Lidar Contract Job Trends in West London

Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging)
London > West London

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Lidar 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.29% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
London median daily rate £500 £575 -
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -

All Generic Skills
West London

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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 141 72 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 40.75% 34.12% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 52 102
10th Percentile £300 £172 £213
25th Percentile £485 £240 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £569
90th Percentile £687 £599 £640
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 17
10th Percentile £26.33 £20.45 -
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.91 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £22.93 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% -23.97% -53.60%
75th Percentile £30.59 £34.19 £33.75
90th Percentile - £52.55 £49.40
London median hourly rate £32.87 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -6.08% +34.62% -25.71%

Lidar
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lidar within the West London region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Harrow - 1 £500 -
Lidar
London

Lidar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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