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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 390 419
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 +68
Contract jobs citing LDAP 245 148 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.49% 2.17% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 93 109
10th Percentile £400 £369 £281
25th Percentile £488 £415 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £688 £625 £622
90th Percentile £775 £671 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £599
% change year-on-year +7.50% -16.49% +8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £73.74 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £91.37 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £92.50 £83.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -1.77% - -

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 9,851 6,815 9,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.85% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,652 6,374
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.22% -2.43%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 126 276
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -13.46%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -22 229 £575 +9.52% 42
UK excluding London -62 126 £538 +7.50% 37
London -16 100 £636 +15.55% 7
Work from Home +4 95 £618 +14.88% 17
South East -17 52 £525 -27.59% 21
North of England -53 35 £620 +24.00% 6
Yorkshire -51 19 £565 -5.83% 3
South West -13 17 £550 -16.98% 3
North West -30 15 £635 +65.23% 3
East of England -33 12 £480 -19.96% 5
Midlands -79 9 £320 -32.06% 3
West Midlands -68 8 £320 -45.53% 3
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £345 - 1

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 12 (4.90%) Confluence
2 9 (3.67%) nginx
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 158 (64.49%) Azure
2 103 (42.04%) AWS
3 93 (37.96%) Entra ID
4 66 (26.94%) GCP
5 18 (7.35%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.08%) SaaS
7 10 (4.08%) Serverless
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.67%) Route 53
9 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.82%) GitHub
11 2 (0.82%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.82%) Sentry
12 1 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.27%) DNS
2 51 (20.82%) Kerberos
3 34 (13.88%) Firewall
4 30 (12.24%) DHCP
5 25 (10.20%) VPN
6 20 (8.16%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.53%) SSL
8 13 (5.31%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (4.08%) HTTPS
9 10 (4.08%) WAN
10 9 (3.67%) LAN
10 9 (3.67%) OpenVPN
11 8 (3.27%) IPsec
11 8 (3.27%) NAS
11 8 (3.27%) Network Security
11 8 (3.27%) SAN
12 7 (2.86%) BGP
12 7 (2.86%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.04%) MySQL
4 4 (1.63%) Metadata
4 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.41%) Power BI
6 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (15.51%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.80%) GitLab
3 22 (8.98%) JIRA
4 14 (5.71%) Git
5 9 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.27%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.45%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.04%) Postman
8 5 (2.04%) Selenium
9 4 (1.63%) Gatling
9 4 (1.63%) JMeter
9 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.63%) NeoLoad
General
1 89 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.45%) Documentation Skills
3 40 (16.33%) Finance
4 22 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.90%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.45%) Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Military
10 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 77 (31.43%) Architect
2 35 (14.29%) CyberArk Architect
3 13 (5.31%) Consultant
4 12 (4.90%) Administrator
4 12 (4.90%) Developer
5 11 (4.49%) Linux Administrator
5 11 (4.49%) Technical Architect
6 10 (4.08%) IAM Specialist
6 10 (4.08%) Security Engineer
7 9 (3.67%) Lead
8 8 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.27%) Network Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Senior
9 7 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.45%) Test Architect
10 6 (2.45%) Test Automation Architect
11 5 (2.04%) AWS Architect
12 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Engineer
12 4 (1.63%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (36.73%) SAML
2 84 (34.29%) OpenID
3 65 (26.53%) OAuth
4 52 (21.22%) REST
5 41 (16.73%) SailPoint
6 30 (12.24%) SOAP
7 27 (11.02%) OAuth2
8 17 (6.94%) Web Services
9 11 (4.49%) Middleware
10 10 (4.08%) .NET
11 9 (3.67%) J2EE
12 8 (3.27%) JSON
13 6 (2.45%) JDBC
14 4 (1.63%) Playwright
14 4 (1.63%) XML
15 2 (0.82%) EDI
16 1 (0.41%) FIDO
16 1 (0.41%) HTML
16 1 (0.41%) WebAuthn
16 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.92%) Onboarding
2 34 (13.88%) Replication
3 32 (13.06%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (11.43%) Security Posture
5 21 (8.57%) Cloud Native
5 21 (8.57%) Management Information System
6 15 (6.12%) PKI
7 11 (4.49%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.04%) Clustering
9 5 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.04%) PACS
10 3 (1.22%) CMDB
10 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.41%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.41%) Linux
2 41 (16.73%) Windows
3 22 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.31%) CentOS
6 11 (4.49%) Unix
7 9 (3.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.22%) CatOS
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.41%) Rocky
10 1 (0.41%) SUSE
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (29.39%) DevOps
3 60 (24.49%) RBAC
4 57 (23.27%) Cybersecurity
4 57 (23.27%) Identity Access Management
5 53 (21.63%) SIEM
6 52 (21.22%) CI/CD
7 45 (18.37%) ITSM
8 42 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 39 (15.92%) Privileged Access Management
10 36 (14.69%) Task Automation
11 31 (12.65%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (11.84%) Integration Patterns
12 29 (11.84%) Roadmaps
13 28 (11.43%) Agile
14 27 (11.02%) High Availability
14 27 (11.02%) Migration
15 26 (10.61%) Presales
16 24 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (9.80%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 104 (42.45%) PowerShell
2 74 (30.20%) Python
3 41 (16.73%) Java
4 17 (6.94%) SQL
5 15 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.49%) MATLAB
8 10 (4.08%) Bash
9 5 (2.04%) BeanShell
9 5 (2.04%) C++
9 5 (2.04%) Groovy
10 4 (1.63%) Cypher
10 4 (1.63%) PHP
10 4 (1.63%) Scala
10 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) C#
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 134 (54.69%) Security Cleared
2 126 (51.43%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.69%) CISSP
4 23 (9.39%) CISM
4 23 (9.39%) Degree
5 13 (5.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.45%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.04%) CSPO
10 5 (2.04%) GIAC
10 5 (2.04%) MCSA
10 5 (2.04%) MCSE
10 5 (2.04%) SSCP
11 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.63%) OCP
11 4 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (18.78%) NIST
3 43 (17.55%) GDPR
4 23 (9.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (8.57%) NCSC
6 11 (4.49%) SLA
7 9 (3.67%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.63%) QA
9 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.22%) DICOM
10 2 (0.82%) HL7
11 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) GMP
11 1 (0.41%) GRC
11 1 (0.41%) GxP
11 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 169 (68.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.67%) Squid
4 8 (3.27%) Docker
5 7 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.86%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.22%) NFS
8 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.41%) KVM
9 1 (0.41%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (24.90%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (17.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 34 (13.88%) Kubernetes
4 23 (9.39%) Terraform
5 18 (7.35%) Ansible
6 13 (5.31%) Grafana
7 12 (4.90%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.49%) Check_MK
8 11 (4.49%) Podman
8 11 (4.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.67%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.86%) Consul
10 7 (2.86%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.45%) CASB
12 5 (2.04%) Nessus
13 4 (1.63%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.63%) PingFederate
14 3 (1.22%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.22%) SCOM
15 2 (0.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 79 (32.24%) Microsoft
2 73 (29.80%) CyberArk
3 34 (13.88%) BeyondTrust
4 32 (13.06%) ServiceNow
5 30 (12.24%) VMware
6 24 (9.80%) Okta
7 23 (9.39%) Centrify
7 23 (9.39%) Red Hat
8 21 (8.57%) Splunk
9 14 (5.71%) Cisco
10 11 (4.49%) Ping Identity
11 10 (4.08%) ForgeRock
11 10 (4.08%) Google
11 10 (4.08%) Oracle
12 9 (3.67%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.27%) CheckPoint
13 8 (3.27%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.27%) SAP
14 7 (2.86%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.86%) Veritas
45 LDAP jobs Nationwide