DevOps Contract Job Trends in Basildon

DevOps
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 14 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 28.00% 4.35% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.11% 4.55% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £496 - £555
25th Percentile £500 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £465 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% -22.50% +1.35%
75th Percentile £515 £473 £675
90th Percentile £589 - -
Essex median daily rate £505 £466 £534
% change year-on-year +8.31% -12.69% -11.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £55.15 - -
25th Percentile £55.38 - -
Median hourly rate £60.25 - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £68.50 - -
Essex median hourly rate £60.25 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

DevOps 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 45 22 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 90.00% 95.65% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 16
10th Percentile £311 £315 £103
25th Percentile £460 £321 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £406 £563
Median % change year-on-year +24.31% -27.78% +11.39%
75th Percentile £588 £486 £600
90th Percentile £600 £488 £638
Essex median daily rate £425 £400 £458
% change year-on-year +6.25% -12.57% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 34
10th Percentile £12.55 £31.30 £35.65
25th Percentile £41.58 £33.25 £53.06
Median hourly rate £55.25 £38.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.39% -49.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £44.75 £80.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £47.90 -
Essex median hourly rate £20.51 £32.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -36.89% -45.38% +33.62%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Basildon

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Basildon over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Basildon

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Basildon

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Basildon over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Basildon

DevOps
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 (14.29%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) MaxDB
2 2 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 3 (21.43%) IntelliJ
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (7.14%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Automotive
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Backend Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 3 (21.43%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) GCP Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (14.29%) React Developer
5 2 (14.29%) SAP Basis Support
5 2 (14.29%) SAP Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) SAP Support
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IAM Developer
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Basis
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (14.29%) SAPUI5
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) WCF
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) TDD
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
6 4 (28.57%) Identity Management
6 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Application Security
7 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
7 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Open Source
7 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (14.29%) High Availability
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Checkmarx
1 5 (35.71%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) OpenText
3 1 (7.14%) Serena