INAP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring INAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing INAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.045% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
England median daily rate £351 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

INAP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 277 226 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.43% 17.67% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 96 114
10th Percentile £303 £225 £202
25th Percentile £405 £353 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £523 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +30.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £694 £581
England median daily rate £500 £490 £505
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 67 65
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.31 £28.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £61.76 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +23.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -34.71% -25.89% +1.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

INAP job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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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 INAP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Suffolk - 1 £367 - 3
INAP
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch