Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Distributed Systems
Essex > Basildon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Basildon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 5.71% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £474 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £548 - -
90th Percentile £554 - -
Essex median daily rate £530 - -

All Generic Skills
Basildon

Distributed Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 44.29% 11.54% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £345 £409 -
25th Percentile £358 £417 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -3.06% -5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £457 -
90th Percentile £584 £466 -
Essex median daily rate £481 £404 £450
% change year-on-year +19.20% -10.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.48 - £54.75
Median hourly rate £20.76 - £59.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +146.12%
75th Percentile £22.03 - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £70.55
Essex median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% -62.18% +96.94%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Basildon

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Distributed Systems in Basildon over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Distributed Systems in Basildon

Distributed Systems
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) IAM Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) GCP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth
2 3 (75.00%) OpenID
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) JWT
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On