LDAP Contracts

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring LDAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LDAP over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 424 471
Rank change year-on-year +15 +47 +86
Contract jobs citing LDAP 142 172 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 1.85% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 106 160
10th Percentile £363 £281 £400
25th Percentile £413 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £631 £622 £644
90th Percentile £671 £699 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £593 £546
% change year-on-year -15.61% +8.47% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 - -

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 7,181 9,282 12,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.37% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,861 6,365 9,283
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 157
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £29.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Daily rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 14 Contract 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 July 2025. 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 +44 125 £513 -6.82% 238
UK excluding London +55 79 £500 -15.61% 120
Work from Home +36 51 £538 -12.24% 73
London -12 44 £563 +8.99% 123
Midlands +19 33 £440 -29.23% 22
North of England +18 21 £500 - 19
East Midlands +9 18 £410 -34.08% 12
West Midlands +17 15 £550 +4.76% 10
East of England +26 11 £515 +77.59% 31
Yorkshire +9 11 £600 - 6
North West +10 10 £442 -11.60% 12
South West +42 8 £619 -8.13% 13
Scotland -2 6 £600 - 7
South East +29 3 £725 +21.34% 28

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (14.08%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) JBoss
2 3 (2.11%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.11%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.41%) Camunda
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.41%) nginx
3 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.69%) AWS
2 36 (25.35%) Azure
3 27 (19.01%) GCP
4 17 (11.97%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.93%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.23%) GitHub
7 5 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.11%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (2.11%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.41%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.41%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.41%) Route 53
10 2 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.72%) SSL
2 22 (15.49%) HTTP
3 21 (14.79%) SMTP
4 18 (12.68%) DNS
5 16 (11.27%) Firewall
6 13 (9.15%) Kerberos
7 10 (7.04%) FTP
7 10 (7.04%) NAS
7 10 (7.04%) Network Security
7 10 (7.04%) TCP/IP
8 9 (6.34%) SAN
9 8 (5.63%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (3.52%) DHCP
10 5 (3.52%) Internet
10 5 (3.52%) POP3
10 5 (3.52%) SSH
11 3 (2.11%) VLAN
12 2 (1.41%) HTTPS
12 2 (1.41%) IMAP
12 2 (1.41%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.11%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.41%) Power BI
3 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.70%) Metadata
4 1 (0.70%) Redis
4 1 (0.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (16.20%) JIRA
2 12 (8.45%) Git
3 11 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.11%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.11%) JUnit
4 3 (2.11%) Log4j
4 3 (2.11%) Selenium
4 3 (2.11%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.11%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.41%) Maven
5 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.41%) Subversion
5 2 (1.41%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.70%) GitLab
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
General
1 59 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.04%) Banking
3 10 (7.04%) Finance
4 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.11%) Law
6 3 (2.11%) Retail
7 2 (1.41%) International Banking
7 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.70%) Aviation
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.42%) Architect
2 14 (9.86%) Analyst
3 13 (9.15%) Administrator
4 12 (8.45%) Developer
5 10 (7.04%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Senior
6 8 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.63%) Lead
7 7 (4.93%) SOC Analyst
8 6 (4.23%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Identity Management Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (3.52%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Consultant
9 5 (3.52%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow Administrator
10 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow Architect
10 4 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (31.69%) SAML
2 36 (25.35%) REST
3 35 (24.65%) OAuth
4 28 (19.72%) OpenID
5 20 (14.08%) Web Services
6 19 (13.38%) AngularJS
7 16 (11.27%) SOAP
8 15 (10.56%) HTML
9 14 (9.86%) Spring
10 13 (9.15%) OAuth2
11 12 (8.45%) CSS
11 12 (8.45%) Hibernate
12 11 (7.75%) JDBC
12 11 (7.75%) JSON
13 9 (6.34%) SailPoint
14 8 (5.63%) ODBC
15 7 (4.93%) Kafka
15 7 (4.93%) XML
16 6 (4.23%) Middleware
17 5 (3.52%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.34%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.63%) Cyberattack
4 7 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.93%) Clustering
4 7 (4.93%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (4.23%) PKI
6 5 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.52%) CSOC
6 5 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.11%) Digital Signage
7 3 (2.11%) Replication
7 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.83%) Linux
2 18 (12.68%) Windows
3 12 (8.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.34%) Unix
5 7 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.82%) Solaris
6 4 (2.82%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.82%) VMS
7 3 (2.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.41%) CentOS
8 2 (1.41%) Debian
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.70%) AIX
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.10%) Agile
2 44 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (26.76%) Identity Access Management
4 35 (24.65%) DevOps
5 26 (18.31%) RBAC
6 24 (16.90%) CI/CD
7 23 (16.20%) Scrum
8 21 (14.79%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (14.08%) Containerisation
10 18 (12.68%) Roadmaps
11 15 (10.56%) Identity Management
11 15 (10.56%) Migration
11 15 (10.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 13 (9.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (9.15%) Privileged Access Management
13 12 (8.45%) Analytics
13 12 (8.45%) ITSM
13 12 (8.45%) Zero Trust
14 11 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (7.75%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.42%) Java
2 22 (15.49%) Python
3 20 (14.08%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.08%) PowerShell
4 15 (10.56%) SQL
5 9 (6.34%) Bash
6 5 (3.52%) Groovy
6 5 (3.52%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.82%) C#
8 3 (2.11%) C++
8 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.41%) Perl
9 2 (1.41%) VBScript
10 1 (0.70%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.70%) Ruby
10 1 (0.70%) VB
10 1 (0.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.41%) CISSP
7 2 (1.41%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.70%) CBAP
8 1 (0.70%) CCDE
8 1 (0.70%) CISM
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.20%) GDPR
2 17 (11.97%) HIPAA
3 12 (8.45%) NIST
4 10 (7.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.82%) QA
7 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.41%) NCSC
8 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.41%) PMO
8 2 (1.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (36.62%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.79%) Docker
3 5 (3.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.11%) NFS
5 3 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.41%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.41%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.41%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.41%) OpenIDM
6 2 (1.41%) Postfix
6 2 (1.41%) Squid
6 2 (1.41%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (39.44%) Single Sign-On
2 27 (19.01%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.27%) Ansible
4 13 (9.15%) Terraform
5 12 (8.45%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 10 (7.04%) Prometheus
7 9 (6.34%) Grafana
8 6 (4.23%) SELinux
9 5 (3.52%) Puppet
10 4 (2.82%) Nessus
11 3 (2.11%) Netcool
11 3 (2.11%) Tivoli
12 2 (1.41%) Control-M
12 2 (1.41%) QRadar
12 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.41%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.70%) Graylog
13 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.20%) ServiceNow
3 20 (14.08%) CyberArk
4 19 (13.38%) IBM
5 16 (11.27%) Splunk
6 12 (8.45%) ForgeRock
6 12 (8.45%) Ping Identity
7 11 (7.75%) Red Hat
8 10 (7.04%) Oracle
9 9 (6.34%) Okta
10 7 (4.93%) VMware
11 6 (4.23%) BMC
12 5 (3.52%) Confluent
12 5 (3.52%) HP
12 5 (3.52%) SAP
13 4 (2.82%) Ivanti
13 4 (2.82%) OpenText
13 4 (2.82%) Qualtrics
13 4 (2.82%) Remedy
14 3 (2.11%) Qualys