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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 385 380
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 +118
Contract jobs citing LDAP 273 148 227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.51% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.87% 2.24% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 82 139
10th Percentile £433 £413 £300
25th Percentile £481 £500 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £685 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £760 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £54.53 - -
25th Percentile £57.75 £80.34 £51.25
Median hourly rate £81.25 £81.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% +54.95% -28.08%
75th Percentile £91.25 £82.10 £53.75
90th Percentile £92.50 £83.24 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.00 £81.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -18.87% +54.95% -28.08%

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 9,507 6,620 8,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 22.65% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,334 4,527 6,271
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 98 171
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.47
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.13 £31.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £62.96
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.43 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +1 252 £550 -8.33% 35
UK excluding London -30 138 £525 -9.68% 27
Work from Home +30 119 £600 - 13
London +1 107 £700 +16.67% 11
North of England -47 44 £575 -4.17% 7
South East -26 41 £500 -9.26% 9
Yorkshire -39 28 £525 -12.50% 4
Midlands -63 21 £420 -32.80% 1
West Midlands -54 20 £420 -32.80% 1
East of England -34 16 £478 -18.64% 8
North West -36 15 £635 +26.90% 3
South West -22 13 £531 -24.11% 2
Wales - 3 £345 - 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 12 (4.40%) nginx
2 11 (4.03%) Confluence
3 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 157 (57.51%) Azure
2 107 (39.19%) AWS
3 89 (32.60%) GCP
4 72 (26.37%) Entra ID
5 18 (6.59%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.03%) Serverless
7 10 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.66%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.66%) Route 53
8 9 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.30%) SaaS
8 9 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.37%) GitHub
10 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.37%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 69 (25.27%) DNS
2 64 (23.44%) Kerberos
3 37 (13.55%) Firewall
4 33 (12.09%) DHCP
5 27 (9.89%) SSL
5 27 (9.89%) VPN
6 19 (6.96%) TCP/IP
7 13 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (4.76%) HTTP
7 13 (4.76%) Network Security
8 12 (4.40%) LAN
8 12 (4.40%) WAN
9 10 (3.66%) HTTPS
10 9 (3.30%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.30%) SMTP
11 7 (2.56%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (2.56%) Ethereal
11 7 (2.56%) NAS
11 7 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.66%) MySQL
4 4 (1.47%) Metadata
4 4 (1.47%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.73%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) Redis
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (15.75%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.36%) GitLab
3 30 (10.99%) JIRA
4 14 (5.13%) Selenium
5 13 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 12 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.40%) Git
7 11 (4.03%) Postman
8 9 (3.30%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.93%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.83%) TestRail
11 4 (1.47%) Gatling
11 4 (1.47%) JMeter
11 4 (1.47%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.47%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.73%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.37%) JUnit
13 1 (0.37%) Maven
13 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 39 (14.29%) Finance
4 28 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.66%) Banking
8 7 (2.56%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Aviation
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Legal
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 80 (29.30%) Architect
2 48 (17.58%) CyberArk Architect
3 30 (10.99%) Consultant
4 11 (4.03%) Administrator
5 10 (3.66%) Lead
5 10 (3.66%) Security Engineer
6 9 (3.30%) Linux Administrator
6 9 (3.30%) Network Engineer
6 9 (3.30%) Security Consultant
6 9 (3.30%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (3.30%) Test Engineer
7 8 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (2.56%) Analyst
8 7 (2.56%) Senior
9 6 (2.20%) Developer
9 6 (2.20%) Technical Architect
9 6 (2.20%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.20%) Test Automation Architect
10 5 (1.83%) Active Directory Consultant
10 5 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (27.47%) SAML
2 69 (25.27%) OpenID
3 62 (22.71%) REST
4 47 (17.22%) OAuth
5 39 (14.29%) SOAP
6 31 (11.36%) SailPoint
7 11 (4.03%) .NET
8 9 (3.30%) Middleware
9 8 (2.93%) J2EE
9 8 (2.93%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.47%) Playwright
11 3 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.10%) JDBC
11 3 (1.10%) RESTful
11 3 (1.10%) XML
12 2 (0.73%) EDI
12 2 (0.73%) JSON
12 2 (0.73%) Web Services
13 1 (0.37%) LAMP
13 1 (0.37%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.75%) Security Posture
2 40 (14.65%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (12.45%) Replication
4 32 (11.72%) Onboarding
5 20 (7.33%) Cloud Native
5 20 (7.33%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.49%) PKI
7 11 (4.03%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.83%) CSOC
9 5 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.83%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.83%) PACS
10 4 (1.47%) Clustering
11 3 (1.10%) CMDB
11 3 (1.10%) SCADA
12 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.78%) Linux
2 52 (19.05%) Windows
3 29 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.13%) CentOS
6 11 (4.03%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.93%) Unix
8 4 (1.47%) AIX
8 4 (1.47%) CatOS
8 4 (1.47%) Solaris
9 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (32.97%) SIEM
3 79 (28.94%) DevOps
4 74 (27.11%) Cybersecurity
5 63 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 62 (22.71%) Privileged Access Management
7 53 (19.41%) Identity Access Management
7 53 (19.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 51 (18.68%) ITSM
9 50 (18.32%) Task Automation
10 47 (17.22%) RBAC
11 41 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (12.82%) Migration
13 35 (12.82%) Presales
14 32 (11.72%) High Availability
15 29 (10.62%) Agile
15 29 (10.62%) Roadmaps
16 26 (9.52%) DevSecOps
17 23 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (45.05%) PowerShell
2 103 (37.73%) Python
3 39 (14.29%) Java
4 32 (11.72%) SQL
5 13 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.40%) Bash
6 12 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.30%) MATLAB
7 9 (3.30%) PHP
8 5 (1.83%) C++
8 5 (1.83%) Groovy
9 4 (1.47%) Cypher
9 4 (1.47%) Scala
9 4 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.37%) C#
10 1 (0.37%) Korn
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 154 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 145 (53.11%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.55%) CISSP
4 32 (11.72%) CISM
5 14 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 13 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.93%) Degree
9 5 (1.83%) MCSA
9 5 (1.83%) MCSE
10 4 (1.47%) APMG
10 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.47%) GIAC
10 4 (1.47%) GSEC
10 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.47%) OCP
10 4 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.47%) SSCP
11 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (20.88%) GDPR
2 57 (20.88%) NIST
3 22 (8.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 20 (7.33%) NCSC
5 10 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.30%) QA
6 9 (3.30%) SLA
7 8 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.47%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.10%) DICOM
9 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.73%) HL7
11 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.37%) GMP
11 1 (0.37%) GRC
11 1 (0.37%) GxP
11 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 183 (67.03%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.30%) Squid
3 9 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 7 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.20%) Docker
6 4 (1.47%) Postfix
7 3 (1.10%) NFS
8 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.73%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.73%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.73%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.37%) Ceph
9 1 (0.37%) iptables
9 1 (0.37%) KVM
9 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.37%) XenApp
9 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (21.61%) Single Sign-On
2 41 (15.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 29 (10.62%) Kubernetes
4 18 (6.59%) Terraform
5 17 (6.23%) Ansible
6 12 (4.40%) Grafana
7 11 (4.03%) Check_MK
7 11 (4.03%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.30%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.30%) Podman
8 9 (3.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (2.93%) PingFederate
9 8 (2.93%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.56%) Consul
10 7 (2.56%) Nessus
11 5 (1.83%) CASB
11 5 (1.83%) WSUS
12 4 (1.47%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.10%) SCOM
14 2 (0.73%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 97 (35.53%) CyberArk
2 66 (24.18%) BeyondTrust
2 66 (24.18%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.19%) Centrify
4 32 (11.72%) ServiceNow
5 30 (10.99%) VMware
6 23 (8.42%) Red Hat
7 20 (7.33%) Splunk
8 18 (6.59%) Okta
9 17 (6.23%) Cisco
10 11 (4.03%) Oracle
11 10 (3.66%) Google
11 10 (3.66%) Palo Alto
12 9 (3.30%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.30%) Ping Identity
13 8 (2.93%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.93%) F5
14 7 (2.56%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.56%) Tenable
14 7 (2.56%) Veritas