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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 393 402
Rank change year-on-year -61 +9 +57
Contract jobs citing LDAP 214 161 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 2.19% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 101 106
10th Percentile £360 £367 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £615 £644 £638
90th Percentile £719 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £571
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.47% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.91 £80.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.10 -
90th Percentile £87.32 £84.80 -
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 10,224 7,364 8,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.60% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,669 4,969 6,075
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 154 260
10th Percentile £29.72 £30.08 £22.73
25th Percentile £49.20 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.71 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 21 July 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 21 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 15 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 21 July 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 -46 189 £550 +4.76% 28
UK excluding London -62 133 £525 +5.00% 21
London -53 66 £556 -8.51% 11
Work from Home -46 64 £563 +7.14% 13
South East -12 61 £525 -27.59% 13
North of England -63 33 £620 +20.62% 2
Yorkshire -46 17 £515 -6.36%
South West -27 15 £550 -11.11% 4
North West -45 15 £635 +23.44% 2
Scotland -12 10 £455 -24.17% 1
Midlands -73 8 £375 -13.74% 1
West Midlands -61 7 £375 -30.23% 1
East of England -36 5 £483 -26.05% 1
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £345 -

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 14 (6.54%) Confluence
2 9 (4.21%) nginx
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.40%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 127 (59.35%) Azure
2 92 (42.99%) Entra ID
3 82 (38.32%) AWS
4 42 (19.63%) GCP
5 17 (7.94%) SaaS
6 12 (5.61%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.67%) Serverless
9 9 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.21%) Route 53
10 4 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.87%) IaaS
10 4 (1.87%) PaaS
11 3 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.93%) GitHub
12 2 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 46 (21.50%) DNS
2 45 (21.03%) Kerberos
3 35 (16.36%) Firewall
4 22 (10.28%) DHCP
5 21 (9.81%) TCP/IP
6 19 (8.88%) VPN
7 13 (6.07%) SSL
8 11 (5.14%) NAS
9 10 (4.67%) SAN
10 9 (4.21%) OpenVPN
11 7 (3.27%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (3.27%) HTTPS
12 6 (2.80%) WAN
13 5 (2.34%) IPsec
13 5 (2.34%) LAN
13 5 (2.34%) Network Security
14 4 (1.87%) BGP
14 4 (1.87%) BIG-IP
14 4 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.34%) MySQL
4 4 (1.87%) Db2
4 4 (1.87%) Metadata
5 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.47%) Power BI
6 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (9.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.41%) JIRA
3 10 (4.67%) GitLab
4 8 (3.74%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.74%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.27%) Git
6 3 (1.40%) Postman
6 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.93%) Gatling
7 2 (0.93%) JMeter
7 2 (0.93%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.93%) Selenium
7 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.09%) Documentation Skills
3 37 (17.29%) Finance
4 24 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.27%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.80%) Banking
9 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.40%) Military
9 3 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 48 (22.43%) Architect
2 14 (6.54%) Developer
3 13 (6.07%) Consultant
3 13 (6.07%) IAM Specialist
4 11 (5.14%) CyberArk Architect
4 11 (5.14%) Lead
4 11 (5.14%) Senior
4 11 (5.14%) Technical Architect
5 10 (4.67%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.74%) SailPoint Engineer
8 6 (2.80%) Administrator
8 6 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.34%) AWS Architect
9 5 (2.34%) Network Engineer
9 5 (2.34%) Security Engineer
9 5 (2.34%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.34%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (1.87%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (1.87%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (37.38%) OpenID
2 77 (35.98%) SAML
3 59 (27.57%) OAuth
4 40 (18.69%) SailPoint
5 30 (14.02%) OAuth2
5 30 (14.02%) REST
6 20 (9.35%) .NET
7 19 (8.88%) Web Services
8 9 (4.21%) SOAP
8 9 (4.21%) XML
9 8 (3.74%) JSON
9 8 (3.74%) Middleware
10 7 (3.27%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.27%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (2.80%) JDBC
12 2 (0.93%) EDI
12 2 (0.93%) FIDO
12 2 (0.93%) Keycloak
12 2 (0.93%) Playwright
12 2 (0.93%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.63%) Onboarding
2 26 (12.15%) PKI
3 21 (9.81%) Replication
4 14 (6.54%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.07%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.21%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.74%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.80%) Clustering
8 6 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.34%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.34%) PACS
10 4 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.87%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.40%) CMDB
11 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.93%) IoT
12 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.56%) Linux
2 35 (16.36%) Windows
3 15 (7.01%) Unix
4 10 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.21%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.80%) CentOS
6 6 (2.80%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) CatOS
7 1 (0.47%) Rocky
7 1 (0.47%) SUSE
7 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (28.04%) DevOps
2 55 (25.70%) Identity Access Management
2 55 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (24.30%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (23.83%) RBAC
5 39 (18.22%) CI/CD
6 30 (14.02%) Roadmaps
6 30 (14.02%) SIEM
6 30 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (13.55%) Migration
8 26 (12.15%) ITIL
9 25 (11.68%) Zero Trust
10 23 (10.75%) Privileged Access Management
11 22 (10.28%) Agile
11 22 (10.28%) ITSM
11 22 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (9.81%) Runbook
13 20 (9.35%) API Integration
13 20 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (37.85%) PowerShell
2 52 (24.30%) Python
3 35 (16.36%) Java
4 17 (7.94%) SQL
5 12 (5.61%) Bash
6 11 (5.14%) C#
7 10 (4.67%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.27%) BeanShell
10 5 (2.34%) C++
10 5 (2.34%) Groovy
11 4 (1.87%) C
11 4 (1.87%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.87%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.40%) PHP
13 2 (0.93%) Cypher
13 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.47%) Korn
14 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 88 (41.12%) Security Cleared
2 78 (36.45%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.29%) CISSP
4 30 (14.02%) Degree
5 22 (10.28%) CISM
6 14 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.21%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.74%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.80%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.34%) CSPO
11 5 (2.34%) MCSA
11 5 (2.34%) MCSE
12 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.87%) GIAC
12 4 (1.87%) SSCP
13 3 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.40%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (21.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (18.22%) NIST
3 31 (14.49%) GDPR
4 15 (7.01%) NCSC
5 13 (6.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.21%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.74%) SLA
8 6 (2.80%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.40%) DICOM
9 3 (1.40%) GRC
10 2 (0.93%) HL7
10 2 (0.93%) ITGC
10 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 150 (70.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.21%) Docker
3 9 (4.21%) Squid
4 7 (3.27%) NFS
5 4 (1.87%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.40%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.40%) OpenAM
6 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.47%) KVM
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (22.43%) Single Sign-On
2 33 (15.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 28 (13.08%) Kubernetes
4 26 (12.15%) Terraform
5 13 (6.07%) Ansible
5 13 (6.07%) Grafana
6 11 (5.14%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.21%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.74%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.27%) Consul
10 6 (2.80%) CASB
11 5 (2.34%) Nessus
12 4 (1.87%) Check_MK
12 4 (1.87%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.87%) Podman
12 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.87%) vCenter Server
13 3 (1.40%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.93%) SCOM
15 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (36.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (24.77%) CyberArk
3 31 (14.49%) ServiceNow
4 18 (8.41%) VMware
5 17 (7.94%) Okta
5 17 (7.94%) Splunk
6 16 (7.48%) BeyondTrust
7 14 (6.54%) Red Hat
8 11 (5.14%) Oracle
8 11 (5.14%) Ping Identity
9 10 (4.67%) ForgeRock
10 9 (4.21%) Dynatrace
10 9 (4.21%) SAP
11 8 (3.74%) Google
12 7 (3.27%) Atlassian
12 7 (3.27%) Cisco
12 7 (3.27%) Sybase
12 7 (3.27%) Workday
13 5 (2.34%) CheckPoint
13 5 (2.34%) Veritas