IP Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

IP Network Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median IP Network Engineer daily rate in Suffolk is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IP Network Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 1.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
East of England median daily rate £300 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 59 76 130
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 95.00% 99.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 115
10th Percentile £196 £126 £213
25th Percentile £213 £200 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £270 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -48.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £438 £497 £700
90th Percentile £538 £593 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 1
10th Percentile £16.42 - -
25th Percentile - £14.05 -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £47.50 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year -62.55% +131.03% +18.71%
75th Percentile £18.92 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £35.28 £51.91 -
East of England median hourly rate £41.48 £47.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.68% +43.94% +66.58%

IP Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for IP Network Engineer in Suffolk

IP Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

IP Network Engineer
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 IP Network Engineer within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 3 September 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 - 1 £300 -
IP Network Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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