Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 9.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £686 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

Generative 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 49 37 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 89.09% 71.15% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 32
10th Percentile £419 £266 £263
25th Percentile £485 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -22.45%
75th Percentile £708 £553 £553
90th Percentile £744 £710 £638
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £16.90 - £16.23
25th Percentile £19.00 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £35.31
90th Percentile - - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% +400.00% -7.41%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in Ipswich over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Ipswich

Generative 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of AI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (80.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) ERP
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (40.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) OCR
4 2 (40.00%) Semantic Search
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C#
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Foundry
1 4 (80.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (60.00%) Databricks