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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 382 372
Rank change year-on-year +46 -10 +118
Contract jobs citing LDAP 267 151 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.49% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.06% 2.19% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 80 133
10th Percentile £413 £398 £332
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £579 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +1.58% +1.20%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £650
90th Percentile £750 £740 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile £51.40 - £53.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £72.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +30.16% -23.70%
75th Percentile £88.75 £73.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £92.50 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -9.66% +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 8,729 6,890 9,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 22.45% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,819 4,399 6,564
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 85 191
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.31 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.13 £38.50 £45.44
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.96 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -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 10 February 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 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 15 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 February 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 +25 245 £550 -4.35% 39
UK excluding London +3 147 £500 -13.04% 36
Work from Home +39 111 £639 +8.03% 21
London +6 98 £700 +16.67% 9
South East +2 41 £496 -9.98% 8
North of England -29 40 £525 -4.55% 10
Midlands -48 32 £540 -10.93% 3
West Midlands -41 31 £545 -10.10% 3
Yorkshire -33 26 £525 -12.50% 2
South West -16 16 £513 +7.89% 4
North West -16 14 £521 +47.28% 8
East of England -21 14 £478 -16.87% 10
Wales - 3 £345 - 1
Scotland +8 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £525 -

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 15 (5.62%) nginx
2 14 (5.24%) Confluence
3 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.00%) Apache
5 7 (2.62%) IIS
5 7 (2.62%) iPlanet
5 7 (2.62%) JBoss
5 7 (2.62%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.62%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 153 (57.30%) Azure
2 114 (42.70%) AWS
3 82 (30.71%) GCP
4 65 (24.34%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.61%) OpenShift
6 15 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.24%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (4.87%) Route 53
9 12 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (4.12%) SaaS
11 8 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.00%) Serverless
12 7 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.25%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (2.25%) AWS KMS
13 6 (2.25%) Nutanix
14 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 70 (26.22%) Kerberos
2 67 (25.09%) DNS
3 39 (14.61%) Firewall
4 32 (11.99%) DHCP
5 26 (9.74%) HTTP
6 23 (8.61%) VPN
7 17 (6.37%) SSH
7 17 (6.37%) SSL
8 16 (5.99%) SMTP
9 13 (4.87%) Network Security
10 12 (4.49%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (4.12%) FTP
12 10 (3.75%) LAN
12 10 (3.75%) TCP/IP
12 10 (3.75%) WAN
13 9 (3.37%) HTTPS
14 6 (2.25%) BGP
14 6 (2.25%) MPLS
14 6 (2.25%) OpenLDAP
14 6 (2.25%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.62%) Oracle Database
2 7 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (2.25%) MySQL
4 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.12%) Metadata
5 3 (1.12%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (19.85%) Jenkins
2 38 (14.23%) JIRA
3 29 (10.86%) Git
3 29 (10.86%) GitLab
4 14 (5.24%) Selenium
5 12 (4.49%) Cucumber
5 12 (4.49%) REST Assured
6 10 (3.75%) Postman
7 7 (2.62%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (2.62%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.25%) Vagrant
9 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.87%) TestRail
10 4 (1.50%) Gatling
10 4 (1.50%) JMeter
10 4 (1.50%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.50%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 123 (46.07%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.35%) Documentation Skills
3 32 (11.99%) Finance
4 23 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.50%) Aviation
11 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (28.09%) Architect
2 48 (17.98%) CyberArk Architect
3 26 (9.74%) Consultant
4 10 (3.75%) Analyst
4 10 (3.75%) Lead
5 9 (3.37%) Administrator
5 9 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (3.37%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.37%) Security Engineer
5 9 (3.37%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.37%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (3.00%) Senior
7 7 (2.62%) Developer
7 7 (2.62%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (2.62%) Network Engineer
8 6 (2.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (2.25%) Test Architect
8 6 (2.25%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (29.21%) SAML
2 69 (25.84%) OpenID
3 57 (21.35%) REST
4 54 (20.22%) OAuth
5 38 (14.23%) SOAP
6 26 (9.74%) SailPoint
7 9 (3.37%) .NET
8 8 (3.00%) Middleware
9 6 (2.25%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.50%) J2EE
10 4 (1.50%) Playwright
11 3 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.12%) Web Services
12 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.75%) HTML
12 2 (0.75%) RESTful
12 2 (0.75%) XML
13 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET Web API
13 1 (0.37%) boto
13 1 (0.37%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.23%) Replication
2 37 (13.86%) Security Posture
3 36 (13.48%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (11.99%) Onboarding
5 22 (8.24%) Cloud Native
6 17 (6.37%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.49%) PKI
8 9 (3.37%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.25%) SCADA
9 6 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.87%) CSOC
10 5 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.87%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.12%) CMDB
13 2 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.75%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.72%) Windows
2 51 (19.10%) Linux
3 33 (12.36%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.99%) Ubuntu
6 12 (4.49%) CentOS
7 7 (2.62%) Unix
8 6 (2.25%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (2.25%) VMS
9 4 (1.50%) AIX
9 4 (1.50%) CatOS
9 4 (1.50%) Solaris
10 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.08%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (31.84%) SIEM
3 79 (29.59%) DevOps
4 74 (27.72%) CI/CD
5 66 (24.72%) Privileged Access Management
6 64 (23.97%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (22.47%) Identity Access Management
8 54 (20.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 54 (20.22%) Task Automation
9 51 (19.10%) ITSM
10 42 (15.73%) RBAC
10 42 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
11 35 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
11 35 (13.11%) Presales
12 33 (12.36%) Agile
12 33 (12.36%) Migration
13 31 (11.61%) High Availability
14 26 (9.74%) DevSecOps
14 26 (9.74%) Roadmaps
15 21 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.57%) PowerShell
2 103 (38.58%) Python
3 35 (13.11%) SQL
4 27 (10.11%) Java
5 17 (6.37%) Groovy
6 15 (5.62%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.37%) Bash
8 9 (3.37%) PHP
9 7 (2.62%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.50%) C++
10 4 (1.50%) Cypher
10 4 (1.50%) Scala
10 4 (1.50%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.75%) C#
11 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.37%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 154 (57.68%) Security Cleared
2 147 (55.06%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.24%) CISSP
4 27 (10.11%) CISM
5 11 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.37%) Degree
8 7 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.87%) GIAC
11 4 (1.50%) APMG
11 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.50%) GSEC
11 4 (1.50%) SSCP
12 3 (1.12%) OCP
12 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.75%) RHCE
13 2 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (23.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (20.97%) GDPR
3 53 (19.85%) NIST
4 20 (7.49%) NCSC
4 20 (7.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.00%) QA
7 7 (2.62%) SLA
8 5 (1.87%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.37%) GRC
11 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 178 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.37%) Docker
4 12 (4.49%) Squid
5 10 (3.75%) Postfix
6 9 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (2.25%) DFS Replication
8 6 (2.25%) Dovecot
8 6 (2.25%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (2.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.75%) NFS
9 2 (0.75%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.75%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.75%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.37%) Ceph
10 1 (0.37%) Firmware
10 1 (0.37%) iptables
10 1 (0.37%) Samba
10 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 62 (23.22%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (14.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (9.36%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.49%) Terraform
5 19 (7.12%) Ansible
6 14 (5.24%) Grafana
7 13 (4.87%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.37%) Check_MK
9 8 (3.00%) Nessus
9 8 (3.00%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.62%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.62%) CA Wily
10 7 (2.62%) Podman
10 7 (2.62%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.62%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.25%) FortiGate
11 6 (2.25%) PingFederate
11 6 (2.25%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.25%) Tivoli
12 5 (1.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (34.08%) CyberArk
2 80 (29.96%) Microsoft
3 64 (23.97%) BeyondTrust
4 35 (13.11%) ServiceNow
5 34 (12.73%) Centrify
6 33 (12.36%) VMware
7 23 (8.61%) Splunk
8 19 (7.12%) Okta
9 18 (6.74%) Red Hat
10 16 (5.99%) Cisco
11 12 (4.49%) Oracle
12 10 (3.75%) Google
13 8 (3.00%) Palo Alto
14 7 (2.62%) AppDynamics
14 7 (2.62%) Broadcom
14 7 (2.62%) F5
14 7 (2.62%) IBM
14 7 (2.62%) Ping Identity
15 6 (2.25%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.25%) SAP