Smart Home Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Smart Home (Connected Home)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Home in contract job vacancies in Ipswich. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Home over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smart Home 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 0.71% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £325 - -

All Generic Skills
Ipswich

Smart Home falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 38 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 26.95% 35.48% 45.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 11
10th Percentile £353 £345 £300
25th Percentile £405 £500 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +36.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £545 £538
90th Percentile £735 £550 £695
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £425 £300
% change year-on-year +17.65% +41.67% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £13.30 - -
25th Percentile £14.19 - -
Median hourly rate £16.60 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £14.82 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year -16.69% - -

Smart Home
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA