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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 397 346
Rank change year-on-year -5 -51 +169
Contract jobs citing LDAP 184 142 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 1.77% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 75 182
10th Percentile £361 £232 £370
25th Percentile £418 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £559
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +2.95% -6.92%
75th Percentile £620 £700 £674
90th Percentile £671 £769 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -13.18% +1.85% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £44.88 - £53.13
25th Percentile £45.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £85.00 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -11.72% +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 8,115 8,005 10,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.71% 21.67% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,385 5,045 7,347
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 122 189
10th Percentile £30.80 £22.00 £35.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 23 November 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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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 +5 168 £500 -13.04% 24
UK excluding London +10 113 £478 -13.18% 21
London +6 58 £608 -1.14% 5
Work from Home +13 45 £500 -9.26% 10
Midlands -13 41 £488 -16.13% 5
West Midlands -12 31 £540 -7.10% 5
North of England -14 25 £453 +24.97% 1
South East -4 22 £481 -12.66% 11
North West -7 18 £450 +24.14% 1
East of England -15 12 £680 +20.89% 4
South West -7 11 £475 -29.32%
East Midlands - 10 £415 -
Yorkshire - 7 £525 -
Scotland -5 2 £600 -14.29% 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 40 (21.74%) Confluence
2 15 (8.15%) WebSphere
3 14 (7.61%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (6.52%) nginx
5 10 (5.43%) Apache
5 10 (5.43%) IIS
5 10 (5.43%) iPlanet
5 10 (5.43%) JBoss
6 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.09%) CICS
8 2 (1.09%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.54%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.54%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.09%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (7.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.76%) AWS
2 61 (33.15%) Azure
3 33 (17.93%) GCP
4 20 (10.87%) Amazon S3
4 20 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (10.33%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (7.07%) Route 53
8 12 (6.52%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (6.52%) AWS KMS
8 12 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (5.98%) GitHub
9 11 (5.98%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.89%) Serverless
11 8 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.26%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (21.20%) DNS
2 38 (20.65%) SSL
3 32 (17.39%) HTTP
4 31 (16.85%) SMTP
5 29 (15.76%) Firewall
6 27 (14.67%) Kerberos
7 26 (14.13%) SSH
8 20 (10.87%) FTP
9 17 (9.24%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (7.61%) Network Security
11 12 (6.52%) IMAP
12 11 (5.98%) TCP/IP
13 4 (2.17%) DKIM
13 4 (2.17%) DMARC
13 4 (2.17%) Internet
13 4 (2.17%) VPN
14 3 (1.63%) DHCP
15 2 (1.09%) NAS
15 2 (1.09%) X.500
16 1 (0.54%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.43%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.17%) Metadata
6 3 (1.63%) Power BI
6 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (25.00%) JIRA
2 36 (19.57%) Git
3 29 (15.76%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.52%) Vagrant
5 10 (5.43%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (5.43%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (4.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.80%) GitLab
8 3 (1.63%) Log4j
9 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 84 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.67%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.24%) Finance
6 16 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.80%) Banking
8 4 (2.17%) Aviation
9 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.54%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (12.50%) Consultant
2 22 (11.96%) Architect
3 19 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.24%) Analyst
4 17 (9.24%) Senior
5 15 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Developer
7 10 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) ServiceNow Architect
7 10 (5.43%) SOC Analyst
8 8 (4.35%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.26%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) Identity Management Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) Management Consultant
10 5 (2.72%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (38.59%) SAML
2 53 (28.80%) OAuth
3 43 (23.37%) OpenID
4 29 (15.76%) REST
5 19 (10.33%) AngularJS
5 19 (10.33%) HTML
5 19 (10.33%) Web Services
6 17 (9.24%) SOAP
7 16 (8.70%) JDBC
8 14 (7.61%) HTML5
9 13 (7.07%) Apache Camel
9 13 (7.07%) jQuery
9 13 (7.07%) JSON
9 13 (7.07%) ODBC
9 13 (7.07%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (7.07%) SailPoint
10 11 (5.98%) OAuth2
11 8 (4.35%) Hibernate
11 8 (4.35%) Spring
12 7 (3.80%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) Replication
2 14 (7.61%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (5.43%) Cyberattack
4 8 (4.35%) CSOC
4 8 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.26%) SCADA
5 6 (3.26%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.17%) PKI
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.09%) Clustering
9 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 52 (28.26%) Windows
2 51 (27.72%) Linux
3 16 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.61%) Ubuntu
4 14 (7.61%) Unix
5 13 (7.07%) VMS
6 12 (6.52%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (4.89%) Solaris
8 7 (3.80%) AIX
9 6 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.72%) CentOS
11 2 (1.09%) zOS
12 1 (0.54%) MVS
12 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.96%) DevOps
2 62 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 49 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (22.28%) Agile
5 39 (21.20%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (21.20%) Identity Access Management
6 36 (19.57%) RBAC
7 29 (15.76%) SIEM
8 28 (15.22%) Privileged Access Management
9 27 (14.67%) Identity Management
10 26 (14.13%) Scrum
11 25 (13.59%) DevSecOps
12 21 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.41%) Migration
13 20 (10.87%) Microservices
14 19 (10.33%) Configuration Management
14 19 (10.33%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.78%) Cloud Security
16 17 (9.24%) Change Management
16 17 (9.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.70%) Python
2 59 (32.07%) PowerShell
3 26 (14.13%) Groovy
4 24 (13.04%) SQL
5 22 (11.96%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.87%) Java
7 10 (5.43%) Bash
8 8 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.80%) Go
10 3 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.09%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.09%) C#
11 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.54%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.54%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 67 (36.41%) SC Cleared
3 30 (16.30%) CISSP
4 21 (11.41%) CISM
5 17 (9.24%) AWS Certification
6 13 (7.07%) Degree
7 10 (5.43%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
12 5 (2.72%) MCSA
12 5 (2.72%) MCSE
13 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.09%) IBM Certification
15 1 (0.54%) CISA
15 1 (0.54%) GIAC
15 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (26.63%) GDPR
2 37 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (16.30%) NIST
4 15 (8.15%) HIPAA
5 12 (6.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (3.80%) QA
7 6 (3.26%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (53.26%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.85%) Docker
3 16 (8.70%) Postfix
4 12 (6.52%) Dovecot
4 12 (6.52%) Squid
5 10 (5.43%) DFS Replication
6 9 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (4.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 2 (1.09%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.09%) KVM
8 2 (1.09%) OpenAM
8 2 (1.09%) OpenDJ
8 2 (1.09%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.54%) SRDF
9 1 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.54%) Xen
9 1 (0.54%) XenApp
9 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (33.70%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (11.41%) Terraform
3 19 (10.33%) Kubernetes
4 18 (9.78%) Nessus
5 15 (8.15%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.52%) Ansible
6 12 (6.52%) Grafana
7 10 (5.43%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.43%) CA Wily
7 10 (5.43%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.89%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.35%) Tivoli
9 8 (4.35%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (3.26%) PingFederate
11 5 (2.72%) CASB
12 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.63%) SCCM
14 2 (1.09%) Puppet
15 1 (0.54%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 48 (26.09%) CyberArk
2 47 (25.54%) Microsoft
3 41 (22.28%) ServiceNow
4 27 (14.67%) BeyondTrust
5 22 (11.96%) IBM
6 20 (10.87%) Splunk
7 18 (9.78%) Remedy
8 16 (8.70%) Oracle
9 14 (7.61%) HP
9 14 (7.61%) Ping Identity
10 13 (7.07%) BMC
10 13 (7.07%) Ivanti
11 12 (6.52%) Jaspersoft
12 11 (5.98%) Okta
12 11 (5.98%) VMware
13 10 (5.43%) AppDynamics
13 10 (5.43%) Broadcom
13 10 (5.43%) ForgeRock
14 7 (3.80%) SAP
15 6 (3.26%) Tenable