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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 390 392
Rank change year-on-year -95 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing LDAP 178 164 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.23% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 103 103
10th Percentile £336 £363 £250
25th Percentile £437 £408 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +0.45%
75th Percentile £595 £641 £645
90th Percentile £681 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £598
% change year-on-year +1.63% -17.66% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £84.70 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -

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 10,111 7,358 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 22.35% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,580 4,929 5,791
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 176 243
10th Percentile £28.07 £29.63 £22.96
25th Percentile £41.30 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -102 154 £550 +4.76% 111
UK excluding London -73 115 £500 +1.63% 47
Work from Home -39 59 £555 +0.27% 38
South East -20 54 £568 -21.72% 13
London -84 49 £525 -13.65% 64
North of England -63 24 £588 +17.55% 12
Yorkshire -29 18 £540 +8.00% 5
South West -38 13 £550 -9.80% 12
Scotland 0 12 £450 -25.00% 3
East of England -32 6 £483 -26.05% 3
Midlands -80 6 £375 -14.68% 4
North West -52 5 £657 +70.96% 7
West Midlands -67 5 £375 -28.57% 4
North East - 1 - -

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 8 (4.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) nginx
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.69%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 110 (61.80%) Azure
2 76 (42.70%) AWS
2 76 (42.70%) Entra ID
3 45 (25.28%) GCP
4 19 (10.67%) SaaS
5 5 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) IaaS
6 4 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.25%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.25%) PaaS
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.69%) Route 53
8 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.12%) GitHub
8 2 (1.12%) Serverless
8 2 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.61%) DNS
1 26 (14.61%) Kerberos
2 17 (9.55%) Firewall
3 11 (6.18%) DHCP
3 11 (6.18%) SSL
4 10 (5.62%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.06%) VPN
6 8 (4.49%) NAS
6 8 (4.49%) SAN
7 6 (3.37%) HTTPS
7 6 (3.37%) WAN
8 5 (2.81%) IPsec
8 5 (2.81%) LAN
9 4 (2.25%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.25%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.25%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.25%) HTTP
10 3 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (1.69%) SSH
10 3 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.81%) MySQL
3 4 (2.25%) Db2
3 4 (2.25%) Metadata
4 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (6.74%) Jenkins
1 12 (6.74%) JIRA
2 9 (5.06%) GitLab
3 7 (3.93%) Git
4 4 (2.25%) Postman
5 3 (1.69%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.12%) Gatling
6 2 (1.12%) JMeter
6 2 (1.12%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.42%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (11.24%) Finance
4 19 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 18 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.93%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.81%) Banking
8 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.25%) Military
9 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.69%) Retail
10 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (16.85%) Architect
2 16 (8.99%) Consultant
3 15 (8.43%) IAM Specialist
4 14 (7.87%) Developer
5 12 (6.74%) Lead
5 12 (6.74%) Support Engineer
6 10 (5.62%) Senior
7 9 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.49%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Analyst
10 6 (3.37%) CyberArk Architect
11 5 (2.81%) Administrator
11 5 (2.81%) CyberArk Consultant
11 5 (2.81%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.81%) Technical Engineer
12 4 (2.25%) CyberArk Specialist
12 4 (2.25%) Linux Developer
12 4 (2.25%) Product Owner
12 4 (2.25%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (39.89%) SAML
2 66 (37.08%) OpenID
3 61 (34.27%) OAuth
4 41 (23.03%) SailPoint
5 32 (17.98%) OAuth2
6 28 (15.73%) REST
7 21 (11.80%) .NET
8 19 (10.67%) Web Services
9 11 (6.18%) XML
10 9 (5.06%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.06%) JSON
11 8 (4.49%) Middleware
11 8 (4.49%) SOAP
12 7 (3.93%) Jakarta EE
12 7 (3.93%) JDBC
13 3 (1.69%) pytest
14 2 (1.12%) FIDO
14 2 (1.12%) Keycloak
14 2 (1.12%) Playwright
14 2 (1.12%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.79%) Onboarding
2 26 (14.61%) PKI
3 16 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.74%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.06%) Replication
6 8 (4.49%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.37%) Clustering
7 6 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.37%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.25%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.69%) PACS
11 2 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.12%) IoT
11 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.79%) Linux
2 31 (17.42%) Windows
3 11 (6.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (5.62%) Unix
5 7 (3.93%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.37%) CentOS
7 4 (2.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.56%) CatOS
8 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.56%) Rocky
8 1 (0.56%) SUSE
8 1 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.34%) RBAC
2 53 (29.78%) Identity Access Management
3 41 (23.03%) DevOps
4 40 (22.47%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.85%) Privileged Access Management
7 29 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (15.17%) CI/CD
9 26 (14.61%) SIEM
10 25 (14.04%) Zero Trust
11 24 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (12.36%) Migration
12 22 (12.36%) Runbook
13 20 (11.24%) API Integration
14 19 (10.67%) Analytics
14 19 (10.67%) Roadmaps
15 17 (9.55%) Computer Science
15 17 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (8.99%) Agile
16 16 (8.99%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.39%) PowerShell
2 45 (25.28%) Python
3 33 (18.54%) Java
4 15 (8.43%) SQL
5 13 (7.30%) C#
6 12 (6.74%) Bash
7 8 (4.49%) BeanShell
7 8 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.93%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.81%) Groovy
9 5 (2.81%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.25%) C
10 4 (2.25%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.69%) C++
12 2 (1.12%) Cypher
12 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.56%) R
13 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 49 (27.53%) SC Cleared
3 31 (17.42%) CISSP
4 28 (15.73%) Degree
5 19 (10.67%) CISM
6 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.93%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.37%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.81%) CSPO
10 4 (2.25%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.12%) MCSA
12 2 (1.12%) MCSE
13 1 (0.56%) CEH
13 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (15.73%) GDPR
2 28 (15.73%) NIST
3 13 (7.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (5.06%) HIPAA
5 8 (4.49%) SLA
6 7 (3.93%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.93%) NCSC
7 3 (1.69%) DICOM
8 2 (1.12%) GRC
8 2 (1.12%) HL7
8 2 (1.12%) ITGC
8 2 (1.12%) QA
8 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.56%) GMP
9 1 (0.56%) GxP
9 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 138 (77.53%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.06%) Docker
3 7 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.37%) NFS
5 4 (2.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.69%) OpenAM
7 2 (1.12%) Squid
8 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.56%) KVM
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (21.91%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (12.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (10.67%) Terraform
4 14 (7.87%) Kubernetes
5 12 (6.74%) Ansible
6 8 (4.49%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.93%) Grafana
8 5 (2.81%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.25%) Check_MK
9 4 (2.25%) PingFederate
9 4 (2.25%) Podman
9 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.69%) CASB
10 3 (1.69%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.56%) Nagios
12 1 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.56%) yum
12 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (38.76%) Microsoft
2 46 (25.84%) CyberArk
3 27 (15.17%) ServiceNow
4 17 (9.55%) Okta
5 13 (7.30%) BeyondTrust
5 13 (7.30%) VMware
6 11 (6.18%) ForgeRock
6 11 (6.18%) Ping Identity
7 9 (5.06%) Oracle
7 9 (5.06%) SAP
8 8 (4.49%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.93%) Google
9 7 (3.93%) Sybase
9 7 (3.93%) Workday
10 6 (3.37%) Splunk
11 5 (2.81%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.81%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.25%) Cisco
12 4 (2.25%) F5
12 4 (2.25%) Greenplum