Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LDAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 607 648
Rank change year-on-year -78 +41 -51
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 104 80 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.95% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 73
10th Percentile £38,125 £42,500 £43,821
25th Percentile £47,688 £46,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -11.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £57,500 £58,375
% change year-on-year +15.22% -1.50% -1.27%

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 10,680 8,463 15,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 16.87% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 5,490 11,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the UK

LDAP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LDAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LDAP

LDAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LDAP over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 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
England -47 96 £67,500 +14.41% 51
UK excluding London -83 70 £66,250 +15.22% 32
South East -5 39 £67,500 - 8
London -40 31 £110,000 +29.41% 20
Work from Home -24 30 £75,250 +25.42% 23
East of England -26 8 £50,000 -19.35% 4
Midlands -28 7 £37,500 - 3
South West -84 7 £102,500 +111.34% 9
West Midlands -20 6 £37,500 - 2
Scotland +5 5 £85,000 -4.23% 2
North of England -61 2 - - 7
Wales - 2 - -
North West -21 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -33 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 - 1

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (4.81%) Confluence
1 5 (4.81%) IIS
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) Azure
2 48 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 19 (18.27%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (16.35%) AWS
5 7 (6.73%) SaaS
6 6 (5.77%) Nutanix
6 6 (5.77%) PaaS
7 5 (4.81%) GCP
8 4 (3.85%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 49 (47.12%) Firewall
2 25 (24.04%) Kerberos
3 21 (20.19%) TCP/IP
4 20 (19.23%) DNS
5 17 (16.35%) FTP
5 17 (16.35%) HTTP
5 17 (16.35%) LAN
5 17 (16.35%) SMTP
5 17 (16.35%) WAN
6 12 (11.54%) Network Security
6 12 (11.54%) VPN
7 7 (6.73%) Internet
8 3 (2.88%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.92%) SSL
10 1 (0.96%) BGP
10 1 (0.96%) DHCP
10 1 (0.96%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.96%) IPsec
10 1 (0.96%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.96%) Big Data
4 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.96%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (0.96%) Trino
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.12%) Aerospace
4 11 (10.58%) Finance
4 11 (10.58%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.92%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Games
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.96%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 54 (51.92%) Architect
2 17 (16.35%) Analyst
3 16 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
4 14 (13.46%) Applications Architect
4 14 (13.46%) Security Architect
5 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 8 (7.69%) Identity Management Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
6 8 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Technical Support
7 7 (6.73%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (4.81%) IAM Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Platform Manager
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Architect
11 3 (2.88%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (37.50%) SAML
2 36 (34.62%) OAuth
3 35 (33.65%) OpenID
4 19 (18.27%) Regular Expression
5 18 (17.31%) REST
6 15 (14.42%) XMPP
7 12 (11.54%) ModSecurity
8 8 (7.69%) SailPoint
9 7 (6.73%) JSON
9 7 (6.73%) JSON Schema
9 7 (6.73%) XML
10 6 (5.77%) RESTful
11 5 (4.81%) .NET
11 5 (4.81%) SOAP
12 4 (3.85%) COM
12 4 (3.85%) DCOM
12 4 (3.85%) Middleware
13 3 (2.88%) GraphQL
13 3 (2.88%) JDBC
13 3 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.46%) Security Posture
3 13 (12.50%) Social Media
4 12 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (9.62%) PKI
6 9 (8.65%) Client/Server
7 7 (6.73%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (6.73%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (4.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (3.85%) Mobile App
10 4 (3.85%) Smartcard
11 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.92%) CMDB
12 2 (1.92%) MISP
13 1 (0.96%) Clustering
13 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.92%) Linux
2 27 (25.96%) Windows
3 25 (24.04%) Windows Server
4 24 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.04%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (42.31%) Identity Access Management
3 34 (32.69%) RBAC
4 33 (31.73%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (31.73%) SIEM
5 31 (29.81%) Privileged Access Management
5 31 (29.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 31 (29.81%) Zero Trust
6 27 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (25.96%) Validation
7 25 (24.04%) Threat Detection
8 24 (23.08%) Roadmaps
9 23 (22.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 23 (22.12%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (20.19%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (19.23%) Incident Response
12 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure Automation
12 19 (18.27%) Mentoring
12 19 (18.27%) Microservices
13 17 (16.35%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 19 (18.27%) Python
3 14 (13.46%) Bash
4 10 (9.62%) C++
4 10 (9.62%) Perl
4 10 (9.62%) SQL
5 7 (6.73%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.77%) Java
7 5 (4.81%) VB.NET
8 4 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.96%) C#
10 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (59.62%) Security Cleared
2 38 (36.54%) DV Cleared
3 35 (33.65%) CISSP
4 19 (18.27%) Degree
5 17 (16.35%) CISM
5 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
6 14 (13.46%) Azure Certification
7 11 (10.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (8.65%) CEH
8 9 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (7.69%) CREST Certified
9 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (4.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (4.81%) CCSP
12 2 (1.92%) CCNA
12 2 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.65%) GDPR
2 9 (8.65%) NIST
2 9 (8.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.92%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 81 (77.88%) Active Directory
2 19 (18.27%) vSphere
3 9 (8.65%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.81%) NDS
6 1 (0.96%) Docker
6 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (14.42%) QRadar
3 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.96%) CASB
5 1 (0.96%) Netcool
5 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (25.96%) VMware
3 23 (22.12%) Splunk
4 20 (19.23%) Okta
4 20 (19.23%) Red Hat
5 19 (18.27%) ForgeRock
6 15 (14.42%) McAfee
7 14 (13.46%) CyberArk
8 8 (7.69%) ServiceNow
9 7 (6.73%) OpenText
10 6 (5.77%) Oracle
11 5 (4.81%) ArcSight
11 5 (4.81%) Ivanti
11 5 (4.81%) NetIQ
11 5 (4.81%) Qualys
11 5 (4.81%) Rapid7
11 5 (4.81%) Tenable
11 5 (4.81%) Veracode
12 4 (3.85%) Google
12 4 (3.85%) Salesforce