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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 422 328
Rank change year-on-year +43 -94 +212
Contract jobs citing LDAP 206 142 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.41% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 1.88% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 77 181
10th Percentile £365 £255 £370
25th Percentile £449 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £675 £775 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £45.00 - £53.13
25th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £83.75 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.00 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 8,189 7,567 9,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.88% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,414 4,793 6,998
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 175
10th Percentile £30.40 £21.55 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £74.70 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

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 December 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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 +12 185 £500 -13.04% 108
UK excluding London +19 128 £481 -12.50% 109
London -10 60 £608 +1.33% 8
Work from Home +24 58 £500 -9.26% 28
Midlands -15 42 £500 -11.19% 18
West Midlands -19 36 £540 -4.09% 11
North of England -9 31 £468 -6.40% 27
South East +2 23 £481 -12.66% 20
East of England -16 17 £680 +18.26% 29
Yorkshire - 16 £469 - 15
North West -8 15 £453 -9.40% 10
South West -10 11 £475 - 10
East Midlands - 6 £415 - 6
Scotland +4 2 £600 -14.29% 5
Wales - 2 - - 6

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 39 (18.93%) Confluence
2 14 (6.80%) nginx
3 12 (5.83%) WebSphere
4 11 (5.34%) Apache
4 11 (5.34%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (4.85%) IIS
5 10 (4.85%) iPlanet
5 10 (4.85%) JBoss
6 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.97%) CICS
8 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.49%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.49%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (6.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 85 (41.26%) AWS
2 81 (39.32%) Azure
3 43 (20.87%) GCP
4 30 (14.56%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.22%) Amazon S3
5 19 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (5.83%) Route 53
8 11 (5.34%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (5.34%) AWS KMS
8 11 (5.34%) GitHub
8 11 (5.34%) SaaS
8 11 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (4.37%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.88%) Serverless
11 6 (2.91%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (25.73%) DNS
2 43 (20.87%) SSL
3 38 (18.45%) Kerberos
4 37 (17.96%) HTTP
5 34 (16.50%) Firewall
6 32 (15.53%) SMTP
7 25 (12.14%) FTP
8 24 (11.65%) SSH
9 18 (8.74%) Network Security
10 16 (7.77%) OpenLDAP
11 11 (5.34%) IMAP
12 9 (4.37%) TCP/IP
13 8 (3.88%) VPN
14 7 (3.40%) DHCP
14 7 (3.40%) LAN
14 7 (3.40%) WAN
15 4 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (1.94%) DKIM
15 4 (1.94%) HTTPS
15 4 (1.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.85%) Oracle Database
5 8 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.91%) MySQL
7 4 (1.94%) Metadata
8 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.46%) Power BI
9 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (25.73%) JIRA
2 36 (17.48%) Git
3 32 (15.53%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.80%) GitLab
5 11 (5.34%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (4.85%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (3.40%) Selenium
9 6 (2.91%) Postman
10 5 (2.43%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.43%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.43%) TestRail
11 2 (0.97%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.49%) JUnit
12 1 (0.49%) Maven
12 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 89 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.08%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.74%) Finance
6 16 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.88%) Banking
8 4 (1.94%) Aviation
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.97%) Electronics
10 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (13.11%) Architect
2 26 (12.62%) Consultant
3 22 (10.68%) Analyst
4 19 (9.22%) Senior
5 18 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.28%) SOC Analyst
7 14 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Developer
9 10 (4.85%) ServiceNow Architect
10 9 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) Senior Architect
11 7 (3.40%) Lead
11 7 (3.40%) Security Consultant
12 6 (2.91%) CyberArk Architect
12 6 (2.91%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (36.89%) SAML
2 54 (26.21%) OAuth
3 50 (24.27%) OpenID
4 35 (16.99%) REST
5 21 (10.19%) SailPoint
6 19 (9.22%) SOAP
7 16 (7.77%) AngularJS
7 16 (7.77%) HTML
7 16 (7.77%) Web Services
8 14 (6.80%) HTML5
9 13 (6.31%) Apache Camel
9 13 (6.31%) JDBC
9 13 (6.31%) jQuery
9 13 (6.31%) JSON
9 13 (6.31%) ODBC
9 13 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (4.37%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.40%) .NET
11 7 (3.40%) boto
11 7 (3.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.22%) Onboarding
2 18 (8.74%) Replication
3 15 (7.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (7.28%) Cyberattack
3 15 (7.28%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.80%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (6.31%) CSOC
5 13 (6.31%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (5.83%) Security Posture
7 9 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.91%) PKI
8 6 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.91%) SCADA
9 5 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.94%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.97%) Clustering
12 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (28.16%) Windows
2 53 (25.73%) Linux
3 19 (9.22%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.28%) Unix
5 14 (6.80%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.83%) VMS
7 11 (5.34%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (4.37%) Solaris
9 8 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (3.40%) AIX
11 5 (2.43%) CentOS
12 2 (0.97%) CatOS
12 2 (0.97%) zOS
13 1 (0.49%) MVS
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.44%) DevOps
2 64 (31.07%) CI/CD
3 53 (25.73%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (22.33%) SIEM
6 44 (21.36%) Identity Access Management
7 41 (19.90%) Agile
8 39 (18.93%) Privileged Access Management
9 32 (15.53%) Identity Management
10 31 (15.05%) RBAC
11 28 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (11.17%) DevSecOps
12 23 (11.17%) Incident Response
12 23 (11.17%) Root Cause Analysis
13 22 (10.68%) Roadmaps
14 21 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (10.19%) Scrum
15 20 (9.71%) Information Security
15 20 (9.71%) ITSM
15 20 (9.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.86%) Python
2 74 (35.92%) PowerShell
3 31 (15.05%) SQL
4 25 (12.14%) Groovy
5 23 (11.17%) JavaScript
6 21 (10.19%) Java
7 10 (4.85%) Bash
8 8 (3.88%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.40%) Go
10 5 (2.43%) PHP
11 3 (1.46%) C++
12 2 (0.97%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.97%) C#
12 2 (0.97%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.49%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.49%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (42.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (40.29%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.05%) CISSP
4 22 (10.68%) CISM
5 17 (8.25%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.83%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.85%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.85%) Degree
9 9 (4.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.43%) MCSA
11 5 (2.43%) MCSE
12 1 (0.49%) CBAP
12 1 (0.49%) CCA
12 1 (0.49%) CISA
12 1 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (23.79%) GDPR
2 41 (19.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (15.53%) NIST
4 14 (6.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (5.83%) HIPAA
6 11 (5.34%) QA
7 6 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.43%) NCSC
8 5 (2.43%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 119 (57.77%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.62%) Docker
3 15 (7.28%) Postfix
4 13 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (5.34%) Dovecot
5 11 (5.34%) Squid
6 10 (4.85%) DFS Replication
7 8 (3.88%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 3 (1.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.46%) KVM
8 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.97%) NFS
9 2 (0.97%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.97%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.97%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.49%) Firmware
10 1 (0.49%) Samba
10 1 (0.49%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (29.13%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (10.19%) Terraform
3 19 (9.22%) Nessus
4 14 (6.80%) Kubernetes
5 13 (6.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (6.31%) Ansible
6 11 (5.34%) Grafana
6 11 (5.34%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.85%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.85%) CA Wily
7 10 (4.85%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.37%) Progress Chef
9 8 (3.88%) Tivoli
10 6 (2.91%) PingFederate
11 5 (2.43%) CASB
11 5 (2.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 5 (2.43%) WSUS
12 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.46%) SCCM
14 2 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (27.67%) CyberArk
2 56 (27.18%) Microsoft
3 43 (20.87%) ServiceNow
4 33 (16.02%) BeyondTrust
5 20 (9.71%) Splunk
6 18 (8.74%) Remedy
7 17 (8.25%) VMware
8 16 (7.77%) IBM
8 16 (7.77%) Oracle
9 14 (6.80%) HP
10 13 (6.31%) BMC
10 13 (6.31%) Ivanti
11 12 (5.83%) Okta
11 12 (5.83%) Ping Identity
12 11 (5.34%) Jaspersoft
13 10 (4.85%) AppDynamics
13 10 (4.85%) Broadcom
14 9 (4.37%) ForgeRock
15 8 (3.88%) Cisco
15 8 (3.88%) Tenable