AI Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

AI
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 4.23% - 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% - 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £450
75th Percentile £413 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 77 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 87.32% 69.37% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 72
10th Percentile £213 £286 £228
25th Percentile £220 £358 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% -17.39%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £641
90th Percentile £550 £677 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £14.34 £14.05 -
25th Percentile £17.21 £37.42 £13.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £50.53 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.00% +260.93% -12.50%
75th Percentile £24.76 £70.00 £14.50
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.59 £21.39
% change year-on-year -23.87% +28.99% +1.83%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

AI job vacancy trend in Suffolk

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing AI

AI
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 AI within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 4 December 2025. 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 - -
AI
East of England

AI
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes