Lidar Contract Job Trends

Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Lidar in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lidar over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 532 591
Rank change year-on-year -111 +59 +91
Contract jobs citing Lidar 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.006% 0.010% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £13.50

All Generic Skills
UK

Lidar falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,333 10,217 13,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 34.42% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,008 6,407 8,268
10th Percentile £314 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 448 941
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.33 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.40 £33.03 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.39% -6.97% +57.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.08 £81.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -8.43% +59.09%

Lidar
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Lidar job vacancy trend in the UK

Lidar
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lidar

Lidar
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lidar

Lidar
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 Lidar within the UK over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -119 1 £500 - 15
London - 1 £500 - 3

Lidar
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%) 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%) Ladder Logic
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