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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 387 421
Rank change year-on-year -30 +34 +77
Contract jobs citing LDAP 245 144 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.47% 2.08% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 91 109
10th Percentile £381 £363 £281
25th Percentile £488 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +0.46%
75th Percentile £651 £631 £622
90th Percentile £775 £671 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £496 £599
% change year-on-year +5.85% -17.16% +8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £73.74 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £91.37 £81.91 -
90th Percentile £92.50 £83.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -1.77% - -

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 9,924 6,922 9,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.88% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,712 6,362
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 137 279
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £85.43 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -10.08%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -29 228 £563 +12.50% 31
UK excluding London -60 133 £525 +5.85% 26
London -18 93 £600 +9.09% 6
Work from Home -20 87 £600 +11.63% 9
South East -6 56 £525 -27.59% 14
North of England -49 37 £619 +23.70% 5
Yorkshire -37 21 £553 -7.92% 3
South West -23 18 £550 -11.11% 3
North West -37 15 £635 +65.23% 2
East of England -29 12 £480 +11.69% 3
Midlands -86 9 £320 -27.19% 2
West Midlands -65 8 £320 -41.82% 2
Wales - 1 £345 -
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 13 (5.31%) Confluence
2 9 (3.67%) nginx
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 151 (61.63%) Azure
2 96 (39.18%) Entra ID
3 95 (38.78%) AWS
4 58 (23.67%) GCP
5 18 (7.35%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.90%) SaaS
7 11 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.08%) Serverless
9 9 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.67%) Route 53
10 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.82%) GitHub
12 2 (0.82%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.82%) Sentry
13 1 (0.41%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 58 (23.67%) DNS
2 53 (21.63%) Kerberos
3 35 (14.29%) Firewall
4 31 (12.65%) DHCP
5 25 (10.20%) VPN
6 20 (8.16%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.53%) SSL
8 13 (5.31%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (4.08%) HTTPS
9 10 (4.08%) WAN
10 9 (3.67%) LAN
10 9 (3.67%) NAS
10 9 (3.67%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.67%) SAN
11 8 (3.27%) IPsec
11 8 (3.27%) Network Security
12 7 (2.86%) BGP
12 7 (2.86%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.04%) MySQL
3 5 (2.04%) Neo4j
4 4 (1.63%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) Db2
6 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.41%) Power BI
6 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (15.92%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.20%) GitLab
3 24 (9.80%) JIRA
4 14 (5.71%) Git
5 9 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.27%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.45%) Postman
7 6 (2.45%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.04%) Gatling
8 5 (2.04%) JMeter
8 5 (2.04%) NeoLoad
8 5 (2.04%) Selenium
9 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.45%) Documentation Skills
3 41 (16.73%) Finance
4 22 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.90%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.45%) Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Military
10 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 67 (27.35%) Architect
2 25 (10.20%) CyberArk Architect
3 14 (5.71%) Developer
4 12 (4.90%) Administrator
4 12 (4.90%) Consultant
5 11 (4.49%) Linux Administrator
5 11 (4.49%) Technical Architect
6 10 (4.08%) IAM Specialist
6 10 (4.08%) Security Engineer
7 9 (3.67%) Lead
7 9 (3.67%) Senior
8 8 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.27%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.27%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.45%) Test Architect
10 6 (2.45%) Test Automation Architect
11 5 (2.04%) AWS Architect
12 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Engineer
12 4 (1.63%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (37.96%) SAML
2 88 (35.92%) OpenID
3 67 (27.35%) OAuth
4 45 (18.37%) REST
5 42 (17.14%) SailPoint
6 27 (11.02%) OAuth2
7 20 (8.16%) SOAP
8 17 (6.94%) Web Services
9 12 (4.90%) Middleware
10 11 (4.49%) .NET
11 9 (3.67%) J2EE
12 8 (3.27%) JSON
13 6 (2.45%) JDBC
14 5 (2.04%) Playwright
15 4 (1.63%) XML
16 2 (0.82%) EDI
16 2 (0.82%) FIDO
16 2 (0.82%) Keycloak
16 2 (0.82%) WebAuthn
17 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.55%) Onboarding
2 34 (13.88%) Replication
3 23 (9.39%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.39%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 20 (8.16%) Security Posture
6 19 (7.76%) PKI
7 12 (4.90%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.04%) Clustering
9 5 (2.04%) PACS
10 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.22%) CMDB
11 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.82%) IoT
12 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.04%) Linux
2 43 (17.55%) Windows
3 22 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.31%) CentOS
6 12 (4.90%) Unix
7 9 (3.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.22%) CatOS
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.41%) Rocky
10 1 (0.41%) SUSE
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.20%) DevOps
2 66 (26.94%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (25.71%) RBAC
4 61 (24.90%) Identity Access Management
5 60 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
6 53 (21.63%) CI/CD
7 45 (18.37%) SIEM
8 35 (14.29%) ITSM
9 34 (13.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 32 (13.06%) Privileged Access Management
11 30 (12.24%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.84%) Migration
13 28 (11.43%) Agile
14 27 (11.02%) High Availability
14 27 (11.02%) Zero Trust
15 26 (10.61%) Task Automation
16 25 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (9.39%) ITIL
17 23 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 95 (38.78%) PowerShell
2 65 (26.53%) Python
3 42 (17.14%) Java
4 18 (7.35%) SQL
5 15 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.49%) MATLAB
8 10 (4.08%) Bash
9 6 (2.45%) BeanShell
10 5 (2.04%) C++
10 5 (2.04%) Cypher
10 5 (2.04%) Groovy
10 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.63%) PHP
11 4 (1.63%) Scala
12 3 (1.22%) C
13 2 (0.82%) C#
14 1 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 125 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 116 (47.35%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.10%) CISSP
4 26 (10.61%) Degree
5 23 (9.39%) CISM
6 13 (5.31%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.27%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.04%) CSPO
11 5 (2.04%) GIAC
11 5 (2.04%) MCSA
11 5 (2.04%) MCSE
11 5 (2.04%) SSCP
12 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.63%) OCP
12 4 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (18.78%) NIST
3 43 (17.55%) GDPR
4 23 (9.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (8.57%) NCSC
6 11 (4.49%) SLA
7 9 (3.67%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.63%) QA
9 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.22%) DICOM
9 3 (1.22%) GRC
10 2 (0.82%) HL7
10 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) GMP
11 1 (0.41%) GxP
11 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 166 (67.76%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.67%) Squid
4 8 (3.27%) Docker
5 7 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.86%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (1.63%) NFS
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.41%) KVM
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (24.90%) Single Sign-On
2 46 (18.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 35 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.20%) Terraform
5 18 (7.35%) Ansible
6 14 (5.71%) Grafana
7 12 (4.90%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.49%) Check_MK
8 11 (4.49%) Podman
8 11 (4.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.67%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.86%) Consul
10 7 (2.86%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.45%) CASB
12 5 (2.04%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (2.04%) Nessus
13 4 (1.63%) PingFederate
14 3 (1.22%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.22%) SCOM
15 2 (0.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (33.47%) Microsoft
2 67 (27.35%) CyberArk
3 35 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 30 (12.24%) VMware
5 24 (9.80%) BeyondTrust
5 24 (9.80%) Okta
6 23 (9.39%) Red Hat
7 21 (8.57%) Splunk
8 14 (5.71%) Cisco
9 13 (5.31%) Centrify
10 11 (4.49%) Google
10 11 (4.49%) Ping Identity
11 10 (4.08%) ForgeRock
11 10 (4.08%) Oracle
12 9 (3.67%) Dynatrace
13 8 (3.27%) CheckPoint
13 8 (3.27%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.27%) SAP
14 7 (2.86%) F5
14 7 (2.86%) Veritas