LDAP Contract Job Trends in Wales

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring LDAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LDAP 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.42% - 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.53% - 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile - - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £488
75th Percentile - - £541
90th Percentile - - £546
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.88 - -
90th Percentile £87.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +30.16% -23.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 79 88 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.53% 20.75% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 50 67
10th Percentile £366 £193 £207
25th Percentile £425 £232 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £388
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +20.97% -18.42%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £512
90th Percentile £643 £576 £550
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 0
10th Percentile £48.15 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £25.44 -
90th Percentile £86.50 £25.60 -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LDAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

LDAP job vacancy trend in Wales

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing LDAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing LDAP

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing LDAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing LDAP

LDAP
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
South Wales - 2 - - 3
LDAP
UK

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee