single Sign-On
4 10 (7.94%) CA Wily
4 10 (7.94%) Grafana
4 10 (7.94%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.94%) Proxmox
5 9 (7.14%) Ansible
5 9 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 8 (6.35%) Tivoli
7 7 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (4.76%) PingFederate
9 5 (3.97%) Check_MK
10 3 (2.38%) CASB
10 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.38%) Podman
10 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.38%) SCCM
11 2 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (30.16%) CyberArk
2 35 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 26 (20.63%) BeyondTrust
4 21 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 16 (12.70%) Splunk
6 14 (11.11%) Oracle
7 12 (9.52%) IBM
7 12 (9.52%) VMware
8 10 (7.94%) AppDynamics
8 10 (7.94%) Broadcom
8 10 (7.94%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (6.35%) Cisco
9 8 (6.35%) Ping Identity
10 6 (4.76%) F5
10 6 (4.76%) Red Hat
11 5 (3.97%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.97%) Tenable
12 4 (3.17%) Remedy
13 3 (2.38%) CheckPoint
13 3 (2.38%) ForgeRock