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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 387 330
Rank change year-on-year +16 -57 +210
Contract jobs citing LDAP 225 156 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 2.15% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 86 169
10th Percentile £375 £297 £362
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.37% +2.46%
75th Percentile £676 £654 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £551 £543
% change year-on-year -12.66% +1.57% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 6
10th Percentile £45.00 - £53.13
25th Percentile £50.44 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £84.69 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.75 - £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 8,335 7,252 9,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.86% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,605 6,619
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 86 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.50 £29.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +13 206 £550 -4.35% 56
UK excluding London +3 126 £481 -12.66% 45
London -4 82 £700 +16.67% 11
Work from Home +23 80 £670 +21.60% 23
Midlands -20 37 £539 -7.35% 7
West Midlands -16 35 £545 -6.24% 7
North of England -23 33 £469 +30.73% 14
South East -12 23 £481 -12.66% 9
East of England -13 20 £496 -13.74% 16
Yorkshire - 19 £500 - 12
North West -14 14 £453 +26.27% 2
South West -11 10 £475 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £455 -
Wales - 2 - -
Scotland +10 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 29 (12.89%) Confluence
2 13 (5.78%) nginx
3 12 (5.33%) WebSphere
4 11 (4.89%) Apache
4 11 (4.89%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (4.44%) IIS
5 10 (4.44%) iPlanet
5 10 (4.44%) JBoss
6 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.89%) CICS
8 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.44%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.44%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) Primavera
2 1 (0.44%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 106 (47.11%) Azure
2 104 (46.22%) AWS
3 67 (29.78%) GCP
4 27 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 19 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 17 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (4.89%) Route 53
8 11 (4.89%) SaaS
9 10 (4.44%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (4.44%) AWS KMS
9 10 (4.44%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.56%) Serverless
11 7 (3.11%) GitHub
12 6 (2.67%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (23.56%) DNS
2 40 (17.78%) Kerberos
3 39 (17.33%) SSL
4 37 (16.44%) HTTP
5 34 (15.11%) Firewall
6 31 (13.78%) SMTP
7 25 (11.11%) FTP
8 24 (10.67%) SSH
9 18 (8.00%) Network Security
10 15 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
11 10 (4.44%) IMAP
12 9 (4.00%) TCP/IP
13 8 (3.56%) VPN
14 7 (3.11%) DHCP
14 7 (3.11%) LAN
14 7 (3.11%) WAN
15 4 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.78%) DKIM
15 4 (1.78%) HTTPS
15 4 (1.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (4.44%) Oracle Database
4 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.67%) MySQL
6 4 (1.78%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.33%) Power BI
8 2 (0.89%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (20.00%) JIRA
2 38 (16.89%) Git
3 36 (16.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.44%) GitLab
5 10 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (4.44%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (4.44%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.00%) Selenium
6 9 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.11%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.11%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.67%) Postman
9 5 (2.22%) TestRail
10 2 (0.89%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.44%) JUnit
11 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.44%) Subversion
11 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (47.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.22%) Documentation Skills
3 31 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.89%) Finance
6 16 (7.11%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.00%) Banking
8 5 (2.22%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.78%) Aviation
10 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.89%) Electronics
11 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.89%) Marketing
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (21.33%) Architect
2 32 (14.22%) CyberArk Architect
3 28 (12.44%) Consultant
4 20 (8.89%) Analyst
5 17 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (7.11%) Senior
7 15 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
8 13 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.89%) Developer
10 10 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Security Consultant
12 8 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Lead
13 6 (2.67%) Management Consultant
13 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow Architect
13 6 (2.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (28.44%) SAML
2 56 (24.89%) REST
3 47 (20.89%) OAuth
4 45 (20.00%) OpenID
5 41 (18.22%) SOAP
6 17 (7.56%) SailPoint
7 12 (5.33%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.33%) HTML
7 12 (5.33%) Web Services
8 10 (4.44%) HTML5
9 9 (4.00%) Apache Camel
9 9 (4.00%) JDBC
9 9 (4.00%) jQuery
9 9 (4.00%) JSON
9 9 (4.00%) ODBC
9 9 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (3.11%) .NET
10 7 (3.11%) boto
10 7 (3.11%) Middleware
10 7 (3.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.89%) Security Posture
2 32 (14.22%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (8.44%) Onboarding
4 18 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 18 (8.00%) Replication
5 15 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (6.67%) Cyberattack
6 14 (6.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (5.78%) CSOC
7 13 (5.78%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (3.11%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.67%) PKI
9 6 (2.67%) SCADA
10 5 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.89%) Clustering
12 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.89%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 59 (26.22%) Windows
2 56 (24.89%) Linux
3 20 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.67%) Unix
5 14 (6.22%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (4.89%) VMS
8 10 (4.44%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (4.00%) Solaris
10 8 (3.56%) CentOS
11 7 (3.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.89%) CatOS
12 2 (0.89%) zOS
13 1 (0.44%) MVS
13 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.00%) SIEM
2 70 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (29.33%) DevOps
4 64 (28.44%) Privileged Access Management
5 59 (26.22%) CI/CD
6 50 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 50 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (18.67%) ITSM
7 42 (18.67%) Task Automation
8 39 (17.33%) Integration Patterns
9 38 (16.89%) Identity Access Management
10 35 (15.56%) Agile
10 35 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
11 31 (13.78%) Presales
12 27 (12.00%) RBAC
13 26 (11.56%) Identity Management
14 23 (10.22%) Incident Response
15 21 (9.33%) Migration
16 20 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.78%) Python
2 99 (44.00%) PowerShell
3 32 (14.22%) SQL
4 24 (10.67%) Groovy
5 20 (8.89%) Java
5 20 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.89%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.44%) Bash
8 7 (3.11%) Go
9 5 (2.22%) PHP
10 3 (1.33%) C++
10 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.89%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.89%) C#
11 2 (0.89%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.44%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (51.11%) Security Cleared
2 110 (48.89%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.78%) CISSP
4 22 (9.78%) CISM
5 17 (7.56%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.44%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.44%) Degree
9 9 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.22%) MCSA
11 5 (2.22%) MCSE
12 1 (0.44%) CCA
12 1 (0.44%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.44%) OCP
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.44%) RHCE
12 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.78%) GDPR
1 40 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (13.78%) NIST
3 11 (4.89%) QA
4 8 (3.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (3.11%) NCSC
6 6 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.67%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.22%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 147 (65.33%) Active Directory
2 22 (9.78%) Docker
3 14 (6.22%) Postfix
4 13 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (4.44%) DFS Replication
5 10 (4.44%) Dovecot
5 10 (4.44%) Squid
6 8 (3.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 3 (1.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.33%) KVM
7 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.89%) NFS
8 2 (0.89%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.89%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.89%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.44%) Ceph
9 1 (0.44%) iptables
9 1 (0.44%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 50 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (8.89%) Terraform
3 18 (8.00%) Nessus
4 16 (7.11%) Ansible
5 13 (5.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (5.33%) Kubernetes
7 10 (4.44%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.44%) CA Wily
7 10 (4.44%) Grafana
7 10 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.44%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.00%) Progress Chef
9 8 (3.56%) Tivoli
10 6 (2.67%) PingFederate
11 5 (2.22%) CASB
11 5 (2.22%) Check_MK
11 5 (2.22%) WSUS
12 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.33%) Podman
13 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 79 (35.11%) CyberArk
2 59 (26.22%) BeyondTrust
3 53 (23.56%) Microsoft
4 39 (17.33%) ServiceNow
5 30 (13.33%) Centrify
6 20 (8.89%) Splunk
6 20 (8.89%) VMware
7 16 (7.11%) Oracle
8 14 (6.22%) Remedy
9 12 (5.33%) IBM
10 10 (4.44%) AppDynamics
10 10 (4.44%) Broadcom
10 10 (4.44%) HP
10 10 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (4.00%) BMC
11 9 (4.00%) Ivanti
12 8 (3.56%) Cisco
12 8 (3.56%) Ping Identity
12 8 (3.56%) Tenable
13 7 (3.11%) SAP