AI Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

AI
Suffolk > Ipswich

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 11.54% - 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% - 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £450
75th Percentile £650 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - £450

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 41 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 88.46% 82.00% 98.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 37
10th Percentile £419 £350 £269
25th Percentile £480 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £692 £528 £588
90th Percentile £744 £701 £670
Suffolk median daily rate £480 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +8.17% -6.58% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £16.18 - £16.23
25th Percentile £17.21 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £18.92 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.97% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £20.96 - £35.31
90th Percentile £22.18 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 £61.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year -65.71% +337.50% -7.41%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

AI job vacancy trend in Ipswich

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) Flask
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) gRPC
3 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 4 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (66.67%) LLM
2 4 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
4 2 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) OCR
4 2 (33.33%) Semantic Search
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Foundry
1 4 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks