Lidar Job Trends in the North of England

Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Lidar in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Lidar over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 244 365
Rank change year-on-year -64 +121 +64
Permanent jobs citing Lidar 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.006% 0.016% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.021% 0.046% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -20.59% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,847 2,164 4,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.14% 33.95% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,135 1,338 3,813
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,550 £40,000 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

Lidar
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Lidar relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Lidar job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lidar
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Lidar.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Lidar

Lidar
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lidar within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 1 £65,000 - 1
Lidar
England

Lidar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Google Maps API
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) DevExpress
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft