FreeIPA Contract Job Trends in the South West

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England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 137 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FreeIPA 1 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.038% - 0.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% - 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £674
25th Percentile £613 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £688
75th Percentile £638 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 - £675

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 407 331 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.45% 17.47% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 221 311
10th Percentile £350 £350 £275
25th Percentile £450 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £734 £730
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £53.85 - -
25th Percentile £74.63 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £86.00 £16.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +437.50% -60.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £119.00 £70.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - £72.66 £78.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%

FreeIPA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

FreeIPA job vacancy trend in the South West

FreeIPA
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FreeIPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FreeIPA

FreeIPA
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FreeIPA within the South West 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
Wiltshire - 1 £625 - 1
FreeIPA
England

FreeIPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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