4G Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

4G
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring 4G skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 4G 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.96% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £575 £469
% change year-on-year -12.17% +22.67% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

4G falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 52 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 24.88% 22.54% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 8 12
10th Percentile £303 £175 £182
25th Percentile £405 £187 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £225 £220
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% +2.27% -51.11%
75th Percentile £538 £344 -
90th Percentile - £492 £229
East of England median daily rate £498 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -5.24% +31.25% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56
75th Percentile £18.22 - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.99% +62.50% -38.46%

4G
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 4G relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

4G job vacancy trend in Suffolk

4G
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing 4G.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing 4G

4G
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 4G within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ipswich - 2 £425 -
4G
East of England

4G
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 5G
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Flask
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Jinja
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Process Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus