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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 382 417
Rank change year-on-year -106 +35 +24
Contract jobs citing LDAP 176 164 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 2.22% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 105 103
10th Percentile £348 £367 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +0.69%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £500 £595
% change year-on-year +6.50% -15.97% +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - -
75th Percentile £86.62 £82.10 -
90th Percentile £87.24 £84.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -3.99% - -

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 10,100 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,594 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £44.38 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £74.07 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -108 153 £550 +2.33% 24
UK excluding London -78 110 £533 +6.50% 16
Work from Home -61 54 £550 - 14
London -70 53 £525 -13.08% 10
South East -19 50 £575 -20.69% 10
North of England -71 25 £620 +20.62% 2
Yorkshire -37 16 £540 -1.82% 1
South West -30 13 £550 -4.35% 2
Scotland -11 11 £450 -25.00% 1
North West -55 8 £643 +25.10% 1
Midlands -87 6 £375 -13.74% 1
East of England -32 5 £483 -26.05%
West Midlands -69 5 £375 -30.23% 1
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 9 (5.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.27%) nginx
3 3 (1.70%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (60.80%) Azure
2 76 (43.18%) AWS
3 73 (41.48%) Entra ID
4 41 (23.30%) GCP
5 18 (10.23%) SaaS
6 6 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.84%) Serverless
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.27%) IaaS
8 4 (2.27%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.27%) PaaS
8 4 (2.27%) Route 53
9 3 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.14%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.48%) DNS
2 25 (14.20%) Kerberos
3 23 (13.07%) Firewall
4 15 (8.52%) TCP/IP
5 13 (7.39%) SSL
6 12 (6.82%) VPN
7 10 (5.68%) DHCP
8 8 (4.55%) NAS
8 8 (4.55%) SAN
9 6 (3.41%) WAN
10 5 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.84%) HTTPS
10 5 (2.84%) IPsec
10 5 (2.84%) LAN
11 4 (2.27%) BIG-IP
11 4 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (2.27%) HTTP
11 4 (2.27%) OpenVPN
12 3 (1.70%) SSH
12 3 (1.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.84%) MySQL
3 4 (2.27%) Db2
3 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.27%) Metadata
4 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.14%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (7.39%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.82%) JIRA
3 9 (5.11%) GitLab
4 7 (3.98%) Git
5 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.70%) Postman
5 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.14%) Gatling
6 2 (1.14%) JMeter
6 2 (1.14%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.14%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.14%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 54 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.48%) Documentation Skills
3 26 (14.77%) Finance
4 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.98%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.84%) Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Military
9 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (17.61%) Architect
2 14 (7.95%) Developer
2 14 (7.95%) IAM Specialist
3 13 (7.39%) Consultant
4 11 (6.25%) Lead
4 11 (6.25%) Senior
4 11 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.55%) SailPoint Engineer
7 6 (3.41%) Technical Architect
8 5 (2.84%) Administrator
8 5 (2.84%) CyberArk Architect
8 5 (2.84%) Network Engineer
8 5 (2.84%) Senior Developer
8 5 (2.84%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (2.27%) Active Directory Engineer
9 4 (2.27%) C Developer
9 4 (2.27%) Linux Developer
9 4 (2.27%) Major Incident Manager
9 4 (2.27%) Senior C Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (38.64%) SAML
2 67 (38.07%) OpenID
3 59 (33.52%) OAuth
4 39 (22.16%) SailPoint
5 31 (17.61%) OAuth2
6 27 (15.34%) REST
7 19 (10.80%) .NET
7 19 (10.80%) Web Services
8 10 (5.68%) XML
9 8 (4.55%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.55%) JSON
9 8 (4.55%) Middleware
9 8 (4.55%) SOAP
10 7 (3.98%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (3.41%) JDBC
12 2 (1.14%) EDI
12 2 (1.14%) FIDO
12 2 (1.14%) Keycloak
12 2 (1.14%) Playwright
12 2 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.32%) Onboarding
2 25 (14.20%) PKI
3 14 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.11%) Security Posture
6 8 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.55%) Replication
7 6 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.41%) Clustering
7 6 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.84%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.27%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.70%) PACS
11 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.14%) IoT
11 2 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.30%) Linux
2 32 (18.18%) Windows
3 15 (8.52%) Unix
4 10 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.41%) CentOS
5 6 (3.41%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.57%) CatOS
7 1 (0.57%) Rocky
7 1 (0.57%) SUSE
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.41%) Identity Access Management
1 50 (28.41%) RBAC
2 43 (24.43%) DevOps
3 40 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.77%) Privileged Access Management
6 26 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (14.20%) Zero Trust
8 22 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 22 (12.50%) SIEM
8 22 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (11.93%) API Integration
9 21 (11.93%) Runbook
10 19 (10.80%) Agile
10 19 (10.80%) Migration
11 18 (10.23%) ITIL
12 17 (9.66%) Computer Science
12 17 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (9.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.09%) PowerShell
2 46 (26.14%) Python
3 32 (18.18%) Java
4 14 (7.95%) SQL
5 12 (6.82%) Bash
5 12 (6.82%) C#
6 9 (5.11%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.98%) BeanShell
8 6 (3.41%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.84%) Groovy
10 4 (2.27%) C
10 4 (2.27%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.70%) C++
12 2 (1.14%) Cypher
12 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.57%) Korn
13 1 (0.57%) PHP
13 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 51 (28.98%) SC Cleared
3 34 (19.32%) CISSP
4 29 (16.48%) Degree
5 19 (10.80%) CISM
6 15 (8.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (5.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.98%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.41%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.84%) CSPO
10 5 (2.84%) MCSA
10 5 (2.84%) MCSE
11 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.14%) GIAC
13 2 (1.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (15.34%) GDPR
2 27 (15.34%) NIST
3 12 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (5.11%) HIPAA
5 8 (4.55%) SLA
6 7 (3.98%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.98%) NCSC
7 3 (1.70%) DICOM
8 2 (1.14%) GRC
8 2 (1.14%) HL7
8 2 (1.14%) ITGC
8 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 130 (73.86%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.11%) Docker
3 8 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.41%) NFS
5 4 (2.27%) Squid
5 4 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.70%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.57%) KVM
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (23.86%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (11.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (11.93%) Terraform
3 16 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.82%) Ansible
5 8 (4.55%) CA Single Sign-On
5 8 (4.55%) Grafana
6 6 (3.41%) CASB
6 6 (3.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.84%) Nessus
8 4 (2.27%) Check_MK
8 4 (2.27%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.27%) PingFederate
8 4 (2.27%) Podman
8 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.70%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.14%) Consul
10 2 (1.14%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.57%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 63 (35.80%) Microsoft
2 45 (25.57%) CyberArk
3 28 (15.91%) ServiceNow
4 15 (8.52%) Okta
5 14 (7.95%) VMware
6 13 (7.39%) BeyondTrust
7 11 (6.25%) Ping Identity
8 10 (5.68%) ForgeRock
9 9 (5.11%) Oracle
9 9 (5.11%) Red Hat
9 9 (5.11%) Splunk
10 8 (4.55%) SAP
11 7 (3.98%) Google
11 7 (3.98%) Sybase
11 7 (3.98%) Workday
12 5 (2.84%) CheckPoint
12 5 (2.84%) Cisco
12 5 (2.84%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.84%) Remedy
12 5 (2.84%) Tenable