LDAP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 272 376
Rank change year-on-year +17 +104 +78
Contract jobs citing LDAP 49 73 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.99% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 49 76
10th Percentile £443 £327 £413
25th Percentile £513 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £672
90th Percentile £676 £765 £731
UK median daily rate £595 £558 £550
% change year-on-year +6.73% +1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £52.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +54.95% -28.08% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

LDAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LDAP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

LDAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LDAP.

LDAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LDAP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing LDAP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

LDAP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LDAP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LDAP.

LDAP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (6.12%) Confluence
1 3 (6.12%) JBoss
1 3 (6.12%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
1 2 (4.08%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) Entra ID
3 5 (10.20%) AWS
4 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) WhatsApp
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.04%) IaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.04%) PaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Firewall
2 5 (10.20%) HTTP
2 5 (10.20%) SMTP
3 4 (8.16%) NAS
3 4 (8.16%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (6.12%) DHCP
4 3 (6.12%) DNS
4 3 (6.12%) HTTPS
4 3 (6.12%) Kerberos
4 3 (6.12%) Network Security
4 3 (6.12%) POP3
4 3 (6.12%) VPN
5 2 (4.08%) FTP
5 2 (4.08%) LAN
5 2 (4.08%) SNMP
5 2 (4.08%) SSL
5 2 (4.08%) TACACS
5 2 (4.08%) Telnet
5 2 (4.08%) Wireless
5 2 (4.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.16%) Power BI
3 3 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.12%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) JIRA
2 5 (10.20%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) Eclipse
3 3 (6.12%) JUnit
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (6.12%) Selenium
3 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Retail
5 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.08%) German Language
7 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Senior
2 9 (18.37%) Lead
3 7 (14.29%) Administrator
3 7 (14.29%) Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Architect
5 5 (10.20%) IT Security Officer
5 5 (10.20%) Security Officer
6 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) CyberArk Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.65%) SAML
2 13 (26.53%) OAuth
3 8 (16.33%) AngularJS
3 8 (16.33%) REST
4 6 (12.24%) OpenID
5 5 (10.20%) Keycloak
5 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
5 5 (10.20%) Web Services
6 4 (8.16%) Bootstrap
6 4 (8.16%) CSS
6 4 (8.16%) HTML
6 4 (8.16%) SOAP
7 3 (6.12%) CSS3
7 3 (6.12%) JSP
7 3 (6.12%) JWT
7 3 (6.12%) OpenAPI
7 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.12%) Struts
7 3 (6.12%) Swagger
7 3 (6.12%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 7 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.08%) Replication
7 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.04%) Clustering
7 1 (2.04%) CMDB
7 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.04%) PKI
7 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.69%) Linux
2 12 (24.49%) Windows
3 8 (16.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.20%) Unix
6 3 (6.12%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.08%) Solaris
8 1 (2.04%) AIX
8 1 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (34.69%) Agile
3 16 (32.65%) Identity Access Management
4 15 (30.61%) RBAC
5 10 (20.41%) DevOps
6 9 (18.37%) Migration
7 8 (16.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 8 (16.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (16.33%) Storage Management
8 7 (14.29%) ITIL
9 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
9 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.24%) Scrum
9 6 (12.24%) Use Case
9 6 (12.24%) Zero Trust
10 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (10.20%) ITSM
10 5 (10.20%) Privileged Access Management
10 5 (10.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) Python
4 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.12%) C++
6 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 2 (4.08%) Groovy
7 2 (4.08%) VBScript
8 1 (2.04%) C#
8 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) CISM
4 3 (6.12%) CISSP
4 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) CCIE
5 2 (4.08%) CCIE Security
5 2 (4.08%) CCNA
5 2 (4.08%) CCNP
5 2 (4.08%) CEH
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) CCDE
6 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) NIST
2 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (10.20%) GDPR
3 5 (10.20%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (6.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (4.08%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.08%) PMO
6 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (65.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) Docker
3 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (4.08%) NFS
4 2 (4.08%) OpenAM
4 2 (4.08%) OpenDJ
4 2 (4.08%) OpenIDM
4 2 (4.08%) Samba
4 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
2 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) Terraform
4 3 (6.12%) SELinux
5 2 (4.08%) Grafana
5 2 (4.08%) yum
6 1 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.04%) Netcool
6 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) ServiceNow
3 10 (20.41%) CyberArk
4 6 (12.24%) Splunk
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle
5 5 (10.20%) Red Hat
6 4 (8.16%) VMware
7 3 (6.12%) Cisco
7 3 (6.12%) ForgeRock
7 3 (6.12%) HP
8 2 (4.08%) IBM
9 1 (2.04%) Centrify
9 1 (2.04%) EMC
9 1 (2.04%) Isilon
9 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.04%) Qualys
9 1 (2.04%) Serena
9 1 (2.04%) Sybase
9 1 (2.04%) Thycotic
9 1 (2.04%) Zscaler