Microservices Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Microservices
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 10.96% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £353 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
Essex median daily rate £505 £468 £375
% change year-on-year +8.02% +24.67% -27.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

Microservices 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 68 27 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 93.15% 100.00% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 4
10th Percentile £350 £365 £219
25th Percentile £380 £400 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% +50.00% -41.63%
75th Percentile £598 £488 £338
90th Percentile £600 £488 £405
Essex median daily rate £450 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 24
10th Percentile £12.55 £41.90 £29.17
25th Percentile £27.86 £50.00 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £71.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.51% -8.39% +89.78%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.10 - -
Essex median hourly rate £18.74 £18.87 £75.00
% change year-on-year -0.72% -74.84% +71.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Basildon

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Basildon over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Basildon

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Microservices

Microservices
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 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) npm
3 2 (25.00%) Yarn
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Angular Developer
3 2 (25.00%) IAM Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) OpenID
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) RxJS
4 1 (12.50%) JWT
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
1 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
1 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (37.50%) SDLC
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) AI
2 2 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 2 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) Moogsoft