Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LDAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LDAP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 755 895
Rank change year-on-year +40 +140 -194
Permanent jobs citing LDAP 186 226 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 0.74% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 87 149 183
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £49,000 £46,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +38.63% -22.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,290 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,250 £51,000 £50,296
% change year-on-year +14.22% +1.40% -19.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LDAP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,074 30,426 64,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.12% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,767 18,780 29,905
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,563
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.89% +13.75%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +9 121 £58,250 +14.22% 19
England +8 98 £65,000 -7.14% 28
Scotland +9 80 £75,000 - 3
London +85 59 £65,000 -21.21% 11
Work from Home +1 39 £65,000 -13.33% 9
South East -5 19 £65,000 +145.28% 8
South West -12 10 £55,000 -4.35% 4
North of England +31 7 £52,500 -13.58% 3
North West -9 6 £52,500 -13.58% 2
Midlands -20 3 £46,000 -16.36% 1
Wales +2 2 - -
East Midlands -18 2 £46,000 - 1
Yorkshire +83 1 £58,500 - 1
West Midlands -2 1 £57,500 +4.55%

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 10 (5.38%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.30%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.76%) Apache
4 7 (3.76%) Confluence
5 5 (2.69%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.61%) GlassFish
6 3 (1.61%) JBoss
7 2 (1.08%) IIS
7 2 (1.08%) Moodle
Applications
1 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (11.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.08%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.20%) Azure
2 31 (16.67%) AWS
3 18 (9.68%) Entra ID
4 13 (6.99%) SaaS
5 11 (5.91%) Amazon S3
5 11 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (5.38%) CloudFront
7 9 (4.84%) IaaS
8 7 (3.76%) PaaS
9 6 (3.23%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.23%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.15%) Google Docs
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 77 (41.40%) Kerberos
2 32 (17.20%) DNS
2 32 (17.20%) VPN
3 25 (13.44%) TCP/IP
4 23 (12.37%) LAN
5 21 (11.29%) WAN
6 15 (8.06%) DHCP
7 14 (7.53%) SSL
8 13 (6.99%) Network Security
9 12 (6.45%) Firewall
10 11 (5.91%) Wireless
11 8 (4.30%) VLAN
12 6 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (3.23%) HTTP
12 6 (3.23%) Internet
12 6 (3.23%) NAS
12 6 (3.23%) SAN
13 5 (2.69%) SMTP
14 4 (2.15%) FTP
14 4 (2.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (34.95%) Metadata
2 10 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.69%) MySQL
4 5 (2.69%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (37.10%) Git
2 68 (36.56%) Bitbucket
2 68 (36.56%) Jenkins
3 65 (34.95%) Artifactory
4 8 (4.30%) JIRA
5 4 (2.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 83 (44.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 82 (44.09%) Finance
3 76 (40.86%) Marketing
4 65 (34.95%) Law
5 20 (10.75%) Social Skills
5 20 (10.75%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.06%) Banking
7 12 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (5.91%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.76%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.23%) Electronics
10 6 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.08%) Retail
12 1 (0.54%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (34.95%) Lead
1 65 (34.95%) Lead Software Engineer
1 65 (34.95%) Software Engineer
2 59 (31.72%) Senior
3 42 (22.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (13.44%) Developer
5 21 (11.29%) ServiceNow Developer
6 15 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Consultant
9 9 (4.84%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) IT Support
10 8 (4.30%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Technical Consultant
11 7 (3.76%) Analyst
11 7 (3.76%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 6 (3.23%) ITSM Consultant
12 6 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (3.23%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (51.61%) Web Services
2 94 (50.54%) XML
3 86 (46.24%) JSON
4 83 (44.62%) SAML
5 76 (40.86%) OpenID
6 68 (36.56%) RESTful
7 65 (34.95%) JSON-LD
8 27 (14.52%) CSS
9 26 (13.98%) HTML
10 18 (9.68%) AngularJS
11 16 (8.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 12 (6.45%) SOAP
13 10 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.84%) OAuth
15 8 (4.30%) Ajax
15 8 (4.30%) REST
16 7 (3.76%) ADSI
17 5 (2.69%) ARM Templates
17 5 (2.69%) J2EE
18 4 (2.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 76 (40.86%) Management Information System
2 68 (36.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 65 (34.95%) Reference Data
4 25 (13.44%) CMDB
5 13 (6.99%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.69%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.61%) TM Forum
9 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.08%) FPGA
9 2 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.54%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.54%) PKI
10 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (30.11%) Linux
2 54 (29.03%) Windows
3 24 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.45%) Unix
5 9 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (4.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.15%) CentOS
8 4 (2.15%) Solaris
8 4 (2.15%) VMS
9 3 (1.61%) AIX
10 2 (1.08%) Debian
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.54%) Android
11 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.54%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.47%) Identity Access Management
1 79 (42.47%) Roadmaps
2 74 (39.78%) Agile
3 72 (38.71%) Test Automation
4 71 (38.17%) Data Modelling
5 69 (37.10%) SDLC
6 67 (36.02%) Architectural Design
7 65 (34.95%) CI/CD
7 65 (34.95%) Community of Practice
7 65 (34.95%) Continuous Delivery
7 65 (34.95%) Data Pipeline
7 65 (34.95%) Data Transformation
7 65 (34.95%) Information Architecture
7 65 (34.95%) Ontologies
7 65 (34.95%) Operational Stability
7 65 (34.95%) RDF
7 65 (34.95%) Software Engineering
7 65 (34.95%) Use Case
8 41 (22.04%) ITIL
9 26 (13.98%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.56%) Go
2 65 (34.95%) Prolog
2 65 (34.95%) SPARQL
3 32 (17.20%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.37%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.53%) Python
6 12 (6.45%) Bash
6 12 (6.45%) Java
7 10 (5.38%) SQL
8 9 (4.84%) Perl
9 5 (2.69%) Bicep
10 4 (2.15%) C
11 2 (1.08%) C#
11 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.54%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (8.60%) Degree
2 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 9 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.30%) PMI Certification
3 8 (4.30%) PMP
4 6 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.69%) RHCE
5 5 (2.69%) RHCSA
6 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.76%) SLA
3 5 (2.69%) GRC
4 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 114 (61.29%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.61%) NFS
5 2 (1.08%) Firmware
5 2 (1.08%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.54%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.54%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (18.28%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (8.60%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.38%) Ansible
4 8 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.23%) HP UCMDB
6 6 (3.23%) WSUS
7 5 (2.69%) Rancher
7 5 (2.69%) Terraform
8 4 (2.15%) Puppet
9 3 (1.61%) Oracle Statspack
10 2 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.08%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 36 (19.35%) ServiceNow
3 22 (11.83%) BMC
3 22 (11.83%) HP
3 22 (11.83%) Remedy
4 18 (9.68%) Cisco
5 13 (6.99%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.99%) VMware
6 9 (4.84%) Oracle
7 8 (4.30%) SAP
8 7 (3.76%) Bloomberg
8 7 (3.76%) Citrix
9 6 (3.23%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.23%) Splunk
10 5 (2.69%) F5
10 5 (2.69%) Okta
11 4 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (2.15%) Google
11 4 (2.15%) Salesforce