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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 400 424
Rank change year-on-year -45 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing LDAP 221 152 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 2.07% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 94 108
10th Percentile £364 £364 £250
25th Percentile £450 £416 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.77% +1.95%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £628
90th Percentile £775 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.61% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £46.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £81.01 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.58 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £84.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £81.01 -
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -

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 10,309 7,350 8,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.58% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,745 4,965 6,172
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +6.16% -5.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 154 269
10th Percentile £29.72 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £49.20 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.15
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.48% -1.49%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -59 196 £550 +6.13% 26
UK excluding London -66 134 £525 +5.00% 21
London -35 72 £575 - 9
Work from Home -37 70 £575 +9.52% 12
South East +2 61 £525 -27.59% 13
North of England -70 33 £620 +20.62% 3
Yorkshire -35 17 £515 -6.36% 1
South West -27 16 £550 -11.11% 3
North West -50 15 £635 +23.44% 2
Scotland -7 10 £455 -24.17% 1
Midlands -80 8 £375 -13.74%
West Midlands -67 7 £375 -30.23%
East of England -31 5 £483 -22.80% 2
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 14 (6.33%) Confluence
2 9 (4.07%) nginx
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.36%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 132 (59.73%) Azure
2 95 (42.99%) Entra ID
3 83 (37.56%) AWS
4 42 (19.00%) GCP
5 17 (7.69%) SaaS
6 15 (6.79%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.52%) Serverless
9 9 (4.07%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.07%) Route 53
10 4 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.81%) IaaS
10 4 (1.81%) PaaS
11 3 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 51 (23.08%) DNS
2 50 (22.62%) Kerberos
3 36 (16.29%) Firewall
4 27 (12.22%) DHCP
5 21 (9.50%) TCP/IP
6 19 (8.60%) VPN
7 13 (5.88%) SSL
8 12 (5.43%) NAS
9 11 (4.98%) SAN
10 9 (4.07%) OpenVPN
11 7 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (3.17%) HTTPS
11 7 (3.17%) WAN
12 6 (2.71%) LAN
13 5 (2.26%) IPsec
13 5 (2.26%) Network Security
14 4 (1.81%) BGP
14 4 (1.81%) BIG-IP
14 4 (1.81%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.26%) MySQL
4 4 (1.81%) Db2
4 4 (1.81%) Metadata
5 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.45%) Power BI
6 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (11.31%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.14%) JIRA
3 11 (4.98%) GitLab
4 9 (4.07%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.62%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.17%) Git
7 3 (1.36%) Postman
7 3 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.90%) Gatling
8 2 (0.90%) JMeter
8 2 (0.90%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.81%) Documentation Skills
3 39 (17.65%) Finance
4 24 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.17%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.71%) Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.36%) Military
9 3 (1.36%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 50 (22.62%) Architect
2 14 (6.33%) CyberArk Architect
2 14 (6.33%) Developer
3 13 (5.88%) Consultant
3 13 (5.88%) IAM Specialist
4 11 (4.98%) Lead
4 11 (4.98%) Senior
4 11 (4.98%) Technical Architect
5 10 (4.52%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.62%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.71%) Administrator
10 5 (2.26%) AWS Architect
10 5 (2.26%) Network Engineer
10 5 (2.26%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.26%) Senior Developer
10 5 (2.26%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (1.81%) Linux Developer
11 4 (1.81%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (38.46%) SAML
2 83 (37.56%) OpenID
3 64 (28.96%) OAuth
4 39 (17.65%) SailPoint
5 30 (13.57%) OAuth2
6 29 (13.12%) REST
7 20 (9.05%) .NET
8 19 (8.60%) Web Services
9 9 (4.07%) SOAP
9 9 (4.07%) XML
10 8 (3.62%) JSON
10 8 (3.62%) Middleware
11 7 (3.17%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.17%) J2EE
12 6 (2.71%) JDBC
13 2 (0.90%) EDI
13 2 (0.90%) FIDO
13 2 (0.90%) Keycloak
13 2 (0.90%) Playwright
13 2 (0.90%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.36%) Onboarding
2 26 (11.76%) PKI
2 26 (11.76%) Replication
3 18 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.07%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.62%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.71%) Clustering
8 6 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.26%) PACS
10 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.81%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.36%) CMDB
11 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.36%) Linux
2 41 (18.55%) Windows
3 15 (6.79%) Unix
4 14 (6.33%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.71%) CentOS
6 6 (2.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) CatOS
7 1 (0.45%) Rocky
7 1 (0.45%) SUSE
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.96%) DevOps
2 59 (26.70%) Identity Access Management
3 55 (24.89%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (24.43%) RBAC
5 43 (19.46%) CI/CD
6 33 (14.93%) SIEM
7 32 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (13.12%) Migration
8 29 (13.12%) Roadmaps
9 26 (11.76%) ITIL
9 26 (11.76%) Zero Trust
10 25 (11.31%) ITSM
11 24 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (10.41%) Privileged Access Management
13 22 (9.95%) Agile
14 21 (9.50%) Runbook
14 21 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (9.05%) API Integration
15 20 (9.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 86 (38.91%) PowerShell
2 52 (23.53%) Python
3 34 (15.38%) Java
4 18 (8.14%) SQL
5 12 (5.43%) Bash
6 11 (4.98%) C#
7 10 (4.52%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.62%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.71%) BeanShell
10 5 (2.26%) C++
10 5 (2.26%) Groovy
11 4 (1.81%) C
11 4 (1.81%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.36%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) Cypher
13 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.45%) Korn
14 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (43.44%) Security Cleared
2 86 (38.91%) SC Cleared
3 37 (16.74%) CISSP
4 30 (13.57%) Degree
5 22 (9.95%) CISM
6 14 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.62%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.71%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.26%) CSPO
11 5 (2.26%) MCSA
11 5 (2.26%) MCSE
12 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.81%) GIAC
12 4 (1.81%) SSCP
13 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.36%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (21.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (19.00%) NIST
3 34 (15.38%) GDPR
4 18 (8.14%) NCSC
5 16 (7.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.07%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.62%) SLA
8 6 (2.71%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.36%) DICOM
9 3 (1.36%) GRC
10 2 (0.90%) HL7
10 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.45%) GMP
11 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 154 (69.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.52%) Docker
4 9 (4.07%) Squid
5 7 (3.17%) NFS
6 4 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.36%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (23.98%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (17.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 32 (14.48%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.76%) Terraform
5 14 (6.33%) Grafana
6 13 (5.88%) Ansible
7 11 (4.98%) Prometheus
8 9 (4.07%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.62%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.17%) Consul
11 6 (2.71%) CASB
12 5 (2.26%) Nessus
13 4 (1.81%) Check_MK
13 4 (1.81%) PingFederate
13 4 (1.81%) Podman
13 4 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.81%) vCenter Server
14 3 (1.36%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.90%) SCOM
16 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (36.65%) Microsoft
2 56 (25.34%) CyberArk
3 31 (14.03%) ServiceNow
4 22 (9.95%) Okta
5 20 (9.05%) Splunk
6 19 (8.60%) VMware
7 16 (7.24%) BeyondTrust
8 14 (6.33%) Red Hat
9 11 (4.98%) Oracle
9 11 (4.98%) Ping Identity
10 10 (4.52%) ForgeRock
11 9 (4.07%) Dynatrace
12 8 (3.62%) Cisco
12 8 (3.62%) Google
12 8 (3.62%) SAP
13 7 (3.17%) Atlassian
13 7 (3.17%) Sybase
14 6 (2.71%) Workday
15 5 (2.26%) Palo Alto
15 5 (2.26%) Veritas