Developer Contracts in Suffolk

Developer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Developer daily rate in Suffolk is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 3 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 4.92% 10.20% 16.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.08% 10.56% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 17
10th Percentile £370 £465 £370
25th Percentile £456 £650 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £492
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +42.28% +37.62%
75th Percentile £619 - £575
90th Percentile £630 - £621
East of England median daily rate £430 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -9.47% - +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Suffolk. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Suffolk with a recognized job title 59 142 147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 96.60% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 115 88
10th Percentile £105 £313 £225
25th Percentile £184 £469 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £486
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +33.68% +36.97%
75th Percentile £541 £700 £575
90th Percentile £650 £745 £663
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile - £13.74 £14.19
25th Percentile £11.25 £15.31 £15.44
Median hourly rate £11.50 £17.00 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% -6.59% +31.17%
75th Percentile £42.25 £19.67 £22.54
90th Percentile £61.83 £19.94 £24.13
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
% change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -8.55%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Suffolk

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Suffolk

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Suffolk over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Suffolk

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Suffolk

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Ipswich +1 2 £613 -12.50% 4
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £325 - 1
Developer
East of England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Suffolk region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Finance

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft