Observability Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Observability
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 3.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
Essex median daily rate £399 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

Observability 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 51 23 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 91.07% 95.83% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 16
10th Percentile £327 £316 £103
25th Percentile £367 £321 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% -28.89% +11.39%
75th Percentile £584 £485 £600
90th Percentile £600 £488 £638
Essex median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 35
10th Percentile £12.55 £31.30 £31.76
25th Percentile £41.58 £33.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.25 £38.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.39% -49.33% +27.66%
75th Percentile £61.25 £44.75 £80.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £47.90 -
Essex median hourly rate £20.00 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.48% -54.27% +8.77%

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Basildon over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Basildon

Observability
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 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Moogsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk