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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 365 378
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +229
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 35 60 58
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 1.42% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 50
10th Percentile £75,000 £55,364 £39,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -12.12% +0.92%
75th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,500 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% -12.12% +17.86%

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 2,647 4,239 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.30% 26.84% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,904 2,634 4,262
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,375 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,188 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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
East London - 6 £85,000 -
Central London +40 4 £107,500 +34.38% 1
West London - 1 - -
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 16 (45.71%) Tomcat
1 16 (45.71%) WebSphere
1 16 (45.71%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) Apache
3 2 (5.71%) nginx
4 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
3 6 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
3 6 (17.14%) Route 53
3 6 (17.14%) Serverless
3 6 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) Google Workspace
4 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) OCI
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) SSL
2 5 (14.29%) Broadband
2 5 (14.29%) Kerberos
3 4 (11.43%) DNS
3 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.57%) DHCP
5 2 (5.71%) LAN
5 2 (5.71%) NAS
5 2 (5.71%) SAN
5 2 (5.71%) SNMP
5 2 (5.71%) WAN
6 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) DB2
1 16 (45.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 5 (14.29%) Big Data
3 5 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 18 (51.43%) Banking
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Applications Support
2 15 (42.86%) Linux Support
3 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (28.57%) Unix Support
5 8 (22.86%) Senior
6 7 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (20.00%) Support Engineer
7 6 (17.14%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (17.14%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
9 3 (8.57%) Architect
9 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
9 3 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
10 2 (5.71%) Developer
10 2 (5.71%) IAM Developer
10 2 (5.71%) Principal Architect
10 2 (5.71%) Principal Data Architect
10 2 (5.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (45.71%) WebSphere MQ
2 14 (40.00%) OAuth
3 9 (25.71%) OpenID
4 8 (22.86%) SAML
5 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
5 6 (17.14%) REST
5 6 (17.14%) SOAP
6 5 (14.29%) GraphQL
7 4 (11.43%) JDBC
8 3 (8.57%) ODBC
9 2 (5.71%) Kafka
10 1 (2.86%) J2EE
10 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (54.29%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 5 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
5 2 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (5.71%) FPGA
6 1 (2.86%) Clustering
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.86%) PKI
6 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (74.29%) Linux
2 23 (65.71%) Unix
3 19 (54.29%) Windows
4 18 (51.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.71%) CentOS
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Solaris
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) ITIL
2 16 (45.71%) Change Management
2 16 (45.71%) Release Management
2 16 (45.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (20.00%) Service Management
5 6 (17.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
5 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.29%) AI
6 5 (14.29%) Change Control
6 5 (14.29%) High Availability
6 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 5 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
6 5 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) Java
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
3 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (8.57%) Perl
6 1 (2.86%) Bourne shell
6 1 (2.86%) C-shell
6 1 (2.86%) Groovy
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Degree
2 17 (48.57%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (45.71%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (2.86%) CISM
5 1 (2.86%) CISSP
5 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (48.57%) SLA
2 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (17.14%) NIST
3 5 (14.29%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) PSD2
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) OpenAM
2 1 (2.86%) OpenDJ
2 1 (2.86%) OpenIDM
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Red Hat
2 16 (45.71%) IBM
3 10 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 7 (20.00%) Dell
5 3 (8.57%) HP
6 2 (5.71%) Databricks
6 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle
6 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) Cognizant
7 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.86%) EMC
7 1 (2.86%) McAfee
7 1 (2.86%) Okta
7 1 (2.86%) Splunk
7 1 (2.86%) VMware
7 1 (2.86%) VocaLink