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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 724 755
Rank change year-on-year +79 +31 +197
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 57 184 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.86% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 36 84 147
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -13.33% +38.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £91,875 £90,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £58,250 £55,750
% change year-on-year +6.44% +4.48% +11.50%

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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LDAP in the UK

LDAP
Top 13 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 31 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 +124 51 £62,000 -0.80% 90
UK excluding London +101 38 £62,000 +6.44% 40
London +62 16 £87,500 +34.62% 53
East of England - 15 £62,000 - 9
North of England +40 11 £56,000 +6.67% 5
Work from Home +98 10 £60,000 -7.69% 39
Yorkshire +62 7 £56,000 -4.27% 2
Midlands +66 4 - - 14
West Midlands +59 4 - - 9
North West -2 4 - - 2
South West +107 3 - - 4
South East +62 3 - - 8
Scotland +44 2 £88,750 +18.33% 4

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 9 (15.79%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) nginx
3 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.51%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.51%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.75%) IIS
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 16 (28.07%) Azure
3 11 (19.30%) Entra ID
4 9 (15.79%) SaaS
5 7 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.02%) Nutanix
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.26%) GCP
8 3 (5.26%) IaaS
8 3 (5.26%) PaaS
8 3 (5.26%) Route 53
8 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (56.14%) Firewall
2 20 (35.09%) HTTP
3 18 (31.58%) VPN
4 14 (24.56%) FTP
4 14 (24.56%) SMTP
5 13 (22.81%) LAN
5 13 (22.81%) WAN
6 12 (21.05%) DNS
7 11 (19.30%) TCP/IP
8 9 (15.79%) Internet
8 9 (15.79%) Kerberos
9 8 (14.04%) Network Security
10 7 (12.28%) SSH
11 4 (7.02%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (7.02%) DHCP
11 4 (7.02%) HTTPS
11 4 (7.02%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (5.26%) SAN
12 3 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.04%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.51%) Endeca
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Jenkins
1 13 (22.81%) JIRA
2 8 (14.04%) Git
3 4 (7.02%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.02%) WiX
4 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (5.26%) Vagrant
5 2 (3.51%) Selenium
6 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.51%) Marketing
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Retail
5 1 (1.75%) Advertising
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) Architect
2 8 (14.04%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Identity Management Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) IT Support
4 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Senior
5 5 (8.77%) Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) IT Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) SOAP
2 12 (21.05%) OAuth
2 12 (21.05%) SAML
3 10 (17.54%) REST
4 9 (15.79%) OpenID
5 8 (14.04%) .NET
6 5 (8.77%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.77%) SailPoint
7 4 (7.02%) .NET Framework
7 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.02%) Blazor
7 4 (7.02%) COM
7 4 (7.02%) Entity Framework
7 4 (7.02%) JSON
7 4 (7.02%) JWT
7 4 (7.02%) RESTful
7 4 (7.02%) XML
8 3 (5.26%) CSS
8 3 (5.26%) Middleware
8 3 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Client/Server
1 11 (19.30%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (17.54%) PKI
3 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 5 (8.77%) Replication
5 4 (7.02%) Anti-Spyware
5 4 (7.02%) Wiki
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.26%) MISP
7 2 (3.51%) Clustering
7 2 (3.51%) CMDB
7 2 (3.51%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (49.12%) Windows
2 13 (22.81%) Linux
3 10 (17.54%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.77%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.02%) Android
5 4 (7.02%) Mac OS
5 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (5.26%) VMS
7 2 (3.51%) Solaris
8 1 (1.75%) CentOS
8 1 (1.75%) Debian
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) DevOps
2 19 (33.33%) SIEM
3 17 (29.82%) Agile
4 12 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
4 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.30%) Identity Management
5 11 (19.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 11 (19.30%) Security Operations
6 9 (15.79%) Malware Analysis
6 9 (15.79%) Reverse Engineering
6 9 (15.79%) Scrum
7 8 (14.04%) Line Management
7 8 (14.04%) People Management
7 8 (14.04%) Use Case
8 7 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.28%) ITSM
8 7 (12.28%) Service Management
9 6 (10.53%) Blue Team
Programming Languages
1 28 (49.12%) PowerShell
2 16 (28.07%) Bash
3 15 (26.32%) Python
4 12 (21.05%) Java
5 10 (17.54%) C++
6 9 (15.79%) SQL
7 8 (14.04%) C#
8 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 6 (10.53%) Perl
9 5 (8.77%) Groovy
10 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) DV Cleared
3 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.04%) CISSP
5 7 (12.28%) Azure Certification
6 5 (8.77%) CISM
6 5 (8.77%) Degree
6 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
2 3 (5.26%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) NIST
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (12.28%) Docker
4 5 (8.77%) Squid
5 3 (5.26%) DFS Replication
5 3 (5.26%) Dovecot
5 3 (5.26%) Postfix
5 3 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.51%) KVM
6 2 (3.51%) NFS
6 2 (3.51%) SRDF
6 2 (3.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (3.51%) Xen
7 1 (1.75%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.75%) NDS
Systems Management
1 14 (24.56%) QRadar
2 13 (22.81%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (14.04%) Terraform
4 7 (12.28%) Ansible
5 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (7.02%) Nessus
7 3 (5.26%) Grafana
7 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.26%) Proxmox
7 3 (5.26%) Puppet
8 2 (3.51%) Argo
8 2 (3.51%) Graylog
8 2 (3.51%) Kibana
9 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.75%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (1.75%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.75%) SCCM
9 1 (1.75%) WMI
9 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (31.58%) Splunk
3 11 (19.30%) VMware
4 10 (17.54%) ServiceNow
5 6 (10.53%) Cisco
5 6 (10.53%) Okta
6 5 (8.77%) Oracle
6 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
7 4 (7.02%) Perforce
8 3 (5.26%) ForgeRock
8 3 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (5.26%) Veeam
9 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
9 2 (3.51%) EMC
9 2 (3.51%) F5
9 2 (3.51%) Google
9 2 (3.51%) NetApp
9 2 (3.51%) New Relic
9 2 (3.51%) Ping Identity
10 1 (1.75%) BMC