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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 401 391
Rank change year-on-year +34 -10 +109
Contract jobs citing LDAP 279 126 202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% 1.90% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 72 127
10th Percentile £400 £409 £296
25th Percentile £481 £474 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.84% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £92.50 £83.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -20.10% - -

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 9,351 6,624 8,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.69% 22.69% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,165 4,554 6,183
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 113 244
10th Percentile £34.75 £29.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £82.79 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +13 257 £563 -2.17% 63
UK excluding London -30 140 £525 -12.50% 50
Work from Home +19 113 £643 +8.71% 15
London +16 113 £700 +21.74% 17
North of England -38 45 £573 -4.58% 7
South East -19 44 £525 -27.59% 17
Yorkshire -35 29 £513 -14.58% 4
Midlands -48 19 £395 -31.30% 6
West Midlands -55 18 £395 -36.80% 1
East of England -31 16 £478 -18.64% 11
North West -28 15 £635 +9.16% 1
South West -26 13 £539 -18.68% 6
Wales - 3 £345 - 1
North East - 1 - - 2

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 (4.30%) nginx
2 11 (3.94%) Confluence
3 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 172 (61.65%) Azure
2 119 (42.65%) AWS
3 90 (32.26%) GCP
4 86 (30.82%) Entra ID
5 19 (6.81%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.58%) SaaS
7 10 (3.58%) Serverless
8 9 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.23%) Route 53
9 4 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.36%) GitHub
12 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.36%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 72 (25.81%) DNS
2 58 (20.79%) Kerberos
3 42 (15.05%) Firewall
4 34 (12.19%) DHCP
5 30 (10.75%) VPN
6 25 (8.96%) SSL
7 22 (7.89%) TCP/IP
8 16 (5.73%) Cisco ASA
8 16 (5.73%) WAN
9 15 (5.38%) HTTP
9 15 (5.38%) LAN
10 14 (5.02%) Network Security
11 13 (4.66%) HTTPS
12 11 (3.94%) IPsec
13 10 (3.58%) BIG-IP
13 10 (3.58%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (3.23%) OpenVPN
14 9 (3.23%) SMTP
14 9 (3.23%) Wireless
14 9 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.58%) MySQL
4 4 (1.43%) Metadata
4 4 (1.43%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.72%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 32 (11.47%) GitLab
3 30 (10.75%) JIRA
4 14 (5.02%) Selenium
5 13 (4.66%) Git
5 13 (4.66%) REST Assured
6 12 (4.30%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.94%) Postman
8 9 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.87%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.79%) TestRail
11 4 (1.43%) Gatling
11 4 (1.43%) JMeter
11 4 (1.43%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.43%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.72%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.36%) JUnit
13 1 (0.36%) Maven
13 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.51%) Documentation Skills
3 39 (13.98%) Finance
4 26 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.58%) Banking
8 9 (3.23%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.08%) Retail
10 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 86 (30.82%) Architect
2 48 (17.20%) CyberArk Architect
3 17 (6.09%) Consultant
4 11 (3.94%) Administrator
4 11 (3.94%) Developer
4 11 (3.94%) Network Engineer
5 10 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (3.58%) Lead
5 10 (3.58%) Linux Administrator
5 10 (3.58%) Security Engineer
6 9 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (3.23%) Test Engineer
7 8 (2.87%) Analyst
7 8 (2.87%) Senior
7 8 (2.87%) Technical Architect
8 7 (2.51%) IAM Specialist
9 6 (2.15%) Security Consultant
9 6 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.15%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.15%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (30.11%) SAML
2 78 (27.96%) OpenID
3 70 (25.09%) REST
4 56 (20.07%) OAuth
5 43 (15.41%) SOAP
6 40 (14.34%) SailPoint
7 17 (6.09%) OAuth2
8 12 (4.30%) .NET
8 12 (4.30%) Web Services
9 11 (3.94%) J2EE
10 10 (3.58%) Middleware
11 6 (2.15%) JDBC
11 6 (2.15%) JSON
12 4 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.43%) Playwright
12 4 (1.43%) XML
13 2 (0.72%) EDI
14 1 (0.36%) HTML
14 1 (0.36%) LAMP
14 1 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.41%) Security Posture
2 40 (14.34%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (12.54%) Replication
4 32 (11.47%) Onboarding
5 23 (8.24%) Management Information System
6 20 (7.17%) Cloud Native
7 14 (5.02%) PKI
8 12 (4.30%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.79%) CSOC
10 5 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.79%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.79%) PACS
11 4 (1.43%) Clustering
12 3 (1.08%) SCADA
13 2 (0.72%) CMDB
13 2 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (19.71%) Linux
2 44 (15.77%) Windows
3 23 (8.24%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.38%) CentOS
6 12 (4.30%) Ubuntu
7 11 (3.94%) Unix
8 5 (1.79%) CatOS
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.36%) Rocky
10 1 (0.36%) SUSE
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (31.54%) SIEM
3 80 (28.67%) DevOps
4 69 (24.73%) Cybersecurity
5 61 (21.86%) CI/CD
6 60 (21.51%) Identity Access Management
7 57 (20.43%) ITSM
7 57 (20.43%) Privileged Access Management
8 54 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 53 (19.00%) RBAC
10 50 (17.92%) Task Automation
11 44 (15.77%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (13.98%) Integration Patterns
13 36 (12.90%) Presales
14 34 (12.19%) High Availability
15 28 (10.04%) Migration
16 26 (9.32%) Agile
17 25 (8.96%) Roadmaps
18 22 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
18 22 (7.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 127 (45.52%) PowerShell
2 107 (38.35%) Python
3 45 (16.13%) Java
4 29 (10.39%) SQL
5 17 (6.09%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.02%) Bash
6 14 (5.02%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.58%) MATLAB
8 9 (3.23%) PHP
9 6 (2.15%) Groovy
10 5 (1.79%) C++
11 4 (1.43%) Cypher
11 4 (1.43%) Scala
11 4 (1.43%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.36%) C#
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Perl
12 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 153 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 142 (50.90%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.47%) CISSP
4 27 (9.68%) CISM
5 15 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.02%) Degree
7 12 (4.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.79%) MCSA
10 5 (1.79%) MCSE
11 4 (1.43%) APMG
11 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.43%) GIAC
11 4 (1.43%) GSEC
11 4 (1.43%) OCP
11 4 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.43%) SSCP
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (21.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (18.64%) NIST
3 50 (17.92%) GDPR
4 26 (9.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (7.53%) NCSC
6 10 (3.58%) SLA
7 9 (3.23%) HIPAA
7 9 (3.23%) QA
8 6 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.08%) DICOM
11 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.72%) HL7
12 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.36%) GMP
12 1 (0.36%) GRC
12 1 (0.36%) GxP
12 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (67.03%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.58%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.23%) Squid
4 9 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.87%) Docker
6 5 (1.79%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (1.43%) NFS
7 4 (1.43%) Postfix
8 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.72%) KVM
9 2 (0.72%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.72%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.72%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.36%) Ceph
10 1 (0.36%) iptables
10 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.36%) XenApp
10 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (23.66%) Single Sign-On
2 40 (14.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 32 (11.47%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.17%) Terraform
5 17 (6.09%) Ansible
6 13 (4.66%) Grafana
7 12 (4.30%) Check_MK
7 12 (4.30%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.58%) Podman
8 10 (3.58%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.23%) FortiGate
9 9 (3.23%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.51%) Consul
10 7 (2.51%) Nessus
11 6 (2.15%) CASB
12 5 (1.79%) WSUS
13 4 (1.43%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.43%) PingFederate
14 3 (1.08%) SCOM
15 2 (0.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 90 (32.26%) CyberArk
2 74 (26.52%) Microsoft
3 56 (20.07%) BeyondTrust
4 39 (13.98%) ServiceNow
5 36 (12.90%) Centrify
5 36 (12.90%) VMware
6 24 (8.60%) Red Hat
7 22 (7.89%) Splunk
8 19 (6.81%) Cisco
9 18 (6.45%) Okta
10 13 (4.66%) Palo Alto
11 12 (4.30%) Google
12 11 (3.94%) CheckPoint
12 11 (3.94%) F5
13 9 (3.23%) Dynatrace
13 9 (3.23%) Oracle
14 8 (2.87%) SAP
15 7 (2.51%) Atlassian
15 7 (2.51%) Tenable
15 7 (2.51%) Veritas