LDAP Job Trends in London

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring LDAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 378 424
Rank change year-on-year +30 +46 +160
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 47 30 65
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.28% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 0.81% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 49
10th Percentile £69,750 £55,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £75,938 £68,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +3.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £96,875 £82,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,125 £102,500 £95,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

LDAP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,931 3,685 5,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.30% 27.13% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,088 2,510 4,785
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £102,500 £109,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in London

LDAP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing LDAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing LDAP

LDAP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing LDAP in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for LDAP in London

LDAP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the London region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Central London +6 7 £95,000 +18.75% 3
West London - 7 - -
South London +37 2 - -
East London - 2 £85,000 -
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) Tomcat
1 8 (17.02%) WebSphere
1 8 (17.02%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (12.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) nginx
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) Azure
2 24 (51.06%) Entra ID
3 18 (38.30%) Google Workspace
4 17 (36.17%) AWS
5 7 (14.89%) GCP
6 6 (12.77%) OpenShift
7 3 (6.38%) PaaS
7 3 (6.38%) SaaS
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.26%) Route 53
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
8 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (38.30%) Broadband
2 12 (25.53%) Kerberos
3 8 (17.02%) SSL
4 5 (10.64%) DHCP
4 5 (10.64%) DNS
5 3 (6.38%) Firewall
5 3 (6.38%) Network Security
5 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.38%) WAN
6 2 (4.26%) LAN
6 2 (4.26%) NAS
6 2 (4.26%) SAN
6 2 (4.26%) SNMP
7 1 (2.13%) DKIM
7 1 (2.13%) DMARC
7 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.13%) VLAN
7 1 (2.13%) VoIP
7 1 (2.13%) VPN
7 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) DB2
1 8 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.77%) Apache Hive
2 6 (12.77%) Big Data
2 6 (12.77%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (40.43%) Organisational Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Banking
3 7 (14.89%) Investment Banking
3 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Senior
2 14 (29.79%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Applications Support
3 8 (17.02%) Linux Support
4 6 (12.77%) Developer
4 6 (12.77%) IAM Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (12.77%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Unix Support
5 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Systems Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Applications Support Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (63.83%) OAuth
2 24 (51.06%) OpenID
2 24 (51.06%) SAML
3 21 (44.68%) REST
4 18 (38.30%) GraphQL
4 18 (38.30%) SOAP
5 8 (17.02%) LAPP Stack
5 8 (17.02%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (12.77%) OAuth2
7 4 (8.51%) JDBC
7 4 (8.51%) ODBC
8 3 (6.38%) Web Services
9 2 (4.26%) Kafka
9 2 (4.26%) RESTful
10 1 (2.13%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (38.30%) Cyber Threat
1 18 (38.30%) Cyberattack
2 12 (25.53%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (12.77%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) CMDB
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) FPGA
6 1 (2.13%) Clustering
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Replication
6 1 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Linux
2 15 (31.91%) Unix
3 12 (25.53%) Windows
4 10 (21.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.26%) CentOS
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Identity Access Management
2 23 (48.94%) Roadmaps
3 22 (46.81%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (42.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (40.43%) Mentoring
6 18 (38.30%) Change Control
6 18 (38.30%) Programme Delivery
6 18 (38.30%) Regulatory Compliance
7 12 (25.53%) ITIL
8 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (17.02%) Change Management
9 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
9 8 (17.02%) Release Management
9 8 (17.02%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (14.89%) High Availability
10 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.89%) Zero Trust
11 6 (12.77%) Computer Science
11 6 (12.77%) Privileged Access Management
11 6 (12.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) PowerShell
2 19 (40.43%) SQL
3 18 (38.30%) Bash
3 18 (38.30%) Python
3 18 (38.30%) T-SQL
4 9 (19.15%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (38.30%) Degree
2 9 (19.15%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (17.02%) AWS Certification
4 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (10.64%) CISSP
6 1 (2.13%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (42.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (40.43%) NIST
3 18 (38.30%) NCSC
4 8 (17.02%) SLA
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (76.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) OpenAM
2 1 (2.13%) OpenDJ
2 1 (2.13%) OpenIDM
2 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Ansible
2 8 (17.02%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) Netcool
5 1 (2.13%) SCCM
5 1 (2.13%) Terraform
5 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Red Hat
2 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
3 8 (17.02%) Dell
3 8 (17.02%) IBM
4 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle
6 2 (4.26%) Citrix
6 2 (4.26%) Databricks
6 2 (4.26%) HP
6 2 (4.26%) VMware
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco
7 1 (2.13%) Cognizant
7 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.13%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.13%) McAfee
7 1 (2.13%) Meraki
7 1 (2.13%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.13%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) Sybase