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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 386 425
Rank change year-on-year -70 +39 -55
Contract jobs citing LDAP 236 173 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.96% 2.01% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 119 67
10th Percentile £401 £322 £217
25th Percentile £450 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £492 £560
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -12.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £694
90th Percentile £674 £672 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% +5.37%
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 12,011 8,622 9,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.73% 25.99% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,888 5,725 5,976
10th Percentile £380 £357 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
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% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 188 169
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.56
25th Percentile £50.50 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.90 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

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 14 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 14 October 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 14 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 -75 203 £525 +5.00% 111
UK excluding London -47 165 £525 +10.53% 55
Work from Home -17 92 £525 +1.20% 44
South East +1 67 £545 +9.00% 23
London -104 56 £575 -4.80% 52
South West -6 38 £525 +10.53% 16
Scotland -8 20 £475 -20.83% 3
East of England -21 20 £513 -24.63% 8
North of England -80 14 £565 +24.72% 5
Yorkshire -25 13 £583 +11.00% 1
Midlands -94 6 £402 -10.67% 2
West Midlands -71 4 £450 -18.18% 1
East Midlands -35 2 £402 -1.95% 1
North West -67 1 £500 +11.11% 3

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 (5.08%) IIS
2 9 (3.81%) Confluence
3 6 (2.54%) Apache
4 5 (2.12%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
5 2 (0.85%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (46.19%) Azure
2 88 (37.29%) Entra ID
3 78 (33.05%) AWS
4 44 (18.64%) GCP
5 24 (10.17%) SaaS
6 11 (4.66%) GitHub
7 8 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.39%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.69%) IaaS
9 4 (1.69%) PaaS
9 4 (1.69%) Serverless
9 4 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.41%) Kerberos
2 28 (11.86%) DNS
3 17 (7.20%) DHCP
4 15 (6.36%) HTTP
5 12 (5.08%) Firewall
6 9 (3.81%) SSH
6 9 (3.81%) SSL
7 7 (2.97%) Network Security
7 7 (2.97%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.54%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (2.12%) NAS
9 5 (2.12%) SAN
9 5 (2.12%) VPN
10 4 (1.69%) FTP
10 4 (1.69%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.69%) IPsec
10 4 (1.69%) SMTP
10 4 (1.69%) WAN
11 3 (1.27%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.69%) Db2
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.85%) Base SAS
4 2 (0.85%) Metadata
4 2 (0.85%) MySQL
4 2 (0.85%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.42%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.42%) Power BI
5 1 (0.42%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (7.20%) Git
2 15 (6.36%) JIRA
3 14 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.51%) GitLab
5 4 (1.69%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.27%) JMeter
6 3 (1.27%) Postman
7 2 (0.85%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.85%) Gatling
7 2 (0.85%) Gradle
7 2 (0.85%) Maven
7 2 (0.85%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) Locust
8 1 (0.42%) Newman
8 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.42%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.42%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.98%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.78%) Finance
6 12 (5.08%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.54%) Back Office
7 6 (2.54%) Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Military
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (23.31%) Architect
2 22 (9.32%) Developer
3 20 (8.47%) Consultant
4 18 (7.63%) IAM Specialist
5 12 (5.08%) Lead
5 12 (5.08%) Support Engineer
6 9 (3.81%) C Developer
6 9 (3.81%) CyberArk Consultant
6 9 (3.81%) Linux Developer
6 9 (3.81%) Software Developer
7 8 (3.39%) Analyst
7 8 (3.39%) CyberArk Architect
7 8 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.39%) SailPoint Engineer
7 8 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (2.97%) Security Engineer
8 7 (2.97%) Senior
9 6 (2.54%) SailPoint Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (29.66%) SAML
2 62 (26.27%) OAuth
2 62 (26.27%) OpenID
3 48 (20.34%) REST
3 48 (20.34%) SailPoint
4 35 (14.83%) OAuth2
5 27 (11.44%) Web Services
6 26 (11.02%) Terraform
7 21 (8.90%) .NET
8 18 (7.63%) JSON
9 16 (6.78%) XML
10 9 (3.81%) .NET Framework
10 9 (3.81%) Middleware
10 9 (3.81%) OpenTofu
10 9 (3.81%) SOAP
11 8 (3.39%) pytest
12 7 (2.97%) JDBC
12 7 (2.97%) Regular Expression
13 5 (2.12%) boto
14 4 (1.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.92%) Onboarding
2 30 (12.71%) PKI
3 29 (12.29%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (8.05%) Replication
5 15 (6.36%) Cloud Native
6 13 (5.51%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.12%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.69%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.69%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.27%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.27%) YARA
12 2 (0.85%) CSOC
12 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.46%) Linux
2 50 (21.19%) Windows
3 18 (7.63%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.66%) Unix
6 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.12%) CentOS
7 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.85%) Rocky
8 2 (0.85%) VMS
8 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.42%) CatOS
9 1 (0.42%) macOS
9 1 (0.42%) SUSE
9 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.66%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (28.39%) SIEM
3 65 (27.54%) RBAC
4 61 (25.85%) Runbook
5 54 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (21.19%) DevOps
6 50 (21.19%) Privileged Access Management
7 47 (19.92%) CI/CD
8 45 (19.07%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (18.22%) Cybersecurity
10 42 (17.80%) ITSM
11 41 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (15.25%) Secrets Management
12 36 (15.25%) Security Architecture
13 35 (14.83%) Migration
14 34 (14.41%) DevSecOps
15 32 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 29 (12.29%) Analytics
17 29 (12.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 83 (35.17%) PowerShell
2 59 (25.00%) Python
3 28 (11.86%) Java
4 16 (6.78%) C#
5 15 (6.36%) Bash
6 13 (5.51%) SQL
7 12 (5.08%) BeanShell
8 9 (3.81%) C
9 6 (2.54%) Go
9 6 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.12%) Groovy
10 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.12%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.27%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.85%) Cypher
12 2 (0.85%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.42%) Bicep
13 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (42.80%) Security Cleared
2 66 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.37%) DV Cleared
4 27 (11.44%) Degree
5 24 (10.17%) CISSP
6 14 (5.93%) CISM
7 11 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.97%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.54%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.12%) CSPO
11 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.85%) RHCE
14 1 (0.42%) CISA
14 1 (0.42%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (23.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (22.46%) NIST
3 20 (8.47%) GDPR
4 10 (4.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.81%) NCSC
6 7 (2.97%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.97%) SLA
7 5 (2.12%) GRC
8 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.27%) QA
9 2 (0.85%) ITGC
9 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (81.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.93%) Docker
3 13 (5.51%) NFS
4 11 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (3.81%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.27%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.42%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.42%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.42%) KVM
8 1 (0.42%) Postfix
8 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.42%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (13.98%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (8.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.93%) Ansible
4 9 (3.81%) Grafana
5 6 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.69%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.27%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.85%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.85%) Podman
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.42%) CASB
9 1 (0.42%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.42%) systemd
9 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (39.83%) Microsoft
2 80 (33.90%) CyberArk
3 30 (12.71%) ServiceNow
4 25 (10.59%) Okta
5 19 (8.05%) BeyondTrust
6 16 (6.78%) ForgeRock
6 16 (6.78%) VMware
7 10 (4.24%) Ping Identity
8 8 (3.39%) Google
8 8 (3.39%) SAP
8 8 (3.39%) Splunk
9 5 (2.12%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.69%) F5
10 4 (1.69%) Greenplum
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle
10 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.69%) Sybase
10 4 (1.69%) Workday
11 3 (1.27%) CrowdStrike