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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 381 418
Rank change year-on-year -80 +37 -36
Contract jobs citing LDAP 225 173 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.53% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 2.04% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 115 87
10th Percentile £379 £353 £240
25th Percentile £450 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -15.61% +7.73%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £664
90th Percentile £674 £673 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £453 £575
% change year-on-year +15.89% -21.22% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 1
10th Percentile - £44.75 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% +28.55%
75th Percentile £88.74 £81.35 £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 11,904 8,492 9,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 25.97% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,669 6,155
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £437
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% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -67 198 £525 +5.00% 129
UK excluding London -50 159 £525 +15.89% 66
Work from Home -20 91 £525 +1.20% 61
South East -9 58 £575 +15.00% 29
London -92 54 £525 -13.65% 65
South West -4 39 £525 +13.51% 8
East of England -19 22 £506 -25.55% 20
North of England -84 19 £570 +25.83% 5
Yorkshire -34 18 £570 +8.57% 2
Scotland -9 17 £461 -23.21% 4
West Midlands -64 4 £450 -18.18% 3
Midlands -93 4 £450 - 5
North West -66 1 - - 3

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 (4.89%) Confluence
2 9 (4.00%) IIS
3 3 (1.33%) Apache
3 3 (1.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.89%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.78%) 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
1 109 (48.44%) Azure
2 82 (36.44%) AWS
3 80 (35.56%) Entra ID
4 50 (22.22%) GCP
5 21 (9.33%) SaaS
6 7 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.22%) GitHub
8 5 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.78%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.78%) IaaS
9 4 (1.78%) PaaS
9 4 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.89%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.67%) Kerberos
2 30 (13.33%) DNS
3 19 (8.44%) DHCP
4 14 (6.22%) HTTP
5 13 (5.78%) Firewall
5 13 (5.78%) SSL
6 8 (3.56%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.67%) Network Security
7 6 (2.67%) SSH
7 6 (2.67%) VPN
8 5 (2.22%) NAS
8 5 (2.22%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (2.22%) SAN
9 4 (1.78%) FTP
9 4 (1.78%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.78%) IPsec
9 4 (1.78%) SMTP
9 4 (1.78%) WAN
10 3 (1.33%) LAN
10 3 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.22%) Metadata
3 4 (1.78%) Db2
3 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.33%) MySQL
5 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.44%) Power BI
6 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) JIRA
2 15 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.22%) Git
4 12 (5.33%) GitLab
5 4 (1.78%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.33%) JMeter
6 3 (1.33%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) Gatling
7 2 (0.89%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.44%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.44%) Locust
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Newman
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.44%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.44%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.22%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.00%) Finance
5 14 (6.22%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.67%) Back Office
7 4 (1.78%) Banking
7 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.78%) Military
8 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (24.00%) Architect
2 21 (9.33%) Consultant
3 17 (7.56%) Developer
4 14 (6.22%) IAM Specialist
5 12 (5.33%) Lead
5 12 (5.33%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.00%) Analyst
6 9 (4.00%) CyberArk Consultant
7 8 (3.56%) CyberArk Architect
7 8 (3.56%) SailPoint Engineer
7 8 (3.56%) Senior
8 7 (3.11%) C Developer
8 7 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.11%) Linux Developer
8 7 (3.11%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.11%) Software Developer
8 7 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.67%) SailPoint Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.11%) SAML
2 61 (27.11%) OAuth
3 60 (26.67%) OpenID
4 44 (19.56%) SailPoint
5 41 (18.22%) REST
6 31 (13.78%) OAuth2
7 22 (9.78%) Web Services
8 20 (8.89%) .NET
9 19 (8.44%) Terraform
10 15 (6.67%) JSON
10 15 (6.67%) XML
11 9 (4.00%) .NET Framework
11 9 (4.00%) SOAP
12 8 (3.56%) JDBC
12 8 (3.56%) Middleware
13 7 (3.11%) OpenTofu
13 7 (3.11%) Regular Expression
14 6 (2.67%) pytest
15 4 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
16 3 (1.33%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.11%) Onboarding
2 29 (12.89%) PKI
3 19 (8.44%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.00%) Replication
5 13 (5.78%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.67%) Clustering
8 6 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.78%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.33%) YARA
12 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.44%) Linux
2 43 (19.11%) Windows
3 14 (6.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.00%) Unix
5 7 (3.11%) CentOS
6 6 (2.67%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.89%) Rocky
8 2 (0.89%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) CatOS
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.44%) SUSE
9 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) SIEM
2 60 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
3 59 (26.22%) RBAC
4 53 (23.56%) Runbook
5 52 (23.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (20.89%) Privileged Access Management
7 44 (19.56%) Cybersecurity
8 43 (19.11%) DevOps
8 43 (19.11%) Technical Leadership
9 40 (17.78%) ITSM
10 39 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (15.11%) Security Architecture
12 33 (14.67%) CI/CD
12 33 (14.67%) DevSecOps
12 33 (14.67%) Migration
13 32 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (13.78%) Secrets Management
15 29 (12.89%) Mentoring
15 29 (12.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.56%) PowerShell
2 55 (24.44%) Python
3 29 (12.89%) Java
4 16 (7.11%) C#
5 12 (5.33%) Bash
5 12 (5.33%) SQL
6 11 (4.89%) BeanShell
7 7 (3.11%) C
7 7 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.22%) Groovy
8 5 (2.22%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.78%) Go
10 2 (0.89%) Cypher
10 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (40.89%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 40 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 26 (11.56%) CISSP
4 26 (11.56%) Degree
5 16 (7.11%) CISM
6 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.22%) CSPO
10 4 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.33%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.89%) RHCE
12 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (24.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (22.22%) NIST
3 25 (11.11%) GDPR
4 12 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.00%) NCSC
6 8 (3.56%) SLA
7 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.67%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.22%) GRC
10 3 (1.33%) QA
11 2 (0.89%) ITGC
11 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 182 (80.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.22%) NFS
3 12 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.89%) Docker
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 35 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (10.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.33%) Ansible
5 8 (3.56%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.67%) Grafana
7 4 (1.78%) Check_MK
7 4 (1.78%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.78%) Podman
7 4 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.33%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.44%) Nessus
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) yum
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 75 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 31 (13.78%) ServiceNow
4 23 (10.22%) Okta
5 18 (8.00%) VMware
6 14 (6.22%) BeyondTrust
7 13 (5.78%) ForgeRock
8 11 (4.89%) Ping Identity
9 8 (3.56%) Google
9 8 (3.56%) SAP
10 7 (3.11%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.11%) Splunk
11 5 (2.22%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.78%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.78%) F5
12 4 (1.78%) Greenplum
12 4 (1.78%) Oracle
12 4 (1.78%) Sybase
12 4 (1.78%) Workday