Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Software Delivery
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 3.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
East of England median daily rate £510 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

Software Delivery 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 153 47 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 71.16% 87.04% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 31 30
10th Percentile £350 £213 £184
25th Percentile £414 £288 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -6.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £538
90th Percentile £722 £550 £639
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -0.05% +11.17% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £14.59 £16.53 -
25th Percentile £14.66 £18.07 £14.05
Median hourly rate £17.06 £22.04 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% +50.92% -15.51%
75th Percentile £18.35 £30.41 £51.91
90th Percentile £18.75 £39.87 £52.27
East of England median hourly rate £48.84 £23.37 £40.00
% change year-on-year +109.03% -41.59% +101.92%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
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 Software Delivery within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 - 6 £350 - 3
Bury St Edmunds - 1 - -
Software Delivery
East of England

Software Delivery
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 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) 4G
1 1 (14.29%) 5G
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
1 1 (14.29%) IPv4
1 1 (14.29%) IPv6
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Claude Code
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Developer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Next.js
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Application Security
2 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 5 (71.43%) SDLC
2 5 (71.43%) Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes