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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 398 426
Rank change year-on-year -81 +28 -14
Contract jobs citing LDAP 191 158 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.63% 1.90% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 98 102
10th Percentile £336 £359 £250
25th Percentile £450 £404 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £584
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -14.35% +6.14%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £668
90th Percentile £681 £672 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £598
% change year-on-year +13.89% -24.69% +14.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 0
10th Percentile £53.38 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £77.46 £72.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £82.01 -
90th Percentile £87.88 £84.90 -
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 11,695 8,332 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.44% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,628 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.26 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.63 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -95 167 £530 +6.00% 122
UK excluding London -54 130 £513 +13.89% 66
Work from Home -28 71 £550 +1.66% 38
South East -9 55 £575 -8.00% 19
London -88 50 £528 -12.67% 63
South West -16 24 £538 +1.70% 10
North of England -68 22 £588 +35.11% 8
Yorkshire -24 18 £570 +11.22% 5
Scotland -11 14 £455 -24.17% 5
East of England -28 9 £483 -29.04% 21
Midlands -89 6 £375 -13.74% 5
West Midlands -66 5 £375 -26.83% 3
North West -68 3 £679 +68.78% 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 (4.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) nginx
2 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (58.64%) Azure
2 81 (42.41%) AWS
3 80 (41.88%) Entra ID
4 52 (27.23%) GCP
5 19 (9.95%) SaaS
6 5 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.09%) IaaS
7 4 (2.09%) PaaS
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.57%) Route 53
9 2 (1.05%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.05%) GitHub
9 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.05%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 31 (16.23%) Kerberos
2 26 (13.61%) DNS
3 15 (7.85%) DHCP
4 14 (7.33%) Firewall
5 9 (4.71%) SSL
6 7 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.66%) VPN
7 6 (3.14%) HTTPS
7 6 (3.14%) NAS
7 6 (3.14%) SAN
7 6 (3.14%) WAN
8 5 (2.62%) HTTP
8 5 (2.62%) IPsec
8 5 (2.62%) LAN
9 4 (2.09%) BIG-IP
9 4 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.09%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.09%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (2.09%) SSH
10 3 (1.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.09%) Db2
2 4 (2.09%) Metadata
3 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.05%) MySQL
4 2 (1.05%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (6.81%) Jenkins
1 13 (6.81%) JIRA
2 9 (4.71%) GitLab
3 8 (4.19%) Git
4 4 (2.09%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.57%) Postman
6 2 (1.05%) Gatling
6 2 (1.05%) JMeter
6 2 (1.05%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.28%) Documentation Skills
3 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.38%) Finance
5 15 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.76%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Military
8 3 (1.57%) Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.57%) Retail
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (23.04%) Architect
2 19 (9.95%) Consultant
3 14 (7.33%) IAM Specialist
4 12 (6.28%) Developer
4 12 (6.28%) Lead
4 12 (6.28%) Support Engineer
5 9 (4.71%) Senior
6 8 (4.19%) SailPoint Engineer
6 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.66%) Analyst
7 7 (3.66%) CyberArk Architect
7 7 (3.66%) CyberArk Consultant
8 6 (3.14%) SailPoint Architect
9 5 (2.62%) Administrator
9 5 (2.62%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.62%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.09%) Security Architect
10 4 (2.09%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (2.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (36.65%) SAML
2 64 (33.51%) OpenID
3 63 (32.98%) OAuth
4 43 (22.51%) SailPoint
5 35 (18.32%) REST
6 31 (16.23%) OAuth2
7 19 (9.95%) .NET
7 19 (9.95%) Web Services
8 17 (8.90%) Terraform
9 12 (6.28%) XML
10 11 (5.76%) SOAP
11 10 (5.24%) JDBC
12 9 (4.71%) .NET Framework
12 9 (4.71%) JSON
13 8 (4.19%) Middleware
14 7 (3.66%) Jakarta EE
15 4 (2.09%) OpenTofu
15 4 (2.09%) pytest
16 2 (1.05%) Keycloak
16 2 (1.05%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Onboarding
2 29 (15.18%) PKI
3 19 (9.95%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.33%) Replication
5 12 (6.28%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.19%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.14%) Clustering
7 6 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.09%) Mainframe
9 4 (2.09%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.05%) IoT
11 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.52%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.37%) Linux
2 33 (17.28%) Windows
3 13 (6.81%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.19%) Unix
6 6 (3.14%) CentOS
7 5 (2.62%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.05%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) CatOS
9 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.52%) Rocky
9 1 (0.52%) SUSE
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.37%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (29.32%) RBAC
3 41 (21.47%) SIEM
4 40 (20.94%) DevOps
5 39 (20.42%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (20.42%) Privileged Access Management
6 37 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (17.80%) Runbook
8 30 (15.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 29 (15.18%) CI/CD
10 27 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (13.61%) ITSM
11 26 (13.61%) Migration
12 25 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (13.09%) Zero Trust
13 22 (11.52%) Analytics
13 22 (11.52%) DevSecOps
13 22 (11.52%) Roadmaps
14 19 (9.95%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 73 (38.22%) PowerShell
2 47 (24.61%) Python
3 33 (17.28%) Java
4 14 (7.33%) C#
5 13 (6.81%) SQL
6 12 (6.28%) Bash
7 11 (5.76%) BeanShell
8 7 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.62%) Groovy
10 5 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.09%) C
11 4 (2.09%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.05%) Cypher
12 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (35.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.23%) CISSP
4 25 (13.09%) Degree
5 21 (10.99%) CISM
6 18 (9.42%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.62%) CSPO
9 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.52%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (0.52%) CRISC
13 1 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (23.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (19.90%) NIST
3 30 (15.71%) GDPR
4 15 (7.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.71%) HIPAA
6 8 (4.19%) NCSC
6 8 (4.19%) SLA
7 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.57%) GRC
9 2 (1.05%) ITGC
9 2 (1.05%) QA
9 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.52%) DICOM
10 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.52%) GMP
10 1 (0.52%) GxP
10 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 152 (79.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.24%) Docker
3 7 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.14%) NFS
5 4 (2.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.57%) OpenAM
7 2 (1.05%) Squid
8 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.52%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.52%) KVM
8 1 (0.52%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (17.80%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (12.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (6.28%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.24%) Ansible
5 8 (4.19%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.14%) Grafana
7 4 (2.09%) Check_MK
7 4 (2.09%) PingFederate
7 4 (2.09%) Podman
7 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.57%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.52%) CASB
9 1 (0.52%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.52%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.52%) systemd
9 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (40.84%) Microsoft
2 57 (29.84%) CyberArk
3 31 (16.23%) ServiceNow
4 21 (10.99%) Okta
5 15 (7.85%) BeyondTrust
6 13 (6.81%) ForgeRock
6 13 (6.81%) VMware
7 11 (5.76%) Ping Identity
7 11 (5.76%) SAP
8 9 (4.71%) Google
9 7 (3.66%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.66%) Workday
10 5 (2.62%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.62%) Oracle
10 5 (2.62%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.62%) Splunk
11 4 (2.09%) Cisco
11 4 (2.09%) Greenplum
11 4 (2.09%) Sybase