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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 411 348
Rank change year-on-year +25 -63 +162
Contract jobs citing LDAP 189 141 300
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.39% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 1.79% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 74 184
10th Percentile £359 £229 £370
25th Percentile £413 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +0.70% -4.83%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £674
90th Percentile £671 £771 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -12.84% +1.85% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £44.88 - £53.13
25th Percentile £45.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.00 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -11.72% +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 8,028 7,864 10,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.86% 21.67% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,338 4,964 7,466
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £651
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 113 190
10th Percentile £30.10 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 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 -6 172 £500 -11.19% 49
UK excluding London +8 115 £479 -12.84% 30
London +1 60 £608 -3.49% 19
Midlands -1 51 £484 -16.82% 5
Work from Home +9 47 £500 -9.26% 42
West Midlands -16 35 £550 -5.38% 5
North of England -17 24 £453 +24.97% 4
North West -9 18 £450 +24.14% 1
East Midlands - 16 £410 -
South East -13 15 £484 -12.09% 16
East of England -15 12 £680 +20.89% 4
South West +1 11 £475 -29.32%
Yorkshire - 6 £525 - 3
Scotland 0 2 £600 -14.29% 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 40 (21.16%) Confluence
2 15 (7.94%) WebSphere
3 14 (7.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (6.35%) nginx
5 10 (5.29%) Apache
5 10 (5.29%) IIS
5 10 (5.29%) iPlanet
5 10 (5.29%) JBoss
6 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.06%) CICS
8 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.53%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.06%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (6.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.27%) AWS
2 61 (32.28%) Azure
3 34 (17.99%) GCP
4 20 (10.58%) Amazon S3
4 20 (10.58%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (6.88%) Route 53
8 12 (6.35%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (6.35%) AWS KMS
8 12 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (5.82%) GitHub
9 11 (5.82%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.76%) Serverless
11 8 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.17%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.11%) DNS
2 37 (19.58%) SSL
3 32 (16.93%) Firewall
3 32 (16.93%) HTTP
4 30 (15.87%) SMTP
5 27 (14.29%) Kerberos
6 26 (13.76%) SSH
7 20 (10.58%) FTP
8 17 (8.99%) OpenLDAP
9 13 (6.88%) Network Security
10 12 (6.35%) IMAP
11 10 (5.29%) TCP/IP
12 4 (2.12%) Internet
13 3 (1.59%) DHCP
13 3 (1.59%) DKIM
13 3 (1.59%) DMARC
13 3 (1.59%) VPN
14 2 (1.06%) NAS
14 2 (1.06%) X.500
15 1 (0.53%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.29%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.12%) Metadata
5 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.59%) Power BI
6 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (24.34%) JIRA
2 36 (19.05%) Git
3 29 (15.34%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.35%) Vagrant
5 10 (5.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (5.29%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.70%) GitLab
8 3 (1.59%) Log4j
9 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 80 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.58%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (8.99%) Finance
5 17 (8.99%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.70%) Banking
7 4 (2.12%) Aviation
8 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.06%) Electronics
9 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.06%) Marketing
9 2 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (12.70%) Architect
2 23 (12.17%) Consultant
3 20 (10.58%) Analyst
4 19 (10.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (8.47%) Senior
6 15 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.29%) Developer
8 10 (5.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.29%) ServiceNow Architect
8 10 (5.29%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (4.23%) Senior Architect
10 6 (3.17%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 6 (3.17%) Identity Management Engineer
10 6 (3.17%) Management Consultant
11 5 (2.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (37.57%) SAML
2 53 (28.04%) OAuth
3 43 (22.75%) OpenID
4 33 (17.46%) REST
5 19 (10.05%) AngularJS
5 19 (10.05%) HTML
5 19 (10.05%) Web Services
6 17 (8.99%) SOAP
7 16 (8.47%) JDBC
8 14 (7.41%) HTML5
9 13 (6.88%) Apache Camel
9 13 (6.88%) jQuery
9 13 (6.88%) JSON
9 13 (6.88%) ODBC
9 13 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (6.88%) SailPoint
10 12 (6.35%) OAuth2
11 9 (4.76%) Hibernate
11 9 (4.76%) Spring
12 7 (3.70%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.94%) Replication
3 14 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.29%) Cyberattack
5 8 (4.23%) CSOC
5 8 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.65%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.65%) SCADA
8 4 (2.12%) PKI
9 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.06%) Clustering
10 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 52 (27.51%) Linux
1 52 (27.51%) Windows
2 16 (8.47%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.41%) Unix
4 13 (6.88%) Ubuntu
4 13 (6.88%) VMS
5 12 (6.35%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (4.76%) Solaris
7 7 (3.70%) AIX
8 5 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (2.12%) CentOS
10 2 (1.06%) zOS
11 1 (0.53%) MVS
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.33%) DevOps
2 58 (30.69%) CI/CD
3 46 (24.34%) Agile
3 46 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
5 37 (19.58%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (19.05%) RBAC
7 30 (15.87%) Privileged Access Management
8 29 (15.34%) Scrum
9 28 (14.81%) Identity Management
10 23 (12.17%) SIEM
11 22 (11.64%) Microservices
12 21 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.11%) Migration
13 20 (10.58%) Cloud Security
13 20 (10.58%) DevSecOps
13 20 (10.58%) Roadmaps
14 19 (10.05%) Configuration Management
15 17 (8.99%) Change Management
15 17 (8.99%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.63%) Python
2 54 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 29 (15.34%) SQL
4 24 (12.70%) Groovy
5 23 (12.17%) Java
6 22 (11.64%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.76%) Bash
8 8 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.70%) Go
10 3 (1.59%) C++
11 2 (1.06%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.06%) C#
11 2 (1.06%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.53%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.53%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (35.98%) Security Cleared
2 65 (34.39%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.23%) CISSP
4 17 (8.99%) AWS Certification
5 16 (8.47%) CISM
6 13 (6.88%) Degree
7 10 (5.29%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.17%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.65%) MCSA
11 5 (2.65%) MCSE
12 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.06%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.53%) CISA
14 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.28%) GDPR
2 30 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (13.23%) NIST
4 15 (7.94%) HIPAA
5 12 (6.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (5.29%) QA
7 6 (3.17%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 97 (51.32%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.40%) Docker
3 15 (7.94%) Postfix
4 12 (6.35%) Dovecot
4 12 (6.35%) Squid
5 10 (5.29%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 8 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.06%) KVM
8 1 (0.53%) Firmware
8 1 (0.53%) NFS
8 1 (0.53%) SRDF
8 1 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 63 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (12.17%) Terraform
3 19 (10.05%) Kubernetes
4 18 (9.52%) Nessus
5 16 (8.47%) Ansible
6 15 (7.94%) Prometheus
7 12 (6.35%) Grafana
8 10 (5.29%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (5.29%) CA Wily
8 10 (5.29%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.76%) Progress Chef
9 9 (4.76%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 8 (4.23%) Tivoli
11 6 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (3.17%) PingFederate
12 5 (2.65%) CASB
13 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.59%) SCCM
14 3 (1.59%) SELinux
15 2 (1.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 46 (24.34%) CyberArk
3 41 (21.69%) ServiceNow
4 23 (12.17%) IBM
5 20 (10.58%) BeyondTrust
5 20 (10.58%) Splunk
6 18 (9.52%) Remedy
7 16 (8.47%) Oracle
8 15 (7.94%) Ping Identity
9 14 (7.41%) HP
10 13 (6.88%) BMC
10 13 (6.88%) Ivanti
11 12 (6.35%) Jaspersoft
12 11 (5.82%) ForgeRock
12 11 (5.82%) Okta
13 10 (5.29%) AppDynamics
13 10 (5.29%) Broadcom
13 10 (5.29%) VMware
14 7 (3.70%) SAP
15 6 (3.17%) Tenable