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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 385 434
Rank change year-on-year -74 +49 -60
Contract jobs citing LDAP 225 175 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 2.03% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 117 74
10th Percentile £379 £318 £222
25th Percentile £450 £404 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £568
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.89% +3.18%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £673 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £453 £540
% change year-on-year +15.89% -16.11% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £63.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% -13.10% +28.55%
75th Percentile £88.74 £78.18 £73.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +28.55%

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 11,905 8,636 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.08% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 5,740 6,160
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.03%

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 2 October 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 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 13 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 2 October 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 -81 194 £525 +5.00% 134
UK excluding London -42 161 £525 +15.89% 77
Work from Home -28 90 £525 +1.20% 56
South East -8 59 £575 +15.00% 36
London -96 50 £575 -5.43% 59
South West -2 40 £525 +13.51% 15
East of England -17 20 £513 -24.63% 11
Scotland -14 19 £468 -21.96% 5
North of England -76 19 £570 +25.83% 8
Yorkshire -20 18 £570 +8.57% 4
West Midlands -64 4 £450 -18.18% 5
Midlands -97 4 £450 - 7
North West -67 1 - - 4

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 12 (5.33%) IIS
2 9 (4.00%) Confluence
3 6 (2.67%) Apache
3 6 (2.67%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.89%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 102 (45.33%) Azure
2 80 (35.56%) AWS
3 78 (34.67%) Entra ID
4 47 (20.89%) GCP
5 22 (9.78%) SaaS
6 8 (3.56%) GitHub
7 7 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.78%) IaaS
10 4 (1.78%) PaaS
10 4 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.33%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.33%) Serverless
12 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.67%) Kerberos
2 27 (12.00%) DNS
3 17 (7.56%) DHCP
4 14 (6.22%) HTTP
5 12 (5.33%) Firewall
6 9 (4.00%) SSL
7 7 (3.11%) SSH
7 7 (3.11%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.67%) Network Security
8 6 (2.67%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (2.22%) NAS
9 5 (2.22%) SAN
9 5 (2.22%) VPN
10 4 (1.78%) FTP
10 4 (1.78%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.78%) IPsec
10 4 (1.78%) SMTP
10 4 (1.78%) WAN
11 3 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.78%) Db2
3 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.89%) Metadata
4 2 (0.89%) MySQL
4 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.44%) Power BI
5 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (6.67%) Git
1 15 (6.67%) JIRA
2 14 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.89%) GitLab
4 4 (1.78%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.33%) JMeter
5 3 (1.33%) Postman
6 2 (0.89%) Gatling
6 2 (0.89%) Maven
6 2 (0.89%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.44%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.44%) Gradle
7 1 (0.44%) Newman
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.44%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.44%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 21 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.67%) Finance
6 12 (5.33%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.67%) Back Office
8 5 (2.22%) Banking
9 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Military
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Publishing
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (24.44%) Architect
2 21 (9.33%) Consultant
2 21 (9.33%) Developer
3 13 (5.78%) IAM Specialist
4 12 (5.33%) Lead
4 12 (5.33%) Support Engineer
5 9 (4.00%) CyberArk Consultant
6 8 (3.56%) Analyst
6 8 (3.56%) C Developer
6 8 (3.56%) CyberArk Architect
6 8 (3.56%) Linux Developer
6 8 (3.56%) SailPoint Engineer
6 8 (3.56%) Software Developer
7 7 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.11%) Security Engineer
7 7 (3.11%) Senior
7 7 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.89%) SAML
2 56 (24.89%) OAuth
3 55 (24.44%) OpenID
4 45 (20.00%) REST
5 44 (19.56%) SailPoint
6 28 (12.44%) OAuth2
7 25 (11.11%) Web Services
8 22 (9.78%) Terraform
9 20 (8.89%) .NET
10 16 (7.11%) JSON
11 15 (6.67%) XML
12 9 (4.00%) .NET Framework
12 9 (4.00%) Middleware
12 9 (4.00%) SOAP
13 8 (3.56%) JDBC
13 8 (3.56%) OpenTofu
14 7 (3.11%) pytest
14 7 (3.11%) Regular Expression
15 4 (1.78%) boto
15 4 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.56%) Onboarding
2 27 (12.00%) PKI
3 25 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.00%) Replication
5 12 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.89%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.78%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.33%) YARA
12 2 (0.89%) CSOC
12 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.22%) Linux
2 48 (21.33%) Windows
3 16 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.00%) Unix
6 5 (2.22%) CentOS
6 5 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.89%) Rocky
7 2 (0.89%) VMS
8 1 (0.44%) CatOS
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.44%) SUSE
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) SIEM
2 63 (28.00%) Identity Access Management
3 60 (26.67%) RBAC
4 54 (24.00%) Runbook
4 54 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
6 44 (19.56%) DevOps
7 43 (19.11%) Technical Leadership
8 42 (18.67%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (18.22%) ITSM
10 39 (17.33%) CI/CD
10 39 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (15.56%) Security Architecture
12 33 (14.67%) DevSecOps
12 33 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (14.22%) Migration
13 32 (14.22%) Secrets Management
14 29 (12.89%) Mentoring
14 29 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (12.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 58 (25.78%) Python
3 26 (11.56%) Java
4 18 (8.00%) Bash
5 15 (6.67%) C#
6 12 (5.33%) SQL
7 11 (4.89%) BeanShell
8 8 (3.56%) C
9 7 (3.11%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.22%) Go
10 5 (2.22%) Groovy
10 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.89%) Cypher
12 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (41.78%) Security Cleared
2 59 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 41 (18.22%) DV Cleared
4 26 (11.56%) Degree
5 24 (10.67%) CISSP
6 14 (6.22%) CISM
7 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.67%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.22%) CSPO
11 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.33%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.89%) RHCE
13 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (21.78%) NIST
3 20 (8.89%) GDPR
4 13 (5.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.00%) NCSC
6 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.67%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.67%) SLA
8 5 (2.22%) GRC
9 3 (1.33%) QA
10 2 (0.89%) ITGC
10 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 181 (80.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.78%) NFS
3 12 (5.33%) Docker
4 11 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.00%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.33%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.44%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Postfix
8 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (8.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (7.56%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.33%) Ansible
5 6 (2.67%) Grafana
6 4 (1.78%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.33%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.89%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.89%) Podman
8 2 (0.89%) Puppet
8 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.44%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.44%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) Salt
9 1 (0.44%) systemd
9 1 (0.44%) yum
Vendors
1 83 (36.89%) Microsoft
2 79 (35.11%) CyberArk
3 28 (12.44%) ServiceNow
4 24 (10.67%) Okta
5 16 (7.11%) BeyondTrust
5 16 (7.11%) VMware
6 15 (6.67%) ForgeRock
7 8 (3.56%) Google
7 8 (3.56%) Ping Identity
7 8 (3.56%) SAP
8 7 (3.11%) Splunk
9 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.78%) F5
10 4 (1.78%) Greenplum
10 4 (1.78%) Oracle
10 4 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.78%) Sybase
10 4 (1.78%) Workday
11 3 (1.33%) Cisco