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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 369 383
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 +99
Contract jobs citing LDAP 272 158 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.02% 2.29% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 84 123
10th Percentile £413 £400 £325
25th Percentile £475 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.98% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile £51.40 - £53.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £88.75 £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 9,009 6,912 9,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 22.53% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,030 4,459 6,428
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 84 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.19 £39.06 £43.81
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +19.27% -16.15%

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 18 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 18 February 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 18 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 +21 250 £555 -3.48% 31
UK excluding London -10 148 £500 -13.04% 26
Work from Home +36 110 £643 +10.29% 14
London +7 100 £700 +16.67% 11
North of England -19 45 £545 -9.17% 2
South East -8 39 £492 -10.71% 11
Midlands -50 30 £545 -10.10% 1
West Midlands -44 29 £550 -9.28% 1
Yorkshire -31 26 £525 -12.50%
North West -12 19 £610 +72.44% 2
South West -22 16 £513 -2.38% 4
East of England -30 14 £478 -16.87% 8
Wales - 3 £345 - 1
Scotland +6 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 14 (5.15%) nginx
2 13 (4.78%) Confluence
3 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.94%) Apache
5 7 (2.57%) IIS
5 7 (2.57%) iPlanet
5 7 (2.57%) JBoss
5 7 (2.57%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 153 (56.25%) Azure
2 114 (41.91%) AWS
3 82 (30.15%) GCP
4 65 (23.90%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.46%) OpenShift
6 13 (4.78%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (4.41%) Route 53
7 12 (4.41%) SaaS
8 11 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.68%) Serverless
10 8 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.21%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.47%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (1.47%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 71 (26.10%) DNS
2 70 (25.74%) Kerberos
3 43 (15.81%) Firewall
4 32 (11.76%) DHCP
5 24 (8.82%) HTTP
5 24 (8.82%) VPN
6 21 (7.72%) SSL
7 16 (5.88%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.51%) SSH
9 14 (5.15%) Network Security
9 14 (5.15%) SMTP
10 12 (4.41%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.68%) LAN
11 10 (3.68%) WAN
12 9 (3.31%) FTP
12 9 (3.31%) HTTPS
13 7 (2.57%) OpenVPN
14 6 (2.21%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (2.21%) Ethereal
14 6 (2.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.57%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.21%) MySQL
5 5 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.47%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.10%) Metadata
7 3 (1.10%) Power BI
8 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.37%) Redis
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (19.12%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.60%) JIRA
3 29 (10.66%) GitLab
4 28 (10.29%) Git
5 14 (5.15%) Selenium
6 13 (4.78%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.41%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.04%) Postman
9 8 (2.94%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.57%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (2.57%) CA Release Automation
10 7 (2.57%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.84%) TestRail
13 4 (1.47%) Gatling
13 4 (1.47%) JMeter
13 4 (1.47%) LoadRunner
13 4 (1.47%) NeoLoad
13 4 (1.47%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.32%) Documentation Skills
3 38 (13.97%) Finance
4 25 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.94%) Banking
9 5 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.47%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (27.94%) Architect
2 48 (17.65%) CyberArk Architect
3 26 (9.56%) Consultant
4 10 (3.68%) Analyst
4 10 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (3.68%) Lead
4 10 (3.68%) Security Engineer
4 10 (3.68%) Senior
5 9 (3.31%) Administrator
5 9 (3.31%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.31%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.31%) Test Engineer
6 8 (2.94%) Developer
6 8 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.94%) Network Engineer
7 7 (2.57%) Linux Administrator
8 6 (2.21%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (2.21%) Technical Architect
8 6 (2.21%) Test Architect
8 6 (2.21%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (28.31%) SAML
2 71 (26.10%) OpenID
3 57 (20.96%) REST
4 53 (19.49%) OAuth
5 38 (13.97%) SOAP
6 26 (9.56%) SailPoint
7 9 (3.31%) .NET
8 8 (2.94%) Middleware
9 7 (2.57%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.47%) J2EE
10 4 (1.47%) Playwright
11 3 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.10%) RESTful
11 3 (1.10%) Web Services
12 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.74%) HTML
12 2 (0.74%) XML
13 1 (0.37%) LAMP
13 1 (0.37%) WCF
13 1 (0.37%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.44%) Security Posture
2 36 (13.24%) Enterprise Software
2 36 (13.24%) Replication
3 32 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 22 (8.09%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.41%) PKI
7 9 (3.31%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.21%) SCADA
8 6 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.84%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.84%) CSOC
9 5 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.84%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.10%) CMDB
12 2 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.43%) Windows
2 56 (20.59%) Linux
3 33 (12.13%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.15%) Ubuntu
5 14 (5.15%) Unix
6 12 (4.41%) CentOS
7 4 (1.47%) AIX
7 4 (1.47%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.47%) CatOS
7 4 (1.47%) Solaris
7 4 (1.47%) 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 93 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (31.25%) SIEM
3 80 (29.41%) DevOps
4 75 (27.57%) CI/CD
5 65 (23.90%) Privileged Access Management
6 64 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
7 59 (21.69%) Identity Access Management
8 54 (19.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 54 (19.85%) Task Automation
9 51 (18.75%) ITSM
10 42 (15.44%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (15.07%) RBAC
12 36 (13.24%) Agile
13 35 (12.87%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (12.87%) Presales
14 33 (12.13%) Migration
15 31 (11.40%) High Availability
16 27 (9.93%) Roadmaps
17 26 (9.56%) DevSecOps
18 24 (8.82%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (45.96%) PowerShell
2 103 (37.87%) Python
3 33 (12.13%) SQL
4 28 (10.29%) Java
5 16 (5.88%) Groovy
6 15 (5.51%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.15%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.68%) Bash
9 9 (3.31%) PHP
10 7 (2.57%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.47%) C++
11 4 (1.47%) Cypher
11 4 (1.47%) Scala
11 4 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.74%) C#
12 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.37%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (55.51%) Security Cleared
2 144 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 35 (12.87%) CISSP
4 27 (9.93%) CISM
5 12 (4.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.57%) Degree
9 5 (1.84%) GIAC
9 5 (1.84%) MCSA
9 5 (1.84%) MCSE
10 4 (1.47%) APMG
10 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.47%) GSEC
10 4 (1.47%) SSCP
11 3 (1.10%) OCP
11 3 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.74%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (20.59%) GDPR
3 53 (19.49%) NIST
4 20 (7.35%) NCSC
4 20 (7.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.94%) QA
7 7 (2.57%) SLA
8 5 (1.84%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.37%) GRC
11 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 182 (66.91%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.88%) Docker
4 11 (4.04%) Squid
5 9 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.94%) Postfix
7 7 (2.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (2.21%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.47%) DFS Replication
9 4 (1.47%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.74%) NFS
10 2 (0.74%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.74%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.74%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.37%) Ceph
11 1 (0.37%) iptables
11 1 (0.37%) KVM
11 1 (0.37%) Lustre
11 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 63 (23.16%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (13.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (9.93%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.35%) Ansible
4 20 (7.35%) Terraform
5 13 (4.78%) Grafana
6 12 (4.41%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.04%) Nessus
8 9 (3.31%) Check_MK
9 8 (2.94%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.57%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.57%) CA Wily
10 7 (2.57%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.57%) Podman
10 7 (2.57%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.57%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.21%) Consul
11 6 (2.21%) PingFederate
11 6 (2.21%) Tivoli
12 5 (1.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (35.29%) CyberArk
2 79 (29.04%) Microsoft
3 64 (23.53%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (12.50%) Centrify
4 34 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 32 (11.76%) VMware
6 27 (9.93%) Splunk
7 19 (6.99%) Okta
7 19 (6.99%) Red Hat
8 16 (5.88%) Cisco
9 12 (4.41%) Oracle
10 10 (3.68%) Google
11 8 (2.94%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.57%) AppDynamics
12 7 (2.57%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.57%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.57%) F5
12 7 (2.57%) IBM
12 7 (2.57%) Ping Identity
12 7 (2.57%) Tenable