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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 379 406
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 +97
Contract jobs citing LDAP 264 147 190
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 2.19% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 90 117
10th Percentile £400 £374 £287
25th Percentile £488 £418 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.25% +2.28%
75th Percentile £750 £634 £622
90th Percentile £768 £673 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 £81.91 -
90th Percentile - £83.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -4.79% - -

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 9,789 6,726 9,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.85% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,432 4,599 6,367
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 118 263
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -7 248 £588 +11.90% 36
UK excluding London -41 132 £525 - 30
London +4 113 £700 +30.54% 6
Work from Home +1 106 £700 +27.16% 13
South East -29 50 £525 -27.59% 17
North of England -47 44 £610 +22.00% 5
Yorkshire -35 28 £525 -12.50% 3
South West -14 16 £545 -17.74% 4
North West -25 15 £635 +65.23% 2
East of England -28 12 £480 -18.26% 5
Midlands -84 9 £320 -34.96% 1
West Midlands -66 8 £320 -45.53% 1
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 11 (4.17%) Confluence
2 9 (3.41%) nginx
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.14%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.76%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 176 (66.67%) Azure
2 122 (46.21%) AWS
3 93 (35.23%) Entra ID
4 85 (32.20%) GCP
5 19 (7.20%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.30%) SaaS
7 11 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.79%) Serverless
9 9 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.41%) Route 53
10 5 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.76%) GitHub
12 2 (0.76%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 57 (21.59%) DNS
2 53 (20.08%) Kerberos
3 34 (12.88%) Firewall
4 30 (11.36%) DHCP
5 25 (9.47%) VPN
6 20 (7.58%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.06%) SSL
8 13 (4.92%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (3.79%) HTTPS
9 10 (3.79%) WAN
10 9 (3.41%) LAN
10 9 (3.41%) OpenVPN
11 8 (3.03%) IPsec
11 8 (3.03%) NAS
11 8 (3.03%) Network Security
11 8 (3.03%) SAN
12 7 (2.65%) BGP
12 7 (2.65%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.65%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.41%) MySQL
3 4 (1.52%) Metadata
3 4 (1.52%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.38%) Power BI
5 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.36%) GitLab
3 27 (10.23%) JIRA
4 14 (5.30%) Git
5 12 (4.55%) REST Assured
5 12 (4.55%) Selenium
6 11 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.79%) Postman
8 9 (3.41%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.03%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.52%) Gatling
10 4 (1.52%) JMeter
10 4 (1.52%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.52%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.52%) TestRail
11 1 (0.38%) JUnit
11 1 (0.38%) Maven
11 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.21%) Documentation Skills
3 42 (15.91%) Finance
4 21 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.55%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.41%) Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Military
10 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 89 (33.71%) Architect
2 47 (17.80%) CyberArk Architect
3 14 (5.30%) Consultant
3 14 (5.30%) Lead
4 12 (4.55%) Administrator
4 12 (4.55%) Developer
5 11 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
5 11 (4.17%) Technical Architect
6 10 (3.79%) IAM Specialist
6 10 (3.79%) Security Engineer
7 8 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.03%) Network Engineer
8 7 (2.65%) Senior
8 7 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.65%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (2.65%) Test Engineer
9 6 (2.27%) SailPoint Engineer
9 6 (2.27%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.27%) Test Automation Architect
10 5 (1.89%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (34.47%) OpenID
2 90 (34.09%) SAML
3 70 (26.52%) REST
4 65 (24.62%) OAuth
5 46 (17.42%) SailPoint
6 41 (15.53%) SOAP
7 26 (9.85%) OAuth2
8 17 (6.44%) Web Services
9 14 (5.30%) .NET
10 11 (4.17%) Middleware
11 9 (3.41%) J2EE
12 8 (3.03%) JSON
13 6 (2.27%) JDBC
14 4 (1.52%) Playwright
14 4 (1.52%) XML
15 2 (0.76%) EDI
16 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
16 1 (0.38%) Loki
16 1 (0.38%) React
16 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.91%) Enterprise Software
2 41 (15.53%) Onboarding
3 39 (14.77%) Security Posture
4 34 (12.88%) Replication
5 22 (8.33%) Cloud Native
6 20 (7.58%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.92%) PKI
8 11 (4.17%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.89%) Clustering
9 5 (1.89%) PACS
9 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.14%) CMDB
11 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.76%) IoT
12 2 (0.76%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.38%) Biopharmaceutical
13 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.94%) Linux
2 41 (15.53%) Windows
3 22 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (4.92%) CentOS
6 11 (4.17%) Unix
7 9 (3.41%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.14%) CatOS
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.38%) Rocky
10 1 (0.38%) SUSE
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (32.95%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (29.17%) DevOps
3 65 (24.62%) SIEM
4 61 (23.11%) Identity Access Management
5 59 (22.35%) CI/CD
5 59 (22.35%) RBAC
5 59 (22.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 57 (21.59%) ITSM
7 56 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
8 50 (18.94%) Privileged Access Management
9 47 (17.80%) Task Automation
10 41 (15.53%) Technical Leadership
11 40 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
12 37 (14.02%) Presales
13 31 (11.74%) Agile
14 30 (11.36%) Migration
15 28 (10.61%) Roadmaps
16 27 (10.23%) High Availability
17 25 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (9.47%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.80%) PowerShell
2 88 (33.33%) Python
3 47 (17.80%) Java
4 23 (8.71%) SQL
5 16 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.68%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.17%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.79%) Bash
9 8 (3.03%) PHP
10 5 (1.89%) C++
10 5 (1.89%) Groovy
11 4 (1.52%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.52%) Cypher
11 4 (1.52%) Scala
11 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) C
12 1 (0.38%) C#
12 1 (0.38%) Korn
12 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 145 (54.92%) Security Cleared
2 137 (51.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.88%) CISSP
4 23 (8.71%) CISM
5 20 (7.58%) Degree
6 13 (4.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.41%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.89%) MCSA
9 5 (1.89%) MCSE
10 4 (1.52%) APMG
10 4 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.52%) CSPO
10 4 (1.52%) GIAC
10 4 (1.52%) OCP
10 4 (1.52%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (17.80%) NIST
3 44 (16.67%) GDPR
4 23 (8.71%) NCSC
4 23 (8.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.17%) SLA
6 9 (3.41%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.03%) QA
8 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.14%) DICOM
10 2 (0.76%) HL7
10 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) GMP
11 1 (0.38%) GRC
11 1 (0.38%) GxP
11 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 180 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.41%) Squid
4 8 (3.03%) Docker
5 7 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.65%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.14%) NFS
8 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.38%) KVM
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (23.11%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 35 (13.26%) Kubernetes
4 23 (8.71%) Terraform
5 18 (6.82%) Ansible
6 13 (4.92%) Grafana
7 12 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.17%) Check_MK
8 11 (4.17%) Podman
8 11 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.41%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.65%) Consul
10 7 (2.65%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.27%) CASB
12 5 (1.89%) Nessus
13 4 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.52%) PingFederate
14 3 (1.14%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.14%) SCOM
15 2 (0.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 84 (31.82%) CyberArk
2 79 (29.92%) Microsoft
3 45 (17.05%) BeyondTrust
4 39 (14.77%) ServiceNow
5 34 (12.88%) Centrify
6 30 (11.36%) VMware
7 23 (8.71%) Red Hat
8 22 (8.33%) Okta
8 22 (8.33%) Splunk
9 14 (5.30%) Cisco
10 11 (4.17%) Google
11 10 (3.79%) Oracle
11 10 (3.79%) Ping Identity
12 9 (3.41%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.41%) ForgeRock
13 8 (3.03%) CheckPoint
13 8 (3.03%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.03%) SAP
14 7 (2.65%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.65%) Veritas