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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 393 402
Rank change year-on-year -67 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing LDAP 224 171 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 2.01% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 113 95
10th Percentile £383 £351 £250
25th Percentile £450 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £595
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -15.97% +8.18%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £674
90th Percentile £672 £671 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £453 £575
% change year-on-year +15.89% -21.22% +10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 1
10th Percentile - £44.75 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +9.02%
75th Percentile £88.74 £81.35 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +9.02%

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 11,809 8,526 9,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 25.91% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,767 5,699 6,322
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £637 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.21% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 188 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.15 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

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 20 September 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 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 13 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 20 September 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 -74 197 £525 +5.00% 126
UK excluding London -51 158 £525 +15.89% 61
Work from Home -24 90 £525 +1.20% 46
South East -7 58 £575 +15.00% 26
London -86 54 £525 -13.65% 71
South West -3 38 £525 +13.51% 5
East of England -17 22 £506 -25.55% 21
North of England -71 19 £570 +25.83% 5
Yorkshire -33 18 £570 +11.22% 3
Scotland -10 17 £461 -23.21% 4
West Midlands -72 4 £450 -18.18% 4
Midlands -95 4 £450 - 5
North West -64 1 - - 2

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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 8 (3.57%) IIS
3 3 (1.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.34%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.89%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (48.66%) Azure
2 83 (37.05%) AWS
3 81 (36.16%) Entra ID
4 50 (22.32%) GCP
5 21 (9.38%) SaaS
6 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.23%) GitHub
8 5 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.79%) IaaS
9 4 (1.79%) PaaS
9 4 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.89%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (0.89%) AWS KMS
11 2 (0.89%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 29 (12.95%) DNS
3 18 (8.04%) DHCP
4 14 (6.25%) HTTP
5 13 (5.80%) Firewall
5 13 (5.80%) SSL
6 8 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.68%) VPN
8 5 (2.23%) NAS
8 5 (2.23%) Network Security
8 5 (2.23%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (2.23%) SAN
8 5 (2.23%) SSH
9 4 (1.79%) FTP
9 4 (1.79%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.79%) IPsec
9 4 (1.79%) SMTP
9 4 (1.79%) WAN
10 3 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.23%) Metadata
3 4 (1.79%) Db2
3 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.34%) MySQL
5 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) Power BI
6 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (7.59%) JIRA
2 15 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.25%) Git
4 12 (5.36%) GitLab
5 4 (1.79%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.34%) JMeter
6 3 (1.34%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) Gatling
7 2 (0.89%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.45%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.45%) Locust
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) Newman
8 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.45%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.04%) Finance
5 13 (5.80%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.68%) Back Office
7 4 (1.79%) Banking
7 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.79%) Military
8 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.34%) Retail
9 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Local Government
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (24.55%) Architect
2 21 (9.38%) Consultant
3 17 (7.59%) Developer
4 14 (6.25%) IAM Specialist
5 12 (5.36%) Lead
5 12 (5.36%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.02%) Analyst
6 9 (4.02%) CyberArk Consultant
7 8 (3.57%) SailPoint Engineer
7 8 (3.57%) Senior
8 7 (3.13%) C Developer
8 7 (3.13%) CyberArk Architect
8 7 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.13%) Linux Developer
8 7 (3.13%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.13%) Software Developer
8 7 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.68%) SailPoint Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.25%) SAML
2 62 (27.68%) OAuth
2 62 (27.68%) OpenID
3 44 (19.64%) SailPoint
4 42 (18.75%) REST
5 31 (13.84%) OAuth2
6 22 (9.82%) Web Services
7 20 (8.93%) .NET
8 18 (8.04%) Terraform
9 17 (7.59%) JSON
10 15 (6.70%) XML
11 11 (4.91%) SOAP
12 10 (4.46%) JDBC
13 9 (4.02%) .NET Framework
14 8 (3.57%) Middleware
15 7 (3.13%) OpenTofu
15 7 (3.13%) Regular Expression
16 6 (2.68%) Jakarta EE
16 6 (2.68%) pytest
17 3 (1.34%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.20%) Onboarding
2 28 (12.50%) PKI
3 20 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (7.14%) Replication
5 14 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.46%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.68%) Clustering
9 6 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.79%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.34%) Cyberattack
12 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.34%) YARA
13 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.09%) Linux
2 42 (18.75%) Windows
3 14 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.57%) Unix
5 7 (3.13%) CentOS
6 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.89%) Rocky
8 2 (0.89%) VMS
9 1 (0.45%) CatOS
9 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.45%) SUSE
9 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.02%) SIEM
2 62 (27.68%) Identity Access Management
3 60 (26.79%) RBAC
4 52 (23.21%) Runbook
4 52 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (20.54%) Privileged Access Management
6 44 (19.64%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (18.75%) DevOps
8 41 (18.30%) Technical Leadership
9 40 (17.86%) ITSM
10 39 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (14.73%) DevSecOps
12 33 (14.73%) Migration
12 33 (14.73%) Security Architecture
13 32 (14.29%) CI/CD
13 32 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (13.39%) Mentoring
14 30 (13.39%) Secrets Management
15 28 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 56 (25.00%) Python
3 31 (13.84%) Java
4 16 (7.14%) C#
5 14 (6.25%) SQL
6 12 (5.36%) Bash
7 11 (4.91%) BeanShell
8 7 (3.13%) C
8 7 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.23%) Groovy
9 5 (2.23%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.23%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.79%) Go
11 2 (0.89%) Cypher
11 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (40.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 39 (17.41%) DV Cleared
4 28 (12.50%) CISSP
5 26 (11.61%) Degree
6 18 (8.04%) CISM
7 11 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.68%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.23%) CSPO
11 4 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.89%) RHCE
13 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (22.32%) NIST
3 27 (12.05%) GDPR
4 14 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.57%) NCSC
5 8 (3.57%) SLA
6 7 (3.13%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.23%) GRC
8 3 (1.34%) QA
9 2 (0.89%) ITGC
9 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 180 (80.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.25%) NFS
3 12 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.91%) Docker
5 9 (4.02%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.34%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.45%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
8 1 (0.45%) Postfix
8 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 35 (15.63%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (10.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (6.70%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.91%) Ansible
5 8 (3.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.68%) Grafana
7 4 (1.79%) Check_MK
7 4 (1.79%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.79%) Podman
7 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.34%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.45%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 79 (35.27%) Microsoft
2 74 (33.04%) CyberArk
3 33 (14.73%) ServiceNow
4 23 (10.27%) Okta
5 18 (8.04%) VMware
6 14 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
7 13 (5.80%) ForgeRock
8 11 (4.91%) Ping Identity
9 10 (4.46%) SAP
10 8 (3.57%) Google
11 7 (3.13%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.68%) Splunk
12 6 (2.68%) Workday
13 5 (2.23%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.23%) Salesforce
14 4 (1.79%) CheckPoint
14 4 (1.79%) F5
14 4 (1.79%) Greenplum
14 4 (1.79%) Oracle
14 4 (1.79%) Sybase