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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 427 376
Rank change year-on-year +42 -51 +153
Contract jobs citing LDAP 183 136 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.39% 1.63% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 72 175
10th Percentile £338 £221 £370
25th Percentile £406 £395 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £644
90th Percentile £671 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £72.50 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +28.55% -17.96%
75th Percentile £78.18 £73.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -10.34% +28.55% -22.74%

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 7,654 8,325 10,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.01% 22.13% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,034 5,296 7,693
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 164 204
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.18 £38.38
25th Percentile £41.13 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £50.72 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.97% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +52 164 £492 -11.43% 42
UK excluding London +25 112 £475 -13.64% 33
London +18 59 £604 -4.13% 14
Midlands +8 50 £450 -26.41% 1
Work from Home +21 46 £500 -10.71% 49
West Midlands -8 30 £550 -10.06% 1
North of England -4 23 £453 +24.97% 3
East Midlands - 20 £410 -
North West -2 18 £450 +24.14% 2
East of England +2 14 £680 +20.89% 8
South West +6 10 £475 -29.32% 4
South East -7 10 £490 -16.10% 18
Scotland +6 5 £600 -14.29%
Yorkshire - 5 £525 -

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 40 (21.86%) Confluence
2 15 (8.20%) WebSphere
3 14 (7.65%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (6.56%) nginx
5 10 (5.46%) Apache
5 10 (5.46%) IIS
5 10 (5.46%) iPlanet
5 10 (5.46%) JBoss
6 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.09%) CICS
8 2 (1.09%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.55%) CMS
9 1 (0.55%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.55%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.64%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.55%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (7.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 77 (42.08%) AWS
2 55 (30.05%) Azure
3 33 (18.03%) GCP
4 21 (11.48%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.93%) Amazon S3
6 19 (10.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (10.38%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (7.10%) Route 53
9 12 (6.56%) Amazon ELB
9 12 (6.56%) AWS KMS
9 12 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (6.01%) GitHub
10 11 (6.01%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.92%) Serverless
12 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.28%) Nutanix
13 6 (3.28%) SaaS
14 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.77%) DNS
2 37 (20.22%) SSL
3 35 (19.13%) HTTP
4 34 (18.58%) Firewall
5 31 (16.94%) SMTP
6 25 (13.66%) SSH
7 23 (12.57%) Kerberos
8 22 (12.02%) FTP
9 17 (9.29%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (7.65%) Network Security
11 12 (6.56%) IMAP
11 12 (6.56%) TCP/IP
12 6 (3.28%) Internet
13 3 (1.64%) VPN
14 2 (1.09%) DHCP
14 2 (1.09%) NAS
15 1 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
15 1 (0.55%) FCoE
15 1 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
15 1 (0.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.46%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.19%) Metadata
5 4 (2.19%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.64%) Power BI
6 3 (1.64%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.55%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (25.14%) JIRA
2 36 (19.67%) Git
3 29 (15.85%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.56%) Vagrant
5 10 (5.46%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (5.46%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.83%) GitLab
8 3 (1.64%) Log4j
9 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 82 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.84%) Finance
5 14 (7.65%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.83%) Banking
8 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.64%) Aviation
10 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (13.66%) Architect
2 22 (12.02%) Analyst
3 19 (10.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.74%) Senior
5 15 (8.20%) Consultant
5 15 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (6.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.56%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (5.46%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (5.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.46%) Developer
7 10 (5.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.46%) ServiceNow Architect
8 8 (4.37%) Senior Architect
9 7 (3.83%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 7 (3.83%) Identity Management Engineer
10 5 (2.73%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 5 (2.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (39.34%) SAML
2 55 (30.05%) OAuth
3 47 (25.68%) OpenID
4 33 (18.03%) REST
5 19 (10.38%) AngularJS
5 19 (10.38%) HTML
5 19 (10.38%) Web Services
6 17 (9.29%) SOAP
7 16 (8.74%) JDBC
8 14 (7.65%) HTML5
8 14 (7.65%) OAuth2
9 13 (7.10%) Apache Camel
9 13 (7.10%) Hibernate
9 13 (7.10%) jQuery
9 13 (7.10%) JSON
9 13 (7.10%) ODBC
9 13 (7.10%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (7.10%) SailPoint
9 13 (7.10%) Spring
10 7 (3.83%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.20%) Management Information System
3 13 (7.10%) Replication
4 12 (6.56%) Cyberattack
5 11 (6.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (4.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (4.37%) CSOC
7 8 (4.37%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (3.28%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.28%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.64%) Digital Signage
11 3 (1.64%) PKI
11 3 (1.64%) SCADA
11 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.32%) Linux
2 49 (26.78%) Windows
3 17 (9.29%) Unix
3 17 (9.29%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.10%) VMS
5 12 (6.56%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (5.46%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.28%) Solaris
8 4 (2.19%) AIX
9 3 (1.64%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.09%) zOS
11 1 (0.55%) CentOS
11 1 (0.55%) MVS
11 1 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.69%) DevOps
2 54 (29.51%) CI/CD
3 48 (26.23%) Identity Access Management
4 46 (25.14%) Agile
4 46 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.58%) RBAC
6 31 (16.94%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (15.85%) Scrum
8 27 (14.75%) Identity Management
9 24 (13.11%) Privileged Access Management
10 22 (12.02%) Microservices
11 21 (11.48%) Cloud Security
11 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.93%) Migration
13 19 (10.38%) Configuration Management
14 17 (9.29%) Change Management
14 17 (9.29%) Information Security
14 17 (9.29%) ITSM
14 17 (9.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 17 (9.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.32%) PowerShell
2 45 (24.59%) Python
3 28 (15.30%) Java
4 26 (14.21%) SQL
5 25 (13.66%) Groovy
6 23 (12.57%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.01%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.83%) Go
9 6 (3.28%) Bash
10 3 (1.64%) C++
11 2 (1.09%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.09%) C#
11 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.55%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.55%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (33.88%) Security Cleared
2 59 (32.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.29%) AWS Certification
3 17 (9.29%) CISSP
4 13 (7.10%) Degree
5 10 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.37%) CISM
7 7 (3.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.73%) MCSA
9 5 (2.73%) MCSE
10 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.09%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.55%) CISA
12 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.31%) GDPR
2 23 (12.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (9.84%) HIPAA
3 18 (9.84%) NIST
4 11 (6.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (5.46%) QA
6 6 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (3.28%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 89 (48.63%) Active Directory
2 36 (19.67%) Docker
3 12 (6.56%) Dovecot
3 12 (6.56%) Postfix
3 12 (6.56%) Squid
4 10 (5.46%) DFS Replication
5 8 (4.37%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 8 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.73%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.09%) KVM
9 1 (0.55%) Firmware
9 1 (0.55%) NFS
9 1 (0.55%) SRDF
9 1 (0.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (34.97%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (13.66%) Terraform
3 21 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 18 (9.84%) Ansible
4 18 (9.84%) Nessus
5 15 (8.20%) Prometheus
6 13 (7.10%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 12 (6.56%) Grafana
8 10 (5.46%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (5.46%) CA Wily
8 10 (5.46%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.92%) Progress Chef
10 8 (4.37%) Tivoli
11 5 (2.73%) CASB
11 5 (2.73%) PingFederate
12 4 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (2.19%) SELinux
13 3 (1.64%) SCCM
14 2 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.86%) ServiceNow
3 37 (20.22%) CyberArk
4 27 (14.75%) IBM
5 21 (11.48%) Splunk
6 19 (10.38%) Ping Identity
7 18 (9.84%) Remedy
8 15 (8.20%) Oracle
9 14 (7.65%) HP
10 13 (7.10%) BMC
10 13 (7.10%) Ivanti
11 12 (6.56%) ForgeRock
11 12 (6.56%) Jaspersoft
11 12 (6.56%) Okta
12 11 (6.01%) BeyondTrust
13 10 (5.46%) AppDynamics
13 10 (5.46%) Broadcom
13 10 (5.46%) VMware
14 7 (3.83%) SAP
15 6 (3.28%) Tenable