LDAP Job Trends in the West Midlands

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring LDAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 197 173
Rank change year-on-year +32 -24 +101
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 7 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.11% 0.060%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 0.71% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33,750
25th Percentile - - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.18%
75th Percentile - - £52,500
90th Percentile - - £56,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% -12.12% +17.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 415 705 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.90% 16.20% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 360 382 525
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,228 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,813 £72,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

LDAP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

LDAP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LDAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LDAP

LDAP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LDAP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Birmingham +28 3 £65,000 - 6
Solihull +2 2 - -
Warwickshire - 2 - -
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (71.43%) Confluence
2 4 (57.14%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon ELB
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS KMS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (57.14%) Route 53
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) FTP
1 4 (57.14%) HTTP
1 4 (57.14%) IMAP
1 4 (57.14%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (57.14%) SMTP
1 4 (57.14%) SSH
2 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenID
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
2 4 (57.14%) VMS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Patch Management
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Runbook
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Groovy
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) DFS Replication
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
1 4 (57.14%) Dovecot
1 4 (57.14%) Postfix
1 4 (57.14%) Squid
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Nessus
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 4 (57.14%) Proxmox
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) ForgeRock
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft