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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 370 354
Rank change year-on-year +35 -16 +148
Contract jobs citing LDAP 274 151 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 2.14% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 81 156
10th Percentile £381 £380 £341
25th Percentile £468 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £572
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +2.01% +0.44%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £50.40 - £53.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £87.50 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £92.50 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -9.66% +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 8,621 7,054 9,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.43% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,738 4,472 6,586
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +29 252 £540 -8.09% 120
UK excluding London +20 154 £500 -13.04% 127
Work from Home +54 111 £643 +8.71% 129
London +13 99 £700 +16.67% 51
North of England -20 44 £500 +23.84% 23
South East -1 41 £496 -9.98% 35
Midlands -40 36 £539 -11.18% 8
West Midlands -27 35 £540 -10.93% 3
Yorkshire -29 27 £525 -12.50% 7
North West -5 17 £471 +126.99% 16
South West -21 15 £500 +5.26% 18
East of England -23 14 £478 -16.87% 20
Wales - 3 £345 - 10
Scotland +4 1 - - 19
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 5

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 17 (6.20%) Confluence
2 16 (5.84%) nginx
3 12 (4.38%) WebSphere
4 11 (4.01%) Apache
4 11 (4.01%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (3.65%) IIS
5 10 (3.65%) iPlanet
5 10 (3.65%) JBoss
6 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.73%) CICS
8 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 154 (56.20%) Azure
2 118 (43.07%) AWS
3 83 (30.29%) GCP
4 64 (23.36%) Entra ID
5 25 (9.12%) OpenShift
6 17 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.47%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.11%) Route 53
9 13 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.01%) SaaS
11 9 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.92%) Amazon ELB
12 8 (2.92%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.55%) Serverless
14 6 (2.19%) Nutanix
15 5 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 72 (26.28%) Kerberos
2 68 (24.82%) DNS
3 41 (14.96%) Firewall
4 32 (11.68%) DHCP
5 28 (10.22%) HTTP
6 21 (7.66%) SSH
6 21 (7.66%) VPN
7 18 (6.57%) SMTP
8 17 (6.20%) SSL
9 13 (4.74%) FTP
10 12 (4.38%) Network Security
11 11 (4.01%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (4.01%) LAN
11 11 (4.01%) WAN
12 9 (3.28%) HTTPS
12 9 (3.28%) TCP/IP
13 8 (2.92%) IMAP
13 8 (2.92%) OpenLDAP
14 7 (2.55%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (2.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.65%) Oracle Database
2 10 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.19%) MySQL
6 4 (1.46%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.09%) Metadata
7 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.09%) Power BI
8 2 (0.73%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (21.53%) Jenkins
2 41 (14.96%) JIRA
3 34 (12.41%) Git
4 28 (10.22%) GitLab
5 13 (4.74%) Selenium
6 11 (4.01%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.01%) REST Assured
7 10 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (3.65%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.65%) Postman
8 9 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (2.92%) Vagrant
10 6 (2.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.82%) TestRail
12 4 (1.46%) Gatling
12 4 (1.46%) JMeter
12 4 (1.46%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.46%) NeoLoad
13 2 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 124 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.80%) Documentation Skills
3 34 (12.41%) Finance
4 23 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.92%) Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.46%) Aviation
10 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 74 (27.01%) Architect
2 48 (17.52%) CyberArk Architect
3 29 (10.58%) Consultant
4 12 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (3.65%) Analyst
6 10 (3.65%) Lead
7 9 (3.28%) Administrator
7 9 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.28%) Security Consultant
7 9 (3.28%) Test Automation Engineer
7 9 (3.28%) Test Engineer
8 8 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (2.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 8 (2.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (2.92%) Security Engineer
8 8 (2.92%) Senior
9 7 (2.55%) Developer
9 7 (2.55%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (2.19%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.93%) SAML
2 71 (25.91%) OpenID
3 58 (21.17%) OAuth
4 56 (20.44%) REST
5 37 (13.50%) SOAP
6 26 (9.49%) SailPoint
7 10 (3.65%) Middleware
8 9 (3.28%) .NET
9 6 (2.19%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.46%) J2EE
10 4 (1.46%) Playwright
11 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.09%) Web Services
12 2 (0.73%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.73%) HTML
12 2 (0.73%) RESTful
12 2 (0.73%) XML
13 1 (0.36%) LAMP
13 1 (0.36%) WCF
13 1 (0.36%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.33%) Replication
2 37 (13.50%) Security Posture
3 36 (13.14%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (11.68%) Onboarding
5 21 (7.66%) Cloud Native
6 17 (6.20%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.01%) Data Centre
7 11 (4.01%) PKI
8 7 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.19%) SCADA
9 6 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.82%) CSOC
10 5 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.82%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.73%) Clustering
11 2 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.73%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.45%) Windows
2 59 (21.53%) Linux
3 36 (13.14%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (6.20%) Ubuntu
5 12 (4.38%) CentOS
6 9 (3.28%) Unix
7 8 (2.92%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (2.92%) Solaris
7 8 (2.92%) VMS
8 6 (2.19%) AIX
9 4 (1.46%) CatOS
10 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.73%) zOS
11 1 (0.36%) MVS
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.85%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (31.02%) SIEM
3 82 (29.93%) DevOps
4 79 (28.83%) CI/CD
5 69 (25.18%) Privileged Access Management
6 63 (22.99%) Cybersecurity
7 62 (22.63%) Identity Access Management
8 55 (20.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 54 (19.71%) Task Automation
10 51 (18.61%) ITSM
11 45 (16.42%) RBAC
12 41 (14.96%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (12.77%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (12.77%) Presales
14 33 (12.04%) Migration
15 32 (11.68%) High Availability
16 31 (11.31%) Agile
17 26 (9.49%) DevSecOps
18 24 (8.76%) Roadmaps
19 21 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (47.08%) PowerShell
2 104 (37.96%) Python
3 37 (13.50%) SQL
4 29 (10.58%) Java
5 22 (8.03%) Groovy
6 17 (6.20%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.28%) Bash
9 8 (2.92%) PHP
10 7 (2.55%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.46%) C++
11 4 (1.46%) Cypher
11 4 (1.46%) Scala
11 4 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.73%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.73%) C#
12 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.36%) Go
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 155 (56.57%) Security Cleared
2 148 (54.01%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.31%) CISSP
4 27 (9.85%) CISM
5 15 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.65%) Degree
6 10 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.92%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.46%) GIAC
10 4 (1.46%) GSEC
11 3 (1.09%) APMG
11 3 (1.09%) OCP
11 3 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.09%) SSCP
12 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.73%) RHCE
12 2 (0.73%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (20.80%) GDPR
3 52 (18.98%) NIST
4 21 (7.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (7.30%) NCSC
6 9 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.92%) QA
8 7 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.55%) SLA
9 5 (1.82%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.46%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 186 (67.88%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.66%) Docker
4 13 (4.74%) Squid
5 12 (4.38%) Postfix
6 8 (2.92%) DFS Replication
6 8 (2.92%) Dovecot
6 8 (2.92%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 8 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.55%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (2.19%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.09%) KVM
9 3 (1.09%) NFS
10 2 (0.73%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.73%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.73%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.36%) Ceph
11 1 (0.36%) iptables
11 1 (0.36%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 63 (22.99%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (13.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 26 (9.49%) Kubernetes
4 23 (8.39%) Terraform
5 21 (7.66%) Ansible
6 15 (5.47%) Grafana
7 14 (5.11%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.65%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (3.65%) CA Wily
8 10 (3.65%) Nessus
9 9 (3.28%) Check_MK
9 9 (3.28%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.92%) Proxmox
10 8 (2.92%) Tivoli
11 7 (2.55%) Podman
11 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (2.55%) vCenter Server
12 6 (2.19%) PingFederate
13 5 (1.82%) Consul
13 5 (1.82%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 94 (34.31%) CyberArk
2 84 (30.66%) Microsoft
3 67 (24.45%) BeyondTrust
4 36 (13.14%) ServiceNow
5 34 (12.41%) Centrify
5 34 (12.41%) VMware
6 26 (9.49%) Splunk
7 20 (7.30%) Okta
8 17 (6.20%) Cisco
8 17 (6.20%) Oracle
8 17 (6.20%) Red Hat
9 11 (4.01%) IBM
10 10 (3.65%) AppDynamics
10 10 (3.65%) Broadcom
10 10 (3.65%) Google
11 9 (3.28%) F5
12 8 (2.92%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (2.92%) Palo Alto
13 7 (2.55%) Ping Identity
13 7 (2.55%) SAP