Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 5.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £686 - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £600 -
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 80 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 73.74% 77.67% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 47
10th Percentile £220 £206 £194
25th Percentile £351 £225 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £666 £538 £550
90th Percentile £713 £691 £676
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £14.92 - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +400.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £42.25
90th Percentile £24.53 - £64.40
East of England median hourly rate £20.35 £48.72 £37.25
% change year-on-year -58.23% +30.79% +40.57%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

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

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Suffolk

Generative 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 Generative AI within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 22 February 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 - 5 £650 - 1
Generative AI
East of England

Generative 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:

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