LDAP Job Trends in the South East

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring LDAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 261 362
Rank change year-on-year -20 +101 -7
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 16 3 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.041% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 0.24% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 15
10th Percentile £52,750 - £56,625
25th Percentile £66,250 - £59,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +145.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £73,125
90th Percentile - - £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,290 1,225 2,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.79% 16.73% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,095 884 2,462
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the South East

LDAP
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LDAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LDAP

LDAP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing LDAP in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for LDAP in the South East

LDAP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Thames Valley - 14 £67,500 - 5
Berkshire - 14 £67,500 - 4
Surrey - 2 - - 1
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) DNS
1 12 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) Broadband
2 2 (12.50%) FTP
2 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) Internet
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) SMTP
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Applications Architect
1 10 (62.50%) Architect
1 10 (62.50%) Security Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Design Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) IAM Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) Regular Expression
2 8 (50.00%) XMPP
3 4 (25.00%) JSON
3 4 (25.00%) JSON Schema
3 4 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 2 (12.50%) OpenID
4 2 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) SAML
4 2 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
1 12 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
1 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) SIEM
2 12 (75.00%) Application Security
3 10 (62.50%) Architectural Design
4 8 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
4 8 (50.00%) Pattern Matching
4 8 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 8 (50.00%) Server Management
4 8 (50.00%) Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Change Control
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) SOAR
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Swim Lanes
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) McAfee
3 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) ArcSight
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk