Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LDAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LDAP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 721 729 948
Rank change year-on-year +8 +219 -224
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 185 217 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.79% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 84 148 177
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +38.63% -21.59%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,250 £55,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +11.50% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LDAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LDAP.

Salary trend for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -22 121 £58,250 +4.48% 19
England -7 99 £62,500 -10.71% 32
Scotland -4 80 £75,000 - 2
London +86 59 £65,000 -21.21% 15
Work from Home -19 34 £65,000 -13.33% 8
South East -30 19 £65,000 +145.28% 5
North of England +19 9 £52,500 -25.00% 5
South West -24 9 £55,000 -4.35% 2
North West -22 8 £52,500 -13.58% 5
Midlands -15 3 £46,000 - 4
East Midlands -18 2 £46,000 -
Yorkshire +57 1 £58,500 -38.42%
Wales -3 1 - -
West Midlands -11 1 £57,500 - 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 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.32%) Confluence
2 8 (4.32%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.70%) Apache
3 5 (2.70%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.62%) GlassFish
4 3 (1.62%) IIS
4 3 (1.62%) JBoss
5 2 (1.08%) Moodle
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (10.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.08%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.84%) Azure
2 30 (16.22%) AWS
3 20 (10.81%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.41%) SaaS
6 9 (4.86%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.86%) IaaS
7 8 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.32%) CloudFront
8 6 (3.24%) PaaS
9 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.70%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.70%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.70%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.16%) Google Docs
11 2 (1.08%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 75 (40.54%) Kerberos
2 35 (18.92%) DNS
3 29 (15.68%) VPN
4 27 (14.59%) TCP/IP
5 26 (14.05%) LAN
6 24 (12.97%) WAN
7 17 (9.19%) DHCP
8 13 (7.03%) Firewall
9 12 (6.49%) SSL
10 11 (5.95%) Network Security
10 11 (5.95%) Wireless
11 9 (4.86%) VLAN
12 8 (4.32%) NAS
12 8 (4.32%) SAN
12 8 (4.32%) SNMP
13 6 (3.24%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (3.24%) HTTP
14 5 (2.70%) SMTP
15 4 (2.16%) FTP
16 3 (1.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (35.14%) Metadata
2 8 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.16%) MySQL
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (37.30%) Git
1 69 (37.30%) Jenkins
2 68 (36.76%) Bitbucket
3 65 (35.14%) Artifactory
4 10 (5.41%) JIRA
5 4 (2.16%) JMeter
6 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 83 (44.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 82 (44.32%) Finance
3 75 (40.54%) Marketing
4 65 (35.14%) Law
5 19 (10.27%) Social Skills
5 19 (10.27%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.11%) Banking
7 11 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.78%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.70%) Electronics
10 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.08%) Retail
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (35.14%) Lead
1 65 (35.14%) Lead Software Engineer
1 65 (35.14%) Software Engineer
2 59 (31.89%) Senior
3 42 (22.70%) Senior Software Engineer
4 27 (14.59%) Developer
5 23 (12.43%) ServiceNow Developer
6 15 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (7.57%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (4.86%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Analyst
9 8 (4.32%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) IT Support
9 8 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Consultant
11 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.70%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.70%) Support Analyst
11 5 (2.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (51.89%) Web Services
2 93 (50.27%) XML
3 85 (45.95%) JSON
4 82 (44.32%) SAML
5 77 (41.62%) OpenID
6 68 (36.76%) RESTful
7 65 (35.14%) JSON-LD
8 26 (14.05%) CSS
9 24 (12.97%) HTML
10 20 (10.81%) AngularJS
11 18 (9.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 11 (5.95%) SOAP
13 10 (5.41%) OAuth
14 9 (4.86%) Ajax
15 8 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.32%) REST
16 7 (3.78%) ADSI
17 5 (2.70%) ARM Templates
17 5 (2.70%) J2EE
18 4 (2.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 76 (41.08%) Management Information System
2 68 (36.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 65 (35.14%) Reference Data
4 24 (12.97%) CMDB
5 12 (6.49%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.70%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.16%) FPGA
8 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.62%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.62%) TM Forum
10 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.54%) Device Driver
11 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.54%) Replication
11 1 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 57 (30.81%) Linux
2 51 (27.57%) Windows
3 24 (12.97%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.95%) Unix
5 8 (4.32%) CentOS
5 8 (4.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (2.16%) VMS
8 3 (1.62%) AIX
8 3 (1.62%) Solaris
9 2 (1.08%) Debian
10 1 (0.54%) Android
10 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.54%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (44.86%) Identity Access Management
2 78 (42.16%) Roadmaps
3 74 (40.00%) Agile
4 72 (38.92%) Test Automation
5 71 (38.38%) Data Modelling
6 69 (37.30%) SDLC
7 67 (36.22%) Architectural Design
8 66 (35.68%) CI/CD
9 65 (35.14%) Community of Practice
9 65 (35.14%) Continuous Delivery
9 65 (35.14%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (35.14%) Data Transformation
9 65 (35.14%) Information Architecture
9 65 (35.14%) Ontologies
9 65 (35.14%) Operational Stability
9 65 (35.14%) RDF
9 65 (35.14%) Software Engineering
9 65 (35.14%) Use Case
10 37 (20.00%) ITIL
11 26 (14.05%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.76%) Go
2 65 (35.14%) Prolog
2 65 (35.14%) SPARQL
3 31 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.35%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.19%) Java
5 17 (9.19%) Python
6 11 (5.95%) Bash
6 11 (5.95%) Perl
7 10 (5.41%) SQL
8 5 (2.70%) Bicep
9 4 (2.16%) C
10 2 (1.08%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.54%) C++
11 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (7.57%) Degree
2 8 (4.32%) PMI Certification
2 8 (4.32%) PMP
3 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.70%) RHCE
4 5 (2.70%) RHCSA
4 5 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) SLA
2 8 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.70%) GRC
4 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.08%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 116 (62.70%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.08%) Firmware
4 2 (1.08%) NFS
5 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.54%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.54%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.03%) Ansible
4 8 (4.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.70%) Rancher
6 5 (2.70%) Terraform
6 5 (2.70%) WSUS
7 4 (2.16%) HP UCMDB
7 4 (2.16%) Puppet
8 3 (1.62%) Oracle Statspack
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.08%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.54%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 36 (19.46%) ServiceNow
3 20 (10.81%) BMC
3 20 (10.81%) HP
3 20 (10.81%) Remedy
4 17 (9.19%) Cisco
5 16 (8.65%) Red Hat
6 14 (7.57%) VMware
7 13 (7.03%) Oracle
8 7 (3.78%) Bloomberg
8 7 (3.78%) Citrix
8 7 (3.78%) F5
8 7 (3.78%) SAP
9 6 (3.24%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.24%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.70%) Okta
10 5 (2.70%) Splunk
11 4 (2.16%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (2.16%) Google
11 4 (2.16%) Salesforce