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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 359 396
Rank change year-on-year -10 +37 +81
Contract jobs citing LDAP 261 161 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 2.38% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 91 121
10th Percentile £419 £400 £300
25th Percentile £475 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% +6.00% -1.35%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £638
90th Percentile £750 £761 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 2
10th Percentile £51.40 £75.79 £51.77
25th Percentile £55.00 £80.34 £52.54
Median hourly rate £73.00 £81.01 £54.45
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +48.78% -25.41%
75th Percentile £88.75 £81.91 £55.74
90th Percentile £92.50 £83.05 £56.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £81.01 £54.45
% change year-on-year -19.15% +48.78% -25.41%

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 9,229 6,756 9,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.75% 22.85% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,171 4,490 6,316
10th Percentile £358 £361 £336
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 94 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.62%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 10 March 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 -11 239 £550 -6.98% 32
UK excluding London -41 133 £500 -13.04% 26
Work from Home +34 112 £620 +3.33% 14
London +7 99 £700 +16.67% 7
South East -19 41 £500 -11.19% 11
North of England -32 40 £568 -5.33% 4
Yorkshire -38 26 £525 -12.50% 2
Midlands -71 22 £513 -15.46% 2
West Midlands -66 21 £500 -17.53% 2
North West -23 14 £620 +24.00% 2
East of England -43 14 £478 -16.87% 9
South West -25 13 £525 -25.00% 1
Wales - 3 £345 -
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 11 (4.21%) nginx
2 8 (3.07%) Confluence
2 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) iPlanet
4 2 (0.77%) JBoss
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 149 (57.09%) Azure
2 102 (39.08%) AWS
3 81 (31.03%) GCP
4 65 (24.90%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.66%) OpenShift
6 10 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.83%) Serverless
7 9 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.45%) Route 53
7 9 (3.45%) SaaS
8 8 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.15%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.38%) ShareGate
12 1 (0.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.44%) DNS
2 62 (23.75%) Kerberos
3 39 (14.94%) Firewall
4 32 (12.26%) DHCP
5 26 (9.96%) VPN
6 23 (8.81%) SSL
7 18 (6.90%) TCP/IP
8 17 (6.51%) HTTP
9 13 (4.98%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (4.98%) Network Security
10 11 (4.21%) LAN
10 11 (4.21%) WAN
11 10 (3.83%) SMTP
12 9 (3.45%) HTTPS
13 8 (3.07%) OpenVPN
13 8 (3.07%) SSH
14 7 (2.68%) BIG-IP
14 7 (2.68%) Ethereal
14 7 (2.68%) IPsec
14 7 (2.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.45%) MySQL
4 4 (1.53%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.77%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) Redis
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.49%) JIRA
3 29 (11.11%) GitLab
4 15 (5.75%) Git
5 14 (5.36%) Selenium
6 13 (4.98%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.60%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.21%) Postman
9 9 (3.45%) Bitbucket
10 8 (3.07%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.92%) TestRail
12 4 (1.53%) Gatling
12 4 (1.53%) JMeter
12 4 (1.53%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.53%) NeoLoad
13 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.77%) CA Release Automation
13 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.77%) WebDriver
14 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 115 (44.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.99%) Documentation Skills
3 36 (13.79%) Finance
4 27 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.83%) Banking
8 7 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.53%) Aviation
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 76 (29.12%) Architect
2 48 (18.39%) CyberArk Architect
3 27 (10.34%) Consultant
4 11 (4.21%) Lead
5 9 (3.45%) Administrator
5 9 (3.45%) Network Engineer
5 9 (3.45%) Security Consultant
5 9 (3.45%) Security Engineer
5 9 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (3.45%) Test Engineer
6 8 (3.07%) Developer
6 8 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (2.68%) Analyst
7 7 (2.68%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (2.68%) Senior
8 6 (2.30%) Technical Architect
8 6 (2.30%) Test Architect
8 6 (2.30%) Test Automation Architect
9 5 (1.92%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (1.92%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (27.20%) SAML
2 64 (24.52%) OpenID
3 57 (21.84%) REST
4 43 (16.48%) OAuth
5 37 (14.18%) SOAP
6 27 (10.34%) SailPoint
7 12 (4.60%) .NET
8 8 (3.07%) Middleware
9 5 (1.92%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.53%) J2EE
10 4 (1.53%) Playwright
10 4 (1.53%) Web Services
11 3 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.15%) RESTful
12 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.77%) EDI
12 2 (0.77%) HTML
12 2 (0.77%) XML
13 1 (0.38%) LAMP
13 1 (0.38%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.09%) Security Posture
2 38 (14.56%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (12.64%) Replication
4 30 (11.49%) Onboarding
5 21 (8.05%) Cloud Native
6 16 (6.13%) Management Information System
7 14 (5.36%) PKI
8 9 (3.45%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.92%) CSOC
10 5 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.92%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.53%) PACS
11 4 (1.53%) SCADA
12 3 (1.15%) CMDB
13 2 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.07%) Windows
2 52 (19.92%) Linux
3 29 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.60%) CentOS
6 10 (3.83%) Ubuntu
6 10 (3.83%) Unix
7 4 (1.53%) AIX
7 4 (1.53%) CatOS
7 4 (1.53%) Solaris
8 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.02%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (33.33%) SIEM
3 74 (28.35%) DevOps
4 69 (26.44%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (24.52%) CI/CD
6 62 (23.75%) Privileged Access Management
7 53 (20.31%) Identity Access Management
8 51 (19.54%) ITSM
8 51 (19.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 51 (19.54%) Task Automation
9 42 (16.09%) RBAC
9 42 (16.09%) Technical Leadership
10 36 (13.79%) Integration Patterns
11 35 (13.41%) Presales
12 32 (12.26%) Agile
13 31 (11.88%) Migration
14 30 (11.49%) High Availability
15 27 (10.34%) Roadmaps
16 25 (9.58%) DevSecOps
17 23 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (46.36%) PowerShell
2 97 (37.16%) Python
3 32 (12.26%) SQL
4 29 (11.11%) Java
5 12 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.60%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.83%) Bash
7 9 (3.45%) PHP
8 7 (2.68%) MATLAB
9 6 (2.30%) C++
9 6 (2.30%) Groovy
10 4 (1.53%) Cypher
10 4 (1.53%) Scala
10 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.15%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.77%) C#
13 1 (0.38%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (57.85%) Security Cleared
2 142 (54.41%) SC Cleared
3 35 (13.41%) CISSP
4 28 (10.73%) CISM
5 13 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.68%) Degree
9 5 (1.92%) GIAC
9 5 (1.92%) MCSA
9 5 (1.92%) MCSE
10 4 (1.53%) APMG
10 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.53%) GSEC
10 4 (1.53%) OCP
10 4 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.53%) SSCP
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (23.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (21.07%) NIST
3 54 (20.69%) GDPR
4 21 (8.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (7.66%) NCSC
6 10 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (3.45%) QA
8 8 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (2.68%) SLA
10 4 (1.53%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.77%) DICOM
12 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.77%) HL7
13 1 (0.38%) GMP
13 1 (0.38%) GRC
13 1 (0.38%) GxP
13 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 177 (67.82%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (3.07%) Docker
4 8 (3.07%) Squid
5 7 (2.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 7 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.53%) Postfix
7 2 (0.77%) NFS
7 2 (0.77%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.77%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.77%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 1 (0.38%) Ceph
8 1 (0.38%) iptables
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
8 1 (0.38%) Lustre
8 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (22.99%) Single Sign-On
2 37 (14.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 28 (10.73%) Kubernetes
4 18 (6.90%) Ansible
5 17 (6.51%) Terraform
6 11 (4.21%) Grafana
7 10 (3.83%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.45%) Check_MK
9 8 (3.07%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.07%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.68%) Consul
10 7 (2.68%) Nessus
10 7 (2.68%) Podman
10 7 (2.68%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.92%) CASB
11 5 (1.92%) PingFederate
11 5 (1.92%) WSUS
12 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 95 (36.40%) CyberArk
2 70 (26.82%) Microsoft
3 65 (24.90%) BeyondTrust
4 35 (13.41%) Centrify
5 30 (11.49%) VMware
6 27 (10.34%) ServiceNow
7 22 (8.43%) Splunk
8 20 (7.66%) Red Hat
9 17 (6.51%) Cisco
9 17 (6.51%) Okta
10 12 (4.60%) Oracle
11 9 (3.45%) Google
11 9 (3.45%) Palo Alto
12 8 (3.07%) Dynatrace
12 8 (3.07%) F5
13 7 (2.68%) Atlassian
13 7 (2.68%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.68%) SAP
13 7 (2.68%) Tenable
14 6 (2.30%) Ping Identity