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

 6 months to
26 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 383 420
Rank change year-on-year -94 +37 +40
Contract jobs citing LDAP 192 169 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 2.27% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 106 103
10th Percentile £356 £367 £250
25th Percentile £450 £426 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +0.23%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £598
% change year-on-year +7.50% -16.32% +14.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.10 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £84.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -

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 10,290 7,432 8,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.57% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,717 5,022 5,973
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 158 251
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £22.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.30 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.50% +2.92% -0.49%

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 26 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 26 July 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 26 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 -93 167 £550 +2.33% 26
UK excluding London -71 124 £538 +7.50% 15
Work from Home -48 57 £550 +2.33% 13
South East -24 54 £525 -27.59% 10
London -78 53 £525 -13.08% 13
North of England -69 32 £619 +20.33% 1
Yorkshire -39 17 £515 -6.36%
South West -27 15 £550 -4.35% 2
North West -47 14 £639 +24.32% 1
Scotland -8 11 £450 -25.00% 1
Midlands -78 7 £375 -13.74% 1
West Midlands -63 6 £375 -30.23% 1
East of England -39 5 £483 -26.05%
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 9 (4.69%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) nginx
3 3 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.56%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (61.98%) Azure
2 82 (42.71%) Entra ID
3 79 (41.15%) AWS
4 44 (22.92%) GCP
5 17 (8.85%) SaaS
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.60%) Serverless
8 4 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.08%) IaaS
8 4 (2.08%) PaaS
8 4 (2.08%) Route 53
9 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.23%) Kerberos
2 32 (16.67%) DNS
3 29 (15.10%) Firewall
4 16 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 14 (7.29%) VPN
6 13 (6.77%) DHCP
6 13 (6.77%) SSL
7 10 (5.21%) NAS
8 9 (4.69%) SAN
9 7 (3.65%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (3.13%) HTTPS
10 6 (3.13%) WAN
11 5 (2.60%) IPsec
11 5 (2.60%) LAN
11 5 (2.60%) Network Security
12 4 (2.08%) BGP
12 4 (2.08%) BIG-IP
12 4 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (2.08%) HTTP
12 4 (2.08%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.60%) MySQL
3 4 (2.08%) Db2
3 4 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.08%) Metadata
4 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.04%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) Power BI
5 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.77%) JIRA
3 10 (5.21%) GitLab
4 7 (3.65%) Git
5 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.56%) Postman
5 3 (1.56%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.04%) Gatling
6 2 (1.04%) JMeter
6 2 (1.04%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.04%) Selenium
6 2 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.15%) Documentation Skills
3 29 (15.10%) Finance
4 23 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 21 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.65%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.13%) Banking
8 4 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.56%) Military
9 3 (1.56%) Retail
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (18.23%) Architect
2 14 (7.29%) Developer
3 13 (6.77%) Consultant
3 13 (6.77%) IAM Specialist
4 11 (5.73%) Lead
4 11 (5.73%) Senior
4 11 (5.73%) Support Engineer
5 9 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.17%) SailPoint Engineer
7 6 (3.13%) Administrator
7 6 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (3.13%) Technical Architect
8 5 (2.60%) CyberArk Architect
8 5 (2.60%) Network Engineer
8 5 (2.60%) Security Engineer
8 5 (2.60%) Senior Developer
8 5 (2.60%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (2.08%) Active Directory Engineer
9 4 (2.08%) Linux Developer
9 4 (2.08%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (35.42%) SAML
2 67 (34.90%) OpenID
3 58 (30.21%) OAuth
4 40 (20.83%) SailPoint
5 30 (15.63%) OAuth2
6 29 (15.10%) REST
7 20 (10.42%) .NET
8 19 (9.90%) Web Services
9 10 (5.21%) XML
10 8 (4.17%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.17%) JSON
10 8 (4.17%) Middleware
10 8 (4.17%) SOAP
11 7 (3.65%) Jakarta EE
12 6 (3.13%) JDBC
13 2 (1.04%) EDI
13 2 (1.04%) FIDO
13 2 (1.04%) Keycloak
13 2 (1.04%) Playwright
13 2 (1.04%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.23%) Onboarding
2 27 (14.06%) PKI
3 14 (7.29%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.25%) Replication
5 9 (4.69%) Security Posture
6 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.65%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.13%) Clustering
8 6 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.08%) Mainframe
10 4 (2.08%) PACS
11 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.04%) IoT
12 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
12 2 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (22.92%) Linux
2 33 (17.19%) Windows
3 15 (7.81%) Unix
4 10 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.65%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.13%) CentOS
6 6 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.52%) CatOS
7 1 (0.52%) Rocky
7 1 (0.52%) SUSE
7 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.65%) Identity Access Management
2 50 (26.04%) RBAC
3 48 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (24.48%) DevOps
5 45 (23.44%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 25 (13.02%) Privileged Access Management
7 25 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (13.02%) Zero Trust
8 24 (12.50%) ITIL
8 24 (12.50%) SIEM
9 23 (11.98%) Roadmaps
10 22 (11.46%) Agile
10 22 (11.46%) Migration
10 22 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (10.42%) API Integration
11 20 (10.42%) Runbook
12 18 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (8.85%) Cloud Security
13 17 (8.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 72 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 52 (27.08%) Python
3 34 (17.71%) Java
4 16 (8.33%) SQL
5 12 (6.25%) Bash
5 12 (6.25%) C#
6 9 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.65%) BeanShell
7 7 (3.65%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.60%) Groovy
9 4 (2.08%) C
9 4 (2.08%) C++
9 4 (2.08%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.56%) PHP
11 2 (1.04%) Cypher
11 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.52%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 56 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 37 (19.27%) CISSP
4 29 (15.10%) Degree
5 22 (11.46%) CISM
6 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.69%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.65%) Master's Degree
10 6 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.60%) CSPO
11 5 (2.60%) MCSA
11 5 (2.60%) MCSE
12 4 (2.08%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.08%) GIAC
12 4 (2.08%) SSCP
13 3 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.56%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (16.15%) NIST
3 30 (15.63%) GDPR
4 12 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.69%) HIPAA
6 8 (4.17%) SLA
7 7 (3.65%) NCSC
8 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.56%) DICOM
10 2 (1.04%) GRC
10 2 (1.04%) HL7
10 2 (1.04%) ITGC
10 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 142 (73.96%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.69%) Docker
4 7 (3.65%) NFS
5 4 (2.08%) Squid
5 4 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.56%) OpenAM
6 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.52%) KVM
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (21.35%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (10.94%) Terraform
4 16 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 13 (6.77%) Ansible
6 8 (4.17%) CA Single Sign-On
6 8 (4.17%) Grafana
7 6 (3.13%) CASB
7 6 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.60%) Nessus
9 4 (2.08%) Check_MK
9 4 (2.08%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.08%) PingFederate
9 4 (2.08%) Podman
9 4 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.08%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.04%) Consul
11 2 (1.04%) SCOM
12 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 47 (24.48%) CyberArk
3 30 (15.63%) ServiceNow
4 17 (8.85%) VMware
5 16 (8.33%) BeyondTrust
5 16 (8.33%) Okta
6 11 (5.73%) Ping Identity
7 10 (5.21%) ForgeRock
7 10 (5.21%) Oracle
8 9 (4.69%) Red Hat
8 9 (4.69%) SAP
8 9 (4.69%) Splunk
9 8 (4.17%) Google
10 7 (3.65%) Cisco
10 7 (3.65%) Sybase
10 7 (3.65%) Workday
11 5 (2.60%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.60%) Remedy
11 5 (2.60%) Tenable
31 LDAP jobs Nationwide