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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 412 402
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +62
Contract jobs citing LDAP 232 142 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.31% 1.96% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 91 107
10th Percentile £360 £363 £281
25th Percentile £478 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -6.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £628 £631 £622
90th Percentile £775 £671 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £571
% change year-on-year +7.50% -12.47% +4.58%
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 £87.96 £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 10,057 7,233 9,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 22.78% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,891 6,377
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
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 277 147 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.44 £22.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.41 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -28 215 £550 +7.32% 39
UK excluding London -63 133 £538 +7.50% 30
London -40 81 £600 +6.67% 11
Work from Home -18 78 £600 +11.63% 8
South East -2 57 £525 -27.59% 12
North of England -54 40 £617 +23.40% 5
Yorkshire -41 24 £540 -10.00% 3
South West -13 18 £550 -11.11% 5
North West -37 15 £635 +43.55% 2
Midlands -81 10 £320 -27.19% 3
West Midlands -68 9 £320 -41.82% 3
East of England -34 7 £475 -7.77% 4
Wales - 1 £345 -
North East - 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 14 (6.03%) Confluence
2 9 (3.88%) nginx
3 3 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.29%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 141 (60.78%) Azure
2 98 (42.24%) Entra ID
3 86 (37.07%) AWS
4 48 (20.69%) GCP
5 17 (7.33%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.03%) SaaS
7 11 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.31%) Serverless
9 9 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.88%) Route 53
10 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.29%) IaaS
11 3 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.29%) PaaS
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.86%) GitHub
12 2 (0.86%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 60 (25.86%) DNS
2 57 (24.57%) Kerberos
3 37 (15.95%) Firewall
4 33 (14.22%) DHCP
5 25 (10.78%) VPN
6 20 (8.62%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.90%) SSL
8 13 (5.60%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (4.74%) NAS
10 10 (4.31%) HTTPS
10 10 (4.31%) SAN
10 10 (4.31%) WAN
11 9 (3.88%) LAN
11 9 (3.88%) OpenVPN
12 8 (3.45%) IPsec
12 8 (3.45%) Network Security
13 7 (3.02%) BGP
13 7 (3.02%) BIG-IP
13 7 (3.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (3.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.59%) Neo4j
4 5 (2.16%) MySQL
5 4 (1.72%) Metadata
6 3 (1.29%) Db2
7 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.78%) JIRA
3 21 (9.05%) GitLab
4 9 (3.88%) Bitbucket
4 9 (3.88%) Git
5 8 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.02%) Postman
7 6 (2.59%) Gatling
7 6 (2.59%) JMeter
7 6 (2.59%) NeoLoad
7 6 (2.59%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.16%) Selenium
9 4 (1.72%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.55%) Documentation Skills
3 43 (18.53%) Finance
4 22 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.02%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.59%) Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Military
10 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (23.71%) Architect
2 15 (6.47%) Developer
3 14 (6.03%) CyberArk Architect
4 11 (4.74%) Consultant
4 11 (4.74%) Technical Architect
5 10 (4.31%) IAM Specialist
5 10 (4.31%) Senior
6 9 (3.88%) Lead
6 9 (3.88%) Security Engineer
7 8 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 8 (3.45%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (3.02%) Administrator
8 7 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.59%) Linux Administrator
9 6 (2.59%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.59%) Test Automation Architect
10 5 (2.16%) AWS Architect
10 5 (2.16%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (2.16%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (40.09%) SAML
2 89 (38.36%) OpenID
3 67 (28.88%) OAuth
4 43 (18.53%) SailPoint
5 36 (15.52%) REST
6 27 (11.64%) OAuth2
7 17 (7.33%) Web Services
8 13 (5.60%) .NET
9 9 (3.88%) Middleware
9 9 (3.88%) SOAP
10 8 (3.45%) J2EE
10 8 (3.45%) JSON
11 6 (2.59%) JDBC
11 6 (2.59%) Playwright
12 3 (1.29%) XML
13 2 (0.86%) EDI
13 2 (0.86%) FIDO
13 2 (0.86%) Keycloak
13 2 (0.86%) pytest
13 2 (0.86%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.97%) Onboarding
2 34 (14.66%) Replication
3 24 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 21 (9.05%) PKI
5 16 (6.90%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.88%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.16%) Clustering
9 5 (2.16%) PACS
10 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.29%) CMDB
11 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.29%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.12%) Linux
2 44 (18.97%) Windows
3 20 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.03%) Unix
5 12 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.88%) Ubuntu
7 8 (3.45%) CentOS
8 3 (1.29%) CatOS
9 1 (0.43%) Rocky
9 1 (0.43%) SUSE
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (31.90%) DevOps
2 64 (27.59%) RBAC
3 63 (27.16%) Identity Access Management
4 62 (26.72%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (23.28%) CI/CD
7 34 (14.66%) SIEM
8 29 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 27 (11.64%) Agile
9 27 (11.64%) High Availability
9 27 (11.64%) Migration
9 27 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (11.21%) Zero Trust
11 25 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (10.78%) ITIL
12 24 (10.34%) ITSM
12 24 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (8.62%) Cloud Security
13 20 (8.62%) Privileged Access Management
13 20 (8.62%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (36.21%) PowerShell
2 55 (23.71%) Python
3 42 (18.10%) Java
4 21 (9.05%) SQL
5 11 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.31%) Bash
6 10 (4.31%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.59%) BeanShell
7 6 (2.59%) Cypher
7 6 (2.59%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.16%) C++
8 5 (2.16%) Groovy
9 4 (1.72%) C
9 4 (1.72%) C#
9 4 (1.72%) PHP
9 4 (1.72%) Scala
9 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (46.98%) Security Cleared
2 100 (43.10%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.95%) CISSP
4 27 (11.64%) Degree
5 23 (9.91%) CISM
6 13 (5.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.88%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.45%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.59%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.16%) CSPO
11 5 (2.16%) GIAC
11 5 (2.16%) MCSA
11 5 (2.16%) MCSE
11 5 (2.16%) SSCP
12 4 (1.72%) APMG
12 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (19.83%) NIST
3 43 (18.53%) GDPR
4 23 (9.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (8.62%) NCSC
6 9 (3.88%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.59%) SLA
8 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.72%) QA
9 3 (1.29%) DICOM
9 3 (1.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.86%) HL7
10 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.43%) GMP
11 1 (0.43%) GxP
11 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 152 (65.52%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.88%) Squid
4 8 (3.45%) Docker
5 7 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.02%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.59%) NFS
7 5 (2.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.29%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.43%) KVM
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (25.86%) Single Sign-On
2 46 (19.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 34 (14.66%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.21%) Terraform
5 15 (6.47%) Grafana
6 13 (5.60%) Ansible
7 12 (5.17%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.88%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.02%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.02%) Consul
9 7 (3.02%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.59%) CASB
10 6 (2.59%) Check_MK
10 6 (2.59%) Podman
10 6 (2.59%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.16%) Nessus
12 4 (1.72%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.29%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.29%) SCOM
14 2 (0.86%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (35.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (24.14%) CyberArk
3 37 (15.95%) ServiceNow
4 25 (10.78%) VMware
5 24 (10.34%) Okta
6 21 (9.05%) Splunk
7 17 (7.33%) Red Hat
8 14 (6.03%) Cisco
9 13 (5.60%) BeyondTrust
10 12 (5.17%) Google
11 11 (4.74%) Ping Identity
12 10 (4.31%) ForgeRock
12 10 (4.31%) Oracle
13 9 (3.88%) Dynatrace
14 8 (3.45%) CheckPoint
14 8 (3.45%) Palo Alto
14 8 (3.45%) SAP
15 7 (3.02%) Atlassian
15 7 (3.02%) F5
16 6 (2.59%) Workday
46 LDAP jobs Nationwide