FreeIPA Contract Job Trends in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring FreeIPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 - 547
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FreeIPA 1 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - 0.045%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.020% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £674
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £675
75th Percentile £638 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

All Systems Management Skills
England

FreeIPA falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,102 3,906 4,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 14.74% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,526 3,500
10th Percentile £312 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 152
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.13 £14.08
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.66 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +13.81%

FreeIPA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FreeIPA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

FreeIPA job vacancy trend in England

FreeIPA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FreeIPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FreeIPA

FreeIPA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FreeIPA within the England region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 1 £625 - 1
FreeIPA
UK

FreeIPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GoCD
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware