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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 387 428
Rank change year-on-year -64 +41 -48
Contract jobs citing LDAP 225 171 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 1.99% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 117 71
10th Percentile £387 £318 £220
25th Percentile £450 £404 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £596 £638 £688
90th Percentile £683 £673 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £453 £540
% change year-on-year +15.89% -16.11% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £63.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% -13.10% +28.55%
75th Percentile £88.74 £78.18 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +28.55%

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 11,904 8,573 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 5,684 6,029
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 187 186
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.05 £26.05
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.70% -15.38% +10.53%

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 7 October 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 7 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 12 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 7 October 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 -75 194 £525 +5.00% 132
UK excluding London -47 158 £525 +15.89% 79
Work from Home -21 90 £525 +1.20% 66
South East -7 61 £500 - 35
London -89 53 £575 -5.43% 57
South West -10 39 £525 +13.51% 16
East of England -16 20 £513 -24.63% 11
Scotland -8 19 £468 -21.96% 5
Yorkshire -24 15 £565 +7.62% 3
North of England -76 15 £565 +24.72% 8
West Midlands -72 4 £450 -18.18% 3
Midlands -89 4 £450 - 7

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 12 (5.33%) IIS
2 9 (4.00%) Confluence
3 6 (2.67%) Apache
4 5 (2.22%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.89%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.22%) Azure
2 80 (35.56%) Entra ID
3 79 (35.11%) AWS
4 46 (20.44%) GCP
5 22 (9.78%) SaaS
6 9 (4.00%) GitHub
7 8 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.11%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.78%) IaaS
11 4 (1.78%) PaaS
11 4 (1.78%) Serverless
11 4 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.33%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.22%) Kerberos
2 27 (12.00%) DNS
3 17 (7.56%) DHCP
4 14 (6.22%) HTTP
5 12 (5.33%) Firewall
6 9 (4.00%) SSL
7 7 (3.11%) SSH
7 7 (3.11%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.67%) Network Security
8 6 (2.67%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (2.22%) NAS
9 5 (2.22%) SAN
9 5 (2.22%) VPN
10 4 (1.78%) FTP
10 4 (1.78%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.78%) IPsec
10 4 (1.78%) SMTP
10 4 (1.78%) WAN
11 3 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.78%) Db2
2 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.89%) Metadata
3 2 (0.89%) MySQL
3 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.44%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.44%) Power BI
4 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (7.11%) Git
2 15 (6.67%) JIRA
3 14 (6.22%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.89%) GitLab
5 4 (1.78%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.33%) JMeter
6 3 (1.33%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) Gatling
7 2 (0.89%) Maven
7 2 (0.89%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.44%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.44%) Gradle
8 1 (0.44%) Locust
8 1 (0.44%) Newman
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.44%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.44%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.78%) Documentation Skills
3 22 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.22%) Finance
6 12 (5.33%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.67%) Back Office
8 4 (1.78%) Banking
8 4 (1.78%) Military
9 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Police
11 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (24.44%) Architect
2 21 (9.33%) Developer
3 19 (8.44%) Consultant
4 15 (6.67%) IAM Specialist
5 12 (5.33%) Lead
5 12 (5.33%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.00%) CyberArk Consultant
7 8 (3.56%) Analyst
7 8 (3.56%) C Developer
7 8 (3.56%) CyberArk Architect
7 8 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.56%) Linux Developer
7 8 (3.56%) Software Developer
7 8 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (3.11%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (3.11%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.11%) Senior
9 6 (2.67%) SailPoint Architect
9 6 (2.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (29.78%) SAML
2 57 (25.33%) OAuth
2 57 (25.33%) OpenID
3 43 (19.11%) REST
3 43 (19.11%) SailPoint
4 30 (13.33%) OAuth2
5 25 (11.11%) Web Services
6 24 (10.67%) Terraform
7 20 (8.89%) .NET
8 16 (7.11%) JSON
9 14 (6.22%) XML
10 9 (4.00%) .NET Framework
10 9 (4.00%) Middleware
10 9 (4.00%) SOAP
11 8 (3.56%) OpenTofu
11 8 (3.56%) pytest
12 7 (3.11%) JDBC
12 7 (3.11%) Regular Expression
13 5 (2.22%) boto
14 3 (1.33%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.56%) Onboarding
2 28 (12.44%) PKI
3 26 (11.56%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.00%) Replication
5 12 (5.33%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.33%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.78%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.33%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.33%) YARA
11 2 (0.89%) CSOC
11 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.22%) Linux
2 47 (20.89%) Windows
3 16 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.00%) Unix
6 5 (2.22%) CentOS
6 5 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.89%) Rocky
7 2 (0.89%) VMS
8 1 (0.44%) CatOS
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.44%) SUSE
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) SIEM
2 62 (27.56%) Identity Access Management
3 59 (26.22%) RBAC
4 55 (24.44%) Runbook
5 53 (23.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 49 (21.78%) Privileged Access Management
7 47 (20.89%) DevOps
8 43 (19.11%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (18.67%) CI/CD
10 41 (18.22%) Cybersecurity
10 41 (18.22%) ITSM
11 39 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (15.56%) Security Architecture
13 34 (15.11%) Secrets Management
14 33 (14.67%) DevSecOps
14 33 (14.67%) Migration
15 30 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (12.89%) Mentoring
17 28 (12.44%) Analytics
17 28 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (35.11%) PowerShell
2 58 (25.78%) Python
3 25 (11.11%) Java
4 17 (7.56%) Bash
5 15 (6.67%) C#
6 12 (5.33%) SQL
7 11 (4.89%) BeanShell
8 8 (3.56%) C
9 6 (2.67%) Go
9 6 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.22%) Groovy
10 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.89%) Cypher
12 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
13 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.44%) R
13 1 (0.44%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 97 (43.11%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 41 (18.22%) DV Cleared
4 26 (11.56%) Degree
5 24 (10.67%) CISSP
6 14 (6.22%) CISM
7 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.22%) CSPO
11 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.33%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.89%) RHCE
14 1 (0.44%) CISA
14 1 (0.44%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (22.67%) NIST
3 20 (8.89%) GDPR
4 12 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.00%) NCSC
6 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.67%) SLA
8 5 (2.22%) GRC
8 5 (2.22%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.33%) QA
10 2 (0.89%) ITGC
10 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 183 (81.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.78%) NFS
3 12 (5.33%) Docker
4 11 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.00%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.33%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.44%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Postfix
8 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (13.78%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (8.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (8.44%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.78%) Ansible
5 8 (3.56%) Grafana
6 5 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.78%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.33%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.89%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.89%) Podman
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
9 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.44%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.44%) Nessus
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) Salt
10 1 (0.44%) yum
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (38.22%) Microsoft
2 77 (34.22%) CyberArk
3 26 (11.56%) ServiceNow
4 23 (10.22%) Okta
5 16 (7.11%) BeyondTrust
5 16 (7.11%) ForgeRock
5 16 (7.11%) VMware
6 8 (3.56%) Google
6 8 (3.56%) Ping Identity
6 8 (3.56%) SAP
7 7 (3.11%) Splunk
8 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.78%) F5
9 4 (1.78%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.78%) Oracle
9 4 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.78%) Sybase
9 4 (1.78%) Workday
10 3 (1.33%) CrowdStrike