Software Engineering Contracts in Suffolk

Software Engineering
East of England > Suffolk

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 6.56% 0.69% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 0.79% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £263 - £450
25th Percentile £361 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £200 £530
Median % change year-on-year +175.00% -62.26% +63.08%
75th Percentile £588 - £605
90th Percentile £595 - £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.03% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 127 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 80.33% 88.19% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 105 83
10th Percentile £105 £400 £245
25th Percentile £199 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £650 £480
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% +35.42% +37.14%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £575
90th Percentile £650 £745 £663
East of England median daily rate £465 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -2.11% +1.50% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £11.25 £13.38 £14.11
25th Percentile £12.69 £13.78 £14.84
Median hourly rate £29.25 £15.50 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +88.71% -1.59% +10.53%
75th Percentile £53.69 £17.33 £18.25
90th Percentile £68.34 £19.27 £22.30
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -11.93%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Suffolk

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Suffolk

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Suffolk over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Suffolk

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Suffolk

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 26 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 +15 2 £408 +103.75%
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £550 -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
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 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco