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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 399 410
Rank change year-on-year -95 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing LDAP 179 168 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 2.27% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 106 102
10th Percentile £348 £363 £250
25th Percentile £444 £409 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -3.15% +0.23%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £643
90th Percentile £687 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £598
% change year-on-year +0.81% -16.99% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - -
75th Percentile £86.62 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £87.24 £84.70 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £80.68 -
% change year-on-year -3.99% - -

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 10,137 7,412 8,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 22.51% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,603 4,984 5,799
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £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 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 171 241
10th Percentile £28.11 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.39% +0.16%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -111 155 £550 +4.76% 71
UK excluding London -73 114 £500 +0.81% 37
Work from Home -56 56 £550 -0.63% 26
South East -23 53 £568 -21.72% 9
London -95 51 £525 -13.65% 31
North of England -74 25 £620 +24.00% 10
Yorkshire -38 16 £540 +8.00% 7
Scotland -5 12 £450 -25.00%
South West -29 12 £550 -4.35% 12
North West -45 8 £643 +67.45% 3
East of England -33 6 £483 -26.05% 3
Midlands -86 6 £375 -14.68% 3
West Midlands -69 5 £375 -28.57% 3
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 (4.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.68%) nginx
2 3 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.68%) 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 (2.79%) 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 (61.45%) Azure
2 76 (42.46%) AWS
3 75 (41.90%) Entra ID
4 43 (24.02%) GCP
5 19 (10.61%) SaaS
6 5 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) IaaS
7 4 (2.23%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.23%) PaaS
8 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.68%) GitHub
8 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.68%) Route 53
8 3 (1.68%) Serverless
9 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.64%) DNS
2 25 (13.97%) Kerberos
3 20 (11.17%) Firewall
4 14 (7.82%) SSL
5 13 (7.26%) TCP/IP
6 10 (5.59%) DHCP
7 9 (5.03%) VPN
8 8 (4.47%) NAS
8 8 (4.47%) SAN
9 6 (3.35%) HTTPS
9 6 (3.35%) WAN
10 5 (2.79%) IPsec
10 5 (2.79%) LAN
11 4 (2.23%) BIG-IP
11 4 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (2.23%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (2.23%) HTTP
12 3 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.68%) SSH
12 3 (1.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.79%) MySQL
3 4 (2.23%) Db2
3 4 (2.23%) Metadata
4 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (7.26%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.15%) JIRA
3 9 (5.03%) GitLab
4 8 (4.47%) Git
5 4 (2.23%) Postman
6 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.12%) Gatling
6 2 (1.12%) JMeter
6 2 (1.12%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.12%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.76%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (13.41%) Finance
4 19 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.91%) Aerospace
6 6 (3.35%) Banking
7 4 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Military
8 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 29 (16.20%) Architect
2 15 (8.38%) Consultant
2 15 (8.38%) IAM Specialist
3 14 (7.82%) Developer
4 12 (6.70%) Support Engineer
5 11 (6.15%) Lead
5 11 (6.15%) Senior
6 9 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.47%) SailPoint Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) Analyst
8 6 (3.35%) CyberArk Architect
9 5 (2.79%) Administrator
9 5 (2.79%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.79%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.79%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (2.23%) Incident Manager
10 4 (2.23%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (2.23%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (2.23%) Technical Support
10 4 (2.23%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (39.11%) SAML
2 65 (36.31%) OpenID
3 60 (33.52%) OAuth
4 41 (22.91%) SailPoint
5 32 (17.88%) OAuth2
6 27 (15.08%) REST
7 21 (11.73%) .NET
8 19 (10.61%) Web Services
9 11 (6.15%) XML
10 9 (5.03%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.03%) JSON
11 8 (4.47%) Middleware
11 8 (4.47%) SOAP
12 7 (3.91%) Jakarta EE
12 7 (3.91%) JDBC
13 2 (1.12%) EDI
13 2 (1.12%) Keycloak
13 2 (1.12%) Playwright
13 2 (1.12%) pytest
13 2 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.11%) Onboarding
2 26 (14.53%) PKI
3 15 (8.38%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.70%) Management Information System
5 9 (5.03%) Security Posture
6 8 (4.47%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.47%) Replication
7 6 (3.35%) Clustering
7 6 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.23%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.68%) PACS
11 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.12%) IoT
11 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.46%) Linux
2 33 (18.44%) Windows
3 15 (8.38%) Unix
4 11 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.91%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.35%) CentOS
7 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.56%) CatOS
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 53 (29.61%) RBAC
2 52 (29.05%) Identity Access Management
3 41 (22.91%) DevOps
4 40 (22.35%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.64%) CI/CD
6 28 (15.64%) Privileged Access Management
6 28 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (13.97%) Zero Trust
8 24 (13.41%) SIEM
9 23 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (11.73%) Migration
10 21 (11.73%) Runbook
11 20 (11.17%) API Integration
12 19 (10.61%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.06%) Analytics
13 18 (10.06%) ITIL
14 17 (9.50%) Agile
14 17 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (9.50%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.64%) PowerShell
2 46 (25.70%) Python
3 33 (18.44%) Java
4 15 (8.38%) SQL
5 13 (7.26%) Bash
5 13 (7.26%) C#
6 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.47%) BeanShell
8 7 (3.91%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.79%) Groovy
9 5 (2.79%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.23%) C
10 4 (2.23%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.68%) C++
12 2 (1.12%) Cypher
12 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.56%) R
13 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 49 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 34 (18.99%) CISSP
4 28 (15.64%) Degree
5 19 (10.61%) CISM
6 15 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (5.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.35%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.79%) CSPO
9 5 (2.79%) MCSA
9 5 (2.79%) MCSE
10 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.56%) CEH
12 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (15.64%) GDPR
2 28 (15.64%) NIST
3 13 (7.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (5.03%) HIPAA
5 8 (4.47%) SLA
6 7 (3.91%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.91%) NCSC
7 3 (1.68%) 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 (77.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.59%) Docker
3 7 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.35%) NFS
5 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.68%) 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 (21.79%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (11.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (11.17%) Terraform
4 15 (8.38%) Kubernetes
5 13 (7.26%) Ansible
6 8 (4.47%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.91%) Grafana
8 6 (3.35%) CASB
9 5 (2.79%) Nessus
9 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.23%) Check_MK
10 4 (2.23%) PingFederate
10 4 (2.23%) Podman
10 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.68%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 1 (0.56%) FreeIPA
13 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 68 (37.99%) Microsoft
2 48 (26.82%) CyberArk
3 27 (15.08%) ServiceNow
4 17 (9.50%) Okta
5 13 (7.26%) BeyondTrust
5 13 (7.26%) VMware
6 11 (6.15%) ForgeRock
6 11 (6.15%) Ping Identity
7 9 (5.03%) Oracle
7 9 (5.03%) SAP
7 9 (5.03%) Splunk
8 8 (4.47%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.91%) Sybase
9 7 (3.91%) Workday
10 6 (3.35%) Google
11 5 (2.79%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.79%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.79%) Remedy
11 5 (2.79%) Tenable
12 4 (2.23%) Cisco