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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 382 409
Rank change year-on-year -79 +27 -19
Contract jobs citing LDAP 213 170 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 2.02% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 109 95
10th Percentile £347 £355 £250
25th Percentile £450 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £681
90th Percentile £676 £671 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £452 £595
% change year-on-year +16.28% -24.12% +13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 0
10th Percentile £66.13 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.24 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.13% - -
75th Percentile £91.27 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.48 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +31.50% - -

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 11,830 8,415 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.71% 25.51% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,757 5,661 6,332
10th Percentile £375 £356 £359
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -14.77% +0.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -84 186 £525 +5.00% 109
UK excluding London -66 148 £525 +16.28% 58
Work from Home -29 84 £525 +2.44% 35
South East -11 57 £581 -7.00% 21
London -89 52 £525 -12.50% 56
South West -15 32 £525 +13.51% 8
North of England -73 22 £588 +30.61% 3
Yorkshire -32 18 £570 +11.22% 2
East of England -24 16 £483 -29.04% 23
Scotland -29 16 £461 -23.21% 2
Midlands -96 5 £450 - 6
West Midlands -67 4 £450 -18.18% 3
North West -70 3 £679 +52.13% 1
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 10 (4.69%) Confluence
2 8 (3.76%) IIS
3 3 (1.41%) nginx
3 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.94%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (52.58%) Azure
2 84 (39.44%) AWS
3 81 (38.03%) Entra ID
4 52 (24.41%) GCP
5 19 (8.92%) SaaS
6 7 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.35%) GitHub
8 5 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.88%) IaaS
9 4 (1.88%) PaaS
10 3 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.41%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.41%) Route 53
10 3 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.55%) Kerberos
2 26 (12.21%) DNS
3 16 (7.51%) DHCP
4 13 (6.10%) Firewall
5 11 (5.16%) HTTP
6 8 (3.76%) SSL
7 7 (3.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.82%) NAS
8 6 (2.82%) SAN
8 6 (2.82%) VPN
9 5 (2.35%) HTTPS
9 5 (2.35%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (2.35%) WAN
10 4 (1.88%) IPsec
10 4 (1.88%) LAN
10 4 (1.88%) SSH
11 3 (1.41%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.88%) Db2
2 4 (1.88%) Metadata
3 3 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.94%) MySQL
4 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (7.51%) JIRA
2 14 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.63%) GitLab
4 11 (5.16%) Git
5 4 (1.88%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.41%) JMeter
6 3 (1.41%) Postman
7 2 (0.94%) Gatling
7 2 (0.94%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.47%) Locust
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) Newman
8 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.47%) Selenium
8 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 77 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.02%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.51%) Finance
5 12 (5.63%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.82%) Back Office
7 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.88%) Military
8 3 (1.41%) Banking
8 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.41%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (23.94%) Architect
2 21 (9.86%) Consultant
3 14 (6.57%) Developer
3 14 (6.57%) IAM Specialist
4 12 (5.63%) Lead
4 12 (5.63%) Support Engineer
5 9 (4.23%) CyberArk Consultant
5 9 (4.23%) Senior
6 8 (3.76%) Analyst
6 8 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 8 (3.76%) SailPoint Engineer
6 8 (3.76%) Security Engineer
7 7 (3.29%) CyberArk Architect
7 7 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.82%) SailPoint Architect
9 5 (2.35%) Administrator
9 5 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.35%) Linux Developer
9 5 (2.35%) Software Developer
9 5 (2.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (31.92%) SAML
2 63 (29.58%) OpenID
3 62 (29.11%) OAuth
4 45 (21.13%) SailPoint
5 40 (18.78%) REST
6 31 (14.55%) OAuth2
7 21 (9.86%) .NET
7 21 (9.86%) Web Services
8 18 (8.45%) Terraform
9 16 (7.51%) JSON
10 14 (6.57%) XML
11 11 (5.16%) SOAP
12 10 (4.69%) JDBC
13 9 (4.23%) .NET Framework
14 8 (3.76%) Middleware
15 7 (3.29%) Jakarta EE
15 7 (3.29%) Regular Expression
16 6 (2.82%) pytest
17 5 (2.35%) OpenTofu
18 2 (0.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.78%) Onboarding
2 28 (13.15%) PKI
3 20 (9.39%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (6.57%) Replication
5 12 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.23%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.76%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.29%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.82%) Clustering
9 6 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.35%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.88%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.94%) CSOC
13 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.94%) IoT
13 2 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.25%) Windows
2 40 (18.78%) Linux
3 14 (6.57%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.76%) Unix
6 7 (3.29%) CentOS
7 5 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.94%) VMS
9 1 (0.47%) CatOS
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
9 1 (0.47%) SUSE
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.11%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (27.23%) SIEM
3 57 (26.76%) RBAC
4 46 (21.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (20.66%) Runbook
6 43 (20.19%) DevOps
6 43 (20.19%) Privileged Access Management
7 42 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (16.43%) Technical Leadership
9 34 (15.96%) ITSM
10 33 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (15.02%) CI/CD
12 31 (14.55%) Migration
13 30 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (13.62%) DevSecOps
15 28 (13.15%) Roadmaps
16 26 (12.21%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (12.21%) Security Architecture
17 25 (11.74%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 79 (37.09%) PowerShell
2 56 (26.29%) Python
3 33 (15.49%) Java
4 16 (7.51%) C#
5 13 (6.10%) SQL
6 11 (5.16%) Bash
6 11 (5.16%) BeanShell
7 7 (3.29%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.35%) C
9 5 (2.35%) Groovy
9 5 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.88%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.41%) Go
12 2 (0.94%) Cypher
12 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.08%) CISSP
3 30 (14.08%) DV Cleared
4 26 (12.21%) Degree
5 20 (9.39%) CISM
6 11 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.35%) CSPO
9 5 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.41%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.47%) CRISC
13 1 (0.47%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (23.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (21.13%) NIST
3 29 (13.62%) GDPR
4 14 (6.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.76%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.76%) NCSC
5 8 (3.76%) SLA
6 7 (3.29%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.35%) GRC
8 3 (1.41%) QA
9 2 (0.94%) ITGC
9 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.47%) DICOM
10 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 173 (81.22%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.10%) NFS
2 13 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.69%) Docker
3 10 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.41%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.94%) Squid
7 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.47%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.47%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.47%) KVM
7 1 (0.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (16.43%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (11.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (7.04%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.69%) Ansible
5 8 (3.76%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.82%) Grafana
7 4 (1.88%) Check_MK
7 4 (1.88%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.88%) Podman
7 4 (1.88%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.88%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.41%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.47%) CASB
9 1 (0.47%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.47%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.47%) systemd
9 1 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 78 (36.62%) Microsoft
2 69 (32.39%) CyberArk
3 33 (15.49%) ServiceNow
4 23 (10.80%) Okta
5 19 (8.92%) VMware
6 16 (7.51%) BeyondTrust
7 13 (6.10%) ForgeRock
8 11 (5.16%) Ping Identity
8 11 (5.16%) SAP
9 9 (4.23%) Google
10 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.29%) Workday
11 5 (2.35%) Oracle
11 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.35%) Splunk
12 4 (1.88%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.88%) Greenplum
12 4 (1.88%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.88%) Sybase
13 3 (1.41%) F5