Developer Contracts in Ipswich

Developer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median Developer daily rate in Ipswich is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 2 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 4 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 10.53% 18.92% 14.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.81% 19.44% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £320 - £425
25th Percentile £388 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £331 £700
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% -52.68% +9.38%
75th Percentile - £427 -
90th Percentile - £531 -
Suffolk median daily rate £425 £325 £700
% change year-on-year +30.77% -53.57% +9.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ipswich. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Ipswich with a recognized job title 37 36 120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.37% 97.30% 99.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 108
10th Percentile £170 £105 £348
25th Percentile £180 £178 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £300 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £453 £538 £700
90th Percentile £558 £550 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £300 £230 £525
% change year-on-year +30.43% -56.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 1
Median hourly rate £17.79 £14.60 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -28.99% -17.76%
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.79 £15.80 £17.78
% change year-on-year +12.59% -11.14% -12.84%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Ipswich

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Ipswich.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Ipswich

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Ipswich over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Ipswich

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Ipswich.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Ipswich

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 25 July 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Ipswich region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) NgRx
2 1 (25.00%) MediatR
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Immutable.js
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) API Development

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Immutable.js
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) MediatR
2 1 (25.00%) NgRx
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) RxJS
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft