Acoustics Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Acoustics
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Acoustics in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Acoustics over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Acoustics 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.31% - 0.053%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - -
England median daily rate £653 £450 £589
% change year-on-year +45.11% -23.53% +17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £33.13 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile £39.38 - -
90th Percentile £42.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00

All Generic Skills
East of England

Acoustics 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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 566 437 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.40% 44.19% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 248 308
10th Percentile £196 £250 £187
25th Percentile £313 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £560
90th Percentile £688 £700 £651
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 71 127
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.95 £13.24
25th Percentile £16.17 £29.89 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -15.71%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £88.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +17.86% +17.70%

Acoustics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Acoustics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Acoustics job vacancy trend in the East of England

Acoustics
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Acoustics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Acoustics

Acoustics
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Acoustics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Acoustics

Acoustics
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Acoustics within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 - - 4
Hertfordshire - 3 £681 -
Acoustics
England

Acoustics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Multimedia
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Audio Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Hardware Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Derivative
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Debian
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Motion Capture
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat