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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 405 400
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +146
Contract jobs citing LDAP 169 157 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.41% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 1.84% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 95 170
10th Percentile £354 £250 £395
25th Percentile £405 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £674
90th Percentile £671 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £593 £524
% change year-on-year -23.54% +13.13% -10.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £66.50
75th Percentile £81.35 - £78.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £66.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.90%

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 7,340 8,544 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 22.40% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,878 5,592 8,032
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 186 178
10th Percentile £31.15 £25.60 £35.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.40 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.22% -4.78%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +20 151 £500 -16.67% 49
UK excluding London +43 99 £453 -23.54% 41
London -7 60 £600 -2.04% 11
Work from Home +14 48 £513 -16.33% 22
Midlands +14 47 £450 -27.65% 3
West Midlands +6 28 £550 +4.07% 1
North of England +2 26 £452 -10.59% 10
North West +2 20 £448 -11.29% 3
East Midlands +7 19 £398 -36.09% 2
East of England +14 12 £680 +134.48% 20
South West +22 6 £463 -2.63% 1
Yorkshire -9 6 £513 - 7
Scotland -1 5 £600 -14.29%
South East +7 3 £625 +5.49% 10

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (23.67%) Confluence
2 14 (8.28%) WebSphere
3 13 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (7.10%) nginx
5 9 (5.33%) Apache
5 9 (5.33%) IIS
5 9 (5.33%) iPlanet
5 9 (5.33%) JBoss
6 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.18%) CICS
7 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.59%) CMS
8 1 (0.59%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.59%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (7.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.78%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.59%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.59%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.24%) AWS
2 42 (24.85%) Azure
3 30 (17.75%) GCP
4 20 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (11.83%) Amazon S3
5 19 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (8.28%) Entra ID
8 13 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (7.10%) Amazon ELB
9 12 (7.10%) AWS KMS
9 12 (7.10%) Route 53
9 12 (7.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (6.51%) GitHub
11 10 (5.92%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.73%) Serverless
13 7 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.37%) SaaS
16 3 (1.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (20.12%) HTTP
1 34 (20.12%) SSL
2 33 (19.53%) Firewall
2 33 (19.53%) SMTP
3 31 (18.34%) DNS
4 23 (13.61%) FTP
5 21 (12.43%) SSH
6 19 (11.24%) Kerberos
6 19 (11.24%) OpenLDAP
7 14 (8.28%) Network Security
8 12 (7.10%) IMAP
9 11 (6.51%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.96%) Internet
10 5 (2.96%) NAS
11 4 (2.37%) POP3
12 2 (1.18%) Multicast
12 2 (1.18%) VPN
13 1 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.59%) FCoE
13 1 (0.59%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.33%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.37%) Metadata
4 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.18%) Power BI
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (25.44%) JIRA
2 32 (18.93%) Git
3 28 (16.57%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.10%) Vagrant
5 9 (5.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (5.33%) CA Release Automation
6 8 (4.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.55%) GitLab
8 4 (2.37%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.78%) Log4j
10 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 72 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.06%) Finance
5 12 (7.10%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.96%) Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Law
8 2 (1.18%) Retail
8 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.59%) Electronics
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (13.61%) Architect
2 21 (12.43%) Analyst
3 19 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.06%) Senior
5 15 (8.88%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) SOC Analyst
7 11 (6.51%) Developer
8 10 (5.92%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) ServiceNow Architect
9 9 (5.33%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Consultant
10 8 (4.73%) Senior Architect
10 8 (4.73%) ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (4.14%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.46%) SAML
2 49 (28.99%) OAuth
3 41 (24.26%) OpenID
4 33 (19.53%) REST
5 20 (11.83%) AngularJS
5 20 (11.83%) Web Services
6 19 (11.24%) HTML
7 18 (10.65%) SOAP
8 16 (9.47%) JDBC
9 15 (8.88%) HTML5
10 14 (8.28%) JSON
10 14 (8.28%) OAuth2
11 13 (7.69%) Apache Camel
11 13 (7.69%) Hibernate
11 13 (7.69%) jQuery
11 13 (7.69%) ODBC
11 13 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (7.69%) Spring
12 10 (5.92%) SailPoint
13 7 (4.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.88%) Management Information System
1 15 (8.88%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.28%) Replication
3 12 (7.10%) Cyberattack
4 10 (5.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (4.73%) CSOC
6 8 (4.73%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.55%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.55%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.96%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.78%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.78%) SCADA
10 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.18%) Clustering
11 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (29.59%) Linux
2 39 (23.08%) Windows
3 20 (11.83%) Unix
4 13 (7.69%) VMS
5 12 (7.10%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (7.10%) Windows Server
6 10 (5.92%) Ubuntu
7 7 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.55%) Solaris
9 4 (2.37%) AIX
10 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.59%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.77%) DevOps
2 47 (27.81%) CI/CD
3 44 (26.04%) Identity Access Management
4 42 (24.85%) Agile
5 38 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (17.16%) RBAC
7 27 (15.98%) Scrum
8 25 (14.79%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (14.20%) Identity Management
10 22 (13.02%) Microservices
11 21 (12.43%) Cloud Security
11 21 (12.43%) Privileged Access Management
12 19 (11.24%) Configuration Management
13 18 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (10.06%) ITSM
14 17 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (9.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
16 15 (8.88%) Containerisation
16 15 (8.88%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (8.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.49%) Python
2 37 (21.89%) PowerShell
3 26 (15.38%) Java
4 24 (14.20%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.61%) Groovy
6 20 (11.83%) SQL
7 10 (5.92%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.14%) Go
9 6 (3.55%) Bash
10 4 (2.37%) C++
11 2 (1.18%) VBScript
12 1 (0.59%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.59%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.59%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.59%) Ruby
12 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 52 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) AWS Certification
4 14 (8.28%) Degree
5 10 (5.92%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.33%) CISSP
7 8 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (4.14%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.96%) MCSA
10 5 (2.96%) MCSE
10 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.18%) CISM
12 2 (1.18%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.59%) CBAP
13 1 (0.59%) CCDE
13 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.38%) GDPR
2 17 (10.06%) HIPAA
3 10 (5.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.92%) QA
4 9 (5.33%) NIST
4 9 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 76 (44.97%) Active Directory
2 34 (20.12%) Docker
3 12 (7.10%) Dovecot
3 12 (7.10%) Postfix
3 12 (7.10%) Squid
4 10 (5.92%) DFS Replication
5 7 (4.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 5 (2.96%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.18%) KVM
8 2 (1.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.59%) SRDF
9 1 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (35.50%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.79%) Terraform
3 18 (10.65%) Nessus
4 16 (9.47%) Ansible
5 15 (8.88%) Prometheus
6 13 (7.69%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 12 (7.10%) Grafana
8 10 (5.92%) Proxmox
9 9 (5.33%) CA Single Sign-On
9 9 (5.33%) CA Wily
10 8 (4.73%) Progress Chef
11 7 (4.14%) SELinux
11 7 (4.14%) Tivoli
12 5 (2.96%) CASB
13 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.18%) PingFederate
13 2 (1.18%) Puppet
13 2 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (27.81%) Microsoft
2 39 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 30 (17.75%) CyberArk
4 27 (15.98%) IBM
5 23 (13.61%) Splunk
6 18 (10.65%) Remedy
7 15 (8.88%) Ping Identity
8 14 (8.28%) HP
9 13 (7.69%) BMC
9 13 (7.69%) ForgeRock
9 13 (7.69%) Ivanti
10 12 (7.10%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (7.10%) Okta
10 12 (7.10%) Oracle
11 9 (5.33%) AppDynamics
11 9 (5.33%) Broadcom
12 8 (4.73%) Red Hat
13 7 (4.14%) VMware
14 6 (3.55%) Tenable
15 5 (2.96%) Atlassian