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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 372 348
Rank change year-on-year +12 -24 +167
Contract jobs citing LDAP 240 154 265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 2.18% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 85 153
10th Percentile £381 £364 £359
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +1.39% +1.05%
75th Percentile £679 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -15.22% +6.48% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 6
10th Percentile £46.58 - £53.13
25th Percentile £52.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £86.88 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £92.50 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 8,260 7,049 9,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.24% 22.20% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,485 4,473 6,591
10th Percentile £356 £356 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 91 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £28.21
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.57% +15.91% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +18 220 £545 -6.24% 161
UK excluding London -5 131 £488 -15.22% 172
Work from Home +32 94 £644 +7.33% 172
London +15 89 £700 +16.67% 53
North of England -16 37 £470 +16.41% 24
Midlands -31 36 £539 -11.18% 12
West Midlands -24 35 £540 -10.93% 5
South East -15 26 £481 -12.66% 51
Yorkshire -24 26 £525 -12.50% 8
East of England -15 16 £478 -16.87% 33
South West -7 13 £488 +2.63% 25
North West -17 11 £448 +115.90% 14
Wales - 2 - - 14
Scotland +5 1 - - 21
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 7

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 22 (9.17%) 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 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.83%) CICS
7 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.42%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.42%) HCL Notes
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
1 125 (52.08%) Azure
2 115 (47.92%) AWS
3 79 (32.92%) GCP
4 39 (16.25%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (7.08%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.83%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.58%) SaaS
10 10 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.17%) Route 53
11 9 (3.75%) Amazon ELB
11 9 (3.75%) AWS KMS
11 9 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.33%) Serverless
13 7 (2.92%) GitHub
14 6 (2.50%) Nutanix
15 5 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (21.25%) DNS
2 48 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 32 (13.33%) Firewall
4 31 (12.92%) HTTP
5 24 (10.00%) SSL
6 23 (9.58%) SSH
7 22 (9.17%) SMTP
8 16 (6.67%) FTP
9 15 (6.25%) DHCP
10 14 (5.83%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (5.83%) VPN
11 12 (5.00%) Network Security
12 10 (4.17%) LAN
12 10 (4.17%) WAN
13 9 (3.75%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (3.75%) IMAP
14 7 (2.92%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (2.92%) HTTPS
14 7 (2.92%) Wireless
15 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%) Power BI
7 2 (0.83%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 45 (18.75%) JIRA
3 41 (17.08%) Git
4 31 (12.92%) 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%) JUnit
11 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 109 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.75%) Finance
4 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.75%) Banking
7 5 (2.08%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.67%) Aviation
9 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.83%) Electronics
10 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (22.08%) Architect
2 38 (15.83%) CyberArk Architect
3 28 (11.67%) Consultant
4 16 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.00%) Analyst
5 12 (5.00%) Developer
5 12 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (4.17%) Lead
6 10 (4.17%) Senior
7 9 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (3.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.75%) Security Consultant
7 9 (3.75%) Test Automation Engineer
7 9 (3.75%) Test Engineer
8 8 (3.33%) Administrator
9 7 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (2.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.92%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (2.92%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.33%) SAML
2 61 (25.42%) REST
3 54 (22.50%) OpenID
4 53 (22.08%) OAuth
5 39 (16.25%) SOAP
6 24 (10.00%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.17%) Middleware
8 7 (2.92%) .NET
8 7 (2.92%) boto
8 7 (2.92%) pytest
9 6 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.50%) Flake8
9 6 (2.50%) HTML
9 6 (2.50%) mypy
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
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.83%) Security Posture
2 36 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (10.42%) Replication
4 21 (8.75%) Onboarding
5 18 (7.50%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.75%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.75%) PKI
8 8 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.92%) CSOC
9 7 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.92%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.50%) SCADA
11 2 (0.83%) Clustering
11 2 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (25.83%) Windows
2 60 (25.00%) Linux
3 28 (11.67%) 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 76 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (30.42%) SIEM
3 70 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 70 (29.17%) DevOps
3 70 (29.17%) Privileged Access Management
4 55 (22.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 53 (22.08%) Task Automation
6 51 (21.25%) Cybersecurity
6 51 (21.25%) Identity Access Management
7 42 (17.50%) ITSM
8 40 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 39 (16.25%) RBAC
10 37 (15.42%) Integration Patterns
11 35 (14.58%) Presales
12 33 (13.75%) Agile
13 24 (10.00%) High Availability
14 23 (9.58%) DevSecOps
14 23 (9.58%) Migration
15 22 (9.17%) Identity Management
16 18 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (44.58%) Python
2 105 (43.75%) PowerShell
3 34 (14.17%) 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%) Go
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%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 126 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 121 (50.42%) 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
6 9 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.25%) OCP
10 3 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.83%) GIAC
11 2 (0.83%) GSEC
11 2 (0.83%) RHCE
11 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (20.00%) GDPR
2 47 (19.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (15.83%) NIST
4 15 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (5.83%) QA
6 9 (3.75%) NCSC
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
1 164 (68.33%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.75%) Docker
3 19 (7.92%) 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 NSX
9 5 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (1.25%) Hyper-V
10 3 (1.25%) KVM
11 2 (0.83%) NFS
11 2 (0.83%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.83%) OpenDJ
11 2 (0.83%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.42%) Firmware
12 1 (0.42%) Samba
12 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (22.92%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (8.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (8.33%) Ansible
4 19 (7.92%) Terraform
5 16 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 13 (5.42%) Nessus
7 10 (4.17%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.17%) CA Wily
7 10 (4.17%) Grafana
7 10 (4.17%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.75%) Check_MK
8 9 (3.75%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.75%) Proxmox
9 8 (3.33%) Tivoli
10 7 (2.92%) Podman
10 7 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.50%) PingFederate
12 5 (2.08%) vCenter Server
12 5 (2.08%) WSUS
13 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 83 (34.58%) CyberArk
2 65 (27.08%) BeyondTrust
3 64 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 39 (16.25%) ServiceNow
5 34 (14.17%) Centrify
6 30 (12.50%) VMware
7 18 (7.50%) Splunk
8 15 (6.25%) Oracle
9 14 (5.83%) Cisco
10 13 (5.42%) Okta
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
15 7 (2.92%) SAP