IFS Contracts in the East of England

IFS
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring knowledge or experience of IFS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IFS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IFS AB.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 104 120
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing IFS 11 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.17% 0.42% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 1.12% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £471 £528 £625
25th Percentile £475 £550 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +166.67%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £725
90th Percentile £595 - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%

All Vendors
East of England

IFS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

IFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing IFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for IFS in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IFS in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for IFS in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFS in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IFS in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IFS in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for IFS in the East of England

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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 IFS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 6 £500 - 1
Hertfordshire +25 5 £538 -10.42%
IFS
England

IFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Hudson
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) General Ledger
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) IFS Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) IFS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) HR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ERP
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Mapping
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (9.09%) Accounts Payable
5 1 (9.09%) Accounts Receivable
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Data Repair
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) ETL
5 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PL/SQL
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Sybase