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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 424 330
Rank change year-on-year +33 -94 +209
Contract jobs citing LDAP 189 141 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.39% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 1.79% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 75 180
10th Percentile £356 £232 £369
25th Percentile £415 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £671 £769 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -13.18% +1.85% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile - - £53.13
25th Percentile £45.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.00 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%

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 8,221 7,894 9,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.53% 21.85% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,461 4,981 7,083
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 113 183
10th Percentile £30.10 £22.00 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.35 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +23.81% -19.23%

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 December 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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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 +1 171 £500 -9.26% 41
UK excluding London +9 117 £478 -13.18% 77
London -9 58 £604 -1.79% 4
Work from Home +3 47 £500 -9.26% 81
Midlands -4 43 £500 -11.19% 10
West Midlands -9 36 £540 -4.09% 9
North of England -20 26 £453 +24.97% 11
South East -10 22 £481 -12.66% 9
North West -6 18 £450 +24.14% 5
East of England -16 12 £680 +20.89% 10
South West -9 11 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £525 - 5
East Midlands - 7 £415 - 1
Scotland +7 2 £600 -14.29% 32
Wales - 1 - - 10

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 39 (20.63%) Confluence
2 12 (6.35%) nginx
2 12 (6.35%) WebSphere
3 11 (5.82%) Apache
3 11 (5.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (5.29%) IIS
4 10 (5.29%) iPlanet
4 10 (5.29%) JBoss
5 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.06%) CICS
7 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.53%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (5.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.06%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.53%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (6.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 74 (39.15%) AWS
2 65 (34.39%) Azure
3 31 (16.40%) GCP
4 24 (12.70%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.05%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (6.35%) Route 53
8 11 (5.82%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (5.82%) AWS KMS
8 11 (5.82%) GitHub
8 11 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.23%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.23%) Serverless
10 6 (3.17%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (22.75%) DNS
2 38 (20.11%) SSL
3 35 (18.52%) HTTP
4 33 (17.46%) Firewall
5 32 (16.93%) Kerberos
6 30 (15.87%) SMTP
7 27 (14.29%) SSH
8 20 (10.58%) FTP
9 16 (8.47%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (7.41%) Network Security
11 12 (6.35%) TCP/IP
12 11 (5.82%) IMAP
13 7 (3.70%) VPN
14 6 (3.17%) LAN
14 6 (3.17%) WAN
15 4 (2.12%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (2.12%) DHCP
15 4 (2.12%) HTTPS
15 4 (2.12%) Internet
15 4 (2.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.29%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.12%) Metadata
6 3 (1.59%) Power BI
6 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.53%) MySQL
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (24.34%) JIRA
2 36 (19.05%) Git
3 26 (13.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.82%) Vagrant
5 10 (5.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (5.29%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.23%) GitLab
8 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 83 (43.92%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.99%) Finance
6 16 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.17%) Banking
8 4 (2.12%) Aviation
9 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.06%) Electronics
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (13.23%) Consultant
2 21 (11.11%) Architect
3 18 (9.52%) Analyst
3 18 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (9.52%) Senior
4 14 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (6.35%) Developer
6 11 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) ServiceNow Architect
7 10 (5.29%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.23%) Senior Architect
10 6 (3.17%) Management Consultant
10 6 (3.17%) Security Consultant
11 5 (2.65%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.65%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (37.57%) SAML
2 50 (26.46%) OAuth
3 41 (21.69%) OpenID
4 29 (15.34%) REST
5 19 (10.05%) AngularJS
5 19 (10.05%) HTML
5 19 (10.05%) Web Services
6 17 (8.99%) SOAP
7 14 (7.41%) HTML5
8 13 (6.88%) Apache Camel
8 13 (6.88%) JDBC
8 13 (6.88%) jQuery
8 13 (6.88%) JSON
8 13 (6.88%) ODBC
8 13 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (6.88%) SailPoint
9 10 (5.29%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.70%) boto
10 7 (3.70%) pytest
11 6 (3.17%) Flake8
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.94%) Replication
3 14 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.29%) Cyberattack
5 8 (4.23%) CSOC
5 8 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.70%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.17%) SCADA
8 5 (2.65%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.12%) PKI
10 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.06%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.06%) Digital Signage
11 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 54 (28.57%) Windows
2 51 (26.98%) Linux
3 16 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.94%) Unix
5 14 (7.41%) Ubuntu
6 12 (6.35%) VMS
7 11 (5.82%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (4.76%) Solaris
9 7 (3.70%) AIX
9 7 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.65%) CentOS
11 2 (1.06%) CatOS
11 2 (1.06%) zOS
12 1 (0.53%) MVS
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.45%) DevOps
2 57 (30.16%) CI/CD
3 45 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 45 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (22.22%) Agile
5 38 (20.11%) Identity Access Management
6 32 (16.93%) Privileged Access Management
7 31 (16.40%) Identity Management
7 31 (16.40%) SIEM
8 29 (15.34%) RBAC
9 24 (12.70%) Scrum
10 22 (11.64%) DevSecOps
10 22 (11.64%) Roadmaps
11 20 (10.58%) Microservices
11 20 (10.58%) Migration
12 18 (9.52%) Cloud Security
12 18 (9.52%) Configuration Management
12 18 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (8.99%) Change Management
13 17 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 63 (33.33%) Python
2 59 (31.22%) PowerShell
3 25 (13.23%) Groovy
3 25 (13.23%) SQL
4 22 (11.64%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.52%) Java
6 10 (5.29%) Bash
7 8 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.70%) Go
9 3 (1.59%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) BeanShell
10 2 (1.06%) C#
10 2 (1.06%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.53%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.53%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 69 (36.51%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.87%) CISSP
4 21 (11.11%) CISM
5 17 (8.99%) AWS Certification
6 13 (6.88%) Degree
7 10 (5.29%) Azure Certification
7 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.65%) MCSA
10 5 (2.65%) MCSE
11 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.53%) CBAP
12 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (24.87%) GDPR
2 38 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (15.87%) NIST
4 13 (6.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (6.35%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.70%) QA
7 5 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.65%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 107 (56.61%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.23%) Docker
3 15 (7.94%) Postfix
4 12 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (5.82%) Dovecot
5 11 (5.82%) Squid
6 10 (5.29%) DFS Replication
7 8 (4.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 3 (1.59%) KVM
8 3 (1.59%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.06%) NFS
9 2 (1.06%) OpenAM
9 2 (1.06%) OpenDJ
9 2 (1.06%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.53%) Firmware
10 1 (0.53%) Samba
10 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (32.28%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (11.11%) Terraform
3 18 (9.52%) Nessus
4 14 (7.41%) Kubernetes
5 13 (6.88%) Ansible
6 11 (5.82%) Grafana
6 11 (5.82%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.29%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.29%) CA Wily
7 10 (5.29%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.76%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (4.23%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.17%) PingFederate
11 5 (2.65%) CASB
11 5 (2.65%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.59%) SCCM
14 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
14 2 (1.06%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (27.51%) Microsoft
2 48 (25.40%) CyberArk
3 40 (21.16%) ServiceNow
4 27 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
5 18 (9.52%) Remedy
5 18 (9.52%) Splunk
6 16 (8.47%) IBM
6 16 (8.47%) Oracle
7 15 (7.94%) VMware
8 14 (7.41%) HP
9 13 (6.88%) BMC
9 13 (6.88%) Ivanti
10 12 (6.35%) Ping Identity
11 11 (5.82%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (5.29%) AppDynamics
12 10 (5.29%) Broadcom
12 10 (5.29%) ForgeRock
12 10 (5.29%) Okta
13 7 (3.70%) SAP
13 7 (3.70%) Tenable