Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Software Engineering
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 11 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1 11 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.59% 10.19% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 14.67% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £330 -
25th Percentile £413 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £438 £397 £525
90th Percentile - £425 -
East of England median daily rate £556 £450 £535
% change year-on-year +23.61% -15.89% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

Software Engineering 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 59 75 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 93.65% 69.44% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 78
10th Percentile £213 £300 £196
25th Percentile £260 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £688
90th Percentile £550 £643 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 1
10th Percentile £14.34 - -
25th Percentile £17.21 £14.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £14.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £24.76 £51.91 £14.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £52.27 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.64% +37.50% -4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Felixstowe - 1 £425 -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Immutable.js
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript