Locust Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Locust
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Locust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Locust 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.61% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
Suffolk

Locust falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 15 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 24.19% 5.66% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £263 - £263
25th Percentile £300 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £436 £334 -
90th Percentile £520 £396 £550
East of England median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -9.52%

Locust
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 Locust within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 17 October 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 - -
Locust
East of England

Locust
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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform