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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 360 375
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +120
Contract jobs citing LDAP 271 161 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 2.31% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 90 121
10th Percentile £413 £400 £325
25th Percentile £475 £471 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £761 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -10.87% +6.48% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £51.40 £73.07 £53.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £75.79 £55.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £80.68 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.51% +44.84% -23.70%
75th Percentile £88.75 £81.56 £72.60
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £80.68 £55.70
% change year-on-year -18.81% +44.84% -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 9,188 6,966 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.06% 22.76% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,137 4,544 6,420
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 91 224
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.25 £20.95
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £40.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £65.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.01 £76.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 0 248 £550 -4.35% 31
UK excluding London -38 143 £513 -10.87% 24
Work from Home +46 112 £620 +3.33% 16
London +8 99 £700 +16.67% 12
North of England -32 43 £550 -8.33% 4
South East -14 39 £492 -10.71% 12
Midlands -52 28 £545 -10.10% 2
West Midlands -47 27 £550 -9.28% 2
Yorkshire -44 26 £525 -12.50% 2
North West -23 17 £617 +23.40% 2
South West -28 16 £513 -10.87% 1
East of England -32 14 £478 -16.87% 6
Wales - 3 £345 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £525 -

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 13 (4.80%) nginx
2 11 (4.06%) Confluence
3 9 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.21%) Apache
5 5 (1.85%) IIS
5 5 (1.85%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.85%) JBoss
5 5 (1.85%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.85%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 154 (56.83%) Azure
2 109 (40.22%) AWS
3 81 (29.89%) GCP
4 65 (23.99%) Entra ID
5 22 (8.12%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.06%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.06%) Route 53
6 11 (4.06%) SaaS
7 10 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.69%) Serverless
7 10 (3.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.21%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.11%) ShareGate
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.74%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (25.83%) DNS
2 68 (25.09%) Kerberos
3 42 (15.50%) Firewall
4 32 (11.81%) DHCP
5 25 (9.23%) VPN
6 21 (7.75%) HTTP
6 21 (7.75%) SSL
7 17 (6.27%) TCP/IP
8 14 (5.17%) Network Security
9 13 (4.80%) SSH
10 12 (4.43%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (4.43%) SMTP
11 10 (3.69%) LAN
11 10 (3.69%) WAN
12 8 (2.95%) HTTPS
12 8 (2.95%) OpenVPN
13 7 (2.58%) FTP
14 6 (2.21%) BIG-IP
14 6 (2.21%) IPsec
14 6 (2.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.32%) MySQL
4 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.48%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.11%) Metadata
6 3 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.11%) Power BI
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Redis
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 35 (12.92%) JIRA
3 29 (10.70%) GitLab
4 23 (8.49%) Git
5 14 (5.17%) Selenium
6 13 (4.80%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.43%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.06%) Postman
9 9 (3.32%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.95%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.85%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.85%) TestRail
12 4 (1.48%) Gatling
12 4 (1.48%) JMeter
12 4 (1.48%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.48%) NeoLoad
13 2 (0.74%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.14%) Documentation Skills
3 36 (13.28%) Finance
4 25 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.95%) Banking
7 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.85%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.48%) Aviation
10 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (28.04%) Architect
2 48 (17.71%) CyberArk Architect
3 27 (9.96%) Consultant
4 11 (4.06%) Lead
5 10 (3.69%) Analyst
5 10 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (3.69%) Security Engineer
5 10 (3.69%) Senior
6 9 (3.32%) Administrator
6 9 (3.32%) Security Consultant
6 9 (3.32%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (3.32%) Test Engineer
7 8 (2.95%) Network Engineer
8 7 (2.58%) Developer
8 7 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.58%) Linux Administrator
9 6 (2.21%) Technical Architect
9 6 (2.21%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.21%) Test Automation Architect
10 5 (1.85%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (28.04%) SAML
2 69 (25.46%) OpenID
3 56 (20.66%) REST
4 49 (18.08%) OAuth
5 37 (13.65%) SOAP
6 27 (9.96%) SailPoint
7 10 (3.69%) .NET
8 8 (2.95%) Middleware
9 6 (2.21%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.48%) J2EE
10 4 (1.48%) Playwright
11 3 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.11%) RESTful
11 3 (1.11%) Web Services
12 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.74%) HTML
12 2 (0.74%) XML
13 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET Web API
13 1 (0.37%) libvirt
13 1 (0.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.50%) Security Posture
2 36 (13.28%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (12.92%) Onboarding
4 34 (12.55%) Replication
5 22 (8.12%) Cloud Native
6 17 (6.27%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.43%) PKI
8 9 (3.32%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.21%) SCADA
9 6 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.85%) CSOC
10 5 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.85%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.11%) CMDB
12 3 (1.11%) PACS
13 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.51%) Windows
2 55 (20.30%) Linux
3 31 (11.44%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (4.80%) Unix
6 12 (4.43%) CentOS
6 12 (4.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.48%) AIX
7 4 (1.48%) CatOS
7 4 (1.48%) Solaris
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.74%) VMS
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (31.37%) SIEM
3 78 (28.78%) DevOps
4 70 (25.83%) CI/CD
5 66 (24.35%) Privileged Access Management
6 65 (23.99%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (21.03%) Identity Access Management
8 54 (19.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 54 (19.93%) Task Automation
9 51 (18.82%) ITSM
10 42 (15.50%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (15.13%) RBAC
12 35 (12.92%) Agile
12 35 (12.92%) Integration Patterns
12 35 (12.92%) Presales
13 33 (12.18%) Migration
14 32 (11.81%) High Availability
15 28 (10.33%) Roadmaps
16 25 (9.23%) DevSecOps
17 24 (8.86%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (45.02%) PowerShell
2 98 (36.16%) Python
3 32 (11.81%) SQL
4 28 (10.33%) Java
5 14 (5.17%) Shell Script
6 13 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.06%) Groovy
8 9 (3.32%) Bash
8 9 (3.32%) PHP
9 7 (2.58%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.85%) C++
11 4 (1.48%) Cypher
11 4 (1.48%) Scala
11 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.74%) C#
12 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.37%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (55.72%) Security Cleared
2 143 (52.77%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.28%) CISSP
4 28 (10.33%) CISM
5 12 (4.43%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.06%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.21%) Degree
8 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.85%) GIAC
8 5 (1.85%) MCSA
8 5 (1.85%) MCSE
9 4 (1.48%) APMG
9 4 (1.48%) GSEC
9 4 (1.48%) SSCP
10 3 (1.11%) OCP
10 3 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.74%) RHCE
11 2 (0.74%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (20.66%) GDPR
3 53 (19.56%) NIST
4 20 (7.38%) NCSC
4 20 (7.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.95%) QA
7 7 (2.58%) SLA
8 5 (1.85%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.37%) DICOM
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.37%) HL7
10 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 183 (67.53%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.80%) Docker
4 10 (3.69%) Squid
5 9 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (2.21%) Postfix
7 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 2 (0.74%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.74%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.74%) NFS
9 2 (0.74%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.74%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.74%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.37%) Ceph
10 1 (0.37%) Firmware
10 1 (0.37%) KVM
10 1 (0.37%) Lustre
10 1 (0.37%) Samba
Systems Management
1 67 (24.72%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (13.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (9.96%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.38%) Ansible
5 19 (7.01%) Terraform
6 12 (4.43%) Grafana
7 11 (4.06%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.32%) Check_MK
8 9 (3.32%) Nessus
9 8 (2.95%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.95%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.58%) Consul
10 7 (2.58%) Podman
10 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.21%) PingFederate
11 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.85%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.85%) CA Wily
12 5 (1.85%) CASB
12 5 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 100 (36.90%) CyberArk
2 76 (28.04%) Microsoft
3 64 (23.62%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (12.55%) Centrify
5 32 (11.81%) VMware
6 31 (11.44%) ServiceNow
7 25 (9.23%) Splunk
8 20 (7.38%) Red Hat
9 19 (7.01%) Okta
10 16 (5.90%) Cisco
11 14 (5.17%) Oracle
12 10 (3.69%) Google
13 8 (2.95%) Dynatrace
13 8 (2.95%) Palo Alto
14 7 (2.58%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.58%) F5
14 7 (2.58%) Ping Identity
14 7 (2.58%) Tenable
15 6 (2.21%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.21%) SAP