GitHub Contract Job Trends in Basildon

GitHub
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 23.33% 15.79% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.75% 33.33% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £315 £500
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -37.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £508 £318 -
90th Percentile £515 £320 -
Essex median daily rate £500 £315 £493
% change year-on-year +58.73% -36.04% +37.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Basildon

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 53.33% 47.37% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £300 £315 £308
25th Percentile £450 £316 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £320 £588
Median % change year-on-year +56.40% -45.58% +14.30%
75th Percentile £515 £371 £675
90th Percentile £526 £436 -
Essex median daily rate £375 £318 £475
% change year-on-year +17.84% -33.01% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £59.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £52.50 £200.00 £88.00
% change year-on-year -73.75% +127.27% +283.28%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Basildon

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Basildon over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Basildon

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing GitHub

GitHub
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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (28.57%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) JUnit
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 3 (42.86%) IntelliJ
3 2 (28.57%) Android Studio
3 2 (28.57%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Sourcetree
3 2 (28.57%) Xcode
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Automotive
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) pytest
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) Application Security
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kibana
1 2 (28.57%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Checkmarx
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Atlassian