Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Ipswich

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
DevOps	2	+5	£525	-11.65%	12 16.90%	12
Agile	4	+6	£700	+64.70%	10 14.08%	9
Analytics	5	+10	£653	+49.14%	9 12.68%	4
AI	6	-	£650	-	8 11.27%	9
Load Balancing	6	-	£525	-	8 11.27%	5
Test Automation	6	-	£700	-	8 11.27%	1
Stakeholder Engagement	6	+9	£675	+58.82%	8 11.27%	6
Problem-Solving	6	-4	-	-	8 11.27%	13
Machine Learning	7	-	£650	-	7 9.86%	2
Microservices	7	0	£650	+52.94%	7 9.86%	2
Customer Experience	7	-	£525	-	7 9.86%	6
Stakeholder Management	8	+5	£538	-0.46%	6 8.45%	3
Software Engineering	8	+3	£675	+80.00%	6 8.45%	2
Risk Management	9	-	£490	-	5 7.04%	3
Cybersecurity	9	-	£480	-	5 7.04%	12
Kalman Filter	9	-	£600	-	5 7.04%
Customer Requirements	9	-	£525	-	5 7.04%	5
CI/CD	9	-2	£450	+2.85%	5 7.04%	10
Containerisation	9	0	£450	-	5 7.04%	2
Roadmaps	9	+5	£653	+53.52%	5 7.04%	4
Cloud Security	9	+6	£675	-10.11%	5 7.04%
Generative AI	9	-	£650	-	5 7.04%
LLM	9	-	£650	-	5 7.04%
Network Design	10	-	£525	-	4 5.63%	2
Technical Architecture	10	-	£700	-	4 5.63%
User Stories	10	-	£700	-	4 5.63%
Regulatory Compliance	10	-	£653	-	4 5.63%	1
Data Strategy	10	-	£653	-	4 5.63%	1
Business Intelligence	10	+4	£700	+86.66%	4 5.63%	9
Acceptance Criteria	10	-	£700	-	4 5.63%
Sprint Review	10	-	£700	-	4 5.63%
Incident Response	10	-	£500	-	4 5.63%	4
Prompt Engineering	10	-	£600	-	4 5.63%
Customer Service	10	+5	-	-	4 5.63%	6
Retrieval-Augmented Generation	10	-	£600	-	4 5.63%
Use Case	11	-	£650	-	3 4.23%	2
Continuous Improvement	11	-8	£750	+100.00%	3 4.23%	14
Performance Tuning	11	-	£395	-	3 4.23%
CRM	11	-	£550	-	3 4.23%	7
ERP	11	-	£550	-	3 4.23%	3
Data Modelling	11	-	£395	-	3 4.23%	4
Decision-Making	11	-	£725	-	3 4.23%	8
Configuration Management	11	-	-	-	3 4.23%
AI Transformation	11	-	£750	-	3 4.23%	2
Workflow	12	-	£550	-	2 2.82%	4
Scrum	12	+2	£575	+53.33%	2 2.82%	1
Information Security	12	+3	£480	-7.51%	2 2.82%	2
Data Management	12	-	-	-	2 2.82%	1
Continuous Integration	12	-	-	-	2 2.82%
Performance Management	12	-	£750	-	2 2.82%	2