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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 406 414
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +55
Contract jobs citing LDAP 223 153 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% 2.09% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 95 108
10th Percentile £382 £364 £250
25th Percentile £472 £419 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -4.55% +3.00%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £628
90th Percentile £775 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.61% +12.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £67.19 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £82.46 £81.01 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.58 -
90th Percentile £87.40 £84.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £81.01 -
% change year-on-year +1.78% - -

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 10,262 7,319 9,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.55% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,720 4,947 6,290
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £756 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 15 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 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 15 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 15 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 -50 200 £550 +5.26% 42
UK excluding London -63 132 £525 +5.00% 37
London -36 76 £600 +4.35% 13
Work from Home -42 72 £600 +14.29% 21
South East -11 56 £525 -27.59% 17
North of England -63 34 £620 +11.31% 7
South West -18 19 £550 -11.11% 5
Yorkshire -47 18 £540 -10.00% 3
North West -42 15 £635 +23.44% 4
Scotland -7 8 £461 -23.21% 4
Midlands -81 8 £375 -14.68% 1
West Midlands -73 7 £375 -31.82%
East of England -33 6 £479 -21.84% 3
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 (6.28%) Confluence
2 9 (4.04%) nginx
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 131 (58.74%) Azure
2 95 (42.60%) Entra ID
3 81 (36.32%) AWS
4 41 (18.39%) GCP
5 16 (7.17%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.28%) SaaS
7 11 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.48%) Serverless
9 9 (4.04%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.04%) Route 53
10 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.35%) IaaS
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.35%) PaaS
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.22%) DNS
2 53 (23.77%) Kerberos
3 35 (15.70%) Firewall
4 30 (13.45%) DHCP
5 22 (9.87%) VPN
6 21 (9.42%) TCP/IP
7 13 (5.83%) SSL
8 11 (4.93%) NAS
9 10 (4.48%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (4.48%) SAN
10 9 (4.04%) OpenVPN
11 8 (3.59%) Network Security
12 7 (3.14%) BGP
12 7 (3.14%) HTTPS
12 7 (3.14%) WAN
13 6 (2.69%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (2.69%) LAN
13 6 (2.69%) MPLS
13 6 (2.69%) TACACS
14 5 (2.24%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.24%) MySQL
4 4 (1.79%) Metadata
5 3 (1.35%) Db2
6 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.45%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.52%) JIRA
3 13 (5.83%) GitLab
4 9 (4.04%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.59%) Git
5 8 (3.59%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.79%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.35%) Postman
7 3 (1.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Gatling
8 2 (0.90%) JMeter
8 2 (0.90%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.18%) Documentation Skills
3 40 (17.94%) Finance
4 23 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.14%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.69%) Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.35%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (22.87%) Architect
2 14 (6.28%) CyberArk Architect
2 14 (6.28%) Developer
3 12 (5.38%) Consultant
4 11 (4.93%) Lead
4 11 (4.93%) Senior
4 11 (4.93%) Technical Architect
5 10 (4.48%) IAM Specialist
6 9 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.59%) SailPoint Engineer
7 8 (3.59%) Security Engineer
7 8 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.59%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.14%) Administrator
9 5 (2.24%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.24%) Linux Administrator
9 5 (2.24%) Network Engineer
9 5 (2.24%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.24%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (1.79%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (39.01%) SAML
2 82 (36.77%) OpenID
3 65 (29.15%) OAuth
4 37 (16.59%) SailPoint
5 30 (13.45%) REST
6 27 (12.11%) OAuth2
7 18 (8.07%) .NET
8 17 (7.62%) Web Services
9 9 (4.04%) SOAP
10 8 (3.59%) JSON
10 8 (3.59%) Middleware
11 7 (3.14%) J2EE
11 7 (3.14%) XML
12 6 (2.69%) JDBC
13 5 (2.24%) .NET Framework
14 2 (0.90%) EDI
14 2 (0.90%) FIDO
14 2 (0.90%) Playwright
14 2 (0.90%) pytest
14 2 (0.90%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.28%) Onboarding
2 30 (13.45%) Replication
3 27 (12.11%) PKI
4 20 (8.97%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.04%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.59%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.69%) Clustering
8 6 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.24%) PACS
10 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.35%) CMDB
11 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.90%) IoT
12 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.97%) Linux
2 44 (19.73%) Windows
3 18 (8.07%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.28%) Unix
5 11 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.04%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) CatOS
8 1 (0.45%) Rocky
8 1 (0.45%) SUSE
8 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.60%) DevOps
2 61 (27.35%) Identity Access Management
3 57 (25.56%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (24.66%) RBAC
5 54 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (20.18%) CI/CD
7 32 (14.35%) SIEM
8 30 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (13.00%) Roadmaps
10 27 (12.11%) Migration
11 26 (11.66%) Zero Trust
12 25 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (11.21%) ITIL
13 24 (10.76%) Agile
13 24 (10.76%) High Availability
14 23 (10.31%) ITSM
15 21 (9.42%) Privileged Access Management
15 21 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (8.07%) Runbook
16 18 (8.07%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (38.12%) PowerShell
2 50 (22.42%) Python
3 35 (15.70%) Java
4 19 (8.52%) SQL
5 12 (5.38%) Bash
6 10 (4.48%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.04%) C#
7 9 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.69%) BeanShell
9 5 (2.24%) C++
9 5 (2.24%) Groovy
9 5 (2.24%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.79%) C
10 4 (1.79%) PHP
10 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Cypher
11 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.45%) Korn
12 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (46.19%) Security Cleared
2 93 (41.70%) SC Cleared
3 37 (16.59%) CISSP
4 27 (12.11%) Degree
5 22 (9.87%) CISM
6 13 (5.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.48%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.59%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.24%) CSPO
11 5 (2.24%) GIAC
11 5 (2.24%) MCSA
11 5 (2.24%) MCSE
11 5 (2.24%) SSCP
12 4 (1.79%) APMG
12 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (21.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (19.28%) NIST
3 38 (17.04%) GDPR
4 20 (8.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (8.52%) NCSC
6 9 (4.04%) HIPAA
6 9 (4.04%) SLA
7 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.35%) DICOM
8 3 (1.35%) GRC
9 2 (0.90%) HL7
9 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.45%) GMP
10 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 151 (67.71%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.48%) Docker
4 9 (4.04%) Squid
5 7 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.69%) NFS
7 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.35%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.45%) KVM
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (24.66%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (18.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 33 (14.80%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.66%) Terraform
5 14 (6.28%) Ansible
5 14 (6.28%) Grafana
6 11 (4.93%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.04%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.14%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.14%) Consul
8 7 (3.14%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.69%) CASB
10 5 (2.24%) Check_MK
10 5 (2.24%) Nessus
10 5 (2.24%) Podman
10 5 (2.24%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.79%) PingFederate
12 3 (1.35%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.35%) SCOM
13 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (35.87%) Microsoft
2 55 (24.66%) CyberArk
3 32 (14.35%) ServiceNow
4 25 (11.21%) Okta
5 23 (10.31%) VMware
6 21 (9.42%) Splunk
7 15 (6.73%) BeyondTrust
7 15 (6.73%) Red Hat
8 11 (4.93%) Cisco
8 11 (4.93%) Oracle
8 11 (4.93%) Ping Identity
9 10 (4.48%) ForgeRock
10 9 (4.04%) Dynatrace
10 9 (4.04%) Google
11 8 (3.59%) SAP
12 7 (3.14%) Atlassian
13 6 (2.69%) Sybase
13 6 (2.69%) Workday
14 5 (2.24%) CheckPoint
14 5 (2.24%) Remedy