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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 732 735 930
Rank change year-on-year +3 +195 -229
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 183 218 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.75% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 85 148 176
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,375 £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 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,250 £53,625 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% +7.25% -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 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £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 £106,250 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -3 119 £58,250 +8.62% 19
England -8 97 £62,500 -10.71% 37
Scotland +9 80 £75,000 - 1
London +117 59 £65,000 -21.21% 18
Work from Home +1 34 £65,000 -13.33% 11
South East -16 18 £65,000 +145.28% 6
South West -20 10 £55,000 -21.43% 3
North of England +30 7 £52,500 -25.00% 5
North West -6 6 £52,500 -13.58% 5
Midlands -8 3 £46,000 - 3
East Midlands -17 2 £46,000 -
Yorkshire +73 1 £58,500 -38.42%
West Midlands +9 1 £57,500 - 3
Wales -4 1 - -

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 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.37%) Confluence
2 8 (4.37%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.83%) Apache
4 5 (2.73%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.64%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.64%) IIS
5 3 (1.64%) JBoss
6 2 (1.09%) Moodle
Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (10.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.09%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 31 (16.94%) Azure
2 29 (15.85%) AWS
3 18 (9.84%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.46%) SaaS
6 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.92%) IaaS
7 8 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.37%) CloudFront
8 6 (3.28%) PaaS
9 5 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.73%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.73%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.19%) Google Docs
11 2 (1.09%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 77 (42.08%) Kerberos
2 35 (19.13%) DNS
3 28 (15.30%) VPN
4 27 (14.75%) TCP/IP
5 26 (14.21%) LAN
6 24 (13.11%) WAN
7 17 (9.29%) DHCP
8 12 (6.56%) Firewall
9 11 (6.01%) Network Security
9 11 (6.01%) SSL
9 11 (6.01%) Wireless
10 9 (4.92%) VLAN
11 8 (4.37%) NAS
11 8 (4.37%) SAN
11 8 (4.37%) SNMP
12 6 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (3.28%) HTTP
13 5 (2.73%) SMTP
14 4 (2.19%) FTP
14 4 (2.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (35.52%) Metadata
2 8 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.73%) MySQL
4 5 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (37.70%) Git
1 69 (37.70%) Jenkins
2 68 (37.16%) Bitbucket
3 65 (35.52%) Artifactory
4 10 (5.46%) JIRA
5 4 (2.19%) JMeter
6 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 83 (45.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 82 (44.81%) Finance
3 75 (40.98%) Marketing
4 65 (35.52%) Law
5 19 (10.38%) Social Skills
5 19 (10.38%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.20%) Banking
7 11 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.92%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.83%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.73%) Electronics
10 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.09%) Retail
12 1 (0.55%) Legal
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (35.52%) Lead
1 65 (35.52%) Lead Software Engineer
1 65 (35.52%) Software Engineer
2 58 (31.69%) Senior
3 42 (22.95%) Senior Software Engineer
4 26 (14.21%) Developer
5 22 (12.02%) ServiceNow Developer
6 15 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (8.20%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.37%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.37%) IT Support
8 8 (4.37%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (3.83%) Analyst
9 7 (3.83%) Consultant
10 5 (2.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.73%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.73%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (50.82%) Web Services
2 91 (49.73%) XML
3 85 (46.45%) JSON
4 83 (45.36%) SAML
5 76 (41.53%) OpenID
6 68 (37.16%) RESTful
7 65 (35.52%) JSON-LD
8 25 (13.66%) CSS
9 23 (12.57%) HTML
10 19 (10.38%) AngularJS
11 17 (9.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 10 (5.46%) SOAP
13 9 (4.92%) OAuth
14 8 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.37%) REST
15 7 (3.83%) ADSI
15 7 (3.83%) Ajax
16 5 (2.73%) ARM Templates
16 5 (2.73%) J2EE
17 4 (2.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 76 (41.53%) Management Information System
2 68 (37.16%) Enterprise Cloud
3 65 (35.52%) Reference Data
4 23 (12.57%) CMDB
5 12 (6.56%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.73%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.19%) FPGA
7 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.64%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.64%) TM Forum
9 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.55%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Replication
10 1 (0.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (32.24%) Linux
2 53 (28.96%) Windows
3 24 (13.11%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.10%) Unix
5 11 (6.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.37%) CentOS
6 8 (4.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (4.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.19%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.19%) Solaris
8 4 (2.19%) VMS
9 3 (1.64%) AIX
9 3 (1.64%) Debian
10 1 (0.55%) Android
10 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.55%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (44.81%) Identity Access Management
2 78 (42.62%) Roadmaps
3 73 (39.89%) Agile
4 72 (39.34%) Test Automation
5 71 (38.80%) Data Modelling
6 69 (37.70%) SDLC
7 67 (36.61%) Architectural Design
8 65 (35.52%) CI/CD
8 65 (35.52%) Community of Practice
8 65 (35.52%) Continuous Delivery
8 65 (35.52%) Data Pipeline
8 65 (35.52%) Data Transformation
8 65 (35.52%) Information Architecture
8 65 (35.52%) Ontologies
8 65 (35.52%) Operational Stability
8 65 (35.52%) RDF
8 65 (35.52%) Software Engineering
8 65 (35.52%) Use Case
9 37 (20.22%) ITIL
10 24 (13.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.16%) Go
2 65 (35.52%) Prolog
2 65 (35.52%) SPARQL
3 29 (15.85%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.48%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.29%) Python
6 16 (8.74%) Java
7 13 (7.10%) Bash
8 11 (6.01%) Perl
9 10 (5.46%) SQL
10 5 (2.73%) Bicep
11 4 (2.19%) C
12 2 (1.09%) C#
12 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.55%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.55%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (7.65%) Degree
2 8 (4.37%) PMI Certification
2 8 (4.37%) PMP
3 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.73%) RHCE
4 5 (2.73%) RHCSA
4 5 (2.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.37%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.83%) SLA
3 5 (2.73%) GRC
4 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 113 (61.75%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.09%) Firmware
4 2 (1.09%) NFS
4 2 (1.09%) Shibboleth
5 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.55%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.55%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (19.13%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (7.65%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.10%) Ansible
4 8 (4.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.73%) Rancher
6 5 (2.73%) Terraform
6 5 (2.73%) WSUS
7 4 (2.19%) HP UCMDB
7 4 (2.19%) Puppet
8 3 (1.64%) Oracle Statspack
9 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.09%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.58%) ServiceNow
3 20 (10.93%) BMC
3 20 (10.93%) HP
3 20 (10.93%) Remedy
4 17 (9.29%) Cisco
5 16 (8.74%) Red Hat
6 13 (7.10%) VMware
7 12 (6.56%) Oracle
8 7 (3.83%) Bloomberg
8 7 (3.83%) Citrix
8 7 (3.83%) F5
8 7 (3.83%) SAP
9 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.28%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.73%) Okta
10 5 (2.73%) Splunk
11 4 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (2.19%) Google
11 4 (2.19%) Salesforce