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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 379 338
Rank change year-on-year +16 -41 +185
Contract jobs citing LDAP 228 149 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 2.14% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 81 155
10th Percentile £372 £353 £360
25th Percentile £463 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +1.39% +1.05%
75th Percentile £680 £655 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -14.52% +3.30% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 6
10th Percentile £46.58 - £53.13
25th Percentile £52.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £86.88 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £92.50 - £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 8,260 6,962 9,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.34% 22.03% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,479 4,427 6,488
10th Percentile £356 £353 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 83 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.50 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +1 207 £540 -7.10% 127
UK excluding London -1 124 £481 -14.52% 135
Work from Home +34 87 £700 +20.07% 132
London -9 84 £700 +16.67% 49
Midlands -26 36 £539 -8.34% 7
North of England -21 34 £469 +126.02% 27
West Midlands -22 34 £545 -7.23% 1
South East -14 26 £481 -12.66% 35
Yorkshire - 23 £525 - 15
East of England -18 15 £485 -15.65% 21
North West -16 11 £448 +115.90% 12
South West -25 10 £475 - 23
East Midlands - 2 £455 - 6
Wales - 2 - - 10
Scotland -1 1 - - 19

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 23 (10.09%) Confluence
2 12 (5.26%) nginx
2 12 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 11 (4.82%) Apache
3 11 (4.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (4.39%) IIS
4 10 (4.39%) iPlanet
4 10 (4.39%) JBoss
5 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.88%) CICS
7 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.44%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.44%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 1 (0.44%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 117 (51.32%) Azure
2 113 (49.56%) AWS
3 77 (33.77%) GCP
4 31 (13.60%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (5.70%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.82%) SaaS
10 10 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.39%) Route 53
11 9 (3.95%) Amazon ELB
11 9 (3.95%) AWS KMS
11 9 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.51%) Serverless
13 7 (3.07%) GitHub
14 6 (2.63%) Nutanix
15 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 44 (19.30%) DNS
2 42 (18.42%) Kerberos
3 31 (13.60%) Firewall
4 29 (12.72%) HTTP
5 24 (10.53%) SSL
6 23 (10.09%) SSH
7 22 (9.65%) SMTP
8 16 (7.02%) FTP
9 14 (6.14%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (3.95%) DHCP
10 9 (3.95%) IMAP
10 9 (3.95%) Network Security
10 9 (3.95%) VPN
11 8 (3.51%) LAN
11 8 (3.51%) WAN
12 6 (2.63%) TCP/IP
13 5 (2.19%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (2.19%) HTTPS
13 5 (2.19%) Wireless
14 4 (1.75%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.39%) Oracle Database
2 10 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.63%) MySQL
5 4 (1.75%) Metadata
6 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.32%) Power BI
7 2 (0.88%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 43 (18.86%) JIRA
3 40 (17.54%) Git
4 27 (11.84%) GitLab
5 11 (4.82%) Selenium
6 10 (4.39%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (4.39%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (3.95%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.95%) REST Assured
7 9 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.95%) Vagrant
8 8 (3.51%) Postman
9 5 (2.19%) TestRail
10 2 (0.88%) Gatling
10 2 (0.88%) JMeter
10 2 (0.88%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.88%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.44%) Maven
11 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 107 (46.93%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 25 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.77%) Finance
4 20 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.95%) Banking
7 5 (2.19%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.75%) Aviation
9 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Electronics
10 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 51 (22.37%) Architect
2 37 (16.23%) CyberArk Architect
3 28 (12.28%) Consultant
4 16 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.26%) Analyst
5 12 (5.26%) Developer
5 12 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (4.82%) Senior
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) Lead
7 9 (3.95%) Security Consultant
8 8 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (3.51%) Test Engineer
9 7 (3.07%) Administrator
9 7 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (3.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.07%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.07%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (27.19%) SAML
2 59 (25.88%) REST
3 51 (22.37%) OpenID
4 48 (21.05%) OAuth
5 40 (17.54%) SOAP
6 21 (9.21%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.39%) Middleware
8 7 (3.07%) .NET
8 7 (3.07%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.07%) boto
8 7 (3.07%) HTML
8 7 (3.07%) pytest
8 7 (3.07%) Web Services
9 6 (2.63%) Flake8
9 6 (2.63%) mypy
9 6 (2.63%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.19%) HTML5
11 4 (1.75%) JDBC
11 4 (1.75%) ODBC
11 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.11%) Security Posture
2 36 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (8.77%) Onboarding
4 19 (8.33%) Replication
5 17 (7.46%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.39%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (3.07%) CSOC
9 7 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (3.07%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.63%) PKI
10 6 (2.63%) SCADA
11 2 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.88%) Clustering
11 2 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (25.00%) Linux
1 57 (25.00%) Windows
2 22 (9.65%) Windows Server
3 17 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.70%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.26%) Unix
6 11 (4.82%) CentOS
7 10 (4.39%) VMS
8 9 (3.95%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (3.95%) Solaris
9 7 (3.07%) AIX
10 2 (0.88%) CatOS
10 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.88%) zOS
11 1 (0.44%) MVS
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (31.58%) SIEM
3 70 (30.70%) Privileged Access Management
4 67 (29.39%) DevOps
5 66 (28.95%) CI/CD
6 54 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (20.61%) Task Automation
8 46 (20.18%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (18.86%) Identity Access Management
10 42 (18.42%) ITSM
11 40 (17.54%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (15.35%) Presales
14 32 (14.04%) RBAC
15 31 (13.60%) Agile
16 23 (10.09%) DevSecOps
16 23 (10.09%) Identity Management
16 23 (10.09%) Migration
17 18 (7.89%) High Availability
17 18 (7.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.61%) Python
2 100 (43.86%) PowerShell
3 33 (14.47%) SQL
4 24 (10.53%) Java
5 23 (10.09%) Groovy
6 16 (7.02%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.39%) Bash
9 7 (3.07%) Go
10 6 (2.63%) MATLAB
11 5 (2.19%) PHP
12 3 (1.32%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.88%) C#
13 2 (0.88%) Cypher
13 2 (0.88%) Scala
13 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.44%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 117 (51.32%) Security Cleared
2 112 (49.12%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.16%) CISSP
4 24 (10.53%) CISM
5 16 (7.02%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.95%) Degree
7 8 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.32%) OCP
9 3 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.88%) MCSA
10 2 (0.88%) MCSE
10 2 (0.88%) RHCE
10 2 (0.88%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.44%) CISA
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (18.86%) GDPR
1 43 (18.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (14.91%) NIST
3 13 (5.70%) QA
4 9 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.51%) NCSC
6 6 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.63%) SLA
6 6 (2.63%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.19%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 157 (68.86%) Active Directory
2 21 (9.21%) Docker
3 14 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.70%) Postfix
5 9 (3.95%) DFS Replication
5 9 (3.95%) Dovecot
5 9 (3.95%) Squid
6 8 (3.51%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 5 (2.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.32%) KVM
10 2 (0.88%) NFS
10 2 (0.88%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.88%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.88%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.44%) Ceph
11 1 (0.44%) iptables
11 1 (0.44%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 48 (21.05%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (8.33%) Ansible
2 19 (8.33%) Terraform
3 15 (6.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (6.58%) Kubernetes
4 14 (6.14%) Nessus
5 10 (4.39%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (4.39%) CA Wily
5 10 (4.39%) Grafana
5 10 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.95%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.95%) Proxmox
7 8 (3.51%) Check_MK
7 8 (3.51%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.63%) PingFederate
8 6 (2.63%) Podman
8 6 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.19%) WSUS
10 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (36.40%) CyberArk
2 65 (28.51%) BeyondTrust
3 57 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 37 (16.23%) ServiceNow
5 34 (14.91%) Centrify
6 24 (10.53%) VMware
7 18 (7.89%) Splunk
8 16 (7.02%) Oracle
9 12 (5.26%) IBM
9 12 (5.26%) Red Hat
10 10 (4.39%) AppDynamics
10 10 (4.39%) Broadcom
11 9 (3.95%) Cisco
11 9 (3.95%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (3.51%) Ping Identity
13 7 (3.07%) F5
13 7 (3.07%) Google
13 7 (3.07%) Okta
13 7 (3.07%) SAP
14 6 (2.63%) Remedy