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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 705 759
Rank change year-on-year +66 +54 +159
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 53 191 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.91% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 39 90 148
10th Percentile £43,500 £32,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -13.33% +38.63%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £90,000 £95,687
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £58,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.44% +5.91% +6.13%

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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +119 47 £70,000 +7.69% 158
UK excluding London +119 32 £62,000 +6.44% 120
London +65 18 £87,500 +25.00% 61
Work from Home +171 16 £60,000 -7.69% 43
East of England - 11 £62,000 - 26
North of England +88 10 £53,375 +1.67% 19
Yorkshire +81 6 £53,375 -8.76% 10
North West +30 4 - - 7
South West +100 3 - - 11
South East +93 3 - - 44
Midlands +82 3 £40,000 -13.04% 18
Scotland +55 2 £88,750 +18.33% 7
East Midlands +50 2 £40,000 -13.04% 7
West Midlands +50 1 - - 9

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 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.89%) IIS
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.89%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) AWS
2 13 (24.53%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) Entra ID
3 9 (16.98%) SaaS
4 5 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (7.55%) Nutanix
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 3 (5.66%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 22 (41.51%) Firewall
2 15 (28.30%) VPN
3 13 (24.53%) HTTP
4 10 (18.87%) LAN
4 10 (18.87%) WAN
5 9 (16.98%) Kerberos
6 8 (15.09%) DNS
6 8 (15.09%) TCP/IP
7 7 (13.21%) FTP
7 7 (13.21%) Network Security
7 7 (13.21%) SMTP
8 6 (11.32%) Internet
9 4 (7.55%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (7.55%) HTTPS
9 4 (7.55%) SAN
9 4 (7.55%) SSH
10 3 (5.66%) DHCP
10 3 (5.66%) NAS
10 3 (5.66%) SSL
11 2 (3.77%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) Endeca
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.89%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) JIRA
2 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.43%) Git
4 4 (7.55%) Visual Studio
4 4 (7.55%) WiX
5 3 (5.66%) GitLab
5 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.77%) Selenium
7 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.89%) Maven
7 1 (1.89%) Subversion
7 1 (1.89%) TestComplete
General
1 19 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Finance
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Developer
2 7 (13.21%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 7 (13.21%) Identity Management Engineer
2 7 (13.21%) Lead
3 6 (11.32%) Senior
4 5 (9.43%) Administrator
5 4 (7.55%) C# Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (7.55%) IT Support
5 4 (7.55%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) OAuth
1 12 (22.64%) SAML
1 12 (22.64%) SOAP
2 10 (18.87%) REST
3 9 (16.98%) OpenID
4 7 (13.21%) .NET
5 6 (11.32%) AngularJS
5 6 (11.32%) SailPoint
5 6 (11.32%) Web Services
6 5 (9.43%) CSS
6 5 (9.43%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.43%) XML
7 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
7 4 (7.55%) Ajax
7 4 (7.55%) Blazor
7 4 (7.55%) COM
7 4 (7.55%) Entity Framework
7 4 (7.55%) HTML
7 4 (7.55%) JSON
7 4 (7.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) PKI
2 8 (15.09%) Client/Server
3 7 (13.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (11.32%) Onboarding
5 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
6 4 (7.55%) Anti-Spyware
6 4 (7.55%) CMDB
6 4 (7.55%) Wiki
7 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (3.77%) Clustering
8 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
8 2 (3.77%) Replication
9 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.89%) Smartcard
9 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (49.06%) Windows
2 11 (20.75%) Linux
3 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.43%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.55%) Android
5 4 (7.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.77%) Solaris
7 1 (1.89%) CentOS
7 1 (1.89%) Debian
7 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.89%) Unix
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Agile
2 17 (32.08%) DevOps
3 15 (28.30%) SIEM
4 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (24.53%) Identity Access Management
6 12 (22.64%) Scrum
7 11 (20.75%) Identity Management
8 10 (18.87%) Service Management
9 9 (16.98%) ITSM
9 9 (16.98%) Security Operations
10 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
11 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (13.21%) Information Security
11 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (13.21%) Line Management
11 7 (13.21%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 7 (13.21%) People Management
11 7 (13.21%) Use Case
12 6 (11.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) PowerShell
2 15 (28.30%) Bash
3 12 (22.64%) Java
3 12 (22.64%) Python
4 10 (18.87%) C++
5 9 (16.98%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.98%) SQL
6 7 (13.21%) C#
6 7 (13.21%) Perl
7 2 (3.77%) Groovy
7 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.89%) ABAP
8 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) DV Cleared
4 9 (16.98%) CISSP
5 5 (9.43%) CISM
5 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.77%) Degree
8 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) GRC
3 2 (3.77%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) Docker
4 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.77%) KVM
4 2 (3.77%) NFS
4 2 (3.77%) SRDF
4 2 (3.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (3.77%) Xen
5 1 (1.89%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.89%) NDS
5 1 (1.89%) Squid
5 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (20.75%) QRadar
3 7 (13.21%) Ansible
4 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (9.43%) Terraform
5 3 (5.66%) Puppet
6 2 (3.77%) Argo
6 2 (3.77%) Graylog
7 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.89%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.89%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (1.89%) Kibana
7 1 (1.89%) Nessus
7 1 (1.89%) PingFederate
7 1 (1.89%) SCCM
7 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.89%) WMI
7 1 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.42%) Splunk
3 10 (18.87%) ServiceNow
4 9 (16.98%) VMware
5 6 (11.32%) Cisco
5 6 (11.32%) Okta
6 5 (9.43%) Oracle
6 5 (9.43%) SolarWinds
7 4 (7.55%) Perforce
8 3 (5.66%) ForgeRock
9 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
9 2 (3.77%) EMC
9 2 (3.77%) F5
9 2 (3.77%) Google
9 2 (3.77%) NetApp
9 2 (3.77%) Ping Identity
10 1 (1.89%) Apple
10 1 (1.89%) NetIQ
10 1 (1.89%) Remedy
10 1 (1.89%) Veritas