Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Computer Science
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 14.29% - 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £250
75th Percentile - - £275
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £603 - £281
% change year-on-year - - +47.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basildon

Computer Science 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 Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21 13 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 100.00% 68.42% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 19
10th Percentile £152 £316 £222
25th Percentile £349 £318 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.98% -28.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £561 £385 £583
90th Percentile £687 £424 £596
Essex median daily rate £408 £318 £450
% change year-on-year +28.14% -29.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £71.40 - £30.80
25th Percentile £72.75 - £43.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.18%
75th Percentile - - £55.50
90th Percentile - - £55.54
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £23.75 £43.91
% change year-on-year -20.55% -45.91% +35.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Basildon

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Computer Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) R Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) StreamSets