LDAP Contract Job Trends

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 382 402
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +88
Contract jobs citing LDAP 267 145 191
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 2.16% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 88 117
10th Percentile £401 £375 £290
25th Percentile £488 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £529 £560
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% -5.50% +2.28%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £622
90th Percentile £763 £676 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 £81.91 -
90th Percentile - £83.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -4.79% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,670 6,720 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 22.88% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,358 4,600 6,346
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 122 263
10th Percentile £30.77 £29.35 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.14 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.32 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the UK

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

LDAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 June 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
England -6 251 £595 +12.43% 38
UK excluding London -44 133 £525 - 30
London -1 115 £700 +27.27% 8
Work from Home +13 107 £700 +27.16% 13
South East -26 50 £525 -27.59% 17
North of England -49 45 £593 +18.50% 6
Yorkshire -37 29 £525 -12.50% 3
South West -13 16 £545 -17.74% 3
North West -32 15 £635 +65.23% 3
East of England -30 12 £480 -18.26% 4
Midlands -84 9 £320 -34.96% 1
West Midlands -60 8 £320 -45.53% 1
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £345 -

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (4.12%) Confluence
2 9 (3.37%) nginx
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.75%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 180 (67.42%) Azure
2 124 (46.44%) AWS
3 94 (35.21%) Entra ID
4 87 (32.58%) GCP
5 19 (7.12%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.24%) SaaS
7 11 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.75%) Serverless
9 9 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.37%) Route 53
10 5 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.75%) GitHub
12 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 57 (21.35%) DNS
2 53 (19.85%) Kerberos
3 34 (12.73%) Firewall
4 30 (11.24%) DHCP
5 25 (9.36%) VPN
6 20 (7.49%) TCP/IP
7 16 (5.99%) SSL
8 13 (4.87%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (3.75%) HTTPS
9 10 (3.75%) WAN
10 9 (3.37%) LAN
10 9 (3.37%) OpenVPN
11 8 (3.00%) IPsec
11 8 (3.00%) NAS
11 8 (3.00%) Network Security
11 8 (3.00%) SAN
12 7 (2.62%) BGP
12 7 (2.62%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.62%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.75%) MySQL
3 9 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.50%) Metadata
4 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) Power BI
6 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (17.60%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.61%) GitLab
3 28 (10.49%) JIRA
4 13 (4.87%) Git
4 13 (4.87%) REST Assured
4 13 (4.87%) Selenium
5 12 (4.49%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.12%) Postman
7 9 (3.37%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.00%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.87%) TestRail
10 4 (1.50%) Gatling
10 4 (1.50%) JMeter
10 4 (1.50%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.50%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.37%) JUnit
11 1 (0.37%) Maven
11 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.97%) Documentation Skills
3 41 (15.36%) Finance
4 22 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.49%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.37%) Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (0.75%) Military
10 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 92 (34.46%) Architect
2 48 (17.98%) CyberArk Architect
3 15 (5.62%) Lead
4 14 (5.24%) Consultant
5 12 (4.49%) Administrator
6 11 (4.12%) Developer
6 11 (4.12%) Linux Administrator
6 11 (4.12%) Technical Architect
7 10 (3.75%) IAM Specialist
7 10 (3.75%) Security Engineer
8 8 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.00%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.00%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (3.00%) Test Engineer
9 6 (2.25%) SailPoint Engineer
9 6 (2.25%) Senior
9 6 (2.25%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.25%) Test Automation Architect
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (34.83%) OpenID
2 91 (34.08%) SAML
3 71 (26.59%) REST
4 66 (24.72%) OAuth
5 48 (17.98%) SailPoint
6 42 (15.73%) SOAP
7 25 (9.36%) OAuth2
8 17 (6.37%) Web Services
9 15 (5.62%) .NET
10 11 (4.12%) Middleware
11 9 (3.37%) J2EE
12 7 (2.62%) JSON
13 6 (2.25%) JDBC
14 4 (1.50%) Playwright
14 4 (1.50%) XML
15 2 (0.75%) EDI
16 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
16 1 (0.37%) HTML
16 1 (0.37%) Loki
16 1 (0.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.10%) Enterprise Software
2 40 (14.98%) Onboarding
2 40 (14.98%) Security Posture
3 34 (12.73%) Replication
4 21 (7.87%) Cloud Native
5 20 (7.49%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.87%) PKI
7 11 (4.12%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.87%) Clustering
8 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) PACS
8 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.12%) CMDB
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) IoT
10 2 (0.75%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.37%) Biopharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.98%) Linux
2 40 (14.98%) Windows
3 21 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.49%) CentOS
6 10 (3.75%) Unix
7 8 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.12%) CatOS
9 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Rocky
10 1 (0.37%) SUSE
10 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (29.21%) DevOps
3 67 (25.09%) SIEM
4 63 (23.60%) Identity Access Management
5 61 (22.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 60 (22.47%) CI/CD
7 59 (22.10%) RBAC
8 58 (21.72%) ITSM
9 56 (20.97%) Cybersecurity
10 52 (19.48%) Privileged Access Management
11 48 (17.98%) Task Automation
12 42 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (15.36%) Integration Patterns
14 38 (14.23%) Presales
15 31 (11.61%) Agile
16 29 (10.86%) Migration
17 28 (10.49%) Roadmaps
18 27 (10.11%) High Availability
19 24 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (8.99%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 116 (43.45%) PowerShell
2 90 (33.71%) Python
3 48 (17.98%) Java
4 24 (8.99%) SQL
5 17 (6.37%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.62%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.12%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.75%) Bash
9 9 (3.37%) PHP
10 5 (1.87%) C++
10 5 (1.87%) Groovy
11 4 (1.50%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.50%) Cypher
11 4 (1.50%) Scala
11 4 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.37%) C#
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 148 (55.43%) Security Cleared
2 139 (52.06%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.73%) CISSP
4 23 (8.61%) CISM
5 19 (7.12%) Degree
6 13 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (3.37%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.87%) MCSA
10 5 (1.87%) MCSE
11 4 (1.50%) APMG
11 4 (1.50%) CSPO
11 4 (1.50%) GIAC
11 4 (1.50%) OCP
11 4 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (17.60%) NIST
3 45 (16.85%) GDPR
4 23 (8.61%) NCSC
4 23 (8.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.12%) SLA
6 9 (3.37%) HIPAA
6 9 (3.37%) QA
7 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.12%) DICOM
9 2 (0.75%) HL7
10 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.37%) GMP
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) GxP
10 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (68.16%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.37%) Squid
4 7 (2.62%) Docker
4 7 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.62%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.87%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (1.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (23.60%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (16.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 34 (12.73%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.87%) Terraform
5 17 (6.37%) Ansible
6 13 (4.87%) Grafana
7 12 (4.49%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.12%) Check_MK
8 11 (4.12%) Podman
8 11 (4.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.62%) Consul
10 7 (2.62%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.25%) CASB
12 5 (1.87%) Nessus
13 4 (1.50%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.50%) PingFederate
14 3 (1.12%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.12%) SCOM
15 2 (0.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 87 (32.58%) CyberArk
2 80 (29.96%) Microsoft
3 47 (17.60%) BeyondTrust
4 39 (14.61%) ServiceNow
5 35 (13.11%) Centrify
6 30 (11.24%) VMware
7 23 (8.61%) Red Hat
8 21 (7.87%) Okta
8 21 (7.87%) Splunk
9 14 (5.24%) Cisco
10 12 (4.49%) Google
11 10 (3.75%) Oracle
12 9 (3.37%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.37%) ForgeRock
12 9 (3.37%) Ping Identity
13 8 (3.00%) CheckPoint
13 8 (3.00%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.00%) SAP
14 7 (2.62%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.62%) Veritas