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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 376 364
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +136
Contract jobs citing LDAP 240 150 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 2.14% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 83 156
10th Percentile £384 £380 £360
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +1.39% +1.05%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £756 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -15.76% +6.48% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £50.40 - £53.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £87.50 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £92.50 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -9.66% +30.16% -23.70%

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 8,379 7,008 9,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.24% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,582 4,455 6,580
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £538 £547
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -1.78% -4.83%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £774 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 91 184
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £27.14
25th Percentile £46.13 £35.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.31% +18.18% -15.38%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +9 220 £550 -5.38% 135
UK excluding London -10 130 £484 -15.76% 142
Work from Home +34 99 £620 +3.33% 137
London +4 90 £700 +16.67% 52
North of England -14 37 £470 +16.41% 29
Midlands -33 36 £539 -11.18% 9
West Midlands -26 35 £540 -10.93% 4
South East -18 26 £481 -12.66% 39
Yorkshire -26 26 £525 -12.50% 9
South West -15 14 £488 +2.63% 24
East of England -24 14 £478 -16.87% 20
North West -22 11 £448 +115.90% 20
Wales - 2 - - 10
Scotland +9 1 - - 19
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 5

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 16 (6.67%) Confluence
2 12 (5.00%) nginx
2 12 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 11 (4.58%) Apache
3 11 (4.58%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (4.17%) IIS
4 10 (4.17%) iPlanet
4 10 (4.17%) JBoss
5 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.83%) CICS
7 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.92%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.83%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 131 (54.58%) Azure
2 110 (45.83%) AWS
3 79 (32.92%) GCP
4 44 (18.33%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (7.08%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.58%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.58%) SaaS
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.17%) Route 53
9 9 (3.75%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (3.75%) AWS KMS
9 9 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.50%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.25%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.25%) ShareGate
12 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (22.50%) DNS
2 53 (22.08%) Kerberos
3 33 (13.75%) Firewall
4 29 (12.08%) HTTP
5 23 (9.58%) SSH
6 22 (9.17%) SSL
7 20 (8.33%) DHCP
7 20 (8.33%) SMTP
8 14 (5.83%) FTP
8 14 (5.83%) VPN
9 11 (4.58%) LAN
9 11 (4.58%) WAN
10 10 (4.17%) Network Security
11 9 (3.75%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (3.75%) IMAP
11 9 (3.75%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (2.92%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.92%) HTTPS
12 7 (2.92%) Wireless
13 6 (2.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.50%) MySQL
5 4 (1.67%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.25%) Metadata
6 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.25%) Power BI
7 2 (0.83%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (21.67%) Jenkins
2 39 (16.25%) JIRA
3 35 (14.58%) Git
4 27 (11.25%) GitLab
5 12 (5.00%) Selenium
6 10 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.17%) Postman
6 10 (4.17%) REST Assured
7 9 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.75%) Vagrant
8 5 (2.08%) TestRail
9 4 (1.67%) Gatling
9 4 (1.67%) JMeter
9 4 (1.67%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.67%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.83%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 109 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.92%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (10.00%) Finance
4 22 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.33%) Banking
8 6 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.08%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.67%) Aviation
11 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Electronics
12 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (23.33%) Architect
2 41 (17.08%) CyberArk Architect
3 28 (11.67%) Consultant
4 13 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (4.58%) Developer
7 10 (4.17%) Analyst
7 10 (4.17%) Lead
7 10 (4.17%) Senior
8 9 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Security Consultant
8 9 (3.75%) Test Automation Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Test Engineer
9 8 (3.33%) Administrator
10 7 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (2.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.67%) SAML
2 58 (24.17%) OAuth
3 57 (23.75%) OpenID
4 56 (23.33%) REST
5 39 (16.25%) SOAP
6 24 (10.00%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.17%) Middleware
8 7 (2.92%) .NET
9 6 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.50%) HTML
9 6 (2.50%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.50%) Web Services
10 4 (1.67%) HTML5
10 4 (1.67%) J2EE
10 4 (1.67%) Playwright
11 3 (1.25%) JDBC
11 3 (1.25%) jQuery
11 3 (1.25%) JSON
11 3 (1.25%) ODBC
11 3 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.83%) Security Posture
2 36 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (12.50%) Replication
4 23 (9.58%) Onboarding
5 16 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.42%) Cloud Native
7 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.75%) PKI
9 7 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.50%) SCADA
10 6 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (2.08%) CSOC
11 5 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (2.08%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.83%) Clustering
12 2 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.42%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.33%) Windows
2 61 (25.42%) Linux
3 33 (13.75%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (6.67%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.00%) CentOS
7 11 (4.58%) Unix
8 10 (4.17%) VMS
9 9 (3.75%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (3.75%) Solaris
10 7 (2.92%) AIX
11 4 (1.67%) CatOS
12 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.83%) zOS
13 1 (0.42%) MVS
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (30.83%) SIEM
3 70 (29.17%) Privileged Access Management
4 69 (28.75%) CI/CD
4 69 (28.75%) DevOps
5 56 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
6 55 (22.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (22.08%) Task Automation
8 52 (21.67%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (18.75%) ITSM
10 44 (18.33%) RBAC
11 40 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (15.42%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (14.58%) Presales
14 31 (12.92%) Agile
15 29 (12.08%) High Availability
16 23 (9.58%) DevSecOps
17 22 (9.17%) Identity Management
18 20 (8.33%) Migration
19 18 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 99 (41.25%) Python
3 35 (14.58%) SQL
4 26 (10.83%) Java
5 23 (9.58%) Groovy
6 15 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.17%) Bash
8 7 (2.92%) MATLAB
9 6 (2.50%) PHP
10 4 (1.67%) Cypher
10 4 (1.67%) Scala
10 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.25%) C++
12 2 (0.83%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.83%) C#
12 2 (0.83%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.42%) Go
13 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 129 (53.75%) Security Cleared
2 124 (51.67%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.08%) CISSP
4 24 (10.00%) CISM
5 16 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.75%) Degree
7 8 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.25%) OCP
11 3 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.83%) GIAC
12 2 (0.83%) GSEC
12 2 (0.83%) RHCE
12 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (22.08%) GDPR
2 50 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (17.08%) NIST
4 20 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (5.00%) NCSC
6 8 (3.33%) QA
7 7 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.92%) SLA
8 6 (2.50%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (2.08%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 22 (9.17%) Docker
3 20 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.42%) Postfix
5 9 (3.75%) DFS Replication
5 9 (3.75%) Dovecot
5 9 (3.75%) Squid
6 8 (3.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 7 (2.92%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.50%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.25%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.83%) NFS
10 2 (0.83%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.83%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.83%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.42%) Ceph
11 1 (0.42%) iptables
11 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (10.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (8.33%) Ansible
4 19 (7.92%) Terraform
5 14 (5.83%) Kubernetes
6 13 (5.42%) Nessus
7 11 (4.58%) Grafana
8 10 (4.17%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (4.17%) CA Wily
8 10 (4.17%) Prometheus
9 9 (3.75%) Check_MK
9 9 (3.75%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.75%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.33%) Tivoli
11 7 (2.92%) Podman
11 7 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (2.50%) PingFederate
13 5 (2.08%) vCenter Server
13 5 (2.08%) WSUS
14 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 86 (35.83%) CyberArk
2 68 (28.33%) Microsoft
3 65 (27.08%) BeyondTrust
4 39 (16.25%) ServiceNow
5 34 (14.17%) Centrify
6 31 (12.92%) VMware
7 21 (8.75%) Splunk
8 18 (7.50%) Okta
9 15 (6.25%) Cisco
9 15 (6.25%) Oracle
10 13 (5.42%) Red Hat
11 11 (4.58%) IBM
12 10 (4.17%) AppDynamics
12 10 (4.17%) Broadcom
13 9 (3.75%) F5
13 9 (3.75%) Google
13 9 (3.75%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (3.33%) Palo Alto
15 7 (2.92%) Ping Identity
16 6 (2.50%) SAP