IP Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

IP Network Engineer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median IP Network Engineer daily rate in Ipswich is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 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
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IP Network Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 2.94% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £300 - -

All DemandTrendContract 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 33 34 109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.06% 94.44% 99.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 97
10th Percentile £192 £105 £351
25th Percentile £209 £273 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £369 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -38.54% +2.13%
75th Percentile £515 £528 £743
90th Percentile £550 £539 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £350 £300 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -42.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.93 -
25th Percentile £17.22 £14.05 -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £14.60 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -28.99% -
75th Percentile £18.07 £15.15 -
90th Percentile £18.58 - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.79 £47.50 £20.56
% change year-on-year -62.55% +131.03% +18.71%

IP Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for IP Network Engineer in Ipswich

IP Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IP Network Engineer job vacancies in Ipswich.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IP Network Engineer job vacancies in Ipswich

IP Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 5 September 2025, IP Network Engineer 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 IP Network Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) YANG

IP Network Engineer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper