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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 379 399
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 +101
Contract jobs citing LDAP 254 146 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 2.17% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 89 115
10th Percentile £401 £373 £285
25th Percentile £488 £415 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £622
90th Percentile £760 £688 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +4.88% -14.58% +9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £80.34 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £80.59 -
Median hourly rate £87.16 £81.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 £81.91 -
90th Percentile - £83.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.46 £81.35 -
% change year-on-year -4.79% - -

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 9,792 6,720 9,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.57% 22.77% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,434 4,601 6,355
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 120 265
10th Percentile £30.40 £29.23 £22.20
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +17.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.47 £81.35 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -24 238 £598 +13.81% 37
UK excluding London -65 125 £538 +4.88% 33
London +5 110 £700 +27.27% 5
Work from Home -14 103 £700 +27.27% 16
South East -18 50 £525 -27.59% 19
North of England -43 37 £620 +24.00% 3
Yorkshire -43 21 £550 -8.33% 2
South West -11 16 £545 -17.74% 5
North West -30 15 £635 +65.23% 1
East of England -32 12 £480 -19.96% 6
Midlands -78 9 £320 -34.96% 1
West Midlands -61 8 £320 -45.53% 1
Wales - 1 £345 - 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 11 (4.33%) Confluence
2 9 (3.54%) nginx
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (0.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 167 (65.75%) Azure
2 114 (44.88%) AWS
3 90 (35.43%) Entra ID
4 77 (30.31%) GCP
5 18 (7.09%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.94%) Serverless
8 9 (3.54%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.54%) Route 53
8 9 (3.54%) SaaS
9 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.79%) GitHub
10 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.79%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 57 (22.44%) DNS
2 50 (19.69%) Kerberos
3 34 (13.39%) Firewall
4 30 (11.81%) DHCP
5 25 (9.84%) VPN
6 20 (7.87%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.30%) SSL
8 13 (5.12%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (3.94%) HTTPS
9 10 (3.94%) WAN
10 9 (3.54%) LAN
10 9 (3.54%) OpenVPN
11 8 (3.15%) IPsec
11 8 (3.15%) NAS
11 8 (3.15%) Network Security
11 8 (3.15%) SAN
12 7 (2.76%) BGP
12 7 (2.76%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.76%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.97%) MySQL
4 4 (1.57%) Metadata
4 4 (1.57%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.39%) Power BI
6 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (15.75%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.24%) GitLab
3 22 (8.66%) JIRA
4 14 (5.51%) Git
5 9 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.15%) REST Assured
6 8 (3.15%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.76%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.76%) Selenium
8 5 (1.97%) Postman
9 4 (1.57%) Gatling
9 4 (1.57%) JMeter
9 4 (1.57%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.57%) NeoLoad
General
1 99 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.65%) Documentation Skills
3 41 (16.14%) Finance
4 21 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.72%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.76%) Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.18%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 87 (34.25%) Architect
2 45 (17.72%) CyberArk Architect
3 13 (5.12%) Consultant
4 12 (4.72%) Administrator
4 12 (4.72%) Developer
5 11 (4.33%) Linux Administrator
5 11 (4.33%) Technical Architect
6 10 (3.94%) IAM Specialist
6 10 (3.94%) Lead
6 10 (3.94%) Security Engineer
7 8 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.15%) Network Engineer
8 7 (2.76%) Senior
8 7 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.36%) SailPoint Engineer
9 6 (2.36%) Test Architect
9 6 (2.36%) Test Automation Architect
10 5 (1.97%) AWS Architect
11 4 (1.57%) Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (1.57%) CyberArk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (34.25%) SAML
2 83 (32.68%) OpenID
3 64 (25.20%) REST
4 63 (24.80%) OAuth
5 41 (16.14%) SailPoint
6 40 (15.75%) SOAP
7 26 (10.24%) OAuth2
8 17 (6.69%) Web Services
9 11 (4.33%) Middleware
10 10 (3.94%) .NET
11 9 (3.54%) J2EE
12 8 (3.15%) JSON
13 6 (2.36%) JDBC
14 4 (1.57%) Playwright
14 4 (1.57%) XML
15 2 (0.79%) EDI
16 1 (0.39%) HTML
16 1 (0.39%) React
16 1 (0.39%) RESTful
16 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.14%) Enterprise Software
2 38 (14.96%) Onboarding
3 37 (14.57%) Security Posture
4 34 (13.39%) Replication
5 21 (8.27%) Cloud Native
6 20 (7.87%) Management Information System
7 13 (5.12%) PKI
8 11 (4.33%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.97%) Clustering
9 5 (1.97%) PACS
9 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) CMDB
11 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) IoT
12 2 (0.79%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.39%) Biopharmaceutical
13 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.69%) Linux
2 41 (16.14%) Windows
3 22 (8.66%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.12%) CentOS
6 11 (4.33%) Unix
7 9 (3.54%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.18%) CatOS
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.39%) Rocky
10 1 (0.39%) SUSE
10 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (33.86%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (28.35%) DevOps
3 63 (24.80%) SIEM
4 59 (23.23%) RBAC
5 56 (22.05%) Identity Access Management
6 55 (21.65%) Cybersecurity
6 55 (21.65%) ITSM
7 54 (21.26%) CI/CD
8 52 (20.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 48 (18.90%) Privileged Access Management
10 46 (18.11%) Task Automation
11 40 (15.75%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (15.35%) Integration Patterns
13 36 (14.17%) Presales
14 28 (11.02%) Agile
14 28 (11.02%) Migration
15 27 (10.63%) High Availability
15 27 (10.63%) Roadmaps
16 24 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.09%) PowerShell
2 83 (32.68%) Python
3 42 (16.54%) Java
4 19 (7.48%) SQL
5 15 (5.91%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.33%) MATLAB
8 10 (3.94%) Bash
9 5 (1.97%) C++
9 5 (1.97%) Groovy
10 4 (1.57%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.57%) Cypher
10 4 (1.57%) PHP
10 4 (1.57%) Scala
10 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.39%) C
11 1 (0.39%) C#
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (55.91%) Security Cleared
2 134 (52.76%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.39%) CISSP
4 23 (9.06%) CISM
5 20 (7.87%) Degree
6 13 (5.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.54%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.36%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.97%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.97%) MCSA
10 5 (1.97%) MCSE
11 4 (1.57%) APMG
11 4 (1.57%) CSPO
11 4 (1.57%) GIAC
11 4 (1.57%) OCP
11 4 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.57%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (18.11%) NIST
3 44 (17.32%) GDPR
4 23 (9.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (8.27%) NCSC
6 11 (4.33%) SLA
7 9 (3.54%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.57%) QA
9 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.18%) DICOM
10 2 (0.79%) HL7
10 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.39%) GMP
11 1 (0.39%) GRC
11 1 (0.39%) GxP
11 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 176 (69.29%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.54%) Squid
4 8 (3.15%) Docker
5 7 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.76%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.18%) NFS
8 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.39%) KVM
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (24.02%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (16.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 34 (13.39%) Kubernetes
4 23 (9.06%) Terraform
5 18 (7.09%) Ansible
6 13 (5.12%) Grafana
7 12 (4.72%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.33%) Check_MK
8 11 (4.33%) Podman
8 11 (4.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.54%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.76%) Consul
10 7 (2.76%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.36%) CASB
12 5 (1.97%) Nessus
13 4 (1.57%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.57%) PingFederate
14 3 (1.18%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.18%) SCOM
15 2 (0.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 82 (32.28%) CyberArk
2 76 (29.92%) Microsoft
3 44 (17.32%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (13.39%) ServiceNow
5 33 (12.99%) Centrify
6 30 (11.81%) VMware
7 23 (9.06%) Red Hat
8 22 (8.66%) Okta
9 21 (8.27%) Splunk
10 14 (5.51%) Cisco
11 11 (4.33%) Google
12 10 (3.94%) Oracle
12 10 (3.94%) Ping Identity
13 9 (3.54%) Dynatrace
13 9 (3.54%) ForgeRock
14 8 (3.15%) CheckPoint
14 8 (3.15%) Palo Alto
14 8 (3.15%) SAP
15 7 (2.76%) Atlassian
15 7 (2.76%) Veritas