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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 383 418
Rank change year-on-year -50 +35 +44
Contract jobs citing LDAP 226 154 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.20% 2.10% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 96 108
10th Percentile £371 £365 £250
25th Percentile £457 £422 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.18%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £628
90th Percentile £775 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.61% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £81.01 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.58 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £84.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £81.01 -
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -

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 10,266 7,335 9,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.58% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,717 4,951 6,252
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% -4.70% -2.23%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 159 274
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.21 £22.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -1.74%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -44 202 £550 +5.01% 32
UK excluding London -55 135 £525 +5.00% 25
London -43 76 £594 +3.26% 12
Work from Home -45 73 £600 +14.29% 12
South East -4 59 £525 -27.59% 12
North of England -71 34 £620 +20.62% 5
South West -15 18 £550 -11.11% 5
Yorkshire -44 18 £540 -1.82% 2
North West -49 15 £635 +23.44% 3
Scotland -9 9 £460 -23.33% 2
Midlands -86 8 £375 -14.68%
West Midlands -65 7 £375 -31.82%
East of England -33 6 £479 -21.84% 2
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 (6.19%) Confluence
2 9 (3.98%) nginx
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 134 (59.29%) Azure
2 97 (42.92%) Entra ID
3 83 (36.73%) AWS
4 42 (18.58%) GCP
5 16 (7.08%) OpenShift
5 16 (7.08%) SaaS
6 11 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.42%) Serverless
8 9 (3.98%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.98%) Route 53
9 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.77%) IaaS
9 4 (1.77%) PaaS
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 54 (23.89%) DNS
2 53 (23.45%) Kerberos
3 36 (15.93%) Firewall
4 30 (13.27%) DHCP
5 21 (9.29%) TCP/IP
5 21 (9.29%) VPN
6 13 (5.75%) SSL
7 12 (5.31%) NAS
8 11 (4.87%) SAN
9 9 (3.98%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (3.98%) OpenVPN
10 7 (3.10%) HTTPS
10 7 (3.10%) Network Security
10 7 (3.10%) WAN
11 6 (2.65%) BGP
11 6 (2.65%) LAN
12 5 (2.21%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (2.21%) IPsec
12 5 (2.21%) MPLS
12 5 (2.21%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.21%) MySQL
4 4 (1.77%) Db2
4 4 (1.77%) Metadata
5 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.44%) Power BI
6 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (12.39%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.41%) JIRA
3 13 (5.75%) GitLab
4 9 (3.98%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.54%) Git
5 8 (3.54%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.77%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.33%) Postman
7 3 (1.33%) Selenium
8 2 (0.88%) Gatling
8 2 (0.88%) JMeter
8 2 (0.88%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.80%) Documentation Skills
3 41 (18.14%) Finance
4 23 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.10%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.65%) Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.33%) Military
9 3 (1.33%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (22.57%) Architect
2 14 (6.19%) CyberArk Architect
2 14 (6.19%) Developer
3 13 (5.75%) Consultant
4 12 (5.31%) IAM Specialist
5 11 (4.87%) Lead
5 11 (4.87%) Senior
5 11 (4.87%) Technical Architect
6 9 (3.98%) Support Engineer
7 8 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.54%) SailPoint Engineer
7 8 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.10%) Administrator
8 7 (3.10%) Security Engineer
9 5 (2.21%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.21%) Linux Administrator
9 5 (2.21%) Network Engineer
9 5 (2.21%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.21%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (1.77%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (38.94%) SAML
2 84 (37.17%) OpenID
3 66 (29.20%) OAuth
4 39 (17.26%) SailPoint
5 30 (13.27%) REST
6 29 (12.83%) OAuth2
7 19 (8.41%) .NET
8 18 (7.96%) Web Services
9 9 (3.98%) Middleware
9 9 (3.98%) SOAP
10 8 (3.54%) JSON
10 8 (3.54%) XML
11 7 (3.10%) J2EE
12 6 (2.65%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.65%) JDBC
13 2 (0.88%) EDI
13 2 (0.88%) FIDO
13 2 (0.88%) Playwright
13 2 (0.88%) pytest
13 2 (0.88%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.91%) Onboarding
2 29 (12.83%) Replication
3 27 (11.95%) PKI
4 20 (8.85%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.75%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.98%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.98%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.65%) Clustering
8 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.21%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.21%) PACS
10 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.77%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.33%) CMDB
11 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.24%) Linux
2 44 (19.47%) Windows
3 17 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.64%) Unix
5 11 (4.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.54%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.10%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) CatOS
8 1 (0.44%) Rocky
8 1 (0.44%) SUSE
8 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.20%) DevOps
2 62 (27.43%) Identity Access Management
3 57 (25.22%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (24.78%) RBAC
5 55 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (19.91%) CI/CD
7 33 (14.60%) SIEM
8 32 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (12.83%) Roadmaps
10 28 (12.39%) Migration
11 26 (11.50%) ITIL
11 26 (11.50%) Zero Trust
12 25 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (11.06%) ITSM
13 23 (10.18%) Agile
13 23 (10.18%) High Availability
14 22 (9.73%) Privileged Access Management
15 21 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (8.85%) Runbook
17 19 (8.41%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 87 (38.50%) PowerShell
2 51 (22.57%) Python
3 35 (15.49%) Java
4 19 (8.41%) SQL
5 12 (5.31%) Bash
6 10 (4.42%) C#
6 10 (4.42%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.98%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.65%) BeanShell
9 5 (2.21%) C++
9 5 (2.21%) Groovy
9 5 (2.21%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.77%) C
10 4 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.33%) PHP
12 2 (0.88%) Cypher
12 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.44%) Korn
13 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (45.58%) Security Cleared
2 93 (41.15%) SC Cleared
3 37 (16.37%) CISSP
4 29 (12.83%) Degree
5 22 (9.73%) CISM
6 13 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.54%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.65%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.21%) CSPO
11 5 (2.21%) MCSA
11 5 (2.21%) MCSE
12 4 (1.77%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.77%) GIAC
12 4 (1.77%) SSCP
13 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.33%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (22.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (19.47%) NIST
3 37 (16.37%) GDPR
4 19 (8.41%) NCSC
4 19 (8.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.98%) HIPAA
5 9 (3.98%) SLA
6 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.33%) DICOM
7 3 (1.33%) GRC
8 2 (0.88%) HL7
8 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.44%) GMP
9 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 155 (68.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.42%) Docker
4 9 (3.98%) Squid
5 7 (3.10%) NFS
6 6 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.77%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.33%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.44%) KVM
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (24.34%) Single Sign-On
2 41 (18.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 33 (14.60%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.50%) Terraform
5 14 (6.19%) Ansible
5 14 (6.19%) Grafana
6 11 (4.87%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.98%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.54%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.10%) Consul
10 6 (2.65%) CASB
10 6 (2.65%) vCenter Server
11 5 (2.21%) Check_MK
11 5 (2.21%) Nessus
11 5 (2.21%) Podman
11 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.77%) PingFederate
13 3 (1.33%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.88%) SCOM
15 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (36.28%) Microsoft
2 56 (24.78%) CyberArk
3 32 (14.16%) ServiceNow
4 25 (11.06%) Okta
5 22 (9.73%) VMware
6 21 (9.29%) Splunk
7 16 (7.08%) BeyondTrust
8 15 (6.64%) Red Hat
9 11 (4.87%) Oracle
9 11 (4.87%) Ping Identity
10 10 (4.42%) Cisco
10 10 (4.42%) ForgeRock
11 9 (3.98%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.98%) Google
12 8 (3.54%) SAP
13 7 (3.10%) Atlassian
13 7 (3.10%) Sybase
14 6 (2.65%) Workday
15 5 (2.21%) Palo Alto
15 5 (2.21%) Veritas