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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 218 205
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +75
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 9 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.047% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 0.33% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.00%
75th Percentile - - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +16.67%

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 481 896 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.96% 14.13% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 355 612 584
10th Percentile £36,450 £32,275 £36,650
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £44,229
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +3.85%

LDAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing LDAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for LDAP 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 1 September 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 +34 6 £65,000 -
Solihull - 3 - -
LDAP
England

LDAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (100.00%) Confluence
2 8 (88.89%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon ECS
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon ELB
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon S3
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) AWS KMS
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (88.89%) Route 53
1 8 (88.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) FTP
1 8 (88.89%) HTTP
1 8 (88.89%) IMAP
1 8 (88.89%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (88.89%) SMTP
1 8 (88.89%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (88.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
1 8 (88.89%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (88.89%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Ubuntu
2 8 (88.89%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Change Management
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Security
1 8 (88.89%) Configuration Management
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Patch Management
1 8 (88.89%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Groovy
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) AWS Certification
1 8 (88.89%) Azure Certification
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) DFS Replication
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
1 8 (88.89%) Dovecot
1 8 (88.89%) Postfix
1 8 (88.89%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Grafana
1 8 (88.89%) Nessus
1 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
1 8 (88.89%) Proxmox
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft