JavaScript Engineer Contract Job Trends in Basildon

JavaScript Engineer
Essex > Basildon

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in Basildon is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 6.06% - 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.06% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
Essex median daily rate £600 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Basildon with a recognized job title 33 19 46
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 14
10th Percentile £308 £315 £285
25th Percentile £471 £320 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £413 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -28.26% +13.86%
75th Percentile £561 £488 £600
90th Percentile £599 £489 £653
Essex median daily rate £375 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 27
10th Percentile £12.55 £32.00 £35.65
25th Percentile £46.25 £35.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -42.86% +11.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £48.00 -
Essex median hourly rate £22.04 £35.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year -37.04% -1.82% -10.03%

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 8 April 2026, JavaScript Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basildon region featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) VPN

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript