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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 392 431
Rank change year-on-year -73 +39 -53
Contract jobs citing LDAP 222 171 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.88% 2.01% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 117 71
10th Percentile £375 £318 £220
25th Percentile £450 £404 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £688
90th Percentile £690 £673 £775
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 11,828 8,514 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 5,649 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -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% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.53%

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 6 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 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 12 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 6 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 -86 191 £525 +5.00% 122
UK excluding London -49 156 £525 +15.89% 71
Work from Home -23 89 £525 +1.20% 60
South East -1 59 £575 +15.00% 33
London -102 52 £575 -5.43% 55
South West -3 39 £525 +13.51% 16
East of England -17 20 £513 -24.63% 9
Scotland -9 19 £468 -21.96% 5
Yorkshire -26 15 £565 +7.62% 2
North of England -80 15 £565 +24.72% 7
West Midlands -70 4 £450 -18.18% 3
Midlands -85 4 £450 - 6

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 (5.41%) IIS
2 9 (4.05%) Confluence
3 6 (2.70%) Apache
4 5 (2.25%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.90%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 102 (45.95%) Azure
2 78 (35.14%) AWS
2 78 (35.14%) Entra ID
3 46 (20.72%) GCP
4 22 (9.91%) SaaS
5 9 (4.05%) GitHub
6 7 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.80%) IaaS
9 4 (1.80%) PaaS
9 4 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.35%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.35%) Serverless
11 2 (0.90%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.41%) Kerberos
2 27 (12.16%) DNS
3 17 (7.66%) DHCP
4 14 (6.31%) HTTP
5 12 (5.41%) Firewall
6 9 (4.05%) SSL
7 7 (3.15%) SSH
7 7 (3.15%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.70%) Network Security
8 6 (2.70%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (2.25%) NAS
9 5 (2.25%) SAN
9 5 (2.25%) VPN
10 4 (1.80%) FTP
10 4 (1.80%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.80%) IPsec
10 4 (1.80%) SMTP
10 4 (1.80%) WAN
11 3 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.80%) Db2
2 4 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.90%) Metadata
3 2 (0.90%) MySQL
3 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.45%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (6.76%) Git
1 15 (6.76%) JIRA
2 14 (6.31%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.80%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.35%) JMeter
5 3 (1.35%) Postman
6 2 (0.90%) Gatling
6 2 (0.90%) Maven
6 2 (0.90%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.45%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.45%) Gradle
7 1 (0.45%) Locust
7 1 (0.45%) Newman
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.45%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.45%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
3 22 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.31%) Finance
6 12 (5.41%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.70%) Back Office
8 4 (1.80%) Banking
8 4 (1.80%) Military
9 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (24.77%) Architect
2 21 (9.46%) Developer
3 19 (8.56%) Consultant
4 13 (5.86%) IAM Specialist
5 12 (5.41%) Lead
5 12 (5.41%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.05%) CyberArk Consultant
7 8 (3.60%) Analyst
7 8 (3.60%) C Developer
7 8 (3.60%) CyberArk Architect
7 8 (3.60%) Linux Developer
7 8 (3.60%) Software Developer
7 8 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) Senior
9 6 (2.70%) SailPoint Architect
9 6 (2.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (29.28%) SAML
2 55 (24.77%) OAuth
2 55 (24.77%) OpenID
3 43 (19.37%) REST
4 41 (18.47%) SailPoint
5 28 (12.61%) OAuth2
6 25 (11.26%) Web Services
7 24 (10.81%) Terraform
8 20 (9.01%) .NET
9 16 (7.21%) JSON
10 14 (6.31%) XML
11 9 (4.05%) .NET Framework
11 9 (4.05%) Middleware
11 9 (4.05%) SOAP
12 8 (3.60%) OpenTofu
13 7 (3.15%) JDBC
13 7 (3.15%) pytest
13 7 (3.15%) Regular Expression
14 4 (1.80%) boto
15 3 (1.35%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.37%) Onboarding
2 28 (12.61%) PKI
3 26 (11.71%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.11%) Replication
5 12 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.80%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.35%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.35%) YARA
11 2 (0.90%) CSOC
11 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.52%) Linux
2 47 (21.17%) Windows
3 16 (7.21%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.05%) Unix
6 5 (2.25%) CentOS
6 5 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.90%) Rocky
7 2 (0.90%) VMS
8 1 (0.45%) CatOS
8 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.45%) SUSE
8 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.73%) SIEM
2 62 (27.93%) Identity Access Management
3 57 (25.68%) RBAC
4 54 (24.32%) Runbook
5 53 (23.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 49 (22.07%) Privileged Access Management
7 46 (20.72%) DevOps
8 43 (19.37%) Technical Leadership
9 41 (18.47%) CI/CD
9 41 (18.47%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (18.47%) ITSM
10 39 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (15.77%) Security Architecture
12 33 (14.86%) DevSecOps
12 33 (14.86%) Migration
12 33 (14.86%) Secrets Management
13 30 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (13.06%) Mentoring
15 28 (12.61%) Analytics
15 28 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (35.59%) PowerShell
2 57 (25.68%) Python
3 25 (11.26%) Java
4 17 (7.66%) Bash
5 15 (6.76%) C#
6 12 (5.41%) SQL
7 11 (4.95%) BeanShell
8 8 (3.60%) C
9 6 (2.70%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.25%) Go
10 5 (2.25%) Groovy
10 5 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.35%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.90%) Cypher
12 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.45%) Bicep
13 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 95 (42.79%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 41 (18.47%) DV Cleared
4 26 (11.71%) Degree
5 24 (10.81%) CISSP
6 14 (6.31%) CISM
7 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.70%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.25%) CSPO
11 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.35%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.90%) RHCE
14 1 (0.45%) CISA
14 1 (0.45%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (23.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (22.07%) NIST
3 20 (9.01%) GDPR
4 12 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.05%) NCSC
6 7 (3.15%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.70%) SLA
8 5 (2.25%) GRC
8 5 (2.25%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.35%) QA
10 2 (0.90%) ITGC
10 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 180 (81.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.86%) NFS
3 12 (5.41%) Docker
4 11 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.35%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.45%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
8 1 (0.45%) Postfix
8 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (13.96%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (9.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.86%) Ansible
5 8 (3.60%) Grafana
6 5 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.80%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.35%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.90%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.90%) Podman
9 2 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.45%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.45%) Nessus
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) Salt
10 1 (0.45%) yum
10 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 77 (34.68%) CyberArk
3 26 (11.71%) ServiceNow
4 23 (10.36%) Okta
5 16 (7.21%) BeyondTrust
5 16 (7.21%) ForgeRock
5 16 (7.21%) VMware
6 8 (3.60%) Google
6 8 (3.60%) Ping Identity
6 8 (3.60%) SAP
7 7 (3.15%) Splunk
8 5 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.80%) F5
9 4 (1.80%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.80%) Oracle
9 4 (1.80%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.80%) Sybase
9 4 (1.80%) Workday
10 3 (1.35%) CrowdStrike