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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 387 417
Rank change year-on-year -97 +30 -9
Contract jobs citing LDAP 204 162 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.97% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 104 100
10th Percentile £331 £357 £250
25th Percentile £450 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £594
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -15.79% +7.95%
75th Percentile £596 £638 £673
90th Percentile £678 £671 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £461 £598
% change year-on-year +11.29% -22.93% +14.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 0
10th Percentile £61.88 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% - -
75th Percentile £89.40 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +30.77% - -

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 11,706 8,223 9,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.45% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 5,544 6,349
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £636 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 182 191
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.39 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +9.22%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -80 177 £525 +5.00% 133
UK excluding London -48 140 £513 +11.29% 74
Work from Home -30 77 £525 - 44
South East -19 55 £581 -7.00% 22
London -99 51 £525 -12.50% 65
South West -20 27 £525 -0.66% 16
North of England -77 22 £588 +31.19% 6
Yorkshire -29 18 £570 +11.22% 3
Scotland -10 16 £461 -23.21% 4
East of England -16 14 £483 -29.04% 22
Midlands -87 6 £375 -15.68% 7
West Midlands -68 5 £375 -31.82% 4
North West -61 3 £679 +56.70% 3
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 10 (4.90%) Confluence
2 6 (2.94%) IIS
3 3 (1.47%) nginx
3 3 (1.47%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (54.90%) Azure
2 84 (41.18%) AWS
3 81 (39.71%) Entra ID
4 52 (25.49%) GCP
5 19 (9.31%) SaaS
6 7 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.45%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.45%) GitHub
8 5 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.96%) IaaS
9 4 (1.96%) PaaS
10 3 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.47%) Route 53
10 3 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (15.20%) Kerberos
2 27 (13.24%) DNS
3 16 (7.84%) DHCP
4 14 (6.86%) Firewall
5 10 (4.90%) HTTP
6 9 (4.41%) SSL
7 7 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.43%) VPN
8 6 (2.94%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.94%) NAS
8 6 (2.94%) SAN
8 6 (2.94%) WAN
9 5 (2.45%) IPsec
9 5 (2.45%) LAN
9 5 (2.45%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (1.96%) BIG-IP
10 4 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.96%) SSH
10 4 (1.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.96%) Db2
2 4 (1.96%) Metadata
3 3 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.98%) MySQL
4 2 (0.98%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (7.84%) JIRA
2 14 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.88%) GitLab
4 11 (5.39%) Git
5 4 (1.96%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.47%) JMeter
6 3 (1.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.98%) Gatling
7 2 (0.98%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.49%) Locust
8 1 (0.49%) Maven
8 1 (0.49%) Newman
8 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.69%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.84%) Finance
6 12 (5.88%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.96%) Back Office
7 4 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Military
8 3 (1.47%) Banking
8 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.47%) Retail
9 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (22.55%) Architect
2 20 (9.80%) Consultant
3 14 (6.86%) IAM Specialist
4 13 (6.37%) Developer
5 12 (5.88%) Lead
5 12 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.41%) Senior
7 8 (3.92%) CyberArk Consultant
7 8 (3.92%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (3.43%) Analyst
8 7 (3.43%) CyberArk Architect
8 7 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (2.94%) SailPoint Architect
9 6 (2.94%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.45%) Administrator
10 5 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.45%) Technical Architect
10 5 (2.45%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (1.96%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (33.82%) SAML
2 63 (30.88%) OpenID
3 62 (30.39%) OAuth
4 45 (22.06%) SailPoint
5 38 (18.63%) REST
6 31 (15.20%) OAuth2
7 21 (10.29%) .NET
7 21 (10.29%) Web Services
8 17 (8.33%) Terraform
9 14 (6.86%) JSON
9 14 (6.86%) XML
10 11 (5.39%) SOAP
11 10 (4.90%) JDBC
12 9 (4.41%) .NET Framework
13 8 (3.92%) Middleware
14 7 (3.43%) Jakarta EE
15 6 (2.94%) pytest
16 5 (2.45%) Regular Expression
17 4 (1.96%) OpenTofu
18 2 (0.98%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.63%) Onboarding
2 28 (13.73%) PKI
3 20 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (6.86%) Replication
5 12 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.92%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.94%) Clustering
8 6 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.96%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.96%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.98%) IoT
12 2 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.63%) Linux
1 38 (18.63%) Windows
2 14 (6.86%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.92%) Unix
5 7 (3.43%) CentOS
6 5 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.98%) VMS
8 1 (0.49%) CatOS
8 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.49%) Rocky
8 1 (0.49%) SUSE
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (28.43%) RBAC
3 49 (24.02%) SIEM
4 43 (21.08%) DevOps
5 42 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (20.10%) Privileged Access Management
7 40 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (19.12%) Runbook
9 36 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (15.69%) CI/CD
11 30 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (14.22%) ITSM
13 28 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (13.73%) Migration
14 26 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 25 (12.25%) Zero Trust
16 24 (11.76%) DevSecOps
16 24 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
17 23 (11.27%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.24%) PowerShell
2 55 (26.96%) Python
3 33 (16.18%) Java
4 16 (7.84%) C#
5 13 (6.37%) SQL
6 12 (5.88%) Bash
7 11 (5.39%) BeanShell
8 7 (3.43%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.45%) Groovy
10 5 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.96%) C
11 4 (1.96%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.47%) Go
13 2 (0.98%) Cypher
13 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.49%) C++
14 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.71%) CISSP
4 25 (12.25%) Degree
5 24 (11.76%) DV Cleared
6 20 (9.80%) CISM
7 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.45%) CSPO
10 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.49%) CESG Certified Professional
14 1 (0.49%) CRISC
14 1 (0.49%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (23.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (19.61%) NIST
3 29 (14.22%) GDPR
4 15 (7.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.41%) HIPAA
6 8 (3.92%) NCSC
6 8 (3.92%) SLA
7 7 (3.43%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.47%) GRC
8 3 (1.47%) QA
9 2 (0.98%) ITGC
9 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.49%) DICOM
10 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 164 (80.39%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.39%) NFS
4 10 (4.90%) Docker
5 8 (3.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.96%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.47%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.98%) Squid
10 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.49%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.49%) KVM
10 1 (0.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (7.35%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.90%) Ansible
5 8 (3.92%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.94%) Grafana
7 4 (1.96%) Check_MK
7 4 (1.96%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.96%) Podman
7 4 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.47%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.49%) CASB
9 1 (0.49%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.49%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.49%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.49%) systemd
9 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (38.73%) Microsoft
2 62 (30.39%) CyberArk
3 31 (15.20%) ServiceNow
4 23 (11.27%) Okta
5 18 (8.82%) VMware
6 16 (7.84%) BeyondTrust
7 13 (6.37%) ForgeRock
8 11 (5.39%) Ping Identity
8 11 (5.39%) SAP
9 9 (4.41%) Google
10 7 (3.43%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.43%) Workday
11 5 (2.45%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.45%) Oracle
11 5 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.45%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.45%) Splunk
12 4 (1.96%) Cisco
12 4 (1.96%) Greenplum
12 4 (1.96%) Sybase