LDAP Contracts

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring LDAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LDAP over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 391 503
Rank change year-on-year -6 +112 +43
Contract jobs citing LDAP 126 202 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 2.26% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 127 146
10th Percentile £409 £296 £406
25th Percentile £474 £401 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £688 £723 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £595 £550
% change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - £71.50
Median hourly rate £81.35 - £73.00
75th Percentile £81.91 - £74.88
90th Percentile £83.05 - £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 - £73.00

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 6,672 8,930 13,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 20.74% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,580 6,199 9,844
10th Percentile £363 £343 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £776 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 242 154
10th Percentile £29.55 £21.25 £30.23
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £50.01
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.95 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +31.63%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Daily rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Hourly rate trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 14 Contract 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 May 2025. 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 +17 109 £575 +4.55% 99
UK excluding London +65 63 £600 +0.84% 53
Work from Home +13 48 £592 -3.43% 49
London -19 43 £575 +4.55% 57
East of England +44 19 £588 +102.59% 17
North of England +23 16 £600 - 5
Midlands +4 12 £575 -5.74% 5
Yorkshire +15 10 £600 +9.09% 4
West Midlands +21 9 £625 +56.25% 1
South West +46 7 £663 +35.90% 2
South East +42 7 £725 +29.18% 24
North West +17 6 £581 -6.25%
Scotland +7 5 £563 - 5
East Midlands -5 3 £440 -29.11% 4

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (11.90%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) Apache
2 4 (3.17%) CMS
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.38%) JBoss
3 3 (2.38%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.59%) Camunda
4 2 (1.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.79%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.78%) Azure
2 24 (19.05%) AWS
3 16 (12.70%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.73%) GCP
5 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.17%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.38%) GitHub
7 3 (2.38%) SaaS
8 2 (1.59%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.59%) IaaS
8 2 (1.59%) PaaS
8 2 (1.59%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.59%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.40%) HTTP
2 30 (23.81%) SMTP
3 28 (22.22%) SSL
4 27 (21.43%) DNS
5 18 (14.29%) FTP
6 16 (12.70%) Network Security
7 14 (11.11%) Firewall
8 13 (10.32%) Kerberos
9 12 (9.52%) NAS
10 11 (8.73%) SAN
11 10 (7.94%) POP3
12 9 (7.14%) TCP/IP
13 8 (6.35%) DHCP
14 6 (4.76%) HTTPS
14 6 (4.76%) LAN
14 6 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
15 4 (3.17%) WAN
16 3 (2.38%) VLAN
16 3 (2.38%) VPN
17 2 (1.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.32%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.97%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.17%) Power BI
4 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.38%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.59%) MySQL
6 2 (1.59%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.79%) Metadata
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 19 (15.08%) JIRA
2 10 (7.94%) Git
3 6 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.17%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.38%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.38%) JUnit
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (2.38%) Selenium
5 3 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.38%) Subversion
6 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.59%) Maven
6 2 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.79%) GitLab
7 1 (0.79%) Serena SBM
General
1 46 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.60%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.29%) Finance
4 12 (9.52%) Banking
5 7 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.17%) Law
8 3 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.38%) Retail
9 2 (1.59%) German Language
9 2 (1.59%) International Banking
9 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Aviation
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (19.05%) Architect
2 18 (14.29%) Developer
3 17 (13.49%) Administrator
4 15 (11.90%) Analyst
5 14 (11.11%) Senior
6 13 (10.32%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Lead
7 9 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
8 8 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.97%) Linux Administrator
11 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) CyberArk Architect
12 4 (3.17%) DevOps Administrator
12 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Senior Technical Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.19%) SAML
2 27 (21.43%) REST
3 23 (18.25%) OAuth
4 20 (15.87%) Web Services
5 19 (15.08%) AngularJS
6 16 (12.70%) SOAP
7 15 (11.90%) OpenID
8 14 (11.11%) CSS
9 13 (10.32%) HTML
10 12 (9.52%) Bootstrap
11 11 (8.73%) JSON
12 10 (7.94%) CSS3
13 7 (5.56%) JWT
13 7 (5.56%) SailPoint
13 7 (5.56%) XML
14 6 (4.76%) Ajax
14 6 (4.76%) Middleware
14 6 (4.76%) OAuth2
15 5 (3.97%) Kafka
15 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Cyberattack
2 12 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 11 (8.73%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (8.73%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.73%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.73%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (6.35%) Clustering
5 8 (6.35%) CSOC
5 8 (6.35%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.17%) PKI
8 4 (3.17%) Replication
9 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.59%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.57%) Linux
2 25 (19.84%) Windows
3 15 (11.90%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (7.14%) Unix
5 6 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.97%) Solaris
7 3 (2.38%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.59%) CentOS
8 2 (1.59%) Debian
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.59%) VMS
9 1 (0.79%) AIX
9 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (25.40%) Agile
3 29 (23.02%) DevOps
4 23 (18.25%) Identity Access Management
5 20 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (15.08%) RBAC
7 18 (14.29%) Information Security
8 17 (13.49%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.70%) Analytics
10 14 (11.11%) Threat Detection
11 13 (10.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.32%) Migration
11 13 (10.32%) Scrum
12 12 (9.52%) Information Management
12 12 (9.52%) ITIL
12 12 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
13 11 (8.73%) Incident Response
13 11 (8.73%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 11 (8.73%) Network Packet Capture
13 11 (8.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.63%) Python
2 25 (19.84%) PowerShell
3 21 (16.67%) Java
4 19 (15.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.14%) SQL
6 8 (6.35%) Bash
7 6 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.97%) C#
8 5 (3.97%) Groovy
9 4 (3.17%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.38%) C++
10 3 (2.38%) Perl
11 2 (1.59%) Ruby
12 1 (0.79%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.79%) VB
12 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.14%) Degree
5 6 (4.76%) CISSP
6 4 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.38%) CISM
7 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.59%) CCIE
8 2 (1.59%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.59%) CCNA
8 2 (1.59%) CCNP
8 2 (1.59%) CEH
8 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.79%) CCDE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) GDPR
1 12 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (9.52%) NIST
2 9 (7.14%) HIPAA
3 6 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.59%) NCSC
6 2 (1.59%) PMO
7 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (43.65%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.94%) Docker
3 5 (3.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.97%) NFS
3 5 (3.97%) OpenAM
3 5 (3.97%) OpenDJ
3 5 (3.97%) OpenIDM
3 5 (3.97%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.59%) Samba
6 2 (1.59%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.59%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (34.92%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.49%) Ansible
4 9 (7.14%) Terraform
5 7 (5.56%) Grafana
6 6 (4.76%) Puppet
7 5 (3.97%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.97%) SELinux
8 4 (3.17%) Tivoli
9 3 (2.38%) Control-M
9 3 (2.38%) Netcool
9 3 (2.38%) QRadar
9 3 (2.38%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 3 (2.38%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.59%) Nessus
10 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (1.59%) yum
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) ServiceNow
2 22 (17.46%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.70%) CyberArk
4 15 (11.90%) Splunk
5 14 (11.11%) Oracle
6 12 (9.52%) Red Hat
7 10 (7.94%) ForgeRock
7 10 (7.94%) VMware
8 8 (6.35%) IBM
9 6 (4.76%) SAP
10 5 (3.97%) Confluent
10 5 (3.97%) Okta
10 5 (3.97%) Ping Identity
11 4 (3.17%) NetApp
11 4 (3.17%) OpenText
11 4 (3.17%) Qualtrics
11 4 (3.17%) Qualys
12 3 (2.38%) BMC
12 3 (2.38%) Google
12 3 (2.38%) Sybase