Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring LDAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LDAP over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 625 861
Rank change year-on-year -47 +236 -70
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 164 182 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 1.04% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 65 119 211
10th Percentile £42,250 £36,650 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,625 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +23.97% -6.92%
75th Percentile £76,250 £88,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £55,750 £48,750
% change year-on-year +11.21% +14.36% -22.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15,719 17,518 57,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 27.06% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,796 13,523 27,563
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 16 September 2024.

Salary histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 15 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 16 September 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
England -23 144 £65,000 -7.14% 43
UK excluding London -40 96 £62,000 +11.21% 23
London +18 65 £72,500 -12.12% 21
Work from Home -20 36 £65,000 -13.33% 29
North of England +11 32 £45,096 -12.01% 6
North West -11 26 £45,096 -11.58% 6
Scotland -38 18 £65,000 -13.33% 1
South West -13 17 £84,000 +23.53% 3
South East -39 11 £65,000 +145.28% 3
East of England -19 10 £57,750 +3.36% 3
Midlands -21 8 - - 7
West Midlands -16 5 - - 5
North East - 5 £57,500 -
East Midlands -37 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +34 1 £40,681 -57.18%

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 8 (4.88%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.27%) Confluence
3 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.44%) Apache
5 3 (1.83%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.83%) JBoss
5 3 (1.83%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.83%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.22%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.68%) Azure
2 20 (12.20%) Entra ID
3 19 (11.59%) AWS
4 10 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.49%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.88%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.22%) IaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.61%) GCP
8 1 (0.61%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.61%) PaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.61%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.61%) SaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.51%) DNS
2 31 (18.90%) Firewall
3 29 (17.68%) Kerberos
3 29 (17.68%) VPN
4 23 (14.02%) WAN
5 21 (12.80%) LAN
6 19 (11.59%) DHCP
6 19 (11.59%) HTTP
7 16 (9.76%) TCP/IP
8 15 (9.15%) FTP
9 11 (6.71%) SMTP
10 9 (5.49%) HTTPS
11 8 (4.88%) SNMP
12 7 (4.27%) SSL
12 7 (4.27%) VLAN
13 6 (3.66%) Internet
13 6 (3.66%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (3.66%) SAN
13 6 (3.66%) Wireless
14 5 (3.05%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.80%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.32%) Metadata
4 10 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.27%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.83%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.22%) MySQL
9 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.61%) Power BI
9 1 (0.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 26 (15.85%) Jenkins
2 23 (14.02%) Git
3 13 (7.93%) Bitbucket
4 12 (7.32%) Artifactory
5 10 (6.10%) JIRA
6 8 (4.88%) Maven
7 7 (4.27%) DbUnit
7 7 (4.27%) JUnit
7 7 (4.27%) Mockito
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.61%) Subversion
8 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.46%) Finance
3 16 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.15%) Banking
5 14 (8.54%) Marketing
6 12 (7.32%) Law
7 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Electronics
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (27.44%) Senior
2 43 (26.22%) Developer
3 31 (18.90%) ServiceNow Developer
4 26 (15.85%) Lead
5 21 (12.80%) Architect
6 18 (10.98%) Analyst
6 18 (10.98%) ServiceNow Architect
7 15 (9.15%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (8.54%) Consultant
9 12 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Senior Consultant
9 12 (7.32%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
9 12 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 12 (7.32%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.71%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.71%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (5.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (53.66%) Web Services
2 60 (36.59%) CSS
3 59 (35.98%) AngularJS
4 54 (32.93%) Ajax
4 54 (32.93%) HTML
5 38 (23.17%) SAML
6 30 (18.29%) OpenID
7 28 (17.07%) XML
8 20 (12.20%) OAuth
8 20 (12.20%) RESTful
9 15 (9.15%) JSON
10 14 (8.54%) REST
11 12 (7.32%) JSON-LD
12 11 (6.71%) SailPoint
13 9 (5.49%) JDBC
14 8 (4.88%) OAuth2
14 8 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (4.27%) JPA
15 7 (4.27%) PowerMock
15 7 (4.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) CMDB
2 20 (12.20%) Management Information System
3 13 (7.93%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.32%) Reference Data
5 11 (6.71%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.27%) Client/Server
7 6 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (3.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.44%) FPGA
9 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.44%) Replication
10 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.83%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.22%) Clustering
11 2 (1.22%) PKI
11 2 (1.22%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (29.88%) Linux
2 43 (26.22%) Windows
3 15 (9.15%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.32%) CentOS
5 10 (6.10%) Unix
6 9 (5.49%) Debian
6 9 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (3.05%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (3.05%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.83%) AIX
8 3 (1.83%) Solaris
8 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.61%) Android
10 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.61%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (49.39%) Agile
2 57 (34.76%) Service Management
3 56 (34.15%) Scrum
4 48 (29.27%) SIAM
5 37 (22.56%) Identity Access Management
6 29 (17.68%) ITIL
7 27 (16.46%) Data Modelling
8 26 (15.85%) Test Automation
9 22 (13.41%) Configuration Management
10 19 (11.59%) ITSM
11 18 (10.98%) Identity Management
11 18 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (9.76%) CI/CD
12 16 (9.76%) Roadmaps
13 15 (9.15%) Risk Management
13 15 (9.15%) Security Operations
14 14 (8.54%) Architectural Design
14 14 (8.54%) Customer Service
14 14 (8.54%) Project Delivery
15 13 (7.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.02%) JavaScript
2 34 (20.73%) Java
3 22 (13.41%) Python
4 19 (11.59%) Bash
5 17 (10.37%) SQL
6 16 (9.76%) Perl
7 13 (7.93%) Go
8 12 (7.32%) Prolog
8 12 (7.32%) SPARQL
9 9 (5.49%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.66%) C#
11 2 (1.22%) C
12 1 (0.61%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.61%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (37.80%) SC Cleared
1 62 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 47 (28.66%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.49%) Degree
4 6 (3.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.83%) PMP
7 2 (1.22%) CISSP
7 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) CCIE
8 1 (0.61%) CCNP
8 1 (0.61%) CISA
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.61%) GIAC
8 1 (0.61%) RHCE
8 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) GRC
2 3 (1.83%) GDPR
2 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.83%) SLA
3 2 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.22%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.22%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 62 (37.80%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.83%) NDS
3 3 (1.83%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.22%) Docker
4 2 (1.22%) Firmware
4 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.61%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (46.34%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (10.37%) Ansible
3 11 (6.71%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.10%) Puppet
5 8 (4.88%) ZABBIX
6 6 (3.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (3.66%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 6 (3.66%) QRadar
6 6 (3.66%) SCCM
7 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.83%) Oracle Statspack
8 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (1.22%) RSA Archer
8 2 (1.22%) Terraform
8 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.61%) Grafana
9 1 (0.61%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (40.85%) ServiceNow
2 18 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.54%) Oracle
4 10 (6.10%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.88%) ForgeRock
5 8 (4.88%) VMware
6 7 (4.27%) SolarWinds
6 7 (4.27%) Splunk
7 6 (3.66%) F5
7 6 (3.66%) NetIQ
8 4 (2.44%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.44%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.83%) Apple
9 3 (1.83%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.83%) New Relic
9 3 (1.83%) NGA Human Resources
9 3 (1.83%) Northgate
9 3 (1.83%) Novell
9 3 (1.83%) Okta
9 3 (1.83%) Remedy