Squid Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Squid Cache
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Squid skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Squid 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.050% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £519 - £575

All System Software Skills
East of England

Squid falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 197 153 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.85% 15.66% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 66 101
10th Percentile £188 £178 £175
25th Percentile £213 £243 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +5.28% +5.88%
75th Percentile £539 £555 £650
90th Percentile £638 £613 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 32
10th Percentile £9.80 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £16.00 £19.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.32 £54.00 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year -58.68% +264.86% -15.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £20.19
90th Percentile - £88.00 £86.38
England median hourly rate £48.72 £28.41 £22.15
% change year-on-year +71.49% +28.26% -44.63%

Squid
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Squid job vacancy trend in the East of England

Squid
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Squid
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Squid
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 Squid within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Norfolk - 1 £450 - 1
Squid
England

Squid
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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro