Ladder Logic Contract Job Trends

Ladder Logic
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ladder Logic skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 539 -
Rank change year-on-year -142 - -
Contract jobs citing Ladder Logic 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.003% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.007% 0.009% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Ladder Logic falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,170 10,690 12,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 25.97% 32.91% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,196 7,055 8,198
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £505 £526
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 290 341
10th Percentile £26.51 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £40.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.88 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ladder Logic relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ladder Logic job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ladder Logic.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ladder Logic

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ladder Logic.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ladder Logic

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Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ladder Logic within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 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
England -138 1 £500 - 35
London - 1 £500 - 3

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Lidar
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki